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And while the flood of prescription opioids into the black market has now been curtailed, addicts are turning to heroin and highly potent fentanyl to compensate, where the risk of overdose and death is even higher.
Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/news/heroin-derivative-pushed-by-cartels-addicts-january-2023/
Banks have imposed monthly withdrawal limits or only allowed customers to take out dollars exchanged into Lebanese pounds at a rate considerably lower than the black market, creating a huge haircut.
Before the cap on the rupee was removed, markets eyed three different rates to assess its value — the state bank’s official rate, the one assessed by the foreign exchange companies and the black market rate.
Both women are said to be black market fuel dealers in Warri, struggling for the product to sell, DAILY POST can report.
Source: https://dailypost.ng/2023/01/27/delta-woman-bites-off-anothers-breast-in-bloody-fuel-queue-fight/
Catalytic converters are fitted to vehicles to reduce the amount of pollution emitted from cars, but they are also a target for thieves who harvest the components from cars before selling them on the black market.
Cubans can withdraw dollars from the bank but in limited quantities, meaning that black market dealers can charge a premium.
Source: https://www.legit.ng/business-economy/1528672-soaring-inflation-wallops-cubans-battling-shortages/
Equally important, We Deliver Care is building relationships with people engaged in the black market centered at Third and Pike: getting to know them and the problems they’re experiencing and trying to connect them with the help they need.
Source: https://crosscut.com/news/2023/02/seattles-third-avenue-project-takes-new-approach-old-problems
For example, the rhino horn, tiger body parts, pangolin scales, and tokay geckos invariably command a very high price in the black market, some of which are ingredients in Chinese traditional medicine.
Source: https://theshillongtimes.com/2023/10/01/illegal-wildlife-trade-a-global-menace/
Hydra Market is a black market platform where narcotics, stolen personal and financial information and money laundering services can be procured; the Justice Department said it is the “largest and longest running darknet market in the world.”
Inflation at the time, Odendaal said, was skyrocketing, and they were constantly living on the black market to survive while policy changes came through daily.
Source: https://tabertimes.com/news/2023/12/27/resiliency-key-to-success-in-global-ag-context/
In Garoua, a town in northwest Cameroon about 60 km (37 miles) east of the Nigerian border, a litre of petrol on the black market used to sell for about 300 CFA francs ($0.48).
'It runs the gamut, and there is a black market for purchasing these items, unfortunately.
It's black market I buy now," he said.
“Meanwhile, the black market for smuggled subsidised Nigerian fuel in Togo and neighbouring Benin and Cameroon has collapsed, further reducing demand for shipments via Nigeria,” Reuters said.
Source: https://leadership.ng/nigerias-petrol-demand-from-european-refineries-shrink-on-subsidy-removal/
Naira also depreciated at the parallel market, popularly called the black market, losing 0.40 percent (N3) Week-on-Week to close at N745$1 on Friday as against N742 per dollar last week Friday.
Source: https://businessday.ng/news/article/naira-ends-week-with-marginal-loss-across-fx-markets/
NAN reports that NNPC stations in most parts of Lagos were dispensing but they had large queues as many were seen hurling 50-litre cans to buy, apparently for resale on the black market.
Source: https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/petrol-queues-resurface-marketers-sell-naira350-per-litre/yg3ttnx
One flavored tobacco product well-known in the black market across the U.S. is starting to gain popularity in California.
Source: https://abc7news.com/california-flavored-tobacco-ban-black-market-atf-prop-31/13059161/
Regime forces were stationed at the village on Monday and Sunday, looting 25 million kyats (around US$8,700 on the black market), gold jewelry and mobile phones from houses and detainees.
Source: https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-troops-kill-and-loot-in-village.html
San Jose cannabis tax revenue is poised to drop by millions this year, as black market competition and delivery services chip away at the willingness of consumers to pay more.
Source: http://capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/san-jose-cannabis-tax-revenue-takes-a-hit/
Satary had in fact told the FBI in 2016, shortly before the 'pill mill' raids, that he had tried to move to Qatar, allegedly paying millions of dollars for a black market Jordanian passport, but was defrauded.