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Illegal Economy of Italy

  1. Amount of Counterfeit Goods Sold in Italy $9.3 Billion
  2. Art Theft in Italy 20,000 cases reported per year
  3. Book Publishing Losses Due to Piracy $20 Million
  4. Bulk Cash Smuggling in Italy $165 Million seized in 2012
  5. Camorra Mafia Revenue from Counterfeit Goods $25 Billion per year
  6. Cancer Rate in Naples Rose nearly 50% due to toxic waste dumping
  7. Chinese Organized Crime in Italy $3.3 Billion laundered between 2006-2010
  8. Cocaine Price in Italy $91.6 per gram
  9. Cocaine Use in Milan 0.5 to 1 grams used per 1,000 citizens
  10. Counterfeit “Made in Italy” Foods 28,000 tons in 2012
  11. Counterfeit Clothes Sold in Italy $4.6 Billion
  12. Counterfeit Euros in the EU Half produced in Italy
  13. Counterfeit Food Sales in Italy $1.4 Billion in 2010
  14. Drug Addiction Treatment Spending in Italy $14.5 Billion per year
  15. Drug Sales by the Italian Mafia $83 Billion in 2008
  16. Ecstasy Price in Italy $22.0 per pill
  17. Environmental Crimes Profit by Mafia $19.6 Billion
  18. Fake Champagne Bottles 60,000 seized in single raid
  19. Fake Italian Olive Oil 80% made with cheaper oils
  20. Food Production as portion of Mafia racketeering profits 5.6%
  21. Football Match Fixing in Italy $516,000 per game
  22. Foreign Women Murders 25% of all murders in 2004 were foreign women
  23. Gold Smuggling Smuggling ring made $207 Million in profits
  24. Gun Sales by Mafia in Italy $8 Billion
  25. Heroin Price in Italy $80.6 per gram
  26. Human Smuggling from China into Italy $15,000 per migrant
  27. Human Trafficking in Italy 2,400 in 2010
  28. Human Trafficking of Nigerian Women into Italy 8,000 to 10,000 per year
  29. Human Trafficking Profits in Italy $850 Million
  30. Illegally Caught Tuna by Italian Fishing Boats 130 tonnes in 2013
  31. Italian Mafia Members in Germany 65 active members in Bavaria
  32. Italian Mafia Revenue $204 Billion
  33. Mafia Control of Agriculture and Food Production $16 Billion
  34. Mafia Drug Trafficking ‘Ndragheta controls 80% of Europe’s cocaine imports
  35. Mafia Influence in Italy 13 Million people live in areas of Mafia control
  36. Mafia Loan Sharks Revenue in Italy $17 Billion per year
  37. Mafia Murders by Syndicates 3,374 murders between 1992-2010
  38. Mafia Profits from Farming $19.2 Billion
  39. Mafia Syndicate ‘Ndragheta Annual Revenue $73 Billion in 2013
  40. Marijuana Price in Italy $11.3 per gram
  41. Match Fixing Football Games in Italy $2.75 Billion between 2005-2011
  42. Money Laundering in Italy $1 Trillion flagged between 2002-2012
  43. Movie Piracy Losses in Italy $161 Million
  44. Music Piracy Losses in Italy $45 Million
  45. Pirated Moves and Music Viewing 37% view pirated content
  46. Pirated Software in Italy $1.94 Billion in 2011
  47. Pirated Video Games Losses in Italy $817 Million
  48. Price of a Mafia Kneecap $3,700
  49. Sex Trade Revenue in Italy $600 Million
  50. Tax Evasion in Italy Nearly 12,000 evaded $74 Billion in 2012
  51. Tax Evasion in Italy on Internet Sales $4.2 Billion per year
  52. Trash Dumping by Mafia Over 10 Million tons between 1990-2012
  53. Wildlife Seizures in Italy 30,000 wildlife products seized in 1 month
  54. Witness Protection Program in Italy Nearly 4,700 witnesses in 2010

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