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It will be 'a decree to take the gold sector, ' which still remains in the hands of a 'mafia and smugglers, ' he said.

As authorities began to crack down on the ryle smugglers, Fortuna decided to quit the business.

And gangs of liquor smugglers made it easy to buy an illegal drink - or two or three.

These two very brave police, they were ready to take the risk of shooting smugglers preparations.

After a falling out with many of his fellow smugglers, Solo was left stuck on Tatooine with a hefty debt and hunters on his tail.

Professor Wei said the legitimate sales would cut into the smugglers' profits but would not wipe them out.

Investigators say they are asking customs officials to look out for smugglers trying to carry the booty across the border.

The authorities drove cocaine smugglers out of the Caribbean in the 1980s. But they then popped up in Mexico.

I entered Homs on a smugglers' route, which I promised not to reveal, climbing over walls in the dark and slipping into muddy trenches.

Takfir wal-Hijra is the kind of organization that makes even some of the Sinai Peninsula's most hardened arms smugglers shudder.

As a colony, it was a haven of smugglers and a refuge from Massachusetts's moralistic puritans.

Constant struggles between smugglers and customs officers have influenced our way of thinking about this matter.

But since the blockade began, he has had to rely on smugglers and pay up to an extra 40% for the goods.

Redmond tells VOA the brutality of the smugglers is well known as are the dangers of voyaging on rickety, overcrowded vessels.

Mara focused on her career in the fringe, accepting increased responsibility in Talon Karrde's newly formed Smugglers Alliance.

The customs officials must always be up to all the dodges of the smugglers.

As part of this illegal migration, smugglers ferry fee-paying migrants from Albania across the Adriatic to Italy in speedboats.

A couple of months ago she paid smugglers to carry her across the heavily-guarded river that separates North Korea from China.

Today, many Quarren can be found among pirates, slavers, smugglers and within various spy networks operating throughout the galaxy.

Smugglers take some of it to neighbouring countries for resale at full value.

Han and his Wookiee first mate and co-pilot Chewbacca had a variety of adventures throughout their long careers as smugglers.

The tall alien smugglers with the pharoah-like headdresses are called Moogans. None of the individual characters are named in this episode.

"And how did a leader of smugglers, " continued Franz, "venture to build a vessel designed for such a purpose at Genoa? "

The company is known to have secret dealings with smugglers.

Its unobtrusive port town of Hyllyard City remained a haven for smugglers and malcontents, at least until the Yuuzhan Vong arrived.

To spread his influence and business across the Outer Rim, Jabba employed a number of smugglers to traffic his illicit goods.

The crew, also Russian, were being questioned after reports that they had been the victims of pirates, hijackers and mafia smugglers.

Above-ground fences would be strengthened and Egypt would sharpen its intelligence in the Sinai Peninsula to spot and stop arms-smugglers.

DESPITE its name, Smugglers' Gulch is one of the toughest places to sneak into America.

As part of the second analysis, a section of tusk seized from smugglers is ground up and its DNA is carefully extracted.

When a group of young Australian drug smugglers know as the Bali Nine were sentenced in February, two received the death penalty.

More organized smugglers will bring in 100 or more iPhones a day, and some will put phones into a shipping container with other goods.

People pay smugglers up to $150 to make the treacherous journey, which usually ends up being a nightmare and often fatal.

He took up with smugglers.

The new smugglers monopolized all their commodity. One piece of chocolate, a banana, one minute phone calls, one dollar each.

Sleeper cells were set up in the capital, armed by rebel smugglers.

Large-scale smugglers operate in all parts of the world, as container transport costs are small compared to the market value of the goods.

Augie, who had served time in prison for assault and murder, had been one of the world's most notorious drug dealers and smugglers.

Despite the emergence of middle-class smugglers, investigators believe that criminal organizations are behind them.

Yet from the beginning this didn't look like a typical drug-smugglers' clash.

The Canadian authorities have been working actively with transit countries to preempt people smugglers.

He insisted his government would be tough on people-smugglers, but humane towards refugees.

The customs officers cracked down on smugglers.

The sailors and marines were seized yesterday while searching for smugglers off the coast of Iraq.

define smuggling, because smugglers constantly adapt their activities to get around new regulations and customs controls.

Iranian state television they were arrested while pursuing suspected fuel smugglers.

An affiliate of RJ Reynolds International pled guilty to charges of helping smugglers illegally reroute export cigarettes into Canada.

Lando was the first of the two friends to go "respectable, " a fate worse than death to some smugglers.

But the Iranians simply offer more money, and more smugglers step up to keep the goodies coming.

Those suitcases of dollars so beloved of international arms smugglers and drug kingpins all represent interest-free loans to America.

Much improved relations with Indonesia should promise stronger action against people smugglers.

They caught him working hand in _ _ with a gang of smugglers to bring diamonds into the country without paying duty.

Suddenly smugglers arrive, and take the macaw to a snow-covered town in Minnesota, US.

But its clan-based villages, lush jungles, and rocky inlets offered ideal shelter for smugglers and secret societies to flourish.

The Intercept the Smugglers missions have been updated and reactivated .

Chinese officials said they were shot inside North Korea and were suspected of being smugglers.

The chief of police has a memorable way of demonstrating that he's not afraid of the drug smugglers.

My mom, my father, and I were all there, along with other smugglers, distributors, dealers, and their families.

Foolhardy smugglers looking to risk their lives for incredible profit would risk Imperial patrols near Kessel.

