According to an investigation conducted by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), there are around 2,500 illegal mining…
Over the span of 10 years, thousands of people have been killed due to religious and ethnic violence in the…
A report by an online advertising and Internet security firm stated that up to $9.5 Billion in online advertising in…
As previously reported, there are between 11,000 to 15,000 teenagers working as prostitutes in Ukraine, according to date by UNICEF.…
According to the Kyiv Motorist Club, one out of every three liters of fuel sold in Ukraine is substandard or…
UNICEF estimates that there are around 11,000 to 15,000 teenage girls who are working as prostitutes in Ukraine. At the…
Custom officials in Ukraine seized over 120 million cigarettes that were being smuggled into the country in 2011. Officials report that 90 percent of the smuggled cigarettes seized was produced in Moldova.
The rate of cigarette smuggling in Romania decreased to 11.8 percent in September 2011, down from the 15.7 percent reported in the early summer of 2011. Tobacco smuggling is still down from the previous high of 30 percent in 2010.
Cigarette smuggling in Ukraine led to 15 to 20 percent of all cigarettes smoked in the country to have entered through the black market without proper documentation and taxation.
Three doctors in Ukraine were arrested for selling the kidneys of human trafficking victims to wealthy buyers on the black market. The kidneys were sold for $100,000 to $200,000.