smuggling

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Since last year, when the RSF overran parts of Darfur and Kordofan, the militia has commandeered the gum trade, integrating it into its smuggling empire and further starving government coffers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

Despite U.S. efforts to suffocate the smuggling, Tehran reaped around $31 billion in oil revenue from China last year, according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a Congressional group.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

After his return, federal prosecutors charged him with human smuggling over a 2022 incident in Tennessee where he was found to have several people in his car during a traffic stop.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

In dismissing the human smuggling charges, Crenshaw said "the evidence before this court sadly reflects an abuse of prosecuting power."

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

No one else dared enter, and while the gyptians kept the peace and traded fairly, file landlopers turned a blind eye to the incessant smuggling and the occasional feuds.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman