In January 2010, the Kabul office of New Ansari Exchange, Afghanistan's largest hawala money transfer business, was shuttered following a raid by the Sensitive Investigative Unit, the country's national anti-political corruption vetted and trained by the US Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ), allegedly because this company could be involved in laundering profits from the illicit opium trade and moving the cash earned by Taliban through extortion and drug trafficking.

Recognizing the increased profits, the FARC moved to become directly involved in the manufacture and distribution of cocaine by setting the price paid for cocaine paste and transporting it to jungle laboratories under FARC control.

In the 1960s scandals involved frauds such as huge illegal profits in the administration of banana import quotas, preferential allocation of purposely misprinted ( and, therefore, rare ) postage stamps.

Because smuggling can generate substantial profits for those involved, which in turn can fuel corruption and organized crime in countries traveled from, through, or to during the smuggling process.

These NVZs are part of the scheme involved in NSAs ( nitrate sensitive areas ) which are assigned on a farm scale basis and have much more stringent rules on nitrate application and also include remuneration for profits lost from keeping to the rules.

The Dukes of Devonshire have been closely involved with Buxton since 1780, when the 5th Duke used the profits from his copper mines to develop the town as a spa in the style of Bath.

Frank Williams ( at the time a Detective Inspector ) claims that at least three men who were directly involved are still at liberty and enjoying to the full their share of the money stolen and the profits from the way they invested it.

It involved the duty-free imports from Hong Kong of 90, 000 Japanese-made cars and trucks at a cost of C ¥ 4. 5 billion ( US $ 1. 5 billion ), and exporting them – with the help of local naval units – to the mainland, making 150 % profits.

Spices were imported in bulk and brought huge profits, due to the efforts and risks involved and seemingly insatiable demand.

Because of the high profits involved, new businesses involving the import and export of prisoners were developed.

Author Neil Gaiman and several Sandman series artists and others involved in the series ' publication participated in the convention, with profits benefiting the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

For example, Thufir Hawat is able to recite various details of a mining operation, including the number of various pieces of equipment, the people to work them, the profits and costs involved, etc.

Zahida Parveen had been involved in a number of charitable projects, decided to initiate this company with a social aim of giving 10 % of all profits to charity.

After they cheat the Longstreets in a phoney land deal, Floy and Pontdue try to escape to Atlantic City, New Jersey with their ill-gotten profits and also take Fran ( who has become romantically involved with Floy ) with them.

When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond: Connery agreed, asking ( and getting ) a fee of $ 3 million, ($ million in dollars ) a percentage of the profits, as well as casting and script approval.

The judges described these as elaborate confidence tricks, in which victims were invited to dinner, before being " ensnared " in rigged games, that involved a cast of fictional characters, and realised enormous profits for their perpetrators.

The World Bank runs the Information for Development Program ( infoDev ), whose Rural ICT Toolkit analyses the costs and possible profits involved in such a venture and shows that there is more potential in developing areas than many might assume.

He managed to parlay his profits from a land deal in 1971 ( the deal involved Howard Hughes and Caesars Palace ) into a controlling interest in the landmark downtown casino, the Golden Nugget Las Vegas ( he also owned Golden Nugget Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey ).

Robinson was also involved with horse-racing: in the late 1960s and 1970s he owned a large number of winning horses which also yielded significant profits.

Following the public offering, Cosmos's share price skyrocketed, and the individuals involved in the scheme saw average profits of ¥ 66 million each.

Rupert had also been deeply involved in environmental conservation and his companies have been prominent in funding the fine arts ; since 1964 foundations established by Rembrandt have used a part of the group's profits for the promotion of education, art, music and the preservation of historical buildings.

The Australian government also wants to prevent Habib being paid by the media for interviews or " making profits from committing a crime " even though he has not been convicted of any crime by any country ( it is important to note whilst anti-terrorism laws in Australia currently make it illegal to be involved in terrorist organisations, Habib was already in custody when these laws were introduced and so he cannot be convicted under them ).

At least three men who were directly involved are still at liberty and enjoying to the full their share of the money stolen and the profits from the way they invested it.

Cartels are usually illegal, so firms might instead tacitly collude using self-imposing strategies to reduce output which, ceteris paribus will raise the price and thus increase profits for all firms involved.

However as a result of intense pressure from the U. S. authorities, widespread efforts are currently being made to introduce systematic anti-money laundering initiatives on a global scale, to better curb the activities of the financiers of terrorism and those engaged in laundering the profits of drug smuggling.

