Sentence examples for criminal interest from inspiring English sources

It was a thriving industry, important enough to attract criminal interest.

However, they did also note in their letter that "the diversion of nitrous oxide from legitimate healthcare settings [is] an illicit source of the gas" and that there is a "widespread criminal interest in the gas".

Others are doing horribly badly, captured by criminal interests or power-mad governors or both.

The government's intent is to regulate the industry and stop gambling proceeds from going to criminal interests.

A semi-legitimate hood, Richie's criminal interests are handled largely by his sons Cal (Paul Nicholls) and Matty (Harry Lloyd).

His main sin was to surround himself with ill-qualified cronies who had interfered in government decisions at the behest of business and perhaps even criminal interests.

Investigators and fellow politicians said they suspected Mr. Tsvetkov, who had a reputation as a reformer, had run afoul of criminal interests.

And it is sustained, not by outside elements, but by local and Russian criminal interests, who profit from extortion and the smuggling of all manner of goods, including drugs and guns.Breaking this cycle of violence will be hard.

"The police have turned into an organization that has its own criminal interests, has its own criminal influence," said Igor L. Trunov, a prominent human rights lawyer representing some of Mr. Yevsyukov's victims, including Mr. Gerasimenko.

Most knife crime in London is no longer gang-related, as young people increasingly carry knives for protection, status and safeguarding "criminal interests", the Metropolitan police commissioner has said.

"The reasons, so far as we can determine by talking to suspects, are self-protection, status, protecting criminal interests – such as a drugs business – and a culture of fear.