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for the plant. ah, february 2021. a cargo ship was on its way to hamburg. dutch investigators had their eye on 5 containers, the suspected cocaine smuggling, the other to german customs officials who took the containers to a special facility and x rayed them. one of them contained cans of building material hidden inside hundreds of packages of cocaine, a total of 16 tons. it was the largest hall ever found in europe. medicine seemed to me or at least 17000000 euros in advance. payments must have been made for the cocaine and south america on the trail led to paraguay of front company had been formed there to allow the traffickers to package and ship the cocaine undisturbed.
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a scheme that was worth the effort. the writing of the pure product has a st value of over 1000000000 euros oil. in most cases, the cocaine is thin down to make 3 times as much. so a 17000000 euro investment could have be 3000000000 in profit. such margins make drug trafficking the most important area of organized crime around the world. investigators scramble to keep up while year after year estimated drug sales increase. organized crime has become a multi $1000000000.00 industry overtime in ways that perhaps wasn't thinkable. 4050 years ago. the profits can be used to buy weapons, bribe politicians, and financed terrorism every time somebody thinks that there's nothing wrong in snorting a line of okay, at a saturday night party, your funding death in central america, in brazil,
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and ultimately in the middle east. ah. in october 2018 chief prosecutor of us gung sona, was preparing to clamp down on organized crime. in hamburg, he wanted to break up a ring of cannabis dealers to it up and that was one of the offices for being preached at miss some one realized that of all things, it was the day of the humble kirby game. hum, boob against aunt polly. holy, the soccer match would be occupying too many officers. so arresting the dealers was postponed. surveillance continued when we hoped are on the cover work. my lead is to catching a deal, as it happened. under surveillance, the suspects rented a white van. as the sun didn't defer, we assumed the van men that
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a few boxes of marijuana will become hell. talks about my yada com. the plan was to immediately arrest anyone putting anything into the van. first day. the van drove to a port terminal. several men got out. they were interested in one specific container . defy hunt the electronic shipping documents to supplement the new which contain a number though after how did the men get such precise information? efficient as j or, you know, port workers are paid mid 5 figure sums for this onward or ask again because it's no help if the container with traffic good is on top of 2 others. and no one can reach it. i don't know when a truck picked up the container, the suspects followed in their white than outfitted like the police. the out and i had handcuffs. they had police equipment like a blue light and a signaling one to flack. some 1000 investigators followed the truck in the van,
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south of hamburg. they both turned and drove back towards the city. the police tried to figure out why don't i don't let determined that a driver swap had apparently taken place for that caused a stir amongst the investigators. the all, theo, the truck had apparently been hijacked. a police helicopter tracked the convoy back to the port with a truck was unloaded. so they watched for a while, and then the guy, the go ahead him a mobile unit, arrested. several suspects who had re packed hundreds of packages from the high jack truck into bags. inside was cocaine, a total of $1100.00 kilos. some of the arrested suspects cooperated with police. they claim to have been hired specially for this operation. if their clients couldn't get the cocaine any other way. they were to
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hijack the truck and the container. they were plan b was it's an indian without doing anything. they would have each cotton, $10000.00 euros according to their own state level. you'd ever come. authorities also arrested the leader, one of the heads of hamburg. hell's angels? this job though, was organized independently of the bikers. he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. in court, he admitted to hijacking the truck, but kept silent about whom he was working for. who by it, no suspect would give information about the others involved. i think those the investigators hadn't found. there's another structure that we couldn't uncover it. tinquan. professional criminal structures often remain shadowy. they divide up their labor and quickly adapt to new situations. when it is often fumblings, all of us the goals and will be more in depth, conform to or everything that constitutes a major problem in the fight against organized crime can be summed up,
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is this side, there's a big misunderstanding among the public and politicians about the dimension of organized crime, home item for letty caught up with hardly any politician and the german bond us talk as aware that we're talking about 4 to 5000 organized crime groups in europe. octets would be spotty on hm. in germany, the focus on organized crime, mostly spotlight, so called clans. often groups of arab descent, desires is foolish and, or disorder. it's obvious that the only reason the political debate is dominated by so called klan crime is because they are among the dumber these groups didn't do move and copays home garage memories today, the ones that cause trouble on the streets often see does yeah. in it. i can of i n v, i see it in our own ranks in got so much personnel do we have to put into raids and then afterwards into examining suspects mobile devices and so like that. once of i tell you 9 sticking most of the underlines i. meanwhile, it's highly likely that the more professional organized crime groups are laughing
