Authorities claimed that Kassar had been involved in smuggling drugs, financing terrorist groups, and ordering the assassination of various rivals and witnesses against him.
(The Guards relied on smuggling to finance their activities and enrich themselves).
-- Details of corruption and cross-border criminal activity, including weapons trafficking, human trafficking, alien smuggling, illicit finance, and cigarette smuggling.
Mr. Salehi, though, is better known for being arrested in 2010 in connection with a sprawling, American-led investigation that tied together Afghan cash smuggling, Taliban finances and the opium trade.
Jim Lesczynski, a former Libertarian Party candidate for City Council, testified that the tax would lead to the creation of a new black market, with illegal cigarette dealers getting into shootouts and terrorist groups like Hamas turning to cigarette smuggling to finance their activities.
Officials deny that Cyprus has had any problems with cigarette smuggling, terror finance or the arms trade.
Because the private sector in Albania has little access to credit (some entrepreneurs resort to smuggling to finance their companies), the government is hoping to attract investment from overseas.
The IS group has declared an Islamic caliphate in the territories it controls in Syria and Iraq, and has used oil facilities and smuggling to finance much of its operations.
Though Mr. Sankoh had promised free movement for the United Nations peacekeepers, he has denied them access to areas controlled by his fighters, in part because they contain diamonds that are smuggled to finance the insurgency and, by some accounts, to enrich Mr. Sankoh.
There was a small but real chance that, by paying guards to watch for plowshares, he was financing a smuggling network.
