Inside North Korea's Meth Trafficking: The World's Biggest Narco State?
When a bizarre group of international gangsters shook on a massive meth deal with a DEA agent in Bangkok, Thailand eight years ago, it kicked off a manhunt ensnaring Hong Kong Triads, Outlaws bikers a...
3 Aug 202153min
The Cuban Mob: Billion Dollar Rackets, the CIA, Lucchese Mafia Firebomb Wars, Miami Cocaine Trafficking and Fidel Castro
Jose Miguel Battle's Cuban Mafia known as The Corporation ran a billion dollar numbers racket with brutal enforcers for three decades, growing so powerful that they went to war with the Luccheses, fir...
27 Jul 20211h 1min
The Icelandic Drug-Smuggling Fellowship's Massive Bitcoin Heist
How did an Icelandic band of international drug smugglers pull off their nation’s most shocking heist, robbing millions in Bitcoin mining machines then disappearing into the frozen wilderness? And how...
12 Jul 202141min
Cartel Land: How Acapulco went from Sinatra Singing to Sicarios Shooting
Acapulco has become one of Mexico's, and the world's, bloodiest cities. It saw a stunning 127 murders per 100,000 people in 2019, making it the most murderous city in the world. It's a long way from i...
6 Jul 202145min
The Snakehead Sister Ping: China's Most Infamous Smuggler
She was the greatest smuggler, a Chinatown hero. Or was she a menace? Sister Ping made millions from those fleeing eastern China to the US. But ‘The Snakehead’s legacy is wound up in legend, conspirac...
29 Jun 202152min
The Pink Panthers: The Secretive Organization of the World's Top Jewel Thieves
Emerging out of the breakup of Yugoslavia, the Balkans-based international thieves known as the Pink Panthers have coordinated many of the world's most lucrative heists, sometimes stealing tens of mil...
23 Jun 202156min
The Russian Mafia's NHL Extortion Play
When the Soviet Union collapsed in the late 80's and early 90's, both gangsters and hockey players headed to America (and Canada!) for new opportunities, making use of the skills they had developed ba...
16 Jun 202144min
Turkey's Mafia Boss Youtube Sensation Trying to Bring Down the State
Sedat Peker has long been a top mafia boss in Turkey, but in recent weeks he's found a new calling: Youtuber. He's taken to youtube and social media to air out accusations of corruption and conspiraci...
9 Jun 202150min
