Sentence examples for organized criminal activity from inspiring English sources

Human trafficking is a highly structured and organized criminal activity.

"Child trafficking for the purpose of prostitution is organized criminal activity using kids as commodities for sale and trade," Mr. Allen said at the news conference.

It has, however, so far failed to reduce the violence linked to organized criminal activity around the country that has killed an estimated 100,000 people since the drug wars began in 2006.

"This is organized criminal activity that is typically distributed across many different countries," said Mark Rasch, a former prosecutor in the Justice Department, who is director of security for CSC, a computer services company.

Ivory seizures suggest organized criminal activity "and often involve Asian-run, Africa-based sofrcivoryf ivory," explained the study.

While acknowledging the possibility that a limited number of professional villains once involved with the groups might be forging clandestine criminal links in other places, they all said the street gangs themselves are defunct, with their names living on as mere media shorthand for any kind of vaguely organized criminal activity.

Although Europe and Asia have historically had their international rings of smugglers, jewel thieves, and drug traffickers, and Sicily and Japan have centuries-old criminal organizations, organized criminal activities particularly flourished in the 20th century in the United States, where at times organized crime was compared to a cartel of legitimate business firms.

Known for organizing criminal activity in his corner of Cit?oleil, the seaside shantytown in Port-au-Prince, Evans led attacks against United Nations peacekeeping troops in recent months.

"Executives who abuse their positions as leaders of major corporations to organize criminal activity must be held accountable for their actions," said assistant attorney general Bill Baer of the Justice Department's antitrust division.

Members of the society's 2nd Lodge, active in south China, appeared in Hong Kong soon after the barren island was first settled by British opium traders, and turned quickly to organizing criminal activity among the coolies and carriers.

In February of this year, federal officials indicted 17 corrections officers on charges of smuggling cellphones into the McConnell Unit, which were used by gang leaders to organize criminal activities outside the prison.