Where is the money ?

In recent months I am so addicted to watch crime show on Indian channel, all based on real life story. There is so much crime that goes on in everyday in India. But it is more interesting and amazing to see and watch the real reason behind those crimes.

Money is one of the major reasons, most crime do take place in this world and people are ready to kill anyone who gives them money. The killer don’t even know the name, who is he [ they are ] going to kill. All they are concerned about is, how much money they are getting for the killing. Yet, they are ready to kill anyone. Of course the rate varies from person to person and as per their financial condition or how desperately one wants other to be gone.

It was not easy to judge a mother, who hired to kill her own son, because he was too addicted to alcohol; she could not help, watching him dying slowly. So she gave just about Rs. 10,000 to kill him. It sure shocked, even her husband and father of his son to know who killed his own son. She ended up in jail.

It was also hard to judge a wife of a drunkard, who was spending time and money at the brothels, almost all the money, which he acquired from the sale of their ancestral. The wife wanted to save money for the education of her two children and her daughter's marriage. But her husband and the father of her two children, was not paying any attention, to this fact and was busy blowing money on his lust and drinking more. Then one day, when she had enough of his this kind of behaviour;  she spent about Rs. 20,000 to get two men to kill her own husband. She too ended up in Jail.

And then there was a man who himself was a police constable. Oh, yes I need to tell you this now, that at that time he was suspended from his work; when he hired one of his trusted man to kill his own wife. He was very abusive and used to torture her too much, and there was a  police complaint also, against him from her wife some years back. His trusted man did manage to hire some other people to hide the involvement in this case, so that the person involved in this case, name will never come out, if something does not work out.

So that mock up accident took place to kill his wife and when he saw his dying wife all covered in bandage lying in the hospital bed, it just broke his heart. Then he realised, what kind of mistake he has made. Then all he wanted to do is to save his wife. He was ready to pay any amount of money to save her, even more than what he paid for to kill her; which he did manage to get from his sources. But one day his own colleagues came in  hospital to get him and put him behind the bar. His 10 year old son knows, that it was his father who tried to kill his mother.

There was this family, again in India who left his wife and two sons for another woman. He did not have a child from his new partner. The big son grew up hating his father for leaving them for another woman but he still loved the property his father owned. Not surprisingly, one day, he used hired people to kill his father and his life partner using snake to kill them; so that it look like an accident, and his involvement will never come out in light. He too ended up in Jail.

But most of all what shocked me was to watch this guy, who was having serious financial drought in his business. He wanted to do something for his family before he die. He bought seven companies insurance policy papers, just before he plotted his own murder. He wanted to die in car accident, so that his family can claim the policy; but his repeated attempt failed. Having no other option, he dragged his best friend to do the deadly act, to kill him. He had persuaded his best friends to kill him, who very unwilling did the task. His combined insurance policy worth was 10.5 million. But this sly guy made a blunder in his fraud plan. He did not declare any other insurance company’s buyings about the other company policy paper.  Police could not sort this case, so it went to the Crime Division, after four month of this so called murder. When his family member went to insurance company to claim their policy, all seven went to court, saying this is a fraud case. So his family could not get a penny out of it. People do plot their own murder for money is hard to swallow, but its true case that happened in India.

So where is the money ? Money is in crime business. A recent survey done by UN, shows that the crime is among the top 20 economies in the worlds and it makes trillions of dollars annually. To be precise 2.1 trillion dollar, which Yuri Fedotov a head of the office on the drug and crime said  is equivalent  to nearly seven percent of the global economy.

According the UN report of those crime money, 2.4 million people may be victims of human trafficking worldwide at any given time. Human trafficking is a shameful crime of modern day slavery. Corruption is another concern of this report, as per this report, it estimates   40 billion dollar annually lost through corruption in the developing countries.

However the UN Report shows the other sources ,that make more money than killing your own family members. As per this report smuggling of counterfeit goods, firearms, drugs, human trafficking and even wildlife to amass their illicit profit.