The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast
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Underworld exposes the secret world of transnational criminal networks that have flourished since there were banks to bust, drugs to smuggle, and scams to run. Journalists Danny Gold and Sean Williams bring their experience reporting on dangerous people and organizations to take listeners on a global tour of mobsters, warlords and crooks - from Brooklyn to Beijing, from the streets to the boardrooms - and everywhere in between. Underworld is a show about heroes, villains, and the barely visible mafias that affect all our lives, whether we know it or not.

  1. -9 T • KUN FOR ABONNENTER

    BONUS: The Ghanaian Conman Who Fooled Everyone, Including Washington DC

    Yepoka Yeebo spent six years unearthing the tale of John Ackah Blay-Miezah, a Ghanaian trickster who convinced the world he had access to gold, diamonds and riches squirreled away by Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah. The gold, and Nkrumah’s legendary corruption, were lies. But Blay-Miezah led a merry deception for decades, calling himself a king, buying a football team and conning investors from Accra to Annapolis that he was a genius mega-financier.

    51 min

  2. -1 D.

    The Sinaloa Cartel Civil War Raging in Mexico: Los Chapitos vs El Mayo w/Nathan Jones

    Sinaloa’s capital Culiacan is roiling with violence in the wake of El Mayo’s capture, and his alleged betrayal at the hands of the Chapitos. But the bloodshed is just part of an ever-changing drug landscape, that’s increasingly dominated by the Sinaloa factions and the CJNG. How do these two organizations work? How can they work together? And what on earth can Mexico’s new president do to stop the bullets from flying? Sean spoke to expert Nathan P. Jones to find out. MERCH: https://underworldpodcast.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1 t 2 min

  3. 19. NOV.

    Peru's Shining Path Narco Terrorists: From Commie Civil War to Cartel Muscle

    Peru’s Shining Path, a Marxist-Maoist guerrilla force, plunged the Andean nation into a two-decade civil war that put villagers of the VRAEM, a remote, coca-producing region, on its bloody frontline. The Peruvian government captured the movement’s despotic leader, and the war died. But the rebels switched gears, protecting coca shipments from Peru’s interior to its coast, and out across Latin America. Today the VRAEM is the global trade’s ground zero — even for the leaves that make their way, via an odd, winding journey, into Coca-Cola bottles worldwide. And the Shining Path, though weakened, are still among the embattled region’s biggest players. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    58 min

  4. 17. NOV. · EKSTRAMATERIALE • KUN FOR ABONNENTER

    BONUS: Stashed House with the Guys: Olympic Coke Dealers, Canadian Fentanyl Labs and more.

    We did another one of these! Let us know if it's a working format or if you prefer only interviews and mini episodes.

    26 min

  5. 12. NOV.

    The Bloody Turkish Mafia War Raging Across the World

    With their leader sentenced to life in a Dutch prison, the most powerful heroin trafficking organzation in Europe, the Turkish-Kurdish Baybasin clan, wasn't about to call it quits. Younger brother Abdullah Baybasin set out to control the streets of North London with his feared crew of Hackney Bombers. But another powerful gang, the Tottenham Turks, and the met police investigators, had other ideas. Two decades later, control of Europe's heroin market is once again facing instability, as the Taliban banning opium production in Afghanistan has set the entire market in flux. Hitman are roaming Europe, striking in Moldova, Barcelona, London and elsewhere. But it's not just massive amounts of heroin moving through Turkey anymore, as many of the gangs are connecting with cartels in Latin America and making the switch to cocaine. SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney.com/UNDERWORLD. Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/underworld. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    54 min

  6. 7. NOV. · EKSTRAMATERIALE • KUN FOR ABONNENTER

    BONUS: Former FBI Agent Dan Brunner: Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua is Here, and It’s Gaining Strength

    Dan Brunner spent more than two decades fighting Latin American gangs, from the Trinitarios to MS-13. He spoke to Sean about the threat US cities face from the Tren de Aragua, Venezuela’s rapidly expanding group, and argues that the danger it poses is far greater than most media outlets are reporting. You can read Dan’s thoughts on Latin American organized crime at https://brunnersierragroup.substack.com/

    48 min

  7. 5. NOV.

    Europe's Pablo Escobar: The Heroin Emperor Huseyin Baybashin

    From a village in rural Turkey, Huseyin Baybasin emerged as one of the most powerful drug lords in Europe, setting up a global heroin trafficking ring. Stepping into the vacuum left by the downfall of the French Connection, Baybasin and his clan, dubbed "The Family," brought in billions of dollars of opium from Afghanistan through Iran and smuggled into Turkey before it headed to western Europe on the so-called Balkan route, all with the help of the Kurdish separatist militia known as the PKK. But he wasn't just your run of the mill drug lord: Baybasin claims he was a Turkish government sponsored heroin trafficker as part of an intricate conspiracy, involving state secrets, a militant guerrilla group waging a 40-year insurrection, massive conspiracies and international intrigue involving the Turkish deep state, spy agencies of multiple countries including Britain, informants, billions of dollars, one of the most powerful criminal families in Europe and Asia, and control of over 90 percent of the heroin flooding into the UK.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1 t 4 min

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    The Billion Dollar Scam Cult King who tried to Take Over an Island

    When Bougainville fought an incredible civil war over a colossal mine, and won, its military leader emerged a hero. But he would soon fall under the spell of a conman and cult leader who wanted the Pacific island—and believed himself to be its king. The unlikely pair soon carved an empire out of a coconut palm jungle—and a wild, picaresque myth about Eden, ancient monarchs, and gold. The wildest thing was that almost everybody in the region believed it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    57 min
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Underworld exposes the secret world of transnational criminal networks that have flourished since there were banks to bust, drugs to smuggle, and scams to run. Journalists Danny Gold and Sean Williams bring their experience reporting on dangerous people and organizations to take listeners on a global tour of mobsters, warlords and crooks - from Brooklyn to Beijing, from the streets to the boardrooms - and everywhere in between. Underworld is a show about heroes, villains, and the barely visible mafias that affect all our lives, whether we know it or not.

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  • Skaper
    The Underworld Podcast
  • År i produksjon
    2020 - 2024
  • Episoder
    244
  • Vurdering
    Ren
  • Copyright
    Copyright © 2002 Airwave Media. All rights reserved.
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    The Underworld Podcast
  • Leverandør
    Daniel Gold

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