Sentence examples for extensive smuggling from inspiring English sources

Baluchistan borders Afghanistan and Iran and has extensive smuggling, mostly of heroin, with both countries.

Official exports of diamonds have declined dramatically since the 1960s due to extensive smuggling and the depletion of reserves.

In one case, investigations of a former electricity minister landed him in jail before he escaped and fled to the United States, and an Oil Ministry inspector general detailed extensive smuggling and extortion schemes that he said bedeviled the industry.

Israel points to four separate occasions of cross-border attacks, extensive smuggling of both weapons and civilian goods through a network of tunnels similar in design to tunnels that had been used to launch attacks across the border in the past (including the kidnapping of Shalit).

In its three years in power, Hamas has taken control of not only security, education and the justice system but also the economy, by regulating and taxing an extensive smuggling tunnel system from Egypt.

Thus, as the book notes, quoting the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, while there is "no evidence of FARC involvement in drug trafficking," there is indeed "extensive drug smuggling to the United States by 'right-wing paramilitary groups in collaboration with wealthy drug barons, the [U.S.-funded] armed forces, key financial figures and senior bureaucrats".

Seemingly out of nowhere, a well-resourced and extensive drug-smuggling operation had sprung up on the back of a legitimate trading network.

The authorities said the woman, Cheng Chui Ping, was the head of an extensive international human smuggling ring, as well as a shrewd Chinatown banker who laundered her ransom proceeds behind a Broadway storefront.

And this week, the smuggler at the center of it all was finally sent to the United States to face more charges in relation to the illegal trade, marking one of the last chapters in one of, if not the most, extensive anti-narwhal smuggling operations ever.

Individuals may smuggle in diamonds, for example, but it would take an extensive organization to smuggle in elephants.

The militant group also takes a large cut of the profits from the extensive networks that smuggle in everything from cars to missiles through tunnels underneath the border with Egypt.