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.

An estimated 400,000 women from Moldova were sold into slavery between 1991 and 2008.

Source:  E. Benjamin Skinner, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern Slavery, (New York: Free Press, 2008), page 156.

In eight out of ten human trafficking cases involving women from Moldova, false job promises were utilized.

Source:  Siddarth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, (New York: Colombia University Press, 2009), page 108-109.

According to NATO, the annual turnover in drug trafficking in Moldova is between $200 to $250 million per year.

Source:  NATO Parliamentary Assembly, “VISIT TO MOLDOVA by the SUB-COMMITTEE ON DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE [CIVIL DIMENSION OF SECURITY],” March 1, 2004.

Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Marijuana in Europe.

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Source:  UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.

Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Cocaine in Europe.

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Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.

According to an article in The New Yorker, “one to two percent of all Moldovan migrants may find themselves trafficked at some point.”

Source: William Finnegan, “The Countertraffickers,” New Yorker, May 5, 2008.

An article in the Washington Post stated that “The International Organization for Migration considers Moldova the main European source of women and children for forced prostitution in Western Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East.”

Source: Peter Baker, ” In Struggling Moldova, Desperation Drives Decisions,” Washington Post, November 7, 2002.