Sentence examples for oil smuggler from inspiring English sources

Each smuggler takes around eight tankers a week," Sami Khalaf, an oil smuggler and former Iraqi intelligence officer under Saddam Hussein, told the Guardian.

But Western diplomats and customs authorities said he was an oil smuggler who was threatened by customs controls imposed by Kosovo, and that he was a central organizer in erecting barricades in Mitrovica that became the front lines of struggle between ethnic Serbs and ethnic Albanians over the summer and into the fall.

A day after the magazine went to print, Lefteris Charalampopoukos – the guy who wrote the article – received a phone call from someone claiming to be oil magnate (and alleged oil smuggler) Dimitris Melissanidis, who threatened to kill him.

But the authorities said Mr. Veselinovic had forged ties with less powerful oil smugglers on the Albanian side.

Police accuse Pongpat of leading a network responsible for offences including money laundering, extortion and taking bribes from oil smugglers, illegal gambling dens and police officers seeking promotions.

Nigeria's well-to-do households, with their cars and large diesel generators, and also some adroit oil smugglers, captured much of the subsidy.

Each controls its own fief, and each protects its own Chechen agents -- many of whom are kidnappers, useful middlemen or oil smugglers.

Turkish businessmen struck lucrative deals with Isis oil smugglers, adding at least $10m£6.6m6m) per week to the terror group's coffers, and replacing the Syrian regime as its main client.

At one point Mr Bremer dismissed the British generals' qualms about the legality of detaining oil smugglers on the high seas, declaring: "I am the law .Despite Britain's history of empire, Sir Hilary says it was unprepared for colonial-style administration, lacking both people and funds.

But prices rebounded after separatists in Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer, threatened to destroy a $13 billion natural-gas export plant in the Niger Delta, and reports came in of a fatal explosion close to Lagos attributed to oil smugglers attempting to tap into a pipeline.

"A sounder estimate would put such income at no more than 5percentto10percentcent of [the $4 million per day estimate]." Rather than operating a sophisticated oil operation, IS is most likely just siphoning off a small amount, allowing locals to make some extra cash as oil smugglers.