Criminals treat abduction and extortion as a business transaction and wealthy individuals increasingly insure against it
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About 40% of law enforcement employees at the park are participating in corrupt activities
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Nearly 350 000 South Africans used cocaine before Covid-19 in 2020, consuming about 18 800 tonnes
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South African victims as well as people from the rest of Africa and Southeast and East Asia are taken to the Middle East, the US and Europe
The cocaine trade is the third most prevalent market in 14 countries in West Africa
The plants are seen as a status symbol by wealthy local and international collectors, which drives the lucrative and well-organised illicit trade
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It is not clear yet whether the Taliban government will clamp down on the illicit trade
South Africa’s scores 4.5 out of 10 for human trafficking, the 2021 Global Organised Crime Index finds
The trafficking of scales is no longer a ‘niche’ criminal activity, but a serious and organised crime that threatens to make all eight species extinct within 20 years
Impunity for the perpetrators has analysts worried that the trend of kidnapping businesspeople in Mozambique may grow