5,000 victims of human trafficking in Italy
Source: EUROPOL, ” 2005 EU Organised Crime Report,” October 25, 2005, pg. 16.
40,000 jobs lost in Italy over past decade to counterfeits
60 percent of the counterfeit goods market is based on counterfeit clothing and other fashion products, and caused 40,000 lost jobs in Italy over the past decade.
Source: Vivia Chen, ” Italy’s Fashion Houses Wake Up to the Impact of Counterfeit Goods,” August 22, 2006, (accessed: August 23, 2006).
6.6 percent of Italy’s population used cocaine
6.6 percent of citizens between the ages of 15 to 64 have used cocaine once in their life, and 2.1 percent of the population last used cocaine in 2005.
Source: EMCDDA, “Italy Country Data Sheet.”
$4.6 billion spent on counterfeit clothing in Italy in 2006
Source: Dow Jones, “Italy Contraband Market Europe’s No.1: Revenue Top EUR 7 Billion-Assoc,” Smart Money, October 24, 2007.
Illegal trash in Italy impacts Mozzarella
As Italy’s trash crisis continues, the spread of the smell of toxic trash has spread to the world famous mozzarella cheese of the region.
From the NY Times:
In the last few months, sales of buffalo mozzarella have dropped 40 percent, the product’s trade association says. The problem makes for a near-perfect morality play about Italy: For [...]
The Ten Commandments of the Sicilian Mafia
Last week, Salvatore La Piccolo, boss of the Mafia, was arrested in Italy where he was meeting with his son and two associates. Among the items found was a list stating what the police are describing as a “The Ten Commandments”of being a good mobster.
Here is the list courtesy of the BBC.
1. No-one can [...]
$10 Billion spent on counterfeit goods in Italy
From the Dow Jones wire:
Italy’s counterfeit goods market that sells everything from knock-off designer sunglasses to contraband DVDs generated about EUR7.2 billion in sales in 2006, national retailers’ association Confcommercio said Wednesday on its Web site.
Based on today’s exchange rate, that figures comes out to $10.25 Billion.
Out of the total market figure, 3.3 Billion [...]
Organized Crime group trafficking nucler waste
The Guardian Newspaper is reporting that Italian Organized Crime group ‘Ndrangheta is involved in the transporting of radioactive waste and other nuclear materials.
The ‘Ndrangheta mafia, which gained notoriety in August for its blood feud killings of six men in Germany, is alleged to have made illegal shipments of radioactive waste to Somalia, as well [...]
Italian Mob Organization ‘Ndrangheta earns over $50 billion a year
On Wednesday, six Italian men were shot and killed outside a restaurant in Germany as a result of mob activities:
Six Italian men died in a hail of gunfire early Wednesday after a pizzeria celebration of one victim’s 18th birthday — a Mafia-style massacre that officials said grew out of a long-running feud between two organized [...]
