Sentence examples for based on smuggling from inspiring English sources

Its largely criminal economy based on smuggling had benefited some individuals enormously but not the country.

Large parts of the economy are essentially criminal conspiracies based on smuggling, prostitution, gambling and corruption.

Especially in Kilis, where the economy is mostly based on smuggling, kinship relations have remained strong over the years due to the economic relations over the border.

Although they pledge allegiance to the Afghan Taliban, they enjoy financial autonomy thanks to a tribal crime empire based on extortion, kidnapping and smuggling.

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And Lebanese, Vietnamese, and Chinese immigrant communities, many of whose members are big players in Senegalese commerce and trade, are being implicated in product piracy and human smuggling, based on US intelligence.

Based on first-hand evidence smuggled out of German-occupied Poland by Jan Karski, the foreign minister of the Polish government in exile, Count Raczynski, was able on December 10 1942, to present a note to the UN entitled "the mass extermination of Jews in German-occupied Poland", which left in no doubt what was being undertaken.

As in many corruption cases, the allegations of drug smuggling are based on intelligence, making it less likely that the United States military will share the information and leaving leeway for the Afghan government to deny them.

This is also a country where a very high share of the economy is "unofficial," based on illegal activities like cigarette smuggling and corruption as well as legitimate income that people hide from tax collectors.

The law, approved unanimously by parliament on Monday, is based on a United Nations protocol against the smuggling of migrants and allows judges and police to take action.

As a result, a thriving smuggling industry emerged, based on a network of subterranean tunnels linking parts of the Gaza Strip with neighbouring Egypt.