Smuggling

Smuggling  (crime)

Smuggling is the illegal transshipment, e.g. across borders of nation states.

Drugs

Full article: Drug Smuggling

Drug Smuggling can be highly profitable, reflecting not just from a high demand, small volume product, but a huge price differential thanks to the "war on drugs". This is maintained by groups such as the DEA or the US Customs and Border Protection who try to prevent small groups from importing drugs across national boundaries. Drug smuggling, like weapons smuggling, is often misrepresented by the commercially-controlled media as a matter principally of small groups of individuals. This obscures the degree to which the deep state - and the CIA in particular - is responsible for drug trafficking.

Misdirection by Corporate Media

Attention is focused by the commercially-controlled media on individual small-scale attempts to evade detection by authorities,ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/16/bizarre-smuggling-attempts-that-went-wrong-in-pictures/sofa-made-recycled-material-lorry-13-tons-cannabis-discovered/</ref>. This stays firmly within the realms of the official narrative and the official opposition narrative - ill-advised, maybe, but the "war on drugs" is a sincere ttempt to reduce consumption of and trafficking in drugs, for the good of society. Comparatively little attention is given to stories such as Cocaine 1 and Cocaine 2 or Western Global Airlines N545JN which reveal the extent to which the establishment is complicit in drug smuggling. Although the DEA cited the 2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust‎ as an example of their campaign to intercept smuggling by sea it received minimal attention from the corporate media.

Animal trafficking

File:Parrots smuggling

Eclectus parrots stuffed inside drainage pipes following a raid in Labuha, North Maluku.

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People Trafficking

People are trafficked, e.g. for exploitation in the sex trade.

Finance

Cash

Cash is smuggled internationally as a part of money laundering efforts, which may be on a large scale. In 2016, Western Global Airlines N545JN flew 67 tonnes of newly printed banknotes from Germany to South Africa. A spokesman for the South African Reserve Bank explained the delivery was “a consignment of South African banknotes that was produced overseas as part of the SARB's annual production plan.”

Bearer bonds

Over some years, a range of reports surfaced about the smuggling of bearer bonds on the Swiss-Italian border. The amounts involved were quite staggering - one hundred billion dollars or more, on even trillions of US dollars.

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Samuel Bronfman	Liquor producer who made it big during the US Prohibition. Kept mobster ties afterwards, even while going respectable as a businessman
Jean Marie Creton	A serial convicted weapon smuggler mentioned in a TV doc as mastermind between Dutch and Belgian Gladio divisions. Creton also was a supplier to the supposed perpetrators of the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
Drug smuggling	The covert transport of drugs. Although increasingly legal in some places, when not, governments clandestinely often get involved.
Ludwig Ivens
Francis Vanhee

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Far West	“There are two kinds of businesses: those which flourish from peace and the strengthening of law and those which require the opposite - zones of incessant chaos like Chechnya Colombia Afghanistan where drugs can be grown or trafficked under the watch of PMCs.”	Peter Dale Scott	26 February 2006

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Estonia: Sunk due to n-cargo?	Article	17 May 1996	Maarten Rabaey	A summary of an article from the Belgian reporter Maarten Rabaey in the De Morgen newspaper from 27 April 1996 about details of the sinking of the ship, the so-called 'Felix Report' and the reasoning behind the almost immediate sealing of the wreck in a sarcophagus. Archive of this article here and here

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