illicit business
Example Sentences
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“Our agents are preventing smugglers from conducting their illicit business and this is their very dangerous response,” the chief said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 26, 2023
Taco’s foodie-influenced approach, reporter Lexis-Olivier Ray wrote a companion piece about all the restaurants where prosecutors say Huizar met with developers while conducting illicit business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
Despite an official ban on trade between Ukraine and the separatist areas, long convoys of cars and trucks loaded with alcohol, cigarettes and coal carry on illicit business, angering and bewildering Ukrainian soldiers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2018
“It’s the globalized illicit business of the 21st century,” says Stryszowski, who laments it’s not taken as seriously as other contraband, such as cocaine.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2017
Alternating between Buddhist musings and illicit business deals, Chun, like China, struggles to reconcile the spiritual and the transactional.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2016
