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"The current security environment, dominated by militias, does not constitute a proper security framework: It lacks coordination and creates gaps that allow for conflict between rival groups, as well as criminal activities like smuggling -- and terrorism, which appears to be a new factor in the east, " Alaaldin wrote.
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Plan Colombia is a U.S. strategy aimed at curbing drug smuggling by supporting different Drug War activities in Colombia.
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Even worse, she says, you could be roped into illegal activities, such as drug smuggling, which is particularly common around the Caribbean.
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Impoverished North Korea is widely accused of engaging in a range of illicit activities to raise hard cash, including drug smuggling, currency counterfeiting and arms trafficking.
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Boucher also said Monday that U.S. law enforcement agencies will aggressively work to curb illegal activities by Pyongyang, including drug trafficking, smuggling, counterfeiting and proliferation of weapons.
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Countries have passed laws against a range of activities money-laundering, insider trading, drug smuggling and fraud, for example at different times.
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Some have ties to potentially hostile national militaries and intelligence services or have links to proliferation activities, money laundering, organized crime, technology theft, arms smuggling, state sponsors of terrorism and other global bad actors.
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The range of activities they are engaged in is said to include fuel laundering, tobacco smuggling and supplying drugs.
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Mr Eklund, the bank economist in Stockholm, suggests that untaxed, unregulated work and smuggling now account for 5-10% of the total economy, though these activities involve natives as well as foreigners.
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