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    Organised crime worth $870 billion worldwide

    Organised crime worth $870 billion worldwide


    INTERNATIONAL organised crime is worth $US870 billion ($A852.36 billion), the head of the UN's office on drugs and crime (UNODC) says.
    "We are able to quantify the cost of transnational organised crime, it is $US870 billion,"
    UNODC executive director Yury Fedotov told a crime conference in Vienna.

    "But we cannot calculate the misery and suffering caused to millions of people by these illicit activities," he added.

    The perpetrators are "smart, sophisticated and largely opportunistic", he said, calling for better international co-operation to tackle highly mobile organised crime groups.

    Some 800 ministers and civil society representatives are attending the week-long conference on transnational crime in the Austrian capital.
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    Re: Organised crime worth $870 billion worldwide

    Quote Originally Posted by littleroundman View Post
    Organised crime worth $870 billion worldwide


    INTERNATIONAL organised crime is worth $US870 billion ($A852.36 billion), the head of the UN's office on drugs and crime (UNODC) says.
    "We are able to quantify the cost of transnational organised crime, it is $US870 billion,"
    UNODC executive director Yury Fedotov told a crime conference in Vienna.

    "But we cannot calculate the misery and suffering caused to millions of people by these illicit activities," he added.

    The perpetrators are "smart, sophisticated and largely opportunistic", he said, calling for better international co-operation to tackle highly mobile organised crime groups.

    Some 800 ministers and civil society representatives are attending the week-long conference on transnational crime in the Austrian capital.
    Which, i guess, is why we are here.

    Let's hope this is only the first of many initiatives

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    Re: Organised crime worth $870 billion worldwide

    You guys on here who've helped bring down plenty of schemes, and stopped hundreds, if not thousands of people losing their money deserve to be knighted ... or the appropriate action in your respective countries!

    I'm only just starting out and I see LRM has 5,000+ posts - I only have 200+ - keep up the good work, guys!
    Hopefully one day I'll have done as much you lot.

    Jason

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