The phrase "criminal ring" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used to describe a group or organization involved in illegal activities, such as organized crime syndicates or drug trafficking networks. Example: The FBI has been working to dismantle the notorious criminal ring responsible for a series of bank robberies across the country.
A lawyer working with the criminal ring had travelled to Sudan, officials said.
He was the companion with whom she became part of the criminal ring.
Twelve inmates were also indicted in connection with the criminal ring and were expected to be arraigned Friday.
Yesterday Mr Chaika said: "A native of Chechnya, the leader of a Moscow organised criminal ring specialised in contract killings was behind this".
Jack M. Greenberg, the chairman and chief executive, said McDonald's would give customers "a chance to win every dollar that was stolen by this criminal ring".
In February, 2005, the N.A.S. Carabinieri broke up a criminal ring operating in several regions of Italy, and confiscated a hundred thousand litres of fake olive oil, with a street value of six million euros (about eight million dollars).
These wiretaps are often the only ways to break criminal rings.
They have long believed that American companies knowingly sell billions of cigarettes to dealers who supply criminal rings.
He arrived each morning bursting with enthusiasm for a new lesson about poverty, or rape, or children who have been recruited into criminal rings.
But even those were fake, federal officials said Friday in announcing what they said was the breakup of two overlapping criminal rings that took part in an elaborate scheme to sell $325 million worth of counterfeit goods throughout the United States.
It started last May when prosecutors began hauling in professional soccer players on suspicion that they had manipulated game outcomes in return for bribes from middlemen, often their retired colleagues, who worked for criminal rings running illegal Internet gambling sites.
