Sentence examples for criminal link from inspiring English sources

Gov. George E. Pataki said yesterday that he planned to sponsor a bill to allow criminal background checks on a little-regulated group of day care providers -- those who watch one or two children in their homes -- after a preliminary check found that 9percentt of the providers surveyed had a possible criminal link, including child abuse.

As anyone who has seen "The Godfather" knows, the criminal link between the two locales has been tightly woven since at least the 1950's, when Meyer Lansky established his illicit beachhead on the Atlantic in hopes of cracking the Cuban gambling trade.

It is currently illegal to transport even a bag of rice for personal consumption across the border, but VICE News witnessed civilians accepting cash in exchange for stamping passports for people with food at the official Paraguachon-Paraguaipoa border crossing, suggesting a criminal link with corrupt Venezuelan border guards.

Over the summer, he published a number of articles in The Atlantic online, the London Independent, and some Japanese publications, exposing criminal links at TEPCO.

But Japanese police investigators are still pursuing possible criminal links, according to people familiar with the inquiry who were not authorized to speak publicly.

He is accused of criminal links with Khadzhikurbanov, the former police officer, but he has not been charged in Politkovskaya's killing.

In the mid-nineties, Shizuka Kamei, who was the minister of exports, admitted that he had accepted substantial donations from a yakuza front company, though he denied being aware of the criminal links.

Kato Pleasure also denies that it has criminal links, but it provided little response to questions posed to a spokesman at its Tokyo headquarters and to company representatives at Hotel Shine.

Friday's disclosures in the The Telegraph added to the bank's woes as the newspaper named a handful of individuals, with a history of criminal links, who it said were on the leaked list of HSBC Jersey clients.

Afghan police and intelligence are concentrating their investigation on Paghman, a rural area west of Kabul, and say that a group with criminal links was probably responsible for the abduction and may be still holding the hostages.

"There are British criminals involved, trying to exploit the fact that so many migrants are trying to reach the UK and also because of historical criminal links along long-held traditional ethnic links between the UK and south Asian countries," said Wainwright.