These organisations are also involved in human trafficking, arms smuggling and other forms of crime.
The operation involved smuggling almost 25, 000 rifles and five million rounds of ammunition from Germany.
Three women dressed like nuns have been arrested at a Colombian airport allegedly smuggling drugs.
It is this environment, if sustained that will help curtail drug smuggling into the United States.
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Its largely criminal economy based on smuggling had benefited some individuals enormously but not the country.
The town's economy depends on oil smuggling from Iran and the annual date harvest.
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Although he had only a third-grade education, his aptitude for international smuggling was high.
After her husband and whisky-smuggling in-laws passed away, Elizabeth Robertson took over in 1872.
He started off as an ivory poacher before moving on to sandalwood smuggling and kidnappings.
China curtailed rare-earth quotas earlier this year, citing environmental concerns and efforts to quell smuggling.
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Artificially low prices encouraged the hoarding of food, or its smuggling to other countries.
But the cartel's control of smuggling routes into the US is challenged by rival criminal gangs.
The southwest state is the nation's most heavily traveled corridor for illegal immigration and smuggling.
The mode of transport for human smuggling is getting more and more sophisticated by the year.
He was accused of more than 100 murders, as well as kidnapping, smuggling and poaching.
Most of the border activity used to be smuggling of people, which went on peacefully.
Along with Europe a small trade exists in smuggling to North America and Australia.
The smuggling was well known to the Security Council at the time, the report stresses.
The school subsequently put a ban "open-top boots, " also intended to stop cellphone smuggling.
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The ban is delayed for two months to see if Liberia honours its own anti-smuggling commitment.
It sees the opportunity to make money, be it from oil, diamonds, guns or smuggling.
Close to the border with Venezuela, it is well-sited for smuggling arms and supplies.
Whatever Mr Hodges's motives, the papers bear on numerous malpractices from smuggling to bending auction rules.
And it has highly developed and already proven human smuggling routes to the US in Mexico.
Customs officials estimate that smuggling is now four times larger than legitimate duty-free shopping.
Enter speedboats, run by Florida smuggling rings, which are far harder for the coastguards to catch.
Syrians know that being caught smuggling medical supplies is as damning as being caught smuggling weapons.
Bhagwat's latest claims revolve around the alleged smuggling of arms into Myanmar and insurgency-torn northeastern India.
If nothing is done, smuggling is bound to increase because the profits are so large.
He says the charges were trumped up after he uncovered oil smuggling by senior officials.
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