1.   Police believe he is involved in an international smuggling racket.

2.   A smuggling racket is killing thousands of exotic birds each year.

3.   Until last month, the worst-kept secret in China was that the army operated an enormous smuggling racket.

4.   Marko Milosevic was widely despised in Yugoslavia because of his shady business deals and rumors that he profited from corruption in the regime by controlling smuggling rackets.

5.   Police have uncovered a sophisticated smuggling racket involving cars stolen in South Africa and elsewhere, the state-controlled Times of Zambia newspaper reported Monday.

6.   The police believe that the skins are part of an international smuggling racket.

7.   The smuggling racket created tension with Pakistan, which shut its borders to stop the refugee influx.

8.   They allege the trade in animal hides is part of an international smuggling racket.

9.   Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, deputy prime minister and defence minister, said he also believed the dead were victims of a smuggling racket and had died due to suffocation.

10.   No arrests were reported, they said, adding that the alleged kingpin of the smuggling racket had fled.