According to a study by the American think tank Global Financial Integrity, organized crime alone would generate between 1600 and 2200 billion dollars every year. Cash flows estimated at 10% of global GDP.

Corruption, drug trafficking or tax evasion, dirty money would generate revenues of up to the equivalent of 10% of global GDP every year. Drugs and especially counterfeiting are at the top of the most profitable types of trafficking. The fake market affects all areas of the economy, from fashion to industry, including health. Money flows that benefit in particular from the opacity offered by tax havens. Under the influence of technological progress, criminal finance has been growing in size over the last fifty years