1.   His smuggling operation employed shipping containers and sailing vessels to move the freight, officials said.

2.   But, despite this, four months later Scott and Chorley were allegedly involved in a second successful smuggling operation along with another man Michael Walker.

3.   And, investigators say, he bought the support of the Xiamen customs authorities and the police for his smuggling operations.

4.   Authorities said the smuggling operation probably was run out of El Salvador, and has contacts across Central America to Mexico and the United States.

5.   Beckstein said the German authorities had no reason to believe that Sidorenko had anything to do with the smuggling operation.

6.   A crackdown on the extensive smuggling operations in Guangdong has also aimed to restore economic order.

7.   A grand jury indicted six Chinese nationals Wednesday in the most elaborate human smuggling operation uncovered in recent Georgia history.

8.   Adding to the concern among European governments, the report says that organized-crime syndicates are running the smuggling operations.

9.   But German federal investigators have long accused Lauck of masterminding a smuggling operation that brought banned brochures, banners, books and stickers to the neo-Nazi movement here.

10.   But prosecutors depicted Nhat as a full partner in the smuggling operation.