Tough talking from the United Nations Organization's Russian anti-crime chief, Yuri Fedotov, who sets his sights on the hundred-billion dollar illicit drugs trade, vowing to smash this scourge in a comprehensive approach attacking the production line from grower to user. Fedotov stated that organized crime "has ballooned to global proportions", the illicit drugs trade reaching some 100 billion USD per year - the cocaine trade from the Andes to the USA and Europe is worth some 70 billion USD per year and heroin, mainly from Afghanistan, accounts for a further 30 billion USD. Analysing what has been done and what needs to be implemented, Yuri Fedotov stressed the importance of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, adopted one decade ago and now ratified by 157 States, which facilitates the process or extradition and legal assistance, cross-border intelligence sharing, cooperation and joint investigations. However, according to Fedotov, this Convention is under-utilised.Yuri Fedotov, 63, was appointed the United Nations Organization's Director of the Office of Crime and Drugs (UNODC) in July. The former Russian