Sentence examples for large smuggling from inspiring English sources

They are typically brought into Thailand by large smuggling syndicates, in difficult and often dangerous conditions.

Such large smuggling rings usually use tractor-trailers to get their contraband across, the authorities said, but this operation relied mostly on migrants on foot straining under their loads.

The military said the incursion on Tuesday reached its target: a large smuggling tunnel with a hidden entrance inside a three-story house.

Although the Marcone case is the largest smuggling prosecution anywhere so far, investigators believe that smuggled gas is used by other companies in the United States, and European customs officials have intercepted shipments of contraband gas arriving in Finland, Slovenia and Poland in the last two years, said Halvart Koeppen, a United Nations official who tracks illegal trade of the gas.

One of the largest smuggling cases involved the St . Regis Mohawk Nationin Hogansburg, N.Y.

The first came late last fall, Mr. Williams said, when the immigration authorities encountered a smuggling case that provided investigative leads concerning the larger smuggling network.

The smuggling scheme, involving fake merchandise with a retail value of more than $200 million, was one of the largest smuggling operations ever discovered, the United States attorney's office in Manhattan said.

China has pledged to Canada that it will not execute two Chinese fugitives if they are extradited to face charges in the country's largest smuggling case, Prime Minister Zhu Rongji said.

Now, as details emerge about the largest smuggling scandal yet -- a conspiracy that apparently involved dozens of party, police and banking officials, the wife of Beijing's powerful party chief, virtually the entire customs department of a major seaport, and a flamboyant corporate leader who has vanished -- the basis for those fears is becoming clearer.

Kapil's case never made the national papers and he maintains his innocence, arguing that he was a decoy for a larger smuggling operation.

Chinese authorities seized more than 3 tons of animal parts taken from the bodies of dead pangolins earlier this month in one of the country's largest smuggling busts involving the world's most trafficked mammal.