A Bedouin who lives in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt has resorted to growing opium for drug traffickers in order…
According to the director of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplants, over 400 people from Saudi Arabia are believed to…
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, organized crime groups that facilitate human smuggling are able to…
The United States Department of State found that hundreds of underage girls in Egypt enter temporary marriages with wealthy tourists…
In previous years, the buyers of ivory in Egypt were from Spain, Italy and the United States. In 2013, the…
A medical technician and four other people were fined by an Egyptian court for selling blood on the black market.…
According to a report by British American Tobacco Egypt, up to $663 Million is lost each year due to cigarette smuggling activities in the country. At least 20 percent of the 84 billion cigarettes smoked in Egypt each year was obtained on the black market. The annual losses represent up to 3 percent of the country’s budget deficit.
According to a report by CNN, Bedouin human smugglers drug victims and cut out their organs for sale to doctors in Egypt. The doctors and hospitals pay up to $20,000 for the black market organs.
Piracy of paid television in the Arab region causes losses of $500 Million a year, according to a media research firm. 8 percent of Arab households that watch television actually pay for the services through cable or satellite. The remaining 92 percent of views in the region pirate the broadcast.
Cigarette smuggling in Egypt causes tax losses of $26.84 Million (160 Million Egyptian Pounds) in the first half of 2011. Out of the entire cigarette market in Egypt, 2.1 percent of cigarettes were smuggled in the first six months of the year, compared to 0.1 percent in 2010. The increase was attributed to an increase in the cigarette tax.