How Global Organized Crime Makes $870 Billion A Year -- Business Insider
Last month the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released it's World Drug Report 2012. We covered where drug use is rising, the top marijuana-using countries and the countries with the highest prevalence of cocaine-users around the world.
Today the UNODC launched a new awareness campaign about global organized crime, and the video below breaks down how transnational organized crime makes about $870 billion per year.
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