Illegal business Name |
Details |
Hawala |
It is an informal method of transferring money without any physical money
actually moving. It is illegal business because transactions are made outside
the conventional banking system and all the regulations that come with it. |
Kerosene ( illegal sales) |
Selling Kerosene without government permission. |
Cargo Theft |
It is the situation where criminals steal trucks and transport trailers full of
merchandise; they offload the cargo, parcel it and sell it for a quick profit. |
Alcohol smuggling |
It is an illegal business of transporting alcohol without out the government
permission for the purpose of selling or using. |
Product piracy Trafficking |
Using / Selling products without permission of the produced company. |
Drugs Trafficking |
It is an illicit trade involving the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and
sale of substances which are subject to drug prohibition laws. |
Land grabbing |
It is a usually acquisition of property (such as land / patent rights) often by
fraud / force. |
Ponzi schemes |
It is a fraudulent investing scam which generates returns for earlier investors
with money taken from later investors. |
Counterfeit Things |
It means to imitate something authentic, with the intent to steal, destroy, or
replace the original, for use in illegal transactions, or otherwise to deceive
individuals into believing that the fake is of equal or greater value than the
real thing. Example : medicine, automobile parts e.t.c |
Human trafficking |
It is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labor, sexual slavery, or
commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker / others. |
Gold Black Market |
It is illegal buying and selling of gold violating the government laws. |
Counterfeit money |
It is imitation currency produced without the legal sanction of the state or
government to imitate that currency and so as to deceive its recipient. It is a
form of forgery / fraud. |
Illicit Wildlife |
It is a illegal transportation of animal parts like Rhino horn, snake skins,
Tiger claws, Leopard claws, Elephant tusks, etc. |
IUU fishing |
It is Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing |
Illegal Sand business |
It is a transportation illegally (cross border environmental crime) extracted
natural sand and gravel. |
Smuggling |
It is the illegal transportation of objects / things across an international
border, in violation of applicable laws / regulations. |
Illegal logging |
It is the harvesting of wood that is in violation of national regulations from
protected areas. |
Illegal Art Trade |
It is the exchange of antiquities and archaeological artifacts from around the
world. |
Illegal Mining |
It is mining activity that is undertaken without state permission, in particular
in absence of land rights, mining licenses, and exploration or mineral
transportation permits. |
Racketeering |
Racket is a criminal activity where the criminal act is some form of business,
or a way to earn illegal money. Conducting a racket is racketeering. |
Illicit Arms Trafficking |
It is an illicit trade of importing and exporting small arms and ammunition for illegal activities. |