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But of course we must not target officials as part of a strategy of catching the small fry and letting the big fish go free.
In other words, they were small fry who were obeying orders.
They are all schemes, costing only "small fry"—a quarter of a million pounds here or there.
Those are the small fry, but what about the big fish?
An operation employng 18,000 workers is not small fry.
It was only the small fry who were actually prosecuted and sentenced for breaking sanctions.
Those two were, in a sense, the small fry.
It will not enhance the court's legitimacy if the only people prosecuted are small fry and losers.