Tag: smuggling
Rhino horn smuggler arrested
A 48-year-old Chinese national was arrested at the O.R Tambo International Airport for allegedly smuggling rhino horns which are estimated to value...
Italy sets trial for suspected African human-smuggling boss
A Sicilian judge on Wednesday ordered a trial for an Eritrean man accused of running a people smuggling network that sent thousands...
Italy sets trial for suspected African human-smuggling boss
A Sicilian judge on Wednesday ordered a trial for an Eritrean man accused of running a people smuggling network that sent thousands...
Italy sets trial for suspected African human-smuggling boss
A Sicilian judge on Wednesday ordered a trial for an Eritrean man accused of running a people smuggling network that sent thousands...
Italian police smash suspected people smuggling ring
Italian police on Monday arrested 25 Eritreans, 12 Ethiopians and an Italian who they said belonged to an organisation that had smuggled...
Feature: Interpol on people smuggling
People smuggling implies the procurement, for financial or material gain, of the illegal entry into a state of which that person is...
Spanish police arrest 30 accused of robbing drug traffickers
Spanish police arrested 30 people accused of robbing, kidnapping and torturing drug traffickers, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
Police detained 21 Moroccans,...
Kenya charges 9 foreigners over 377-kg heroin haul
Nine foreign nationals were charged in a Kenyan court on Thursday with trafficking the biggest ever single seizure of drugs at the...
Australian Navy ship HMAS Darwin seizes A$132 million of heroin off...
The Royal Australian Navy warship HMAS Darwin on Tuesday seized 449 kilograms of heroin with an estimated street value of A$132 million...
Arab Spring fallout fuels Mediterranean smuggling rise
The chaotic fallout of the "Arab Spring" is fuelling a surge in the smuggling of drugs, weapons and people across the Mediterranean,...
Access to shipping companies’ data could help turn the tide against...
Every year nearly half a billion shipping containers are transported across the globe. These movements are the lifeblood of global trade and...
Kenya burns tusks to counter growing ivory smuggling
Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki set fire to five tonnes of contraband ivory a symbol of his and Africa's renewed commitment to fight...