International Journal on Criminology
The illicit trade also causes many jobs to be lost around the world :
2013 : 2 to 2.6 million jobs lost 2022 : 4.2 to 5.4 million jobs lost
Areas most impacted by illicit trade : tobacco / cigarettes , small electronics , light mechanics and spare parts , alcoholic beverages , and mobile telephony
Criminal markets : drugs , prostitution , and human trafficking ; trafficking in hazardous waste-toxic waste , etc .
Illicit sale ( smuggling ) of legal products : antiques , fauna and flora , pirated or counterfeit goods , tobacco , alcohol .
Sale of Stolen Goods : Automotive , Electronics
As a result , the criminal threat to global trade is growing , especially to the transportation and financial sectors and supply chains — criminals love anything that moves , circulates , etc .— and they have a passion for the criminal element .
For the most dangerous illegal trade , that of counterfeit medicines ( brand or generic ) or “ fake ” drugs , the supposed contents may be incorrectly dosed , absent , or different , or they may be sold with falsified packaging . In the world market of fake medicines , we find ( to the nearest 1 percent ):
drugs without the active principle / molecule drugs with an incorrect principle / molecule drugs with a different principle / molecule correct product but falsified packaging impure or contaminated product exact copy of an original product
± 32 percent at all ± 20 percent of the whole ± 21 percent at all ± 16 percent of the whole ± 9 percent of the whole ± 1 percent of the whole
Fake medicines account for about 10 percent of the total sold worldwide but up to 50-70 percent in some poor countries . Africa receives about 42 percent of all fake medicines . For the World Customs Organization , the global market for fake medicines is about $ 200 billion a year . These fake medicines are said to cause ( directly or indirectly ) up to 700,000 deaths per year worldwide .
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