Sentence examples for sales smuggling from inspiring English sources

The North Sinai region is dominated by Bedouin tribes and is a perennial hotbed of illegal weapons sales, smuggling and other activities.

They admittedly don't sound like such a fun bunch, but when the meddling powers at the EU mandated that each member increase the size of its economy, the Institute took the lead by counting a range of "innovative" revenues in its accounts, including those from prostitution, illegal drug sales, smuggling, and other unlawful financial transactions.

In addition to freedom of movement, U.S. officials say the heavily armed group takes in as much as $1 million a day from illicit oil sales, smuggling and ransom payments.

Johnson said that the Islamist militant group has an estimated 10,000 fighters, engages in 30 to 40 attacks a month and takes in as much as a million dollars a day from oil sales, smuggling and ransom payments.

From washing cars, running errands, and stealing car parts in Nuevo Laredo, Treviño Morales turned to the drug trade, starting with small-scale drug retail sales and smuggling.

$8 billion to $24 billion of cash generated by illicit U.S. drug sales is smuggled annually into Mexico from the U.S. 4,300 drug-related murders have taken place in Mexico so far this year.

And he based his building, sales, prostitution and smuggling empire in the boom town of Xiamen, on China's southern coast.

As the United States has tightened bank regulations and clamped down on sophisticated money-laundering schemes in the past 35 years, more of the money from illicit drug sales is being smuggled across the border to Mexico the old-fashioned way, law enforcement officials say.

The National Audit Office says that in 1998 losses in duty and VAT (sales tax) through tobacco smuggling rose by 27% to £1 billion, compared with 1997, while losses through alcohol smuggling rose by 22% to £220m.

Neogi, of the Department of Narcotics Control said that smuggling and sales of the drug were "rampant" in Bangladesh, despite seizures by authorities, due to the large profits involved.

On the other hand, official sales do not include smuggling, and therefore a variable portion of the consumption is not being considered.