1.   The American hotel-keeper apparently had stumbled onto a smuggling scandal involving the Guatemalan military.

2.   These were the first punishments meted out in connection with an embarrassing multibillion-dollar smuggling scandal in the port city of Xiamen.

3.   An opposition leader has urged the attorney general to investigate a smuggling scandal that led to the suspension of a multimillion dollar loan to the country.

4.   The chief of state security resigned Wednesday in connection with a smuggling scandal worth over a million dollars.

5.   The Chinese government denied Wednesday that the wife of a senior leader was involved in a multibillion-dollar smuggling scandal.

6.   The smuggling scandal is believed to be the biggest uncovered in communist China.