What Does Corruption Look Like?

Last year a record 1 million people made the Mediterranean Sea crossing, five times more than in 2014. During the year, the International Organization for Migration estimates that 805 died in the eastern Mediterranean and 2,892 died in the central Mediterranean. Human brokers play the central role in many migrants' journeys. Like the thousands of Central Americans who pour into the United States, or the Rohingya Burmese who flood into Thailand and Malaysia, illegal travelers worldwide depend on an industry run by networks of individual criminal entrepreneurs. Syrians desperate to leave their homeland after years of civil war are forced to pay hefty bribes at armed checkpoints proliferating along Syria's borders, or to smugglers, according to the United Nations. Europol, Europe's police agency, says people-smuggling may have generated between $3 billion and $6 billion last year. Most of the money for passage is raised and transferred by migrants' and refugees' relatives around the world. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)
What Does Corruption Look Like?
   
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