Word: smugglers
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...different middleman. An hour later, the pair were ensconced in a safe house and gulped down an entire washbasin filled with rice and chives. It was the most satisfying meal Ryu remembers ever eating. Soon after, she was sold by the North Korean middleman to a Chinese smuggler for $36. In turn, the Changbai dealer sold her to a Chinese farmer in a village near the Jilin town of Baishan for $600. They now have a four-year-old daughter, and the farmer treats Ryu well. His family trusts her so much that she's even in charge...
...peasants are littered with imperial tombs. Many still hold impossibly valuable works of art buried centuries ago. Breaking into these tombs and stealing the national treasures they hold are illegal, of course. But the lure is too great for many, especially because one major haul, sold to a smuggler, can equal a year's farming income. "For kids here, tomb raiding is just like going to the bar," says Little Su, a Xiaoli doctor who put himself through medical school with the spoils of treasure hunts beneath the fields around his home. "If you're bored one night, someone will...
...truth, much of the loot from Empress Dou's tomb--and the vast majority from countless other sites across Asia--is still missing. In India, Superintendent Shrivastava is delighted to have nabbed the nation's top smuggler. But months after the momentous arrest, he has tracked down only a fraction of the relics Ghia is believed to have looted over the past three decades. Since news of the arrest was made public, three collectors have written to the police, offering to return stolen items they say they purchased in good faith. But most of the stolen treasures, still hidden inside...
...trafficking as a teen, according to Mexican investigators. He crossed into the U.S. as an undocumented migrant in the '90s, then worked for minimum wage in Chicago restaurants and North Carolina poultry-processing plants. In 2000, investigators say, he returned home to join his father and brother as a smuggler. But he had bigger plans than his kin. He had learned in his brief narco days how to intimidate competition, says Rodriguez, who adds that Andrade has an "impulsive, psychotic and violent profile." Avianeda and Andrade are charged with the murders of three rivals. Avianeda has pleaded not guilty...
...last week’s trial, Okhotin's lawyers tried to break down the picture of the HDS student as a deceptive smuggler. At one point, Okhotin's lawyers had him hold up the backpack to show that he did not carry the money in a secret compartment, but simply in the second zippered pocket of his book...