Sentence examples for illicit enterprises from inspiring English sources

Fahim, now the defense minister, is deeply involved in a number of illicit enterprises.

With a dwindling catch and the difficulties they face on shore, many fishermen are abandoning the trade to try their luck in other dangerous and illicit enterprises.

Much of the real business of running Kandahar takes place out of public sight, where AWK operates, parallel to formal government structures, through a network of political clans that use state institutions to... enable... illicit enterprises".

Federal agents used hundreds of hours of wiretaps and other surveillance to map the gang's leadership and illicit enterprises, said Daniel McMullen, head of the criminal division of the Los Angeles office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In a report on money laundering released last month, the Democratic staff of the committee said that American banks through their correspondent accounts "have become conduits for dirty money flowing into the American financial system and have, as a result, facilitated illicit enterprises".

And what they lived through has become a public scandal that has focused attention on the growing danger posed by these militias, which have supplanted drug gangs as the violent overlords who run many of Rio's slums and their illicit enterprises, often with links to corrupt police officers and politicians.

Her friend Tennessee Williams told the story: According to the legends that surround her early period in the city, she first established her residence, quite unwittingly, in a house of prostitution,... and had not the ghost of an idea of what illicit enterprise was going on there.

But this is just a drop in the bucket compared to the illicit enterprise's estimated revenue.

Running his illicit enterprise like a publicly traded venture, Stricklin promised his investors— lawyers, bankers, doctors, waitresses, and barbers in El Paso that he would pay them back three-to-one, and raised $400,000 in capital to finance a deal for Colombian product.

Although that may be about to change, right now Israel does not make it illegal to bank or spend the proceeds of illicit offshore enterprises.

And the Shining Path, taking a page from Colombia's rebels, has reinvented itself as an illicit drug enterprise, rebuilding on the profits of Peru's thriving cocaine trade.