Illicit: The Dark Trade

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The world economy is being derailed by new networks of illicit traders, criminal groups that care less about specific products and more about profit margins. Based on the best-seller Illicit, by Moises Naim, this film tracks the manufacture and sale of goods ranging from fake purses and DVDs to counterfeit pharmaceuticals that can have a devastating impact on human beings, showing how the even most innocuous trades are connected in a global epidemic generating $ 3 trillion per year and unimagined human suffering.

Previously Aired

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Time
Channel
6/8/2009
10 p.m.
6/9/2009
3 a.m.
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