360,000 packs seized in Singapore in 2005
Source: Noor Mohd Aziz, “46% jump in number of cigarette, tobacco smuggling cases in 2006,” Channel News Asia, February 1, 2007,(accessed: February 2, 2007).
$3.15 for a smuggled pack of cigarettes in Singapore
Source: AP, ” Singapore crackdown on cigarette smuggling,” Star (Malaysia), August 28, 2006.
$752.5 million of art stolen from museums over 5 years
Between May 2003 and February 2008,$752.5 million of art was stolen from museums and private collections worldwide.
Source: Associated Press, “List of Notable Art Heists,” Washington Post, February 11, 2008.
More than 3,600 Buddhist antiques smuggled out of India in 2006
Source: Reuters, ” India to curb smuggling of Buddhist relics,” Scotsman, October 17, 2006.
Between 5,000 to 12,000 smuggled objects from China reach art market each year
Source: Peter F. Watson and Cecilia Todeschini, The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities, (New York: PublicAffairs, 2006), pg. 30.
Recovery rate of stolen art is 10 percent
Source: Tom Mueller, ” To Sketch a Thief,” New York Times Magazine, December 17, 2006.
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