Hijacked ships off Somalia coast net at least $10,000 in ransom
Posted on August 25, 2008
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Source: Daniel Wallis, “Piracy ransoms funding Somalia insurgency,” Reuters, August 24, 2008.
There are over 900 organized crime groups in Canada
Posted on August 25, 2008
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Source: AFP, “Criminals dumping weak US dollar for euro,” Yahoo News, August 22, 2008.
As many as 7,000 people kidnaped in Mexico in 2007
Posted on August 22, 2008
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Estimates by independent crime researches in Mexico state that as many as 7,000 people could have been kidnapped in Mexico in 2007.
Source: Reuters, “Satellites track Mexico kidnap victims with chips,” Yahoo News, August 21, 2008.
Kidnapping in Mexico increased 40 percent between 2004 and 2007
Posted on August 22, 2008
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Source: Reuters, “Satellites track Mexico kidnap victims with chips,” Yahoo News, August 21, 2008.
Number of drug users worldwide
Posted on August 21, 2008
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According to the United Nations, 208 million people or 4.9 percent of the world’s population aged 15 to 64 used drugs at least once in the last 12 months.
Source: UNODC, “2008 World Drug Report,” June 2008.
Money Laundering Market Value
Posted on August 21, 2008
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According to the UNODC, between $800 Billion to $2 Trillion is laundered globally each year.
Source: UNODC, “Money-Laundering and Globalization“, (accessed: August 21, 2008.)
Scotland consists of 13.5 percent of UK’s Human Trafficking market
Posted on August 20, 2008
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Despite having only 10 percent of the population, Scotland consists of 13.5 percent of the United Kingdom’s Human Trafficking market.
Source: “Slave trade ’still in operation’“, BBC News, August 19, 2008.
More than 430 kidnapping in Mexico reported in 2007
Posted on August 14, 2008
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Figure is up 45 percent from the previous year.
Source: “Mexico launches anti-kidnap squad,” BBC News, August 12, 2008.
$23 billion annual revenue in drug trafficking in Mexico
Posted on August 14, 2008
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Mexican drug cartels bring in as much as $23 billion a year in revenue, according to the United States Government Accountability Office.
Source: Manuel Roig-Franzia, “Mexican Drug Cartels Move North,” Washington Post, September 20,2007,(last accessed: October 6, 2007).
Human smuggling market in Mexico
Posted on August 14, 2008
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According to author Moises Naim, the FBI estimates that “the Mexican people trade earns the networks $6 to $9 billion each year.
Source: Moises Naim, Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are hijacking the global economy, (New York: Doubleday, 2005), pg. 88.
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