This presentation by Jack Radisch was made at the 2nd Task Force Meeting on Charting Illicit Trade held on 5-7 March 2014. www.oecd.org/gov/risk/charting-illicit-trade-second-task-force-meeting.htm
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OECD, 2nd Task Force Meeting on Charting Illicit Trade - Jack Radisch
1. OECD TASK FORCE ON CHARTING
ILLICIT TRADE
Jack Radisch
OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development
Directorate
2nd Meeting of TF-CIT, Paris, March 5-7 2014
2. A Network to Fight Illicit Networks
OECD Task Force on
Charting Illicit Trade
Tobacco Narcotics
Counterfeit
Medicines
Trafficking in
Persons
Environmentally
Sensitive Goods
Corruption Illicit Financial Flows
Other industries, e.g. Food?
Electronics? Apparel?
Cyber- crime
Alcohol
3. • Nearly 30 percent of global adult alcohol consumption is
unrecorded/illicit.
• On average 15 percent alcohol consumption in OECD countries is
unrecorded.
• Low-income countries have a higher proportion of unrecorded alcohol
to total alcohol consumption (approx. 40 – 50 percent) than high-
income countries (approx. 11 – 30 percent) (WHO, 2011).
• Information about counterfeit alcohol is limited to relatively small
case studies
Alcohol
4. Excise tax on alcohol and unrecorded
APC across OECD countries, 2005
AUS
BEL
CHL
CZ
DEN
EST
FIN
FR
HUN
ICEIRE
NTLNZ
NOR
POL
POT
KORSLO
SWE
CH
TUR
UK
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
ProportionofunrecordedAPC
Excise tax as a per cent of the total retail price for 1 litre of pure
alcohol
5. Regional breakdown of the global illicit
drug market in 2003, in USD billion
142
106
35
16
14 9
North America
Europe
Asia
Oceania
Africa
Caribbean, South and Central
America
Source: adapted from UNODC (2011b), “Estimating illicit financial flows resulting from drug trafficking and other
transnational organized crimes”, United Nations Office of Drug and Crime, accessed on 28 February 2014,
www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Studies/Illicit_financial_flows_2011_web.pdf
6. • Illegal share of global tobacco market - 11 %.
• Annual revenue losses USD 40.5 billion .
• Biggest illicit cigarette markets (in absolute
values) are in China, Russia, the United
States and the European Union.
Tobacco
7. 10 largest markets for illicit tobacco (2007)
Note: Figures are based on updated estimates of the illicit cigarette trade from 84 countries around the world, using the latest available estimates from
2007 or as close to 2007 as possible.
Source: Joossens, L. (2011) “Pricing Policies and Control of Tobacco in Europe (PPACTE): Illicit tobacco trade in Europe: Issues and Solutions”, Pricing
Policies and Control of Tobacco in Europe (PPACTE).
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50
100
150
200
250
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
China Russian
Federation
United
States
EU Brazil Philippines India Indonesia Pakistan Turkey
BillionCigarettes
Percentageofillicitmarket
Relative size (left axis) Absolute size (right axis)
8. • Annual profits USD 31.6 billion for trafficking 2.45 M persons
across borders (ILO, 2005)
• 460 trafficking flows reported (2007- 2010)
• 20.9 million people were victims of forced labour (2012)
• 73% reported victims trafficked across borders
• Nearly 50 percent of all victims stay within the same
geographical region (2012).
Trafficking in Persons in numbers
9. • 5 major areas : Wildlife, Timber, Fisheries,
Waste and Chemicals.
• Estimated global value per year $30- $70 B, not
including Wildlife (2009).
Environmentally sensitive goods
10. • Global losses estimated to reach USD 75
billion in 2010.
• The ratio between illegal and legal
pharmaceuticals is highest in Africa.
• Russia and the Ukraine are trafficking
hubs of counterfeit medicines.
Counterfeit Medicines
11. • Convergence where governance and law
enforcement is weak, corruption and
violence is high coupled with a sound
infrastructure for globalization such as
free trade zones.
• Examples:
– Illicit trade in drugs and trafficking in persons
– IUU fishing and trafficking in persons
Convergence of illicit trade
12. • Find geographical position of transit hubs
• Cross-sectoral data base,
increased/automated information sharing
• Harmonised methodology for
measurement
Future Outlook