Word: illicitness
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...North Korea wants to get its hands on $25 million in funds that was frozen by Macau banking authorities after U.S. investigators linked the money to counterfeiting and other illicit activities conducted by members of the North Korean elite. But critics of the Bush Administration's policy contend that the regime has used the fund freeze to stall because it simply doesn't want to lose its nuclear threat and become just another desperately poor country...
...most valuable resource. Has Noorzai's arrest really made a difference in heroin production? U.S. taxpayers will now have to spend millions to prosecute and detain him. The U.S. could wipe out the drug trade tomorrow by legalization and taxation, which would take away the enormous profits earned in illicit trade and reduce theft by addicts who steal to support their habit. The huge sums saved on incarceration and policing could be spent on health care and education. William A. Ring, SAN DIEGO
...guarantee that the technology is not used for illicit purposes? Zarif builds on an approach that Iran floated last October. "Iran could agree that its nuclear facilities, including all of its enrichment plants, could be jointly owned by an international consortium. All countries with concerns, including the U.S., could participate in that consortium. Their people and other foreign nationals could come and go to work at the facilities, which would allow for the best type of monitoring...
...program. Indeed, rather than lightening up on the North, U.S. Treasury Department officials appear poised to issue permanent sanctions against Banco Delta Asia, the Macau bank where about $24 million in assets allegedly belonging to North Korean officials have been frozen on grounds that the money is linked to illicit North Korean businesses, including counterfeiting. Pyongyang has been adamant that economic sanctions be lifted in exchange for cooperation on nuclear talks. But Hill told reporters in New York that he has made it "abundantly clear to them that this counterfeiting business has got to stop. It's something no country...
...most valuable resource. Has Noorzai's arrest really made a difference in heroin production? U.S. taxpayers will now have to spend millions to prosecute and detain him. The U.S. could wipe out the drug trade tomorrow by legalization and taxation, which would take away the enormous profits earned in illicit trade and reduce theft by addicts who steal to support their habit. The huge sums reserved for incarceration and policing could be spent on health care and education. William A. Ring San Diego...