# Source of Profits-primary profits from smuggling operations are derived from transportation and facilitation of illegal entry or stay in another country, whereas trafficking operations profit largely from the exploitation of victims.

) Operating in an extensive transnational black market, Snakeheads reap considerable profits from their smuggling operations and both are regarded and consider themselves not as criminals but as resourceful guides.

Similarly, in the EU, profits from people smuggling operations is estimated to be around € 4 billion per year.

In 1967, after meeting with a childhood friend, Phillip Eugene Sadler, Jung realized the enormous potential for profits by smuggling the cannabis he bought in California back to New England.

They may receive a portion of the profits from the smuggling or some other sort of financial compensation from those who contract the tunnel construction.

Until his assassination at the hands of a rival Palestinian faction in 2005, Moussa Arafat was believed to receive a portion of the profits derived from the smuggling tunnels.

According to pentito Antonio Calderone, Bontade used to say that fortunately Tommaso Spadaro did a little bit of cigarette smuggling and gave him part of the profits, " because they were starving to death.

Marginalist theory, such as above, describes the consumers as attempting to reach most-preferred positions, subject to income and wealth constraints while producers attempt to maximize profits subject to their own constraints, including demand for goods produced, technology, and the price of inputs.

The value of capital goods is brought into line with the value of future consumer goods through competition in financial markets, because competition for profits among capitalists financiers rewards entrepreneurs who value capital more correctly ( i. e. anticipating future prices more correctly ) and eliminates capitalists who value capital least correctly.

Private companies and firms have a greater incentive to produce more goods and services for the sake of reaching a customer base and hence increasing profits.

In the area of taxation, taxes were levied on various goods and produce, including animals, mines, profits of trade, and import-export duties.

One ship of no more than 500 tons could be sent to one of these places each year ( the Navío de Permiso ) with general trade goods but one quarter of the profits were to be reserved for the King of Spain.

Despite the demand for electrical consumer goods and large investments in heavy engineering and nuclear power, profits began to fall for the first time in the face of increasing competition and internal disorganisation.

He combined sociology with economics in his masterpiece The Theory of the Leisure Class ( 1899 ) where he argued that there was a basic distinction between the productiveness of " industry ", run by engineers manufacturing goods, vis-a-vis the parasitism of " business " that exists only to make profits for a leisure class.

Accessed February 11, 2012 < http :// www. chroniclesofamerica. com / french / coureur_de_bois. htm ></ ref > It was not just the promise of adventure or the freedom to roam that enticed the Coureur des Bois ; it was the profits earned by purchasing valuable pelts from natives in return for European goods.

" The speculation seems to be based on the observation that, as one commentator said, " the easier it is to buy real goods with virtual currency ( e. g. order a real life pizza ) the more likely the IRS will see exclusively in-world profits as taxable.

Contracts to sell Iraq humanitarian goods through the Oil-for-Food Programme were given to companies and individuals based on their willingness to kick back a certain percentage of the contract profits to the Iraqi regime.

* some profits are due to market imperfections-they arise when goods are traded above their competitive equilibrium price.

France, Belgium, and Switzerland benefited the most-particularly the industrialized north and east of France, and south of Belgium, which saw significantly increased profits due to the lack of competition from British goods ( particularly textiles, which were produced at a much cheaper cost in Britain ).

In addition to seeking profits for the company's investors, history records that his goal was a permanent colony which would enlarge English territory, relieve the nation's overpopulation, and expand the market for English goods.

Industrial society makes urbanization desirable, in part so that workers can be closer to centers of production, and the service industry can provide labor to workers and those that benefit financially from them, in exchange for a piece of production profits with which they can buy goods.

A war profiteer is any person or organization that profits from warfare or by selling weapons and other goods to parties at war.

For instance, during and after World War II, enormous profits were available by selling rationed goods like cigarettes, chocolate, coffee and butter on the black market.

Once they are sufficiently well-established, the perpetrators then purchase the next round of goods on credit and decamp with both the goods and profits from previous sales.

Fullerton remarks that production cost per unit does not change, meaning the company can earn profits over and above what it earned before the regulations even with selling a lower quantity of goods.

There is an upper limit to which the company can raise its prices before profits begin to erode because of the presence of viable substitute goods.

The profits from the sale of sugar were used to purchase manufactured goods, which were then shipped to West Africa, where they were bartered for slaves.

de Silhouette devised the " general subvention ," i. e., taxes on external signs of wealth ( doors and windows, farms, luxury goods, servants, profits ).

The depression emphasized the value of the western markets for eastern goods and homesteaders who would furnish markets and respectable profits.