Sentence examples for network of traffickers from inspiring English sources

During the power vacuum that followed the collapse of Communism, they transformed themselves into a powerful underground network of traffickers, racketeers and crime bosses.

One case began with a tip on Long Island and led to Mexico; the other traced another network of traffickers based on Long Island, law enforcement officials said.

They are moved along by a network of traffickers across borders and ethnic communities, part of a web that spreads across the Balkans and into Western Europe.

Their fates are then entrusted to a network of traffickers and fixers who move them from one point to the next across the harsh landscapes of Pakistan, Iran and Turkey.

There is the complete collapse of Libya, the country that once provided a bulwark between Europe and Africa, and the increasing sophistication of the network of traffickers operating out of Egypt and in particular Libya.

Leah is one of an estimated 20,000 African refugees who have fallen into the hands of a network of traffickers and torturers in the Sinai desert over the past four years.

"While they are sleeping at the train station they are intercepted by networks of traffickers who promise to give them shelter and get them jobs.

In May EU foreign and defense ministers approved a naval effort that EU foreign-policy chief Federica Mogherini described as an effort "to destroy the business model of the [migrant] smugglers and the networks of traffickers in the Mediterranean".

A government complaint says the company and Mr. Jin used e-mail aliases, offshore bank accounts and a network of drug traffickers to illegally distribute millions of dollars worth of human growth hormone in the United States.

Two Republican lawmakers have asked the Drug Enforcement Administration to provide information about any confidential informants who have a connection to Operation Fast and Furious, an investigation into a network of gun traffickers in Arizona that has drawn controversy and Congressional scrutiny.

For the next year, and for more than 10,000 miles of footpaths, oceans and roads, Afshah was turned into freight and passed along an efficient, lucrative and ruthless network of human traffickers.