Out of the 32,000 items of stolen art listed on the global database maintained by INTERPOL, 516 items were stolen from Canadian collections.

Source: “Crime world bargains with stolen art,” Canada.com,May 26, 2008

Venezuela losses 27,000 barrels of oil per day and up to $1 Billion in revenue every year to oil smugglers.

Source:  “Venezuela smuggling of world’s cheapest fuel rife,” Reuters, May 21, 2008.

The illegal drug market in Japan is estimated to be worth $9.3 Billion a year.

Source: Larry M. Wortzel, “North Korea’s Connection to International Trade in Drugs, Counterfeiting, and Arms,” Heritage Foundation, May 20, 2003.

According to the 2006 United Nations World Drug Report, the market value of coca produced in Bolivia based on farm-gate prices was $180 million in 2005.

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Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, “2007 World Drug Report,” June 2007, pg. 223-240.

Companies in Israel are losing an estimated $500 million to piracy each year, according to the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce.

Source: Hadas Manor, ” Israeli industry lost $500m to piracy last year,” Globes Online, November 14, 2006, (accessed: November 16, 2006).

According to the United States Department of State, the export value of Afghanistan’s 2006 opium export was $3.1 billion.

Source: 2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, “Southwest Asia: Afghanistan,” United States Department of State, March 2007.

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the financial value of coca produced in Colombia based on farm-gate prices was $623 million in 2008. This figure is down from the $934 million value in 2007.

Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, “Colombia: Coca Cultivation Survey,” June 2009, page 6.

The ” blood diamond” market, or diamonds smuggled and trafficked for illicit products,  is estimated  to  amount  up to 4 percent of the $7 billion global diamond market, or $280 Million.

Source: Douglas Farah, Blood From Stones (New York: Broadway Books, 2004), pg. 4.

Counterfeit Money Orders and fake checks are unauthorized copies of Money Orders that were not created by the United States Government or financial checks that are fake.

The United States Post Office has reported that in one year, 600,000 fake checks valued at $2.5 billion was seized by law enforcement personal in 2007 and 2008.

Source:  “Postal Service Celebrates National Consumer Protection Week,” USPS, Press Release, March 3, 2008.

The Human Tissue and Body Parts market consists of the buying and selling of body parts taken from human cadavers. The supply of body parts are taken from bodies that are either donated to medical schools and other organizations, or stolen from morgues and cremation centers. As USA Today reported in 2006, ” unscrupulous employees at medical universities and similar organizations have taken bodies and removed spines, ears, heads and fingernails, which they have sold for personal profit.”

According to USA Today, brokers in human tissue and body parts gained a profit of $6 million over the course of 19 years.

Source: Stephanie Armour, ” Donated bodies sometimes are sold for personal profit,” USA TODAY, April 27, 2006, (accessed: March 9, 2007).