"illicit purposes" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means actions or intentions that are unlawful or not permitted. Example: The police found evidence that the suspects were using the warehouse for illicit purposes, such as storing illegal drugs and weapons.
She said she "suspected the accounts were being used by many people for illicit purposes".
"People think it's to hide drug money or for illicit purposes.
And it is tough to stop small but militarily useful amounts of uranium being diverted for illicit purposes.
A teacher was arrested last night on charges that he had arranged through the Internet to meet a 13-year-old girl for illicit purposes, the police said.
Mossack Fonseca says it complies with international protocols to ensure its companies are not used for money laundering, tax dodging or other illicit purposes.
These virtual currencies are not in and of themselves illegal". "There is good reason for us to remain watchful" about Bitcoin being used for illicit purposes, Raman added.
How many votes based on an illicit purpose would be necessary to strike down the law?
It just seems to me that even the Gaines analysis really boils down to a type of purpose inquiry, for it presupposes that one state is trying to rely on another state for an illicit purpose.
With knowledge of these agreements, a reasonable person would surely have made further inquiries into why they were needed, and then realised that the entire scheme had an illicit purpose.
Timothy Leary was going around giving lectures with the title, "Does LSD in sugar cubes spoil the taste of coffee?" It was piquant to the straights to think of this Victorian thing being used for a highly illicit purpose.
The defense responded by arguing that criminal liability had many more elements, including requirements in the law that someone must be "corruptly persuaded" to destroy the records for an illicit purpose, and saying that if the government could not prove that, then Andersen would have to be acquitted.
