Is Money Everything?

Money.

Money has no colour. It is black, it is white and all that is man-made.
Once the money enters the monetary channel it is money.
Money is the password to fame life and everything.
Money is power. Money is strength. Money is everything.
Money is Money. Honest Money and Dis-honest Money is all our creation.
There are more than 600 organized crime groups in our country alone, making billions within illegal industries more varied than simple drug dealing and money laundering. From counterfeit goods to international car theft rings, here are the many — and costly — ways organized criminals make their cash.
Our country has turned out to be the hot-bed for gun violence as our neighbours Pak, Bangladesh, Nepal Sri Lanka, China are all involved in gun-production.. Still, organized crime in India relies on the country's close proximity to the neighbouring countries, because the majority of illegal firearms that end up in India come from these sources. More to that, organized crooks routinely utilize border towns to smuggle their goods making towns breeding grounds for firearm activity. In 2008, many were arrested after several guns were traced back to Pakistan and China make guns. They had smuggled 2200 different guns across the Porbandar and Rajasthan border selling them at huge price.
Contrary to what most people would think, giant, plodding construction equipment is a target for thieves. As with passenger vehicle thefts, stealing heavy machinery has emerged as a profitable enterprise for organized criminals. Heavy equipment thefts in the country continue to increase, while recovery rates continue to decrease. For hundreds of thousands of dollars per unit, large construction equipment is taken from job sites many brands use a universal key for all of their machines, a controversial practice as thefts rise and shipped out of India to neighbouring countries with altered ID numbers, so as not to draw suspicion. Organized crooks are also known to sap costly diesel fuel from unguarded construction equipment, further costing the companies money they rarely recover.
Vehicle thefts, while decreasing in numbers, are still a concern among law enforcement. Despite fewer reported thefts each year since 2006, the amount of unrecovered stolen vehicles continues to increase, up to 40 per cent in 2009 from just 30 per cent a year earlier. About one-third of all stolen cars around 20,000 vehicles are exported to areas such as our neighbouring countries each year, contributing to an illegal enterprise that costs us more than INR one billion annually. By one report, “international car thieves can net about $1 million for stealing 30 or more high-end vehicles, which is not unlike the plot of the action flick "Gone in 60 Seconds."
It may not be the most glamorous criminal enterprise, but mortgage fraud is still one of the largest money makers for organized crooks. Because of underreporting, estimates can never be precisely pinpointed, but at its peak, many reports suggest, the mortgage fraud has accounted for as much as INR a billion in losses per year. Most recently, famously fell victim to our largest mortgage fraud scam, one which generated almost 1400 crore and reportedly cost the banks as much as 300 crore directly.
The other side of drug dealing, the legal stuff, isn't quite as profitable but may be just as dangerous a trade. Much of the trafficked prescription drugs in the country— the major players: Valium, Ritalin, OxContin, Ativan, Mendrex and unnamed etc. — come via our neighbouring countries, yet what concerns authorities just as much is what's coming from Internet sites. Online sites offering sales of counterfeit prescription drugs are becoming more and more popular, making us question why people would knowingly take drugs concocted from an unknown source. "In many cases, these products can cost just a tenth of the price" as what they would in stores, he says, "but it's an issue of personal safety. Who knows where these things come from?"

The sale and importation of illegal drugs, it should go without saying, is still a major source of income for organized criminals. The problem, is how to quantify how much is being sold. Officers have made several recent high-profile busts of cocaine, the most "prominent" drug problem facing the authorities, totalling more than 100 crore per sting in some cases. But besides the value of these busts, law enforcement personnel can't say much more. While estimates suggest more than half a billion dollars in illegal drugs pass through, "there's simply no way to tell an exact figure. We just don't know."

While our nation produces much of its own, the lion's share of counterfeit goods sold within is imported primarily from countries such as China, Thailand, Turkey and Russia. Organized crooks have become so potent in their distribution — which includes products like fake jeans, bogus washers and dryers and bootleg DVDs — that most of the products sold may be counterfeit, according to Criminal Intelligence Service. "And people keep buying them," adding that in this economy many people seem content saving a few bucks rather than steering clear from purchasing illegal goods.


Credit card holders may breathe a sigh of relief now that most credit and debit cards carry chip-and-pin technology, but the simple fact is that payment card fraud has rarely been more prevalent. While combined losses decreased slightly in 2009 to 501 crore, from 550 crore in 2008, that figure conceals one alarming trend. Debit card fraud dramatically spiked from 2008 to 2009, increasing some 36 per cent and saddling card-holders with losses of more than $140 million. Enhanced skimming machines are how modern crooks conduct the bulk of their schemes, but thieves have also begun using Bluetooth to wirelessly extract payment information from consumers.
China demands Indian wild-life. Nepal has got contacts and they pay handsomely beyond
expectation. But they want Tiger Lion Panther cubs. They want meat and bones of dead wild animals. All China-influenced countries demand meat of wild-animals.