Prosecutors said the illegal sales cost the software companies as much as $20 million, but industry officials say the amount could be higher.

Later, new problems appeared, particularly thefts and illegal sales.

By early last night, the city had made at least 33 arrests since early June for illegal sales of fireworks.

Yet states with waiting periods stop thousands of illegal sales.

Additionally, illegal sales of tobacco were cut in half from 2006 to 2007.

Pentagon officials told the sanctions panel that with high oil prices, Iraq could earn more than $1 billion in illegal sales this year.

The Government could also claim any profits made from the illegal sales.

Much of Russia's oil revenue was being lost through illegal sales and theft.

President Mitterrand was supposedly told of the illegal sales in 1984, but did not halt them.

But instead the scarcely monitored system was subverted into a cover for illegal sales.