Kidnap and Ransom Market Value: $500 Million

Posted on May 10, 2008
Filed Under Contraband Index, humans |

The Foreign Policy Centre, a think-tank located in the Untied Kingdom, estimated in 2001 that “kidnappers globally take home well over $500 million each year - and rising.”

Source: Rachel Briggs, “The Kidnapping Business,” The Foreign Policy Centre, 2001, pg.1,
(accessed: February 19, 2007).

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