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What are the statistics for corporate crime? In most jurisdictions around the world, the numbers are usually messy and hard to collate.

This what makes the Washington-based Centre for Corporate Policy's comprehensive overview of corporate crime so interesting.

It's not only worth checking out for the data, but also the sources and links.

Consider for example these statistics:

-The cost of healthcare fraud is estimated to be between 3 and 10 percent of all health care expenditures, or as much as $100 billion each year and another estimate has the figure as high as 30 to 40 percent of total health care expenditures.

-Annual costs of antitrust and/or trade violations are estimated to be at least $250 billion.

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