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of support that he needs for we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. all tough konami built his empire laundering billions of dollars for the world's biggest drug cartels and armed groups his clients include al qaeda and the taliban are australian law enforcers teamed up with four other countries in an undercover operation to lure him out and take him down. on this episode of one of one east we go inside the year long manhunt to bring down the world's most wanted money launderer. a suburban runaway station in sydney's ways. to muse's to the platforms the believe you see to the undercover police who were tied you know positions

throughout the station. the main new south wales police were watching is a drug dealer he was inclined to hand two hundred thousand dollars in cash to a money laundering he's never met before. money laundering is the backbone of organized on money laundering used designed to hard proceeds of crime and the techniques that are used. to capture the major the drug dealer and the money had a clever method to confirm each other's identity one has a bank note and the other has a photograph of that serial. thanks trying to. in this particular case before. that was checked against the black berry message which the other party had to make sure that it matched and then the two of them the miles

walked off together to take part in the exchange shortly after that mr. theorists lead police to syphon house in this building alongside sydney's downey high. where a major drug syndicates was storing a large supply of ice and ecstasy and millions of dollars to be laundered. what we found was four million dollars in cash ten or twelve kilos of ice so the two hundred thousand is it is a small percentage of back. the money with ali new diri a forty one year old from afghanistan. he was a big player in a massive international laundering operation that was helping wash the profits of a strategy in organized crime we're talking about the upper echelons of organized crime he we're not talking about opportunistic wrong we're not talking about

backyard sort of our pride is this is hard volume very serious transnational organized crime networks that are well established and span the globe. the money laundering operation was run by this man al tough konami a pakistani criminal who had evaluated capture for decades. i think just by the sheer vial of the amount of money he was able to move the network that he built on six different continents created an air about him that he was an untouchable he was somebody that could not be grabbed by law enforcement i always kind of liken him to a james bond villain. he fits the mold he has a worldwide network. moves billions of dollars has all this at his disposal. is the leader a transnational organization and it is someone that the world looks as

a target. from his base in the middle east l tough konami drug money for some of mexico's most dangerous cult kind cartel. he also moved money for groups responsible for attacks in mumbai in one thousand nine hundred ninety three and in two thousand and eight which together killed more than four hundred people it wasn't working and move money for as a lot of the taliban. and many others said obviously are very very bad people this guy was launder money for anybody and everybody you care what. else of konami was the number one international control as far as organized crime and terrorist funding was in the world at that time and we knew that he was causing significant impacts on multiple countries throughout the world and that's why we had to take some action. this is with the

a strategy an operation to capture konami started the strategy and criminal intelligence commission a secretive agency which targets high level criminals it began as an investigation into unusual international money transfers from small suburban operators in sydney and melbourne it was when we started investigate that and we started seize money and we started to make arrests that we then started to go further to train and understand who was behind organizing these contracts in the movement of money and that's when tom and tom again how tough can only come up. as the extent of the tough konami's network emerged richard grant ran the name past his counterparts in the united states we realize that the drug enforcement a strong. had i norma's amount of intelligence on konami and the d. i had a significant amount of the jigsaw when i heard the name and it registered and i

was like absolutely yeah of course with. this here is the deal group forty four which conducts code good drug investigations across the globe. john cleese's a group forty four special agent speed ease targeting cocaine supplies across south america. but the top tier rebels in this case all top nine was a top tier. who dealt with organizations that their business is death and destruction and he assisted them and complain those to those jobs on a day to day basis and he's a very very dangerous for. the intelligence trial started here in karate. we can only see family had long been the

tourists to street level gambling schemes and currency trading. it's in this trade on foreign currency that actually. there meteoric rise began to happen up until then they had been middling and lives competing with dozens and dozens of other of sort of where hawking the awareness by shouting at but by on the street. scoring a big. a big client in the form of perhaps a government servant out of a businessman who would need to whiten a large amount of black money. journalistic around who signed has followed. for years he says that bother me to thousands konami and his associates were running one of the biggest currency exchanges in pakistan a company called to naani and cali international. from any country to any country

