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Art dealer charged in $145m antiquities smuggling case
New York Times, Published on 11/07/2019
» NEW YORK: In a sweeping new criminal case, a former New York art dealer authorities describe as one of the world’s largest smugglers of antiquities has been charged with running a multinational ring that trafficked in thousands of stolen objects, valued at more than US$145 million, over 30 years.
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Wildlife trafficking ‘kingpin’ claims he was pawn
New York Times, Published on 25/09/2018
» Chumlong Lemthongthai, a Thai citizen, and his band of gun-toting prostitutes were surely one of the most remarkable of the ‘pseudo-hunting’ gangs behind the ongoing rhino poaching crisis.
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Smuggled, beaten and drugged: The illicit global ape trade
New York Times, Published on 05/11/2017
» MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of Congo: The sting began, as so many things do these days, on social media.
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Smuggled mobile phones become lifeline to outside world
News, New York Times, Published on 28/03/2016
» The man drove Ju Chan-yang to a mountain overlooking North Korea's border with China. He looked around, making sure they were alone. Then he dialled his Chinese cellphone and handed it to her.
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Laos overlooked in ivory trade blitz
New York Times, Published on 03/08/2015
» When customs officers at Suvarnabhumi airport recently intercepted huge stashes of ivory stuffed inside shipments of beans and tea leaves, the seizures were described as groundbreaking international police work.
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Desperate to escape Myanmar, migrants left to starve
New York Times, Published on 15/05/2015
» ANDAMAN SEA — A wooden fishing boat carrying several hundred desperate migrants from Myanmar was spotted adrift in the Andaman Sea between Thailand and Malaysia, part of an exodus in which thousands of people have taken to the sea in recent weeks but no country has been willing to take them in.
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