11.   Based on an investigation, the NCB had evidence that showed that some teachers had acted as drug agents for local trafficking rings.

12.   Brazilians have long speculated about the existence of trafficking rings that supply the demand for transplant organs, but no hard proof has been found.

13.   Child trafficking rings have been known to lure Nigerian youngsters into lives of indentured labor with promises of good jobs and an education.

14.   Coomaraswamy said that while the trafficking rings were low-level, the problem may escalate if not dealt with.

15.   Earlier Wednesday, police announced they had cracked the drug trafficking ring which they said laundered its profits on the Stock Exchange of Thailand.

16.   Dutch authorities said they also arrested three suspected members of the drug trafficking ring in Amsterdam.

17.   Five civilians also were arrested in connection with an investigation of a cocaine trafficking ring based in the southeastern town of Guayama, Lema said.

18.   In reply, Cem called Sunday for more cooperation in fighting the trafficking rings that profit from the Kurdish exodus.

19.   Jeschek, a resident of France, is wanted there for allegedly running a drug trafficking ring that smuggled at least three tons of Colombian cocaine into French territory.

20.   Luis Amezcua is described by U.S. and Mexican authorities as a member of the biggest methamphetamine trafficking ring in the world.