They have been involved in cigarette smuggling, electronic goods smuggling, guns, drugs, a lot of criminality".
The American indictment of Mr. Kakavand accuses him of exporting to an embargoed country, money laundering and goods smuggling.
Inflation gave opportunities for some groups to profit through hoarding needed goods, smuggling high-value commodities, black market currency operations, and graft.
The Transdniestrian enclave now floods the rest of Moldova with untaxed spirits and consumer goods smuggled in through Ukraine.
The siege has increased the importance of the social services that it provides and it also taxes the goods smuggled through tunnels between Gaza and Egypt.
The increasing appearance of Adidas, Disney and other brands (usually fake) indicates that access to goods smuggled from China is growing.
Meanwhile, shops in Gaza are filled with more expensive and lower quality goods smuggled through the tunnels from Egypt, on which Hamas levies its own charges.
The government closed markets and banned both North Koreans and foreigners from using foreign currency – widely employed by the better-off to pay for goods smuggled in from China – but later reversed the currency ruling and eased restrictions on trading.
By John C. Mosher The New Yorker, November 23 , 1929P. 33 Miss Cleaver is awaiting a man from headquarters who is going to recheck with her list she gave police of goods smuggled by her previous employer, Daisy Durante.
Illegal imports of counterfeit goods, smuggled over the long and permeable borders to the north and west, far exceed whatever illegal exports cross the same lines.According to the local press, a recent government report (published in Vietnamese only) says that Vietnam has become something of a hub for counterfeit goods.
