Switzerland Black Market Value: $7.15 Billion
World Average: $15.54 Billion
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Data on Switzerland
Illegal drug sales in Switzerland
An estimated 3 Billion Swiss Francs ($2.9 Billion) is spent on the black market in Switzerland on illegal drugs.
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- Tags: Switzerland | October 10th, 2009
Price of Marijuana in Europe
Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Marijuana in Europe.
| Country | Wholesale Price (per kilogram |
Retail Price (per gram) |
| Austria | 4,110.7 | 13 |
| Czech Republic | 6,357.9 | 8.2 |
| Finland | 12,332.1 | 24 |
| France | 3,425.6 | 8.2 |
| Germany | 4,521.8 | 11.2 |
| Greece | 630 | 4.1 |
| Hungary | 2,780.3 | 11.9 |
| Ireland | 16,442.9 | 6.9 |
| Italy | 1,717.7 | 10 |
| Moldova | NA | 1.6 |
| Netherlands | NA | 7.3 |
| Poland | 5,140 | 11.6 |
| Romania | 1,918.3 | 8.9 |
| Russia | 2,984.3 | 6.7 |
| Spain | 1,103 | 4.2 |
| Sweden | 9,635.3 | 11.5 |
| Switzerland | 4,602.5 | 8.4 |
| Ukraine | NA | 3 |
| United Kingdom | 2,615.7 | 8 |
Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.
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- Tags: Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Marijuana Black Market, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, prices, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom | June 26th, 2009
Price of Cocaine in Europe
Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Cocaine in Europe.
| Country | Wholesale Price (per kilogram |
Retail Price (per gram) |
| Austria | 61,660.7 | 99.3 |
| Czech Republic | 93,847.6 | 102.8 |
| Denmark | 40,444.9 | 73.5 |
| Finland | 61,660.7 | 109.6 |
| France | 41,107.2 | 96.9 |
| Germany | 48,825.7 | 86.2 |
| Greece | 62,735 | 109.8 |
| Hungary | 46,674.4 | 80.3 |
| Ireland | 82,214.3 | 95.9 |
| Italy | 56,029.1 | 111.8 |
| Moldova | 100,000 | 138 |
| Netherlands | 42,408.9 | 58.9 |
| Norway | 61,660.7 | 164.4 |
| Poland | 38,538 | 63.7 |
| Russia | 126,481 | 218 |
| Spain | 46,274.3 | 83.2 |
| Sweden | 44,351.5 | 75.3 |
| Switzerland | 44,351.5 | 75.3 |
| United Kingdom | 74,446.7 | 90.5 |
| Ukraine | NA | 160 |
Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.
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- Tags: Austria, cocaine, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, prices, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom | June 26th, 2009
Price of Ecstasy in Europe
Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Ecstasy in Europe.
| Country | Wholesale Price (per thousand tablets) |
Retail Price (per tablet) |
| Austria | 5,481 | 10.3 |
| Czech Republic | 5,453.5 | 11 |
| Denmark | 2,757.6 | 7.4 |
| Finland | 5,589.4 | 21.9 |
| France | 2,201.6 | 9.6 |
| Germany | 2,532.2 | 8.4 |
| Greece | NA | 25.1 |
| Hungary | 1,510.9 | 6.6 |
| Ireland | NA | 13.7 |
| Italy | 4,453.3 | 25.7 |
| Netherlands | 4,110.7 | 3.5 |
| Norway | 13,702.4 | 48 |
| Poland | 1,452.5 | 6.2 |
| Russia | 30,625 | 44.8 |
| Spain | NA | 14.6 |
| Sweden | 4,028.8 | 14.8 |
| Switzerland | NA | 16.7 |
| Turkey | 3,425.6 | 8.2 |
| United Kingdom | 1,829.2 | 6 |
Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.
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- Tags: Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, ecstasy, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, prices, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom | June 26th, 2009
Price of Heroin in Europe
Price is in US Dollars and represent the typical price of Heroin in Europe
| Country | Wholesale Price (per kilogram) |
Retail Price (per gram) |
| Austria | 54,809 | 99.3 |
| Czech Republic | 41,449 | 54.8 |
| Denmark (No.4) | 64,344.2 | 165.5 |
| Finland | 54,809 | 150.7 |
| France (No.4) | 41,107 | 68.5 |
| Germany | 25,809.8 | 47.7 |
| Greece | 19,450 | 75.3 |
| Hungary (No.4) | 56,839 | NA |
| Ireland | 33,967 | 274 |
| Italy (No.4) | 52,069.1 | 89.2 |
| Netherlands | 16,956.7 | 32.9 |
| Norway | 58,235.1 | 239.8 |
| Poland | 20,553.6 | 77.4 |
| Russia (No.4)a | 39,458.3 | 96.9 |
| Spain | 47,670.3 | 85.9 |
| Sweden | 37,059 | 91.6 |
| Switzerland | 23,179.9 | 41.8 |
| Turkey | 8,564 | 19.9 |
| Ukraine (No.4) | 35,000 | 90 |
| United Kingdom | 27,163 | 100.6 |
Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.
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Swiss voters approve heroin progam
The world’s most comprehensive legalized heroin program became permanent Sunday with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana.
The heroin program, started in 1994, is offered in 23 centers across Switzerland. It has helped eliminate scenes of large groups of drug users shooting up openly in parks that marred Swiss cities in the 1980s and 1990s and is credited with reducing crime and improving the health and daily lives of addicts.
The nearly 1,300 selected addicts, who have been unhelped by other therapies, visit one of the centers twice a day to receive the carefully measured dose of heroin produced by a government-approved laboratory.
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- Tags: heroin, Switzerland | December 2nd, 2008
Over $1 billion laundered in Mafia controlled cigarette smuggling ring
Swiss Authorities are charging 10 people in laundering over $1 billion in a Mafia controlled cigarette smuggling ring.
From the AP (via the Seattle Times):
Switzerland’s top prosecutor charged 10 people with laundering more than $1 billion dollars during a decade-long mafia cigarette smuggling operation, Swiss authorities said Monday.
The defendants – five Swiss, three Italians, a Spaniard and a Frenchman – are accused of having used Switzerland as a hub for laundering money from Italy’s powerful Camorra and Sacra Corona Unita organizations, the office of the Federal Prosecutor said.
They were also charged with supporting or participating in a criminal organization.
The defendants were not identified because of Switzerland’s privacy laws.
Earlier, however, attorneys for three of the defendants in the southern, Italian-speaking canton (state) of Ticino identified them as Fredi Bossert, owner of a money exchange business; financier Franco Della Torre; and his Italian colleague, Michele Antonio Varano.
The 10 are accused of having laundered well in excess of $1 billion in Ticino from the early 1990s until 2001, the prosecutor’s office said.
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- Tags: cigarette smuggling, organized crime, Switzerland | October 7th, 2008
$1.6 Billion in losses from piracy in Switzerland
Source: Swissinfo, “Campaign targets fake products,”swissinfo.org, January 16, 2007.
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- Tags: Switzerland | August 14th, 2008

