The phrase "amount of illicit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the quantity or degree of something illegal or forbidden.
Example: "The investigation revealed a significant amount of illicit substances being trafficked through the region."
Alternatives: "quantity of illegal" or "level of unlawful".
The total $14 million payment to the S.E.C. is double the amount of illicit gains.
Any amount of illicit substances a person possessed meant they were eligible for up to three years in prison.
In the case of Standard Chartered, Promontory helped the bank assess the amount of illicit money funneled to nations like Iran.
Recent estimates of the amount of illicit cash channelled through bogus bank accounts by organised crime have been as high as $1,500bn £1,060bnn) a year, roughly the equivalent of France's GDP.
It warns: "Additive manufacturing (sometimes referred to as 3D printing) reverse engineering, and greater innovation, will increase the amount of illicit and unregulated technology transfer, exacerbating the threat to the UK".
When the researchers compared their results against records of drug-related criminal activity, they found that airborne concentrations of cocaine correlated with the amount of drugs seized by police; R2 values were 0.54 for cocaine seizures and 0.73 for the total amount of illicit substances.
But who the fuck wants to spend a whole weekend in a field traipsing from Annie Mac to Ame making sure you didn't miss Armand Van Helden, all the while having to step over the strewn bodies of people who boshed a unholy amount of illicits by 7pm on the Friday?
But another senior Administration official said the amounts of illicit profit were not enough to allow Mr. Hussein to produce nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
The report follows a six-year study by the UK Drugs Policy Commission that called for decriminalisation of possession of small amounts of illicit drugs and a new forum for all three main party leaders to reach a consensus on reform.
Since west Africa neither produces nor consumes most of the drugs moved through it, "nations whose citizens consume large amounts of illicit drugs must play their part and seek humane ways to reduce demand for those drugs".
At a Congressional hearing in February, Jennifer Shasky Calvery, a Justice Department official in charge of monitoring money laundering, said that "banks in the U.S. are used to funnel massive amounts of illicit funds".
