Sentence examples for international theft from inspiring English sources

This dealer, the Turkish go-between and the head of Lebanon's bureau of international theft all told the BBC that Europe was the main market for looted antiquities from the region.

Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Saad is the head of Lebanon's bureau of international theft.

Annual losses to the U.S. economy from international theft of trade secrets has been estimated to exceed $300 billion.

He could easily pass for the star of an Arabic cop show but Lt Col Nicholas Saad is a real policeman, head of Lebanon's bureau of international theft.

"The scale of international theft of American intellectual property (IP) is unprecedented - hundreds of billions of dollars per year, on the order of the size of US exports to Asia," it said.

Stay with commerce, Governor, you likely have a great deal of insight to contribute to our export-import imbalance and the ways in which you might specifically handle unfair trade practice, the international theft of intellectual property and its overlap with international crime syndicates purveying illegal drugs, weapons or the misery of human trafficking.

For a few years, the lost da Vinci placed Scotland at the forefront of the Crystal and Cohibas world of international art theft, yet the robbers have never been traced.

Authorities announced today that they had arrested eight New York City men as part of an international auto theft ring that received specific orders to steal at least 32 luxury cars worth more than $2 million from commuter parking lots, parking garages, shopping malls and even private driveways in the last three weeks alone.

Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA The welcome announcement by police in Glasgow last week of the recovery of The Madonna of the Yarnwinder, a £30m Da Vinci masterpiece snatched from Drumlanrig Castle in a daring heist in 2003, has once again cast a light into the murky world of international art theft.

Luxury cars worth millions of dollars -- including dozens of Corvettes, BMW's and similar sports cars -- were stolen by an international car theft ring that shipped the cars from New York to Russia, the office of Mary Jo White, the United States attorney, announced yesterday.

The International Intellectual Property Alliance, a U.S. coalition of film, software, music and publishing groups, estimates that U.S. companies lost more than $15 billion in 2009 due to international copyright theft.