Sentence examples for illicit business from inspiring English sources

Fidel Villarreal, his brother, was sentenced to 30 years for managing the illicit business.

All this begs an answer to the question: who is responsible for the illicit business?

But UBS has already been caught soliciting illicit business in the United States.

Illicit business proliferated: the sale of bootleg liquor and cigars, stolen cars and animals.

Third, during Mr Suharto's rule the army developed a sprawling illicit business empire, which will prove difficult to scale back.

In part, moral revulsion motivates these underworld gumshoes, though it's also clear that killing children is bad for illicit business.

This is because piracy, like other illicit businesses, needs stable conditions to prosper.

A significant share of Kabul's economy is driven by illicit businesses, such as the drug trade, facilitated by corruption.

Their organizational ambitions, though, are limited: they are less concerned with running illicit businesses, like drug smuggling, than they are with asserting power over their local turf.

He rose in the ranks of a Lucchese family that was governed at the time by Gaitano, or Tommy, Lucchese, whose illicit businesses from gambling and loan-sharking to truck hijacking and labor racketeering were centered in the Bronx.

They have been at the centre of most violence on the terraces in the last 50 years and are involved in illicit businesses: ticket-touting and counterfeit merchandise, even drug dealing.