Mick becomes suspicious when several paintings from Southern Europe are brought onto the set ; although at first he suspects drug smuggling, the pictures themselves are revealed to be missing art from a museum in former Yugoslavia thought lost in the recent civil wars.

The transport ( and smuggling ) of minerals with a high value for weight is also carried out by air, and in the east, some stretches of paved road isolated by destroyed bridges or impassable sections have been turned into airstrips.

Many years later, Captain Collyer, a Royal Navy officer assigned to smash the local smuggling ring, uncovered the deception and Dr. Syn's true identity, thanks in part to the tongueless mulatto ( who had been rescued by Collyer years before and who had been serving Collyer as a " ferret " seeking out hidden contraband ) who recognized Syn as Clegg.

The same year, both men attracted the attention of Saudi intelligence, who believed they were involved in arms smuggling, and the following year they were eyed as possible collaborators in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in East Africa after it emerged that Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali had given the FBI the phone number of Mihdhar's father-in-law ; 967-1-200578, which turned out to be a key communications hub for al-Qaeda militants, and eventually tipped off the Americans about the upcoming Kuala Lumpur al-Qaeda Summit.

Most of the smuggling of Tamil people to western countries was carried out by LTTE.

It also states, narcotics smuggling using its merchant ships, is one of the main ways of earning money out of its USD 300 million annual income.

The small group of mercenaries arrived in the Maldives smuggling their light arms in diving equipment, but did not carry out the mission because Gayoom had been tipped about their arrival and they found that they had been misinformed about the popularity of Gayoom.

The firms operations included smuggling opium into China from Malwa, India, trading spices and sugar with the Philippines, exporting Chinese tea and silk to England, factoring and insuring cargo, renting out dockyard facilities and warehouse space, trade financing and other numerous lines of business and trade.

Adam Smith's approval of smuggling ); and the " Samuel Johnson Dining Experience " turns out to be a flop because Doctor Johnson is regularly rude to the guests who dine at his table.

In Marseilles a policeman is staking out Alain Charnier ( Fernando Rey ), a French criminal who is smuggling heroin from France to the United States.

* Mr. Moto Takes a Chance ( 1938 ) — Undercover as an archeologist in Thailand, Moto is trying to find out who is the head of a revolutionary army that is smuggling guns and explosives into the tiny village of Tong Moi.

During this time he served as a secret courier ; delivering communiques to and from the US embassy in Moscow at the request of Ambassador William Christian Bullitt, Jr., smuggling the messages in and out of Russia by taping a sealed envelope to his leg beneath his trousers, an event described in David Fromkin's 1995 book In the Time of the Americans.

The chief of the Akwesasne Mohawk police has suggested that Akwesasne has been singled out for criticism when the smuggling problems stretch across the entire US-Canada border.

Noticing how similar the foundry is to the place where the gold is made into ingots, Holland decides that the ideal way of smuggling the gold out of the country would be as Eiffel Tower paperweights sold in Paris, and puts this hypothetically to his new friend: " By Jove, Holland, it's a good job we're both honest men.

He befriended Boris Pasternak, and was responsible for smuggling a typescript of Doctor Zhivago out of Russia to England.

Back in London, Bond's superior, M, tasks him with determining how Goldfinger is smuggling gold out of the country: M also suspects Goldfinger of being connected to SMERSH and financing their western networks with his gold.

However the peasants in the surrounding district, who by law were to sell their goods only at Arendal, were smuggling their goods out on cutters and selling them in Denmark, in the Baltic, and in Britain.

By contrast, the RLAF's transport C-47s were still brazenly misused for opium and gold smuggling, and chartered out as civilian airliners.

Eventually Mary was found out after a porter was caught smuggling a dead rabbit into her chamber, she confessed to inserting at least 16 rabbits into herself and faking their birth.

The embargo encouraged British merchants to seek out new markets aggressively and to engage in smuggling with continental Europe.

