11.   Smuggling cases are difficult to prosecute because often the only witness to the crime is the smuggled human cargo.

12.   Other countries, including the Czech Republic, have uncovered nuclear smuggling cases.

13.   Pavlutsov has a criminal record and is under investigation in two other smuggling cases, police said.

14.   A few may remain to serve as witnesses in the smuggling case, Arcaute said.

15.   Chuan said he had asked the Interior Ministry to brief him on the smuggling case and would pass on the information to Wichai.

16.   In a bid to defuse the tension, Iraq announced Monday it would commute the death sentence imposed on another Jordanian who was convicted in the smuggling case.

17.   Previously, officials complained that only about a fifth of all smuggling cases ever made it to court, due to a lack of investigative powers.

18.   The central figure in the smuggling case, businessman Lai Changxing, was arrested in Canada on Thursday after more than a year on the run.

19.   The figure does not include Cuban cigar offenses that were prosecuted as ordinary smuggling cases.

20.   The two heroin smuggling cases were uncovered in Kunming, capital of the southwest Chinese province of Yunnan.