Secrecy had been the hallmark of illicit dealings there.

Al-Abadi asserted that there was no illicit dealing in the completed awards.

They ignored the gyring striptease and illicit dealings at the other tables.

Japan's major banks, securities companies and corporations have all been drawn into allegations of illicit dealings or stock manipulation.

But regulators are only now learning that the affiliate's purpose was to serve as a conduit for the bank's secret and illicit dealings.

Illicit dealings helped create their success, he asserts, and that in turn has encouraged many executives to believe that crime does pay.

The Finance Ministry has suggested that it will prosecute those responsible for illicit dealings in bad debt.

The official reason given for the committee's demise was that it had indulged in counterrevolution and illicit dealings with foreign powers.

"One was excellently run, the other was so lax in controls that it could easily fall victim to illicit dealings."

Was Scanlon concealing some illicit dealings?

Mason Sheppard and his partner, Petrochenko, did their illicit dealing in an area where demand and supply were never still.

Investigators said that the illicit dealings occurred mainly at Sperry starting in the late 1970's, and involved Unisys for a short time after the merger.

It was believed that the deceased Lord Meron had had illicit dealings with the Oldtimers.

He personally received four warnings from C.I.A. subordinates about the illicit dealings - two more than he cared to recall to Congress.

Fed officials say they were repeatedly lied to and thus were late to grasp the full extent of B.C.C.I.'s illicit dealings.

Tired of her lifelong involvement in her family's illicit dealings, teenage thief Katarina Bishop enrolls herself in a prestigious boarding school.

On April 16th, he made a speech in parliament accusing associates of Boris Yeltsin of illicit dealings in this 'extremely valuable raw material.'

Although Chiesa was campaign director for the Socialist leader Bettino Craxi, the party was quick to expel him, and denied any knowledge of his illicit dealings.

Mr. Hashimoto has been critized for the lax supervision of his ministry over the securities brokers and the remarkably widespread pattern of the illicit dealings in the industry.

The continuing inquiry offers a rudimentary road map of illicit dealings - including lucrative oil smuggling - in Iraq and neighboring countries during the Hussein years, the federal authorities say.

According to Gheorghe Florescu's recollections, Pleşiţă was also discreetly establishing himself as a presence on the criminal underground, by tolerating or endorsing illicit dealings in commodities.

The jury found that Bell and Snelling's illicit dealings breached the employment contract and that if the Lever Brothers had known they would not have entered into the agreement.

It was much better than that starched lobby at the base of their docking spire, but even though this market held the best possibilities so far, it still didn't seem out-of-the-way enough for truly serious illicit dealings.

Denials in the Past In the past, Kintex officials have denied any involvement in illicit dealings in arms, drugs or assassination plots, and some Western diplomats have expressed skepticism about the drug allegations.

John Lear and the Dark Side John Lear and is one of the chief conspiracy theorists of the so-called "dark side movement", which suspects a secret government of illicit dealings with aliens.