Later that year, Spellman was charged with smuggling Non Abbiamo Bisogno, the papal encyclical condemning Benito Mussolini, out of Rome and to Paris, where he then delivered it to the press ; he was subsequently attacked by Italian newspapers.

That operation included military personnel from U. S. Northern Command ’ s Joint Task Force North who helped the Border Patrol to “ keep potential terrorists out of the country and to break up smuggling rings that try to get them in .” In order “ to detect, deter, and monitor suspicious actions … Air Guard crews flew twin-engine, C-26 airplanes out of Syracuse, N. Y .”

Kim was charged with masterminding accounting fraud worth 41 trillion won ($ 43. 4 billion ), illegally borrowing 9. 8 trillion won ($ 10. 3 billion ) and smuggling $ 3. 2 billion out of the country, according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.

The Fremen, who base their entire industry around the sale of spice and the manufacture of materials out of spice, have learned to co-exist with the sandworms in the desert and harvest the spice manually for their own use and for smuggling off-planet.

Cole and Campbell confront Smith, who says that Deverell is smuggling chemical weapons into the USA from Russia, with plans to sell the weapons to a group of Serbian terrorists.

In 1909, Arshinov returned to Russia and was caught smuggling arms from Austria.

Some attention was attracted to this arrangement when in 1906 it was asserted that Russia, under pretext of stopping the smuggling of arms into Finland, was massing considerable naval and military forces at the islands.

As a lawyer, Liebknecht often defended other left wing socialists who were tried for offences such as smuggling socialist propaganda into Russia, a task in which he was also involved.

The proximity of Prussian border made smuggling of books in Lithuanian language, banned in Imperial Russia, easier.

Despite some notable disasters, such as the wrecking of a gun running yacht on the Romanian coast, he had some success in smuggling these arms into Russia via Finland and the Black Sea.

The discrepancy is widely believed to be explained by transactions intended to launder money or evade taxes, smuggling and other visibility problems.

The Coast Guard is responsible for the onshore protection of public installations near the coast and the patrol of coastal waters to prevent smuggling.

* 1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.

Carrying commercial cargo on a boat with a yacht ensign is deemed to be smuggling in many jurisdictions.

Despite this, arms smuggling is rampant and black-market small arms, usually Russian-made, are bought and sold by various non-government organizations ranging from paramilitary groups to terrorist organizations.

They have banned all media from other countries ( such as video games, newspapers, and goods ), especially South Korea and the United States and smuggling these products is illegal.

Lindh said that the prison uprising was sparked by some of the prisoner guards smuggling grenades into the basement, " This is against what we had agreed upon with the Northern Alliance, and this is against Islam.

The Lebanese Navy is responsible for protecting Lebanon's territorial waters, ports, and fighting illegal smuggling of goods.

The Mackenzie Institute claimed that LTTE's secretive international operations of the smuggling of weapons, explosives, and " dual use " technologies which is attributed to the " KP Branch ", headed by Selvarasa Pathmanathan prior to 2002.

* 2005 – Australian Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Kerobokan Prison for drug smuggling by a court in Indonesia.

Moonfleet is a tale of smuggling by the English novelist J. Meade Falkner, first published in 1898.

" I do not find they have any foreign commerce, except it be what we call smuggling and roguing ; which I may say, is the reigning commerce of all this part of the English coast, from the mouth of the Thames to the Land's End in Cornwall.

Much smuggling occurs when enterprising merchants attempt to supply demand for a good or service that is illegal or heavily taxed.

It is acknowledged that the smuggling of people is a growing global phenomenon.

Research on smuggling as economic phenomenon is scant.

Against common belief that the private sector is more efficient than the public sector, they showed that, smuggling might not enhance social welfare though it may divert resources from government to private sector.

In contrast, Faizul Latif Chowdhury, in 1999, suggested a production-substituting model of smuggling in which price disparity due to cost of supply is critically important as an incentive for smuggling.

In many parts of the world, particularly the Gulf of Mexico, the smuggling vessel of choice is the go-fast boat.

In popular perception smuggling is synonymous as illegal trade.