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Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

is present in various forms such as

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money laundering Money laundering is the process of concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source. It is a crime in many jurisdictions ...

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contract killing Contract killing is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or persons. It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of payment, monetary or otherwise. Either party may be ...

fraud In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law (e.g., a fraud victim may sue the fraud perpetrator to avoid the fraud or recover monetary compens ...

human trafficking Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extrac ...

robbery Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by use of fear. According to common law, robbery is defined as taking the property of another, with the intent to permanently deprive the perso ...

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black market A black market, underground economy, or shadow economy is a clandestine market or series of transactions that has some aspect of illegality or is characterized by noncompliance with an institutional set of rules. If the rule defines the se ...

eering,

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and abduction,

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, among others.

Narcotics trafficking

is used as a transit route for

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produced in neighboring countries. The Annual Report for 2007 from the

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(INCB), reports that Bangladesh is now the main transit point for the movement and trafficking of

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from

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into the

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an market .Bangladesh transit route for heroin trafficking
The report noted that the porous borders between Bangladesh and

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

contribute to the cross-border trafficking of narcotics. The known means of trafficking drugs into Bangladesh are couriers from

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, commercial vehicles and trains from

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in addition to shipments from India via the

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. It is estimated that 100,000 people are involved in narcotics trafficking in Bangladesh.

Homicides

A total of 10,331 homicides were reported to Bangladesh authorities from 2001 to 2003, showing a significant increase in recent years.

Software piracy

For the

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region, Bangladesh is ranked as one of the main countries for

Software Piracy Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, su ...

. In 2008, it was estimated that the

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loses nearly $102 million (USD) every year as a result.

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External links

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DOI.org
* https://web.archive.org/web/20150610193907/http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/pdf/RS_No71/No71_19PA_Chowdhury.pdf {{Bangladesh-stub

Narcotics trafficking

Homicides

Software piracy

See also

References

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