Sentence examples for largest illicit from inspiring English sources

Black-market art and antiquities – either stolen from private collections, or looted from national museums – forms the third largest illicit market in the world after drugs and arms.

Egypt, Algeria and Libya saw the largest illicit financial flows in north Africa, while South Africa, Mauritius and Angola lost most in southern Africa.

That would put the industry in the same league as Coca-Cola's world revenues.Taken at retail prices, it is almost certainly the world's largest illicit market, although probably smaller than the widely quoted estimate by the United Nations Office of Drug Control and Crime Prevention of $400 billion, which would put it ahead of the global petroleum industry.

In fact, I attended a FBI-Human Rights Watch briefing that shockingly informed us that human-trafficking was now the world's largest illicit industry overtaking drugs because a body can be sold for sex over and over again.

The U.S. Department of Treasury described Bout's network as "one of the largest illicit arms-trafficking networks in the world" and submitted testimony to Congress stating that Bout "used U.S. shell companies to mask his ownership and facilitate his illegal arms trafficking activities".

Dehong Prefecture is proximal to one of the world's largest illicit drug production and distribution center, the "Golden Triangle", and is an important transfer station for drug trafficking [10], [24].

The $40-billion 40-billionarijuana market has switched perces with cocaine and is now the largest illicit-drug market in dollar terms.

The powerful are locked in a battle for control of Chechnya's large illicit oil trade, in which the Russian army is believed to have a sizeable stake.

John Lovell, a lobbyist for several groups of California law enforcement officials, said the plan would create a large, illicit — and thus untaxed — black market, in addition to magnifying substance abuse problems.

But the bigger point is that even very large businesses in controversial countries can quickly fall foul of the law.HSBC was involved in even larger illicit transactions with all these countries, as well as with Cuba.

Third, large illicit flows of money encourage illicit trade, says Mr Tesfachew.All that is not to mention the potential benefits to millions of migrant workers' families, were remittances channelled into productive use rather than collecting under mattresses.The country and its banks are at last opening up, but fixing the broken system of trust will be tricky.