A Turkish human smuggling gang was charging Chinese nationals $41,800 to be smuggled across Asia and Europe and into Britain. The journey would take up to 18 months.

Source:  AFP, “Police smash Turkish people-smuggling ring,” Google News, January 31, 2008.

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry stated that 99 percent of the digital tracks downloaded in China is pirated.

Source:  Rudy Ruitenberg, “China to Boost Efforts to Curb Illegal Downloads, Official Says,” Bloomberg, January 27, 2008.

According to the Department of Health in the Philippines, the average cost of a kidney purchased on the black market was $3,600 (150,000 Philippine Pesos), with the donor of the kidney getting a third of that price and the brokers receiving two-thirds of the amount.

Source:  “Philippine bishops urge halt to organ trafficking,” Reuters, January 28, 2008.

Counterfeit products made in China cost South Korean firms $14.2 billion, equivalent to 5 percent of total exports, according to the Korea International Trade Association.

Source:  “Chinese Imitations Undermining Korean Exports,” The Chosum Ilbo, January 15, 2007.

Illegal fishing activities catches up to $1.6 Billion worth of seafood that enters the food industry in the European Union.

Source:  Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Something’s fishy as Europe dines,” New York Times, January 14, 2008.

An estimated 60 percent of all clothing and textiles sold in Mexico are counterfeit.

Source: Omar Millán González, “Fighting foreign fakes,” San Diego Union Tribune, January 12, 2008.

According to estimates provided by the World Bank Institute, over $1 Trillion is paid in bribes around the world each year.

Source:  “The Costs of Corruption,” World Bank News and Broadcasts, April 8, 2004.

According to Steven Levitt, street prostitutes earn on average $27 an hour.

Source:  Carolyn O’hara, “In the Windy City, prostitutes sleep with police more often than get arrested by them,” Foreign Policy, Passport blog, January 7, 2008.

According to the 2006 United Nations World Drug Report, the market value of coca produced in Peru based on farm-gate prices was $307 million in 2005.

Source: United Nations, “2006 World Drug Report,” Office on Drugs and Crime, pg. 247, June 2006.