Abstract
Annual gross product of identified criminal activities is approximately $1000 billion that is to say 20% of the world trade. Admitting that charges on this kind of business represents 50% of this gross product (suppliers, production, corruption, investment, management fee) means that the annual profit of criminal organization is around 500 billion US dollars. We can then understand the issues that international criminality represent. The extent of the phenomena requires the implication of economical agents and the role of developed countries' banks is indisputable. That way, we can observe that the limits between licit and illicit is not clearly defined, that there are grey areas through which illicit activities can happen.
This presentation will be divided into 3 main parts. First, we will study the main criminal organizations and their main activities. In the second part, we will focus on financial criminality and in the third part, we will see if there are some effective ways to stand against international criminality.
