Gotthard Lerch's smuggling trial in Mannheim did not attract much of an audience this summer.
Italian prosecutors accused of arresting the wrong person in a smuggling trial in Sicily have responded by launching an investigation into their accusers, a court has heard.
All prosecutors would need to do to smuggle suggestive evidence into trials, she said, would be to use "the right kind of forms with the right kind of language".
In the Liverpool Echo of Saturday 15th June, apart from the report on the conviction of the Fitzgibbons, there was also a report of another Liverpool dealer, cage fighter, Paul Kelly who was sentenced to 14 years for running another heroin ring in the city and three other local men on trial for smuggling "huge amounts of heroin and cocaine" from Liverpool to Plymouth.
Now, Guzman faces extradition to the USA, to stand trial over his smuggling of billions of dollars of drugs from South America to the US over the years.
The Greek film The Longest Run also follows the plight of a Syrian refugee, here a teenaged boy captured in the waters of Greece, who ends up in prison awaiting trial for alleged "smuggling".
I came across a report on ChinaTopix.com that almost seems too ridiculous to be true: Takuma Sakuragi, a 70-year-old Japanese politician infamous for his fiery, anti-Chinese rhetoric, is on trial for drug smuggling -- in China.
The authorities brought their largest court case ever against a people-smuggling ring, the New China News Agency reported, putting 42 people on trial on charges of smuggling more than 700 people from Fujian Province to Japan between 1998 and 2000.
American officials said intelligence agencies had, over recent months, tracked three other packages out of Yemen for delivery to the US that appeared to be trial runs for the smuggling of a bomb on board a cargo plane.
