Episode 335: Hunting Scotland's mastermind drug baron Julian Chisholm
He was Scotland's first ambitious drug baron who went from being a diver in the oil industry to a major league importer. Ambitious and ruthless, Julian Chisholm rose the ranks at an incredible speed as he plotted to use Scotland's sleepy fishing villages and islands as his landing points for drugs bartered directly from the Cali cartel. But was his greed his undoing?Nicola is joined by reporter Brendan Duggan who turned the amazing story of Chilsom into a podcast called ‘Hunting Mr X’ he tells me of the drama on the high seas that turned Chilsom into Scotland's most wanted. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
28 Juli 202334min
Episode 334: Security scandal - The Revenue officer caught up in a major drugs operation
A security crises for the state with a breach that could be one of the most serious ever discovered in Ireland.Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the stand off between top Gardai, the Criminal Assets Bureau and Revenue after an officer with full access to confidential information was caught up in a major drugs operation - but who has yet to be suspended from duty or had her access removed.We discuss the major international crime gang at the centre of the Revenue scandal and ask just how serious the Irish State is taking threat of organised crime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
26 Juli 202326min
Episode 333: The life and Crimes of Curtis 'Cocky' Warren
Curtis ‘Cocky’ Warren in one of Liverpool's most infamous drug lords but after serving a lengthy sentence behind bars he could be heading straight back to jail after breaching strict rules around his release.Once on the Sunday Times rich list the criminal has been caught continuing a relationship with a former prison warden and breaking draconian conditions that forbid him the use of the internet, mobile phones or holding assets of any more than pounds 1,000.Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the underworlds most famous scouser and the legend and legacy he left on his native Liverpool. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
26 Juli 202330min
Episode 332: Sunday World is 50 - Hugh Jordan
This year marks the 50th birthday of your favourite Sunday World newspaper and what a half century it has been.To celebrate we are looking back over some of the front page stories, scandals with the big name journalists who made it the People’s Paper.So join us to reel in the years over the coming weeks on Crime World and at a special 50th birthday party event to be held on September 27th at the Sugar Club in Dublin. We have 50 tickets to give away for this live Crime World event to mark the big occasion. For information on how to enter go to our Crime World social media channels on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.In the first instalment, coming every Monday, Hugh Jordan, a Crime World regular, who has worked at the newspaper for almost three decades, joins Nicola Tallant. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
24 Juli 202358min
Episode 331: Daniel Kinahan and the cocaine billionaires
US sanctions against the Kinahan mob have been extended to a number of key associates linked to the European Super Cartel.But with all still finding shelter and safety in the United Arab Emirates can we trust Dubai to hand back the wanted?Nicola is joined by Niall Donald and Italian journalist, mafia expert and author Floriana Bulfon about the international conglomerate of cocaine billionaires who are proving hard to break.Who is Daniel Kinahan’s secret backer in the Emirates and what do sanctions against the criminals really mean? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
22 Juli 202352min
Episode 330: 'Gangsta Granny' Deirdre Brady and her crimes for the Kinahan cartel
She made headlines for all the wrong reasons when she was dubbed a ‘Gangsta Granny’ in a pun on the David Walliams children’s book.But Deirdre Brady insists that she was only doing what she told when she laundered cash for the mob and was too afraid to say no.Brady just released from prison after serving three months of a one year sentence for her part in laundering cartel cash says she is just an ordinary person who was made do what she did. But was she happy to turn a blind eye. Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the privileged lifestyle of a wife of a Cartel heavy and the shame of her undoing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
21 Juli 202325min
Episode 329: Noel Long trial - court hears of DNA evidence taken from Nora Sheehan's body
DNA taken from possessions belonging to cold case murder accused Noel Long was sent to a UK laboratory in 2022 a court has heard.Long has denied murdering 54 year old Nora Sheehan whose body was discovered in June 1981 in undergrowth near Cork City.Clodagh Meaney joins Nicola and Niall Donald to discuss the latest from the trial before a jury at the Central Criminal Court. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
20 Juli 202313min
Episode 328: The life and crimes of Kinahan mobster Ross Browning
He is known as the Kinahan Cartel odd bod the strange outrider who tried desperately to cut the cord with organised crime.Ross Browning once claimed he’d turned his back on his childhood friends to forge a new life in a spiritual, vegan zen of healthy living and exercise.But the truth of his ‘awakening’ culminated in the arrival of Criminal Assets Bureau officers at his vast property in north Dublin this week as they began to gather assets valued at almost 1.5 million euro deemed to be the proceeds of crime.So when did Browning return to the inner circle of the Kinahan Cartel and did he really try to go straight?Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the reality of a Cartel soldier living a double life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
19 Juli 202338min
