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This practice may be subject to investigation, which could lead to exposing the entities employing it. Strategic management of transshipments has to be devised by those entities (the attackers) battling against the transshipment detection mechanisms adopted by the embargo-setters (the defenders). In this paper, we consider an entity exploiting transshipments through several intermediaries. We derive an optimal strategy for that entity wishing to minimize the probability of being exposed. 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