While the survey painted a grim picture of the economic crime landscape, there were a few bright spots.
That's because the coalition government's programme for government contains a commitment to create "a single agency to take on the work of tackling serious economic crime done by the Serious Fraud Office, the Financial Services Authority and the Office of Fair Trading".
The prevalence of economic crime reported was level with 2005 results but up six percentage points from 2003.
There has been widespread concern that the battle against fraud and economic crime would be made less effective if the SFO's lawyers and investigators were separated into different institutions.
Ken Farrow, head of fraud at Lloyds TSB - and a former detective chief superintendent in charge of the City of London Police's economic crime department - believes the well-planned nature of the robbery suggested a plan on how to dispose of the cash was in place.
The highest perceived levels of economic crime were reported in Africa (52%) and the lowest in Western Europe (38%).
He and two others were arrested by the Avon and Somerset economic crime unit on 2 December.
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Mr Zedillo has had to face both a surge in petty crime, which is blamed on the economic crisis, and an increase in organised crime: especially in drug-trafficking, after the relative weakening of the Colombian drug gangs allowed more room for Mexican ones.
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They conceded that economic factors might have a bearing on crime and conceded that economic downturns do indeed lead to rises in the level of crime.
Currency manipulation is considered an economic crime because the old orthodoxy says currencies should float and the markets decide.
The charges follows an investigation carried out by Thames Valley Police's Economic Crime Unit (ECU), after the case was referred to the force by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
There was sufficient evidence, and it would always be in the public interest to prosecute serious economic crime of this sort.
And, even most of those people who continue to blame the rich, in part at least, for our current economic and fiscal problems also recognize that the crime is not wealth per se.
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They were referred to the City of London force's economic crime directorate in December 2011.
In Detroit, as in many other financially strapped cities, leaders are confronted with trade-offs between reducing the number of cops on the payroll or risking the social and economic costs associated with higher crime rates.
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Debates have raged as to whether the drop in the city's crime is due to more accountability within the police force, improved economic conditions, or addressing their crack cocaine problem.
Last week, a survey by the World Economic Forum ranked South Africa alongside Colombia and Russia as countries in the grip of organised crime.
Criminologists say these economic crimes eventually will show up in the overall crime rate.
In a 1999 poll conducted by the Joint Centre for Political and Economic Studies, blacks were twice as likely as whites to cite crime, violence and drugs as the most important problems facing the country.
That parlays nicely to New York, where the city continues to suppress its crime and expand its economic force.
Japan's prolonged economic slump is partly to blame for the rise in crime, but in a curiously indirect way.
"It was a period of booming economic prosperity, the roaring '20s, and very high crime, " he says.
More splits would mean less progress on essential fiscal reforms, delay in the achievement of stable economic growth and perhaps, thereby, more crime.
But their resources for investigating economic crime in general have been falling - handicapping the SFO too. since it has no police officers of its own.
In addition it alleges that they were victims of seedy Peruvian advisers and is voluntarily offering itself to the subjective scopes of The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime and Transparency International to clear their organization of any wrong doings.
It does not mention a vast literature on the economic causes of criminality and how to structure legal incentives to reduce crime, a subject that has largely been ignored by politicians.
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As you point out, crime is now increasing, which should be expected during the current economic decline.
But, amid the positive economic news, many parts of Mexico continued to experience disturbing levels of violent crime, including Mexico City, a place that has in recent years emerged as one of the safest corners of the country.
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