1.   It is rare that the big fish behind a smuggling syndicate is netted.

2.   Police in Ho Chi Minh City last month uncovered an organized smuggling syndicate which used state-owned companies as a front to smuggle goods into Vietnam.

3.   They believe she belongs to a smuggling syndicate.

4.   Lau said police believed the foreigners were part of a local smuggling syndicate as they would store large quantities of merchandise before hawking it in different areas.