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themselves to sleep taken notice being for because they then continue to fly under the radar button won't have the model. i'm the really big fish only find themselves in the spotlight when they murder people like induce pork in 2007. when 6 mafioso were killed as an image of such and which all to put it bluntly as i can tell, it only gets public attention when there are dead bodies in the streets even got more like we hadn't was born a few years ago. in john hutton, in may 2019 an unknown perpetrator shot 2 men in a house. in the small town of faust, near the eastern germans city of cut was in the public sphere, the case went nearly unnoticed. the victims were 2 members of a drug gang from montenegro. police quickly determined the attack was carried out by a professional killer. the victims gang was engaged in bitter fighting with another balkan clan over market share. there were deaths in amsterdam, in malaga,
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in athens and especially in the balkans maybe i looked young with thick so hm. pretty, pretty long as job and actually felt ears in investigate reporting. he shows as a crime scene and serbia, the man killed here was a member of one of the feuding drug plans. originally from the town of co tour in montenegro. footed shows the man driving into a garage. 2 men appear and open fire. sitting next to the vic was a police woman who wasn't injured. even serbian police are also entangled in the gang war. we are in voucher, it's part of the bell. great. a lot of murderous of martin but as to place recently here it is because it's very rich area in the lot. martin members buying real
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estate care organized crime spread rapidly in serbia after the collapse of the eastern bloc. our 1st necrotic leader to one of the ones who actually took down yellow shirts was killed, doesn't tree by organized, tranquil, the gang little smuggling drugs team up with the parts of the secret service, the kill him, the sniper shot. this shows the power of the organ, his crime. over years, judge novick and his team of journalists have tried to shed light on serbia's criminal underworld, including the current gang war at least 50 people that we know for sure that they're killed, connected to this voice of this gangs. the feud began over a drug shipment. one gang accused the other of stealing cocaine. the amount was comparatively small, that he got in fights for $200.00 kilos of cocaine to con the killers. really,
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for balkan terms of this gangs is not much drugs. gangs are fixtures of the global cocaine trade. they hire professionals, hit men, these gangs have some people who provide to for them some like really perfect silicon masks which when you put on yourself, you really cannot recognize the message. so they look like human face. they're not even afraid if the camera capture them to commit to murder because the good people police confused the balkan mafia also gets its cocaine direct from south america. earlier in june 2019 yearly 20 tons were seized in philadelphia. the group from montenegro had bought the drugs from a south american cartel. they don't really care much about suits level distribution . they just sell big amounts of drugs to another european against these balkan godfathers don't just export large amounts of cocaine. they trade in killing to vienna 2018 just before christmas,
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a contract killer ambushed to men as they left a restaurant. one died, the other was seriously injured. the men belong to a hostile serbian drug plan. once again, the perpetrator left no trace. 3 years later, the vienna murders have still not been solved and the killing continues. specialists from the united nations are headquartered in vienna. what makes the cartels so dangerous and powerful is something italian under the may, has spent years analyzing. one advantage is that they have no accountability, so governments are come to boys to the people and so they have to operate according to set the standards. they don't have those funding so they can operate without a asking permission or they use them any kind of met on not only violence i, but also be we how they control allah, their territory exciter that makes them stronger and there is no, no government can beat them that the united states as certainly tried beginning
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with richard nixon in 1971. we must wait what i have called total war against public enemy. number one in the united states problem, dangerous drums, the superpower went to war with drug cartels. one battle ground was columbia, the us sent soldiers and money dealers were hunted down. cocoa fields, poisoned crops, burned, but even 50 years of fighting couldn't hurt business. drag so remain than most profitable or illicit market for organized crime. and by far, the one that really produce most of the profit for organized crime, organized crime has an annual turnover of up to 2 trillion dollars. drug trafficking alone brings in up to 700000000000 dollars each year. us authorities record hundreds of boats bringing cocaine from columbia to mexico. from there,
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the product to smuggled into the united states, the world's biggest market. cocaine has changed mexico the beginning when the government yet tried to address bay shore on trafficking, and they'll be organized crime than the violence or exploded pressure from the mexican government as an unfortunate consequences. that the disruption then had to reduce the amount of cocaine that was transferring from mexico. and so that created the am tension within the group. and because they were fighting for a smaller piece of the cake, mexico as really paid her highest price in terms of violence. for years, it's been mainly civilians, pain that price. like in the province of vera cruz. since 2727 journalists have been murdered here they had reported on the crimes of cartels
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and corrupt politicians. one of them was maria, elena saras, her daughter fernanda grew up amid danger. yours is a good thing, roll the 1st time it happened. i was sinks, my mother was being threatened, and since then we always had body god law, and we had body gods for 14 years. she always prepared me for the day when something might happen to well, what is the annual it by sarah? despite the threat, her mother spoke out against a corrupt and influential local politician. in march 2020, she was shot in front of her car. the subsequent protests fell on deaf ears. once more, fernando was protected by body guards. she wants to continue her mother's work.
