Sentence examples for from extortion from inspiring English sources

That may have pushed many gangsters away from extortion and racketeering into harder-to-uncover financial activities.

Controlling so much land also helps IS make money from extortion and taxing people in the areas it controls.

The problem is particularly acute in Karachi, the country's financial capital, where political parties and criminal gangs also routinely clash over land and the proceeds from extortion rackets.

Most of the smaller ones are considered by Northeast residents, and by those from the region like myself, as essentially criminal gangs that profit from extortion and kidnapping.

It is coming from wealthy donors, from extortion, from kidnapping and from seized resources such as oil fields and smuggling networks.

We may just lead the nation in the number of elected officials sent to prison on any number of convictions, from extortion to steering contracts to favoured contractors.

He said that the Taliban's main sources of income now were Pakistan's intelligence service; Al Qaeda's global fundraising network; and the money from Afghanistan's war economy, including from opium poppies, extortion from Western companies doing business and illegal taxation of Afghans.

The Mafia appeared to be making more money from said extortion than they were from the bar itself.

In those years, the militias evolved from private armies protecting ranchers from rebel extortion and kidnapping to murderous, drug-running gangs that killed thousands of suspected rebel sympathizers, often with military collusion.

In this way, the criminals get protection from the militants for the money they give to the Taliban from their extortion rackets.

The best estimate of their income from drugs, extortion and kidnapping is perhaps $250m-300m 250m-300m