informant

Example Sentences

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Yusuf, the legal guardian to some of the Maga girls and whose name has also been changed to protect his identity, believes such kidnappings could not have happened without informants in the community.

From BBC

"You can't make friends in cyber-crime, because the next day, your friends will be arrested and they will become an informant," he says.

From BBC

By then, Sánchez had developed a network of informants who told him the cartel had strengthened its presence at the mine.

From Los Angeles Times

Australia's most famous gangster won a reduced jail sentence Thursday on one of his drug-related convictions, after it was revealed his lawyer was a police informant.

From Barron's

According to Crow, Darby was the fifth informant that the government had sent after him at that point.

From Salon