Turnover of cross-border organised crime is about $870 billion (£557bn) a year, more than six times the total of official development aid, and stopping this "threat to peace" is one of the greatest global challenges, a UN agency said yesterday.
Turnover of cross-border organised crime is about $870 billion (£557bn) a year, more than six times the total of official development aid, and stopping this \"threat to peace\" is one of the greatest global challenges, a UN agency said yesterday.
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The most lucrative businesses for criminals are drug trafficking and counterfeiting, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said, launching an awareness-raising campaign about the size and cost of cross-border criminal networks.
"Millions of victims are affected each year as a result of the activities of organised crime groups, with human trafficking victims alone numbering 2.4 million at any one time," UNODC said in a statement.
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