Smuggling

thumb|upright=1.35|British H.M. Revenue & Customs officers with seized smuggled tobacco, 2014. Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations. More broadly, social scientists define smuggling as the purposeful movement across a border in contravention to the relevant legal frameworks.

global black market in illegal drugs

alt=|thumb|280x280px|Purple - Portuguese Empire|Portuguese in the Persian Gulf in the 16th and 17th century. Main cities, ports and routes. Khasab () is a town and capital of the Musandam Governorate which is an exclave of Oman bordering the United Arab Emirates at the tip of the Musandam Peninsula by the Strait of Hormuz. It has been dubbed the "Norway of Arabia" because of its extensive fjord-like craggy inlets and desolate mountainscapes.

diamond mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, an invading army's war efforts, or a warlord's activity

Drug trafficiking criminal group

illegal transportation of people

act of stealing pieces of art

Contraband (from Medieval French contrebande "smuggling") is any item that, relating to its nature, is illegal to be possessed or sold. It comprises goods that by their nature are considered too dangerous or offensive in the eyes of the legislator—termed contraband in se—and forbidden.

6th century event, in which two Nestorian monks smuggled silkworm from China into the Byzantine Empire, leading to the establishment of an indigenous Byzantine silk industry

rebellion in British penal colony of New South Wales (1808)

person who smuggles contraband across a border for a smuggling organization

American horticulturist and drug trafficker (1924-2016)

sanction evasion in the maritime domain

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human smuggling gangs

Cold War controversy

thumb|right|Tape recorder "Tembr" (1964) without casing (From museum of political history of Russia) Magnitizdat () was the process of copying and distributing audio tape recordings that were not commercially available in the Soviet Union. It is analogous to samizdat, the method of disseminating written works that could not be officially published under Soviet political censorship. It is technically similar to bootleg recordings, except it has a political dimension not usually present in the latter term.

Daigou () is an emerging form of cross-border trade in which an individual or a syndicated group of exporters outside China purchases commodities (mainly luxury goods but sometimes also groceries such as infant formulas) for customers in China.

secret subterranean passage used for the smuggling of goods and people

trade in tobacco goods which fail to comply with legislation