In many countries they can be bought for cash, without identification, creating an instant way to turn illicit cash into international currency.

They break in successfully but find much more than they expected - incriminating photographs of very important people, a gangster's ledger and the location of where he stashed his illicit cash.

They allow individuals and officials worldwide to launder money, move illicit cash across borders and escape prosecution.

Fraudsters can open current accounts to receive the illicit cash transfers.

The laws would apply to any illicit payments made outside the country involving senior sporting officials.

They will point out that some of his illicit payments were to 'reward' backroom staff and players.

He paved the way for the huge expansion of the sport in the 1980s, when competitors moved from receiving illicit payments to full professionalism.

We reported illicit payments to secure the bid three years ago.

In exchange, they received illicit payments thought to total about 700,000, which they disguised as 'consultancy services'.

First, she was found guilty of having an 'illicit relationship'.

Their illicit relationship serves to isolate them from their friends and from society at large.

She forces herself to end the illicit relationship and joins an advertising agency.

Two years ago he said officers were less likely to enter illicit relationships if they were happily married.

He caused an outcry two years ago when he told proceedings that officers were less likely to enter illicit relationships if they were happily married.

Under other circumstances, the idea of playing a video game at work would have given me an illicit thrill.

It takes the illicit thrill of rough justice and openly celebrates it.

There's the illicit thrill of playing games of risk behind closed doors.

Stumbling across something that you're not meant to have found always evokes an illicit thrill.

There were 103 cases of illicit trafficking last year, compared with fewer than 30 in 1996.

Many countries opposed this and the focus remained on illicit trafficking.

The illicit trafficking of cultural property generates a lucrative underground market with a great percentage of stolen artifacts never being recovered.

This platform of negotiation, mediation and conciliation facilitates the restitution of important cultural objects and develops means to prevent and raise awareness against illicit trafficking of cultural property.

He said illicit use was difficult to identify as they had been designed to avoid detection.

Many complaints are made each year about the illicit use of domestic fires, yet councils are conspicuously failing to use the powers that they already have.

Some of these were originally synthesized by academic or industrial researchers in an effort to discover more potent derivatives with less side effects and were later co-opted for illicit use.