Word: contrabanding
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Bilbeisi is also an arms dealer who has peddled used Jordanian and new East European weaponry to South Africa and Latin America under dubious terms. The $35 million worth of coffee he sold to American companies was contraband smuggled into the U.S. Financing for those deals, including letters of credit and falsified documents, is the sort of business no legitimate bank would touch, so Bilbeisi needed B.C.C.I. He was happy to kick back cash to his bankers for such services, including the laundering of his gains...
Endangered species, a significant portion of the contraband smuggled into Taiwan, appeal to rich consumers there for a number of reasons. Environmentalism is a new and alien concept; Chinese society tends to emphasize the utility of animals. Exotic pets are status symbols, while pelts are hung in the homes of the wealthy. Eating elaborately prepared dishes featuring endangered animals carries mystical connotations of power. This is jinbu: if you eat a tiger's eyes, for example, your eyes are said to assume the acuity of a tiger's. Many folk medicines are made from the teeth or organs of exotic...
...warrants, 150 Secret Service agents staged surprise raids in 14 American cities one morning last May, seizing 42 computers and tens of thousands of floppy disks. Their target: a loose-knit group of youthful computer enthusiasts suspected of trafficking in stolen credit-card numbers, telephone access codes and other contraband of the information age. The authorities intended to send a sharp message to would-be digital desperadoes that computer crime does not pay. But in their zeal, they sent a very different message -- one that chilled civil libertarians. By attempting to crack down on telephone fraud, they shut down dozens...
...wrote to the house committee, telling it to stop selling the contraband Bart-wear, and the house was left with 130 unsellable shirts and a $900 loss...
...revealed 120 packets of cocaine in his intestines. He apparently made the mistake of using a permeable natural-skin condom, rather than a latex one, to hold the drug, which seeped into his stomach. Since the intestines are 27 ft. long, they can contain large quantities of contraband...