if you wanted to move money without leaving a trace without having your name attached to that money or giving that money the author often legitimate the money these were the people who would do it for you cannot he made his money by doing the van's volume and charging commission. these commissions were low relatively low three percent. went up as high as eight nine ten eleven depending on difficulty in moving the funds. from his base in caracas he's financial district how tough cannot be exploited and i mentioned money transfer system called. it's their first banking system used predominately in the middle eastern countries and you'd be able to walk into one place to an individual who would keep a ledger and you would be able to drop money off to that person and he would then

be able to get message or word back in the old days to another individual who kept another set of ledgers and pay a person for you over great distances it's a nature system still in use today is quite probably one of most effective ways of evading law enforcement because there's really not a paper trail. konami capitalized on an extraordinary gift for numbers that uncanny ability to recall information he can recall phone numbers from memory when asked he knew bank account numbers business names and again he had several businesses and bank accounts and he could recall from memory these numbers which was which is pretty impressive. the exchange company became a front for an international money laundry which surfaced now and then in police investigations would want. we're

turning over between fourteen and sixteen. of. the rich the. government servants who may have accumulated large amounts of money. taken as kickbacks in various schemes rich businessmen whatever. over invoice day imports and exports. who would need to export drugs from here and then bring their body back but short that's a legitimate income. in pakistan and. it's worth remembering that

some of the most richest and most powerful people. and institutions and. the clients of. there were any number of very powerful individuals who did not want the light of day to be shot into this racket for fear of their own identities being revealed very very large and a very wide spectrum of very powerful interests in order to try and protect these people. but certainly some of the. the legislation passed was a strong. political interference so far. he

set up shop there which was basically his headquarters where he operated and set over as my honoring him. from this corporate office how tough can any room to do the money from across the globe including the stride. richard grant and the australians persuaded the u.k. canada and new zealand to assist in the operation to bring down the tough canady. it was the first time the five eyes intelligence network was mobilized against an organized crime target. this is the business in dubai that all top canady is operating out of it's als or any exchange the plane was for an elaborate sting using covert operatives undercover being briefed to make contact tough tonight directly.

the plan was to infiltrate the undercover agent into the community organisation to establish ourselves as the highest traffickers or money launderers that we can appear to be too tough konami it was then to develop the evidence that we would then be able to indict him in the united states we were posing as drug traffickers and we had money to be laundered and we solicited all tough konami to launder our money for us and you know greed is a powerful tool and anytime someone can make money in this world they'll jump at the chance. let's give these guys a call. undercover agents across the world organized to set up a fictitious drug syndicate which would contract to launder its cash. to look like real drug traffickers they need a substantial amount of cash to launder into konami's network and that is where the

strategy and taxpayer came into the picture. to federal law enforcement agencies put up the money this is one of the more interesting parts of the strategy used in going back to our c.e.o. and pitching to him that we needed a quarter million dollars and we're going to give to somebody that we really didn't know with the hype and the promise that he would deliver that money into another country so most police forces would balk at the fact that you lose two hundred fifty thousand dollars because that's the risk we were talking i have to say that. our c.e.o. had the view that we needed to be lawfully. and that's what we did so we found fifty thousand dollars in the budget and fortunately at the time that we're doing that the strong federal police come on board. the eye of p. kicked in another one million dollars the million dollars that was provided by the strong federal police was actually util laws to one of those funds in that reverse

transaction toward dinner for how the system worked and the threshold for the indictment to be realized in the u.s. under there were just citation required that up to and i mean dollars would be laundered before you could secure than. it was vital for a successful prosecution that the undercover agents made contact with the tough konami directly trust is everything we began conversations we provided opportunities for tonight to make money and then when it came time where they were met we actually followed through and we gave him what he needed to make the transaction successful so we gave him the money we gave you can't we told him we told him how we work we told him we were drug traffickers. an undercover agent in australia called him personally. and

dined can only strasse there you can be here. so welcome you soon will you be revealing to the world you. the team prepared to hand over the first bundle of money. the first cash drop was critical the d. i put one hundred thousand dollars in unmarked bills and told bag and gave it to their on the coverage and it was meant to make cannot he's a man in a car park in new jersey. was at a dunkin donuts up in new jersey area they met the parking lot. our undercover meet some link they can sign the token or the dollar bill is the serial numbers correct and they exchange a curse so that was that was the first that was first. came out he had promised to wire back the money minus his commission virus seemingly legitimate business in the

