Sentence examples for illicit traders from inspiring English sources

He also discovered that these illicit traders were highly influential among political radicals.

Illegally traded python skins worth $1bn£600m0m) are being imported into Europe every year as weak regulation fails to stop illicit traders capitalising on demand for the dramatically patterned leather.

Add juicy margins a tiger skin may fetch $20,000, a kilogram of ivory can go for $900 and a kilogram of rhino horn for an astonishing $50,000 and the prohibitive cost of keeping all poachers out of species' habitats, which cover swathes of land, and illicit traders are bound to crawl out of the woodwork.

But they've also attempted to regularize the trade via cooperatives of illicit traders, intending to mainstream them into the official oil industry—a move that's been met with heavy resistance from unofficial illicit gas trade groups, that are organizing for the defense of their members against new laws and agitating against cooperatives.

These include: legal actions and regulations on illicit traders, countermeasures using technologies, consumer education and cooperation with enforcement agencies.

But the trail is dominated by a network of illicit fuel traders.

"This is going to make it more difficult" for illicit diamond traders, Mr. Karras said in a telephone interview from Antwerp.

Sure, but I need the money," said Hamid, a heavyset construction engineer who was standing by a muddy patch of greenery amid a crowd of other illicit currency traders here.

A few companies say that Internet networks are being clogged by legitimate video services like YouTube.com, Hulu.com and Apple's iTunes, which use more bandwidth than the illicit file traders.

Lezhnev said that clamping down on the trade in conflict gold requires a two-pronged strategy: praising the companies leading the charge against illegal mining, and sanctioning illicit gold traders.

On Monday the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, said top executives should face "consequences" for the 4.8 billion euro loss, or $7.1 billion, tied to illicit trades by a junior trader.