Introducing Hot Money: The New Narcos

Hot Money is back with a new season that begins with a mysterious murder in a small town and leads to a cocaine super cartel and a secret proxy war between democracies and dictatorships.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Pushkin. On a winter morning in twenty fifteen, an electrician
is murdered in a quiet Amsterdam suburb. It looks like
an assassination, but there's no motive. The Dutch police can't
figure out what's going on. Eventually, the killing leads investigators

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into a web of cocaine loads, money laundering, and shadowy
government agencies that stretches from Dublin to Dubai. At the
center is a cocaine supercartel and a secret proxy war
between democracies and dictatorships. I'm Miles Johnson, and I'm an
investigative reporter for the Financial Times, and I've always really

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been interested in the ways that crime and business me
because they always meet. Because crime is a business. The
global black market, it's worth trillions of dollars. It's this
vast ocean of shadow cash. We know it's there and
we can feel its impact, but it's often hard to see.
That makes reporting on it pretty tough. But occasionally you

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can get a glimpse of what's happening under the surface.
A man in his fifties was shot with one bullet
in the head.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
These are not no bedtime stories. This is getting real.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
There's always an element of look, you don't know if
somebody behind that door has a gun.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
It became clear to me as a prosecutor that what
they were doing is they were using the fighters as
a way to move money through the system.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
We've got blog apacas from South America, look into London the.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Money, and then sometimes if you keep digging, you start
to see a much bigger pattern.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
The cart tells they run these organizations like a Fortune
five hundred company in a sense of they want to
maximize profits and reduce risks.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
All criminals ultimately wish and aim for becoming legitimate, to
transitioning into legitimate businessmen, bringing the wealth they make with them.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
This season, on the multi award winning podcast Hot Money,
the Dubai supercartel, drug kingpins and murder brokers who are
thriving in a global order that seems to be breaking apart.
Hot Money, the New Narcos from Pushkin Industries and The
Financial Times out this December. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.