The European Union estimates that losses within its borders from cigarette smuggling, tax fraud and false claims on its funds by organised groups total €34 billion ($46.5 billion) a year.
The Fed has always resisted placing American banks under obligation to reveal skulduggery, whether it involves drug smuggling, commercial fraud, terrorism or other international conspiracy.
A substantial portion of the court's docket in this period came from tax cases: The court, in this time, also tried numerous criminal cases arising from efforts to evade the tax laws through smuggling and fraud.
Mr. Hammoud's brother, Chawki, 37, was found guilty of charges including cigarette smuggling, credit card fraud, money laundering and racketeering.
The country, Africa's most populous, is plagued by violent crime and politically motivated thuggery and has become a center for heroin smuggling and international fraud.
Capping a case that exposed a large-scale caviar smuggling ring, a Maryland company, two of its officials and a third person pleaded guilty yesterday to federal fraud, smuggling and wildlife endangerment charges.
Subotic claimed that Knezevic had accused him in these articles of being involved in organised crime, the court heard, including murder, tobacco smuggling, money laundering, fraud and of undergoing plastic surgery to conceal his identity.
The office's law enforcement arm has 80 agents to pursue both some of its new terrorism-related tasks and the criminal offenses, like immigrant smuggling and document fraud, for which it has always been responsible, according to agents and other officials.
SÃO PAULO, Brazil, Oct. 17 (Dow Jones) — Brazilian police and Federal Revenue Service officials raided offices of the Brazilian unit of the network equipment company Cisco Systems and arrested top executives as part of a continuing investigation into a smuggling and tax fraud scheme, authorities said late Tuesday.
(Mr. Lai ran afoul of Chinese authorities after attracting too much attention and wound up accused of smuggling and tax fraud on a grand scale. His flight to Canada created a diplomatic crisis and also made him a focus of public scrutiny).
