"facilitate crime" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to refer to situations or situations in which it is easier for people to commit a crime. For example, "The lack of security cameras in this area is facilitating crime."
There has been growing pressure for EU member states to publish their own registers of company beneficial owners after the publication of the Panama Papers earlier this year revealed how companies in tax havens can facilitate crime and tax fraud.
As the show unfolds, we may see the last traces of his dignity and his conscience sanded away, and he may begin to facilitate crime rather than merely stalk its perpetrators in search of billable hours.
The Italian authorities say one of their biggest concerns — beyond that the network could facilitate crime — is that the Mafia could use sites like Facebook to build a tacit acceptance among otherwise law-abiding citizens that it relies on to function.
"The tragedies of Sept. 11 demonstrate that the misuse of Social Security numbers and identity theft are 'breeder' offenses with the ability to facilitate crimes beyond our imagination," Mr. Huse said in his report.
Police and prosecutors are also seeing an increasing number of cases in which perpetrators use social media to facilitate crimes against women, including rape, blackmail, grooming, harassment and sexual violence.
Then there are conservatives who worry about government seizure of private property said to have been used to facilitate crimes, an issue raised in Alvarez v. Smith, which was argued in October.
Little is known about whether registries prevent crime, and University of Michigan law professor J.J. Prescott has speculated that they may even facilitate crimes that involve buyers and sellers.
Senator Levin said that "for years now, offshore tax havens have damaged U.S. interests by facilitating crime, money laundering and tax evasion".
The newly obtained documents provide rare details of the extent of that cooperation and the ways that it blurs the lines between fighting and facilitating crime.
But the Panama Papers have shone a light on a hidden world the firm says it does not recognise – one that sometimes facilitates crime, launders dirty money and finds ways of busting sanctions.
The high-risk activities raise delicate questions about the agency's effectiveness in bringing down drug kingpins, underscore diplomatic concerns about Mexican sovereignty, and blur the line between surveillance and facilitating crime.