middle east now the to take dues would have to white to see if they really had fooled him. waiting for the money to return was it was the worst part. what's happenin. after attempts five guys phoned richard grant to give him the good news. and had wired back these tragedy money the money gone through and the job was a success so when you were on a roll. with the first batch of money through the cash drops continued in houston atlanta. it was kind of amazing to see how we can throw out a state or an area where we needed money picked up and cannot he was able to reach into his rolodex and dial up somebody to help us with that. a little. bit. in one recorded conversation while

tough konami revealed he was worried. to which you. were. going to the few to go. push it. at one point the operating system. there was a moment where we were waiting i think up to twelve days for money to come back and the undercover. who brilliantly on his feet rather than threaten violence to k'naan you which we wouldn't do. utilize the threat of violence against him so then a cover when he tossed a konami tells him a lesson if you don't he'll give me this money back soon the cartels going to cut my head off and use it as a soccer ball and i think that god cannot he's attention that. you know i need to move faster with this. the detectives needed visual confirmation it

was. her. lies are done on your it's like this see you. you're looking lovely children. at the time what we had was a number of conversations between the undercover operative and which will recorded and the very damning but at the time we actually can put a face to the voice we had no physical meetings with all to often and so to get that identification confirmed it was decided to do a skype video call and that that's kind of what put us over the top of the identification. in the scott called the undercover who was in astrology are invited to come and visit.

the agent told me he was calling about a new business opportunity. or. do you believe these are new yorkers. he said his new contact needed to move more money more quickly. although you know i will tell you the like you. want. we want to grow from. the front room. full of good that. is a market leader with. konami had no idea that the noose was tightening.

after thirty six dies the operation reached a critical point. the undercover to. konami he needed money picked up in texas and county and always made it happen. this was where they had another cash drop and it's where they hit the magic number of a million us dollars laundered through the county network. over a million dollars you waste in the penalties were significantly harder and we wanted to move over a million dollars because that would reflect the level of criminality he was exhibiting and the impact he was having with countries. all the stuff over. the us and us trying to take dave's had successfully laundered more than a million us dollars through counties network now the had to find

a country to both arrest him and get him extradited to the united states once we went to the loo or capture freeze we had to find a place the community would be comfortable traveling to develop a plan like how we're going to do this how we're going to how we're going to catch this guy and so we basically drill down to panama was a was a good country for us we do a lot of work down there and they were they were interested in helping us. they needed to come up with a y. to persuade altaf konami to get on a plane and leave dubai undercover started building a story about his travel and down south in central america and that we had we had more business as drug traffickers we had more business that was happening there in south america and that if the nominee could come there and meet meet some of the cartel members of what we would say then we would be able to give him more business

. cards are. very good. for. the fine. the sweetener was the offer of a panamanian passport so i think that was a too big of a carrot for him to refuse. the operation was about to reach its climax from an unmarked tank. in florida to special agent john clayton got ready to fly to panama to confront canady. slews expecting to meet the needs of a major south american cartel he was even for sure. the plane is on the

tarmac surrounded by armed guards police police cars everywhere and so were brought into the detention of holding area. is all tough guys brought out of this and then yes the sounds of a ford when he's turned over along with all his property is turned over to us what's going through your cable is really arab and this is this is a pretty amazing moment some very happy that the case come to a culmination and we've got this guy i remember i think of going home at that stage and i find that suddenly the finding and it was done then there was a text with a photograph of county surrounded by agents in cuffs it was a wonderful thing. was flown out of panama and back to florida. you know as the wheels lift the plane takes off we can tell these start to think about like what is really going on and so then he

starts asking us questions like what is it that can do to get out of a situation well unfortunately for him that there was no way to get out of the situation this was the end of the line for a lot of cannot. how tough konami pleaded guilty. in return for assisting authorities in march last year he received only five and a half years in child. with u.s. sanctions in place against his family and associates the canonic network has been dismantled others have emerged to take it's place. there are other networks for example out of vietnam and if you buy out of hong kong the business that is lost if there's a kind of network is taken down simply gets picked up by another money wouldn't know what i think the biggest message that everyone can take from this and all the drug traffickers and money launderers in the world is that nobody's untouchable.

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