21.   Pretoria High Court Judge Willie van der Merwe sentenced Jacobus Petrus Smith to the longer five year sentence for being the ring leader of the group.

22.   Some beggars are organized into gangs, with ring leaders supplying children with puppies to try to garner more sympathy from passers-by.

23.   The law punishes everyone nearly involved in the trade, including poor parents who sell their children, middlemen, clients and ring leaders.

24.   The presumed ring leaders, Ariel Castillo Navarro and Jose A. Cardona Rosario, are both Empresas Santana supervisors, as are two other suspects.

25.   The ring leader was a senior police officer, said Boiko Borisov, the chief of the Interior Ministry.

26.   The ring leader remains at large, Bernama said.

27.   Victor Andino-Figueroa, a U.S. citizen, is the accused ring leader.

28.   Further investigation led to the arrest of the drug ring leader in a luxury Frankfurt hotel, German police said.

29.   He said authorities believed the ring leader was one of the nine arrested and were still looking for remaining members of the syndicate.

30.   Authorities have arrested two ISRO scientists, two businessmen and two Maldivian women who have been described as the ring leaders who reportedly offered money and sex for secrets.