The European Commission for Home Affairs released a study that found the European Union loses at least $162 Billion (€120…
Money laundering in Hungary is estimated to be worth $15 Billion a year. In the first half of 2013, a…
According to the Tax and Customs Authority in Hungary, security authorities seized 68 million cigarettes that were being sold on…
An anti-trafficking organization reported that three out of four prostitutes working in the red light district of Amsterdam were from economically distressed communities. Not-for-Sale stated at a conference on women’s rights that 75 percent of the women came from poor communities in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.
The Hungarian Patent Office estimates that the counterfeit goods market in Hungary causes $4.6 Billion in economic losses every year.
Cigarette smuggling in Hungary lead to 6 percent of all cigarettes sales to take place on the black market to avoid taxes in 2010.
Prostitution and drug trafficking in Hungary was worth an estimated $1.9 Billion on the black market in 2005.
Below are losses to selected countries in Europe from counterfeit pesticides. Country Losses Czech Republic 4.19 Million Germany 39.4 Million…