There was also concern that it would be sold cheaply in Russia and resold for a huge sum after being smuggled abroad.

The subsidy meant fuel was much cheaper in Nigeria than neighbouring countries, so large amounts ended up being smuggled abroad.

The materials were secretly distributed among dissidents and sometimes smuggled abroad.

From 1981 to 1991, more than $17 million in cash was taken, much of which was smuggled abroad, court papers said.

Sergei, however, still declines to say just how the material was smuggled abroad.

Actual cocoa and coffee production is higher, but official figures do not take into account quantities smuggled abroad rather than delivered to state marketing agencies.

Their records were recorded clandestinely in friends' houses, then smuggled abroad.

In 1978, her memoirs were smuggled abroad and published in Paris.

Some of these items are believed to have been smuggled abroad.

'Once we have the Declaration in our possession, we'll need it kept out of sight for a few days and then smuggled abroad.'