Italy Black Market Value: $111.05 Billion
World Average: $15.54 Billion
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Data on Italy
Examples of the rate of wildlife product seizures
During February 2010, Italian officials in Rome seized 30,000 wildlife products while searching through the luggage of more than 3,000 passengers.
Source: AFP, “World cops target traditional healers over smuggled wildlife,” Google News, March 5, 2010.
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- Tags: Italy, wildlife smuggling | March 5th, 2010
Corruption cases increase in Italy
The number of corruption cases handled by Italian Officials increased by 229 percent in 2009 from 2008.
Source: “Corruption is surging in Italy, says state auditor,” Reuters, February 17, 2010.
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- Tags: corruption, Italy | February 17th, 2010
Value of Mafia assets seized by Italian Authorities
Between 2008 and the start of 2010, Italian authorities seized assets worth $9.78 Billion from organized crime groups within the country.
Source: Rachel Donadio, “Berlusconi Announces an Anti-Mafia Plan,” New York Times, January 28, 2010.
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- Tags: Italy, organized crime | January 29th, 2010
Organized Crime in Italy generated $189 Billion in revenue in 2009
Organized Crime groups in Italy generated $189 Billion (135 Billion Euros) in revenue in 2009, with $109 Billion (78 Billion Euros) in profits.
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- Tags: Italy, organized crime | January 27th, 2010
1 percent of women left Moldova to become prostituties
From A Crime So Monstrous by E. Benjamin Skinner:
According to a Council on Europe study, over the last ten years, 1 percent of Moldova’s population of women ages eighteen to forty left to become prostitutes in Italy.
Source: E. Benjamin Skinner, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern Slavery, (New York: Free Press, 2008), page 164.
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- Tags: Italy, Moldova, prostitution | January 18th, 2010
Spending on drug addiction in Italy
The Government of Italy spends $14.5 Billion to treat drug addicts in the country.
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- Tags: drug addiction, Italy | October 14th, 2009
13 million Italians live under mafia influence
According to a study organized by Italy’s anti-mafia commission, in 2009 13 million people in Italy were directly living in areas where the Mafia exerts influence over their daily lives.
Source: Tom Kington, “Mafia’s influence hovers over 13m Italians, says report,” Guardian, October 1, 2009.
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- Tags: Italy, organized crime | October 2nd, 2009
25 percent of all murders in Italy were of foreign women
In 2004, 25 percent of all murders in Italy were of foreign women. The high number is believed to have been caused by human trafficking groups killing trafficked women when they escaped or attempted to testify.
Source: Siddarth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, (New York: Colombia University Press, 2009), page 94.
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- Tags: human trafficking, Italy | September 16th, 2009

