The buyer sued the Austrian middleman to recover the advance payment.

On some occasions the middleman appears to be the chairman of several of those businesses.

With the order in place, the middleman requests a line of credit, which can be of up to 10 million.

In C.C. 455 02 State of Israel v. Burstein (7.6.04), the Court further developed the interpretation of the middleman in the trafficking offence.

Then the middleman withdraws the money from the hawala branch and deposits it in the bank where the letter of credit was originally opened.

What's happening is the Internet is removing the middleman, so that anyone from a T shirt designer to a knitter can make a living selling peer to peer.

In Somalia the warlord will repay the middleman using the services of an alternative remittance business dealer or broker (hawaladar) who may also be part of the network or economic group.

A Swiss buyer ordered 500 cubic metres of Romanian wood through an Austrian middleman, who accepted full liability for the delivery of the wood on behalf of the seller, a Romanian company.

There is a financier, a Somali middleman, who has the support of and access to businesses strategically located in trade, telecommunications, air transportation, money transfers and businesses with branches in Somalia and foreign countries.

In order to reduce any suspicion that may arise concerning the operation, the middleman provides government authorities (ports, customs) and banks with copies of transportation documents (bill of lading, cargo manifest, etc.) and invoices, using the information and descriptions mentioned above, to demonstrate the legitimacy of the procedure.

Selling or purchasing a person in order to engage him in prostitution or serving as a middleman in the selling or purchasing of a person for this purpose is punishable by a term of imprisonment of 16 years for the purposes of this section, selling or purchasing includes consideration in the form of money, value, services or any other interests.