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Calogero Vizzini
An Italian Mafia boss was known as the "Boss of Bosses" and the "King of the Black Market". Established one of the largest black market operations in southern Italy. -
Opium
The first federal drug prohibition passes in the U.S. outlawing the importation of opium. It was passed in preparation for the Shanghai Conference, at which the US presses for legislation aimed at suppressing the sale of opium to China. -
PROHIBITION
The Alcoholic Prohibition of the 1920s lead to smuggling and boolegging of alcoholic beverages.
This introduced us to the american gangster, Al Capone, who smuggled and bootlegged alcohol and many other illegal drugs at that time. -
World War 2
Rationaning and prices controls on goods contributed in the growth of the black market. -
whiskey
Eleven men were convicted of selling 11,500 barrels of whiskey illegally in Florida. -
Germany
In Germany there were 16719 raids and invertigations into suspected black market operations. -
Steriods
Four football coaches in South Carolina are charges with ditrubiting, making arrangements for the players to get the annabolic steriods and giving the players money to obtain the steriods in any matter they could. -
India tries to stop organ harvesting
A nationwide band on human organ sales was put into place and stated that only a relative can donate a kidney. -
Body Parts
In the past 19 years 16,800 families have done lawsuits claiming that their loved one's body parts were stolen for profit.
They sales of the body parts have topped 6 million during this time period. -
Tigers
In Sumatra, 51 tigers are killed each year and in 2007 there was an estimated 350 tigers left from the estimated 1000 tigers in the 1980s and now there are fewer then 5000 in the world. -
Thailand animal black market
In Bangkok, Thailand the Royal Thai Police raided an illegal market and found an assortment of wildlife including 3 of the world's most rarest tortoises for sale, the ploughshare tortoise.
