Interested buyers who must be carefully screened thanks to the fact that Capone memorabilia has a rapacious fan following have hailed from the Northeastern U.S., France and Russia.

FORBES: Infamous Estates: Homes With Notorious Histories And Criminal Pasts Come To Market

With the help of a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision they also put themselves a little further out of the reach of rapacious securities litigators.

FORBES: These Stocks Sidestep Sarbanes-Oxley Idiocies

In the southern Mekong Delta, where most of Vietnam's rice is grown, farmers face crippling debts because of a discriminatory rice-trading system that favours rapacious middlemen and state-owned exporting companies.

ECONOMIST: Vietnam