He began in the cocaine business smuggling small quantities of coca paste from Peru to Colombia.
The suit, filed Nov. 6 in United States District Court in Brooklyn, seeks unspecified damages from lost customs duties in connection with a cigarette smuggling operation that began in the late 1970's and that the commission contends was actively abetted by the two tobacco companies.
The process began in the early 1990s, when I spent many months in the hospital after an attempt on my life by a smuggling gang about whom I was writing an article.
Mr. Salet said investigators think the smuggling began in July 2001.
One factor behind the drop in trade is the West African Coast Initiative, a joint project between UN agencies, Interpol and the regional bloc Ecowas, which began in 2009 to fight drug smuggling, organised crime and drug use in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast.
The employee began cooperating with investigators, who recorded him discussing drug shipments with a number of the principals in the smuggling operation.
After Germany took over the so-called unoccupied zone run by Vichy in November 1942, Chevrier began dispersing the children, smuggling some into Spain and Switzerland and placing others in homes.
Beyond Westminster, there appear to be troubling signs that the reforms, which began in earnest on 1 April, have smuggled into the health service not so much an appetite for privatisation, but for competition.
The British Sten gun, extremely simple and inexpensive yet very effective, was issued to paratroops and commandos beginning in 1941 and was also smuggled to partisans in Europe.
The war began in Juárez around 2008, when the cartel based in Sinaloa, the marijuana- and opium-growing areas close to the Pacific Coast, moved in on the local organization, which controlled valuable smuggling routes.
