black market

The majority of the UK's exported waste tyres are sold into the Indian black market, and this is well known within the industry, BBC File on 4 Investigates has been told.

Department of Justice attorneys say the native North American species is coveted by a rising middle class and are worth at least $2,000 each on the black market.

"People slide along on that low level of income, perhaps dipping into the black market, but their aspirations are so low and the communities do not change."

Abalone remain the target of poachers, and there is an extensive black market that pays a premium for them, Windsor police said.

Using contraband cellphones from his prison cell, Torres oversaw a black market for extorted commissary goods called the “kitty.”