Sentence examples for illicit capital from inspiring English sources

Forsyth argued "corruption, money laundering and illicit capital flight from the poorest countries would meet that bar of exceptionalism.

Health Poverty Action also said illicit capital flight had cost the state about $71m a year over the past decade.

But by far the biggest chunk of outflows has to do with unrecorded – and usually illicit – capital flight.

A crackdown on illicit capital inflows hit another source of liquidity.The surprise was that the central bank then did little to ease the strain.

The System's economic grip "is born not of direct criminal activity," Saviano writes, "but of the ability to balance licit and illicit capital".

Malaysia, for example, will only say that our estimates are overstated," Kar says, noting that Malaysia ranked fourth on GFI's list of the largest exporters of illicit capital.

Major drains include capital flight, illicit economic activity, corruption and assets stolen as a result of the Kabul Bank fraud.

The biennial index, launched in 2009, has consistently ranked Jersey in or close to the top 10 jurisdictions facilitating "illicit financial flows and capital flight" – ahead of the British Virgin Islands, Panama and Gibraltar.

"Their capital comes from illicit activities like drug-trafficking and kidnapping".

Most of the money which went through five of Yeung's bank accounts between 2001 and 2007 came from illicit sources in China's gambling capital of Macau, the judge, Douglas Yau, had decided.

Dev Kar, chief economist at Global Financial Integrity, estimates India lost $213bn £132bnn) in illicit financial flows - or illegal capital flight - between 1948 and 2008 alone.