In September, five doctors from South Africa were charged with participating in an international kidney-trading syndicate in which dozens of poor Brazilians and Romanians were paid for kidneys for wealthy Israelis.
This act of seemingly straightforward larceny turns out to be much more deeply motivated: Ralls means it to be the last act in a prolonged drama of revenge played out against his employer, Sidneye (Luther Adler), the ruthless boss of a Dutch trading syndicate.
The ship was owned by the Gregson slave-trading syndicate, based in Liverpool, which participated in the Atlantic slave trade.
The IFC's investment services consist of loans, equity, trade finance, syndicated loans, structured and securitized finance, client risk management services, treasury services, and liquidity management.
The syndicates trade in stolen versions of these codes as well, and sometimes set up their own online authentication systems to give people the feeling they have a legitimate product.
Led by BBVA of Spain and BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole and Société Générale of France, they account for 32 percent of Asia's syndicated lending, according to Citigroup, and 40 percent of syndicated trade finance.
First-hand accounts indicate that trafficking syndicates trading in vulnerable migrants have responded to a recent crackdown by authorities in Thailand and Malaysia by holding their victims in large vessels close to international waters, where they are ransomed for their freedom in return for money from relatives.
They were joined by opposition-party politicians and representatives of the leader of the Spanish Syndicates (trades unions).
After October 1925 the Fascist syndicates, or trade unions, were the sole recognized negotiators for workers' interests.
The Fascists also organized their own trade unions, the Fascist "syndicates," among strategic groups such as postal administrative workers and taxi drivers, to replace Socialist or Catholic organizations, to provide mass membership, and to control labour.
