As part of a broad crackdown on the movement of illicit funds through the United States, the Justice Department and the Manhattan district attorney's office has aimed at foreign banks that have branches on American soil.
This "defense of democracy," as she calls it, begins by "fixing what has gone wrong with our international economic policies" through the advancement of international labor rights, an antitrust crackdown on multinational monopolies, the closure of tax havens, data protection laws, the movement of illicit funds across borders and policies to address climate change.
(Under the 1970 Unesco Convention on the illicit movement of cultural property, signed by the US in 1983 and Britain in 2001, a buyer of stolen antiquities must return the items, even if purchased in good faith).
The geographical proximity of the two countries allows for a great deal of bilateral movement of people, goods, and illicit drugs.
The city had not changed much in the 13 years since I'd last been here, except that the sense of illicit energy, of movement, of underground whispering was more intense.
It would be helpful if he could use this occasion to get the United Nations Security Council to authorize all of its members to interdict the illicit unannounced movement of any and all nuclear goods and technology useful to making nuclear weapons or nuclear-weapons-capable delivery systems (read long-range missiles or space launch vehicles).
This is not to say that IS is directly involved in either production or trafficking: their funding model thus far has been to tax the movement of goods, both licit and illicit, through their territory, demanding a payment from the traffickers themselves".
But it had everything to do with the business, not of illicit love, interstate crime, or the secret movement of monies, but of dictionary making.
These conflicts have resulted in the spread of illicit arms throughout these regions and the spread of jihadist movements that will be destabilizing to surrounding governments.
Three pedestrian portal monitor systems, designed to detect illicit trafficking or inadvertent movement of radioactive materials carried by passengers at airports, have been evaluated.
The production of illicit drugs has multiplied.
