Black market billions : how organized retail crime funds global terrorists / Hitha Prabhakar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prabhakar, Hitha, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black market.

Shoplifting.

Smuggling.

Organized crime.

Terrorism--Finance.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

xiv, 316 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press, 2012.

Summary:

A business and finance television reporter based in New York City, Prabhakar examines how employees steal merchandise from retail stores to sell to friends or through black market networks. The practice has grown exponentially since 9-11, she says, and has now been taken over by US-based international criminal organizations that use the profits to fund terrorist organizations such as the Irish Republic Army, Hamas, and al-Qaeda. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Organized retail crime goes global

When a deal isn't a deal

The cost to the stores

The money trail and the business of cross-border trade

Profile of a booster and a fence

Family ties

Money laundering 2.0

The political agenda

Strange bedfellows

The failure of preventative measures

Letting the bad guy get away.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-297) and index.

ISBN:

9780132180245

0132180243

OCLC:

726818201