Sentence examples for criminal figures from inspiring English sources

Zhukov admits meeting and doing business with some of Odessa's criminal figures, but says this was before their illegal connections became apparent.

July 2008 – After months of painstaking investigation, Magnitsky files a detailed criminal complaint with seven government agencies, naming a string of Russian government officials and criminal figures involved in the scam.

The court in Podgorica handed down the sentence to Jovo Martinović on Monday, finding him guilty of drug trafficking and criminal associations, despite overwhelming evidence that his contacts with criminal figures were maintained for journalistic purposes.

Mr. Jacinthe said his colleague is similar to other criminal figures in countries such as Colombia, where people like Pablo Escobar were wanted by the police but adored by their communities.

The haggling between Cuban exiles and criminal figures was recounted in a July 4, 1964, memo by the F.B.I. that was marked "SECRET" and released in full on Thursday as part of a stash of files related, if sometimes only theoretically, to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Many Americans might be surprised to learn how easily Central American and Mexican political and criminal figures, travelling with valid U.S. tourist or even residency visas, legally cross our borders in order to threaten potential witnesses or immigrants who, for one reason or another — because they have relatives back in their home country, for example — remain vulnerable to their power.

His renown as a criminal figure in the West had not hampered his ability to live and move about freely in Moscow.

Mr. Rabinovich, a self-made Ukrainian millionaire, spent nine years in a Soviet prison for theft and has been linked to a suspected Russian criminal figure.

When the story is one of individual effort, British film tends to focus on the criminal figure – Roger Daltry in McVicar or more recently, Tom Hardy as the Kray brothers in Legend.

"There simply aren't that many faces who could have done it," he told The Sun. Mr Phillips, a retired Detective Chief Superintendent, added you "cannot ignore" the so-called 'King of Diamonds,' a shadowy criminal figure who is thought to have masterminded the £40 million Graff diamond theft in 2009.

But he added: "We're seeing a migration of traditional organised crime groups over into cyber, exploiting a new type of person engaged in crime who tends to be young, technically sufficient, very good at maths and physics, but perhaps not your traditional criminal figure in the outside world".