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Overview: The black market in bluefin

Along the Mediterranean coast of France, in the city of Montpellier, prosecutors are quietly putting on trial an ancient French tradition —

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"… ead across the Mediterranean, many in laxly-regulated places like Tunisia, Cyprus, and Turkey. Together, they hold the capacity to process nearly three time …"

"… ich operates farms around the Mediterranean, including Malta, Tunisia, and Cyprus. Drvenik Tuna is jointly owned by Fuentes, Japanese trading giant Mitsubis …"

The looting of Russia

By David E. Kaplan and Christian Caryl

WASHINGTON, August 3, 1998 — "Can you take a look at this?" asked Joe Davidson's supervisor at the FBI, handing him a file. Davidson cracked

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"… ioning in Moscow and San Francisco; he is said to be ensconced at homes in Cyprus and Montreaux, Switzerland.Kozlenok proved as poor a fugitive as he did a …"

Part I: A Mediterranean feeding frenzy

By Kate Willson and Jean-Pierre Canet

Cobblestone walkways line the quiet canals of Sète, a French community of 40,000 nestled along the Mediterranean about 85 miles west of Mars

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"… three countries cornered the lion’s share of quotas. Greece, Malta, and Cyprus also fished under EU quotas, bringing the EU total to more than 130 purse …"

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Part III: Bluefin, Inc.

By Marina Walker Guevara and Martin Foster

Mount Fuji rises across the bay from the 16th century port of Shimizu — a sight fit for a post card. The town has seen better days — its bus

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"… ches spread across the Mediterranean, some in little regulated places like Cyprus, Turkey and Tunisia. With live fish in underwater pens, the ranches proved …"

Part II: Diving into the tuna ranching industry

By Marcos Garcia Rey

In the final days of 1996, the air was cold and seas rough around the southern Spanish port of Cartagena. A boat belonging to the Tuna Graso

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"… oth local and Japanese partners in Croatia, Malta, Turkey, Italy, Tunisia, Cyprus, and Libya. Most of the fish were bought from Italian, French, and Spanish …"

"… any has expanded its ranching activities to Croatia, Italy, Turkey, Malta, Cyprus, Libya, and Tunisia. In 2003, Fuentes, dubbed Paco-san by his Japanese par …"

Right on the money: The George W. Bush profile

By Charles Lewis

On January 30, 1990, Platt's Oilgram News, a respected trade journal of the petroleum industry, reported that a subsidiary of a small, Dalla

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"… n the late 1940s. Stone’s brother, Galen L. Stone, was the U.S. envoy to Cyprus during the first Reagan-Bush Administration. In 1980 and 1988 he contribut …"

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The world's asbestos behemoth

By Roman Shleynov

Vast amounts shipped overseas, used at home

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"… 04, United Minerals controlled 30 percent of the world chrysotile market.A Cyprus-based company, UniCredit Securities International Ltd. — part ofUniCredi …"

Commentary: Total information awareness: A chance encounter raises questions

LONDON, December 22, 2000 — In early November, the United States came within a pen stroke of dramatically curtailing the news medias freedom

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"… nization during the 1960s, working at the Middle East listening station on Cyprus. Under the 1911 Official Secrets Act, we were accused of having “receive …"

"… ve been the first trial of its kind since 1978, when we faced trial in the Cyprus signals intelligence case. This made the charge against Geraghty particula …"

The Montenegro connection

By Leo Sisti

“My little cat … I’m going crazy without you …. You have repeatedly betrayed me, I think …. Little cat, when are you coming? ... I love you,

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"… ly and Montenegro, but also Serbia, Croatia, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Liechtenstein, Aruba, and the United States. So far, two …"

"… uments, which he requested from several countries, mainly tax havens, like Cyprus and Switzerland, as well as the Netherlands, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, an …"

"… uge amounts of money illicitly earned and lodged in Swiss, Monte Carlo and Cyprus banks.”Scelsi, the prosecutor, zeroed in on the man who allegedly master …"

"… ansfer money from Montenegro, where the money arrived from Switzerland, to Cyprus.” He used three airplanes, “one of them bought with profits from Monte …"

Inside the shell: Drugs, arms and tax scams

By Gerard Ryle

The man behind shell companies linked to arms deals, drug lords and tax fraud.

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"… any that can be traced via Panama to an unrelated offshore banking firm in Cyprus operated by a former Russian diplomat.Further evidence, perhaps, of an eve …"

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