It is here that crooks and smugglers and dope-pedlars congregate, and a pretty villainous gang they are.

A hundred years ago it was carried here from Italy by smugglers in a cargo of silks and laces.

Migrants often hire smugglers to take them across the Gulf of Aden or Red Sea.

Every winter thousands pay to board rickety smugglers' boats for Thailand, whence a bus can take them to Malaysia, to seek work or asylum.

Smugglers may have disposed of a similar amount.

Others are accused of collaborating with insurgents, arms smugglers and highway bandits.

These days, says NATO, Taliban commanders and drug smugglers are often one and the same.

Ms Gillard claimed the Malaysia deal was designed to thwart people-smugglers, and to deter people from dangerous sea voyages.

Mara became increasingly independent in the following years, loosening her ties with the Smugglers Alliance.

This practice is prevalent for smugglers crossing territorial borders.

The sparsely populated region also provides safe haven for drug smugglers and Iranian rebel groups.

Instead, it has encouraged the use of people-smugglers bringing across whole families who then tend to stay.

Border Patrol agents have contacted Mexican authorities to thwart the smugglers.

For years, the death toll has been mounting among (Somalia) and Ethiopians crossing the Gulf of Aden in rickety smugglers boats.

For years, the death toll has been mounting among Somalis and Ethiopians crossing the Gulf of Aden in rickety smugglers' boats .

Umm Qasr is a haven for Iraq's smugglers, so many companies are loth to store expensive equipment there; they may never see it again.

Some locals knew them as "smugglers" , a term indicating uncertainty over how they earned their keep.

Every year, many die at the hands of the smugglers or are robbed and left with nothing.

Her job is to examine the contents of all baggage brought into the country and to watch for contraband and smugglers.

She says many people have drowned after smugglers have forced them to jump into the sea before arriving on the coast of Yemen.

Many are members of the Assad clan or smugglers and racketeers from the coastal region.

Having long had a market among money launderers, drug smugglers, and tax evaders, the greenback has now gone up-market.

Mugabe's Zanu-PF party denies accusations of looting and abuses, while Biti blames smugglers for robbing the country of much-needed revenue.

UNHCR spokesman, Ron Redmond, says the smugglers abandoned them.

That would cut out the people-smugglers, and the revenues could help to pay for public services.

Nearly 4, 000 Iranian security officers are believed to have been killed in clashes with smugglers since 1979.

Smugglers are back at work in Gaza's tunnels days after Israel called a halt to its bombing campaign.

ironically , it is the growing prosperity and openness of china that makes life easier for drug smugglers.

WEST AFRICA has become an attractive trade route for Latin America's cocaine smugglers in recent years.

Not just by bribing the smugglers themselves, but also by getting the cooperation of nations the smugglers operate out of.

Mr Rudd said such guesses compromised possible prosecutions of people smugglers.

With borders on more than a dozen countries, China has become a crossroad for smugglers of all kinds.

When you fly into these places on your customs declaration in Red death to drug smugglers and they mean it!

Authorities were tipped off about the smugglers' high-wire act, the video report says.

A bear cub rescued from smugglers in its cage at a rescue centre near Hanoi, Vietnam, on Aug.

These days, locals say, border forces on both sides turn smugglers back.

This brash unit was tasked with ridding the Outer Rim of smugglers and pirates.

She says before the security upgrade, this area was popular with Canadian drug smugglers.

Think of the creativity of drug smugglers.

This is meant to deter the smugglers. But since they have powerful friends in Indonesia, from which most boats set sail, it may not.

The Prime Minister blames the people smugglers for the vessel carrying about 100 refugees that smashed up on the rocks of Christmas Island.

Punishment for minor crimes such as vandalism can include canings, and drug smugglers are often hanged.

has caves and tunnels originally used by smugglers.

The innocuous cereal has become the contraband of choice for smugglers.

The smugglers gave themselves away at customs.

was on the watch for diamond smugglers.

In order to strike a blow at the smugglers, the police established a naval blockade.

But when scarce arable land meets shrinking harvests and inexorably rising demand, the smugglers will provide what the government can't.

The bond that binds the smugglers together is a rope of sand.

The custom department devotes a lot of time hunting drug smugglers.

Unfortunately, little could be done to restore the ravages of early 20th-century art thieves and smugglers.

The competition among smugglers is fierce, and he didn't want to discuss his business in front of the others.

The coast guard picked up five smugglers .

Many of the birds here were rescued from smugglers.

This loss of life is terrible and people smugglers are to blame-along with soft government.

The problem is that other smugglers are predators, who abandon, kidnap or kill their charges.

This is a video recording, which has to bite off Syrian female and male soldiers, smugglers stabbed the dog's bloody scene.

It is economic common sense that when there is a widening price gap, there are opportunities for smugglers.

Do we look like rich smugglers?

Mexican soldiers seized the catapult which was mounted on a trailer, but the smugglers escaped.

Smugglers plunder a large amount of monry.

The FBI says the smugglers often threaten their victims and make it difficult for them to pay off their debts.

Al-Sadr has great sway there, and it's thought that weapon smugglers from Iran do too.

Tim Whittman says the smugglers often threaten their victims and make it difficult for them to pay their debts.

Israeli officials have warned that Egypt's loosening of restrictions could open the way for terrorists and arms smugglers.

Fujian police arrested 242 human smugglers last year.

Hong Kong Customs believed that smugglers had attempted to use circuitous routings to evade Customs crackdown.

This is not the first time Apple smugglers have gone out of their way to evade checks at the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border.

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