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Fraud as Rishi - according to some - admits trafficking stone (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dishonesty

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'fraud' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'rishi according to some admits trafficking stone' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'stone' is 'onest' which is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'dishy' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'as' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for dishonesty that I've seen before include "Graft" , "Crookedness" , "Bad behaviour" , "Untrustworthiness, insincerity" , "fraud" .)

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