Over a span of three years (2005 to 2008), United States authorities seized over $76 Million in counterfeit Cisco computer equipment parts in China.
Tag: China Economy
Information and statistics on the black market in China. Tracking counterfeit goods, human trafficking, the illegal wildlife trade, corruption and other illegal crime acts.
26 to 73 million shark fins sold in Hong Kong every year
Source: Mark Henderson, “Taste for fins puts shark on danger list,” Times, February 18, 2008.
Price of Dead Bodies in China
A reported by ABC News stated that dead Chinese bodies, which may have included executed prisoners, were sold for $200 to $300 on the black market.
Human smuggling fee to the United Kingdom
A Turkish human smuggling gang was charging Chinese nationals $41,800 to be smuggled across Asia and Europe and into Britain. The journey would take up to 18 months.
Counterfeit Seizures in Japan
For the time period of January to June 2007, the National Police Agency in Japan seized 331,136 counterfeit items, a record for a six month period. The total figure seized is already higher then the total number of seizures in all of 2006. 45.7 percent of the counterfeit goods were from China.
Percentage of Donors Receiving Compensation for Organs
Up to 10 percent of all kidney transfers operations are estimated to involve donors who received financial compensation for their organ. (Cost of Kidney Transplants on the black market.) Source: “FACTBOX: The who, what, where, and why of organ trafficking,” Reuters, August 6, 2007.