diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/imports/IllegalImportCheck.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/imports/IllegalImportCheck.java
index a2d2be6fc693..c7a56dde1d62 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/imports/IllegalImportCheck.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/imports/IllegalImportCheck.java
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ private boolean isIllegalImportByPackagesAndClassNames(String importText) {
                 break;
             }
         }
-        if (!result && illegalClasses != null) {
+        if (illegalClasses != null) {
             for (String element : illegalClasses) {
                 if (importText.equals(element)) {
                     result = true;