From 1992 to 1997, approximately $32 Billion worth of military equipment and munitions was stolen from Ukraine and sold around the world.

Source:  UNODC, “The Globalization of Crime,” Chapter 6: Firearms, June 2010.

The illegal cigarette smuggling market in Ukraine is estimated to be worth $2.1 Billion a year.

Source:  Vlad Lavrov, “Ukraine’s ‘Lost’ Cigarettes Flood Europe,” Tobacco Underground, Center for Public Integrity, June 28, 2009.

Police officials in Ukraine estimate that in 2009 the value of Ukraine’s sex industry was $1.5 Billion.

Source:  James Marson, “Ukraine’s other crisis: Weak currency, cheap flights spur ‘sex tourism’,” Christian Science Monitor, June 13, 2009.

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.

Price is in US Dollars and represent the typical price of Methamphetamines in Europe.

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

Price is in US Dollars and represent the typical price of Heroin in Europe

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

A 2005 study on the Human Trafficking Situation in Ukraine stated that ” some 420,000 women were estimated to have been trafficked out of the country in the last few years alone.”

Source: Olga Pyshchulina,  “An Evaluation of Ukrainian Legislation to Counter and Criminalize Human Trafficking,” Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives, edited by Sally Stoecker and Louise Shelley, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).