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The Mafia's Web Crime X
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3.9 • 129 Ratings
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The Mafia's Web is True Crime Australia's latest groundbreaking podcast. Stephen Drill's two-year investigation lifts the lid on how the mafia is controlling crime in Australia.
But the mafia is no longer just running drugs or extorting fruit markets, it has its tentacles in legitimate businesses too. The eight-part series brings you insights from inside the mafia from a former killer who turned police informant, as well as the latest on the sting of the century that put the criminal cartel back on the map.
The Mafia's Web is written and hosted by Stephen Drill, with production and sound design by Andrea Thiis-Evensen
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Flash Cars, Fast Cash
A new generation of mafia bosses are flashing their cash and fast cars on Instagram and Facebook, but their posts are bringing them to the attention of the Australian Federal Police. In this episode Acting Assistant Commissioner Todd Hunter reveals the tensions between the mafia's old and new guard.
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Dad Trained Me To Murder
Luigi Bonaventura has been a key figure in the convictions of more than 500 Mafioso in Italy. He grew up in the mafia stronghold of Crotone, where he was trained on how to kill by his violent father. Mr Bonaventura, who now lives in hiding for breaking the mafia’s code of silence, has warned that the Italian mafia still has strong links in Australia.
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Fed to the Pigs
The nicknames given to the accused criminals in a mega trial of 355 mafia dons hide some of their more sinister activities, accused of some horrific crimes, including feeding women to pigs. In this episode Stephen Drill takes a look inside one of the mafia trials of the century.
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Poison Chalice
The Australian mafia has accessed JobKeeper payments for staff at it's legitimate businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this episode Antonio Nicaso, a professor at Queen's University in Canada, has revealed that mafia groups have been exploiting government handouts during the crisis not only at home, but worldwide.
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The Agony and The Ecstasy
According to mafia expert Anna Sergi, Australia’s streets are being flooded with illegal drugs through a contactless system developed in Italy. In this episode The University of Essex professor reveals how maritime workers are duped into becoming drug mules and Stephen Drill looks at the world's biggest ecstasy bust in Melbourne.
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The Undercover Cop
In this episode an undercover cop who bought more than a million dollars of cocaine and cannabis with taxpayers’ money reveals the terror of tricking the mafia. Colin McLaren infiltrated the Griffith mafia posing as a dodgy art dealer in a sting that smashed their operations.
“I was buying drugs, quite a lot. Pure cocaine in rock form from the mafia. “At one stage they offered me a truckload of cannabis worth, I can’t remember how many million. We just did not have enough money to buy at all.”
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Customer Reviews
Informative
Awesome podcast with some great information on Organised Crime.
Outdated views on drugs
Interesting listen with lots of insider interviews. But loses a lot of credibility with its ancient Prohibitionist/war on drugs rhetoric.
Love it
Awesome podcast on organised crime which is my favourite genre of podcast as I’m not really interested in murder podcasts very interesting love the interviews with Keith Moor also he is a great journo.. and author