Although timber barons orchestrate the illicit operations, including export, their operations are financed by international sources.

They don't know each other, but they have been assigned by their superiors to carry out an illicit operation, the nature of which is never revealed.

I'm not in any illicit operation.

Seven were executed late in 1993 for setting up illicit operations outside Mao's hometown, Shaoshan.

If laws ban all lawful work that enables the poor to survive, informal economy, illicit operations and underground businesses will thrive.

They were running all manner of illicit operations and by the time we'd get permission to hit them, they'd be gone.

She had gotten away with betraying his illicit operations to the Feds because he thought her essentially harmless and.

After pleading guilty to drug smuggling on Friday, a Colombian woman forfeited $150 million in proceeds gained from the illicit operation, Federal officials reported.

The villain's prized possessions are now computer disks that hold business records of his illicit operations.

Too systematic to place his faith in hired hands, he preferred to direct the highly profitable illicit operations from the front rank.