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complet, unless they took me away from my home and from the things that was familiar to me that they took me from my work, the place where i spent most of my life. it had a huge impact on me because now i'm not even allowed to say where i am was i can't do anything here. and i can't work as a journalist anymore. but at least when fernanda and her brother visited their old home killers were waiting for them. jo in yellow maris and i was on my way back from atlanta. and i had gotten that because it was my mother's birthday the day before. and i wanted to visit her in the cemetery, like eminently suddenly, a pick up truck closed in on the car. and they started shooting at us. i just, but i didn't see anything after that because my body guards were covering me. now that tara, she continues to live in fear. those who ordered her mother's murder have not been caught. in the summer of 2021. fernando ran for parliament and mexico. and as raised awareness for the families of murder victims since 2006,
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125000 people have died in mexico's drug war o. drugs are smuggled from south america directly to the u. s. and europe, but also to west africa. molly is an important transit hub here un troops try to push back islamist militias. but those militias are growing increasingly powerful because they make money from cocaine smuggling. as a un expert discovered, i was asked by the un tooth spearheads project. what we found out was most of the organized crime groups operating in latin america who are trying to get cocaine to europe. they have to pass through historical transit routes or trade routes in parts of africa. and is it possible for those criminal groups? the folks to europe without actually paying taxes to various terrorist groups along
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the way. in particular, groups with ties to al qaeda are profiting from drug trafficking in west africa. loy forestman personnel will actually just kind of look away because they'll get a lot more by these particular groups though, because they're a lot more powerful. in certain pos, the world is getting to a point now where it's hard to see how this can be counted effectively. the un mission is becoming more and more difficult. in the summer of 2021, a patrol of german troops was attacked in mali. terrorists and east africa to are making money from drug trafficking. here it's not about cocaine, but heroin smuggled from afghanistan and on its way to europe in the mediterranean european ships are picking up drug smugglers. in june 2020 italian investigators seized a shipment of kept a gone. the stimulant had been trafficked by the so called islamic state,
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it st value, 1000000000 euros. here in vienna, un experts know how dangerous it is when drugs and terror mix. northern irishman neil walsh is an analyst and ex police officer. when i was 11 or 12, i was standing in a clothes shop with my dad on a saturday morning. and suddenly the windows came in. there was this enormous bang . we went out into the streets. there were people lying dead in the street. for decades, british soldiers in northern ireland fought against the separatist. i r a, the group financed itself through organized crime. certainly in my law enforcement career, a, working in the u. k. and europe, poland haig, intelligence and evidence all the time, showing the links between organized criminals and terrorists always been there. the
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i r re feared informants and traitors. contact with criminals was considered a risk. terrorist organizations then insulate themselves from risks and their own members figure out how to engage in extortion, kidnapping for ransom, drug trafficking, et cetera. and that, you know, makes them less vulnerable, but we've called it d, i, i organized crime. do it yourself. the i r re like to present itself as a political and moral force. however disagreements among members, splinter its message. one sub group made a show of taking on drug traffickers while members of another were linked to large scale cocaine trafficking. in 1998, the good friday agreement was signed, officially ending the conflict with the i array more than 20 years ago. i feel the hand of history upon our shoulder in respect of this one. but despite the peace old habits
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die hard, whichever group you're looking at, whether it or not, if this isn't groupons improves, agree to the peace, even if it's only temporary. they all need finance fins for propaganda, for recruitment they pay salaries to their members. they even pay pensions that they members who are retired to maintain power. both sides smuggled cigarettes, weapons, and even people, a multi $1000000.00 business in northern ireland. all of the groups, they all continue to engage in different levels of organized crime to continue their funding streams. this is not confined to u. k or to europe. even. this is on the global scale we've been uncovered. it's some links between paramilitary groups in northern ireland and the middle east through money laundering. a used car dealership on the outskirts of dusseldorf. it's lebanese born owner used the unassuming business to launder hundreds of thousands of euros until his arrest in 2018. he was
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a key figure in the world of money laundering. you had used car businesses that were using the used cars. there were trading to move cocaine across europe. right. shank, an area. you pack cocaine in kids and compartments of the car. you drive from germany to spain, from spain, to france. there were moving cash the same way. the dealer had long been under surveillance by german and american authorities. they watched him use drug money to buy cars in europe, which he then sold in west africa. until his arrest, he was in contact with the lebanese terrorist group. hes paula. hezbollah is backed by iran. it controls parts of lebanon, is active in syria, and even fought a war with israel. the constant violence prompts thousands of lebanese people to leave the country. they migrate to africa, europe, and usa,
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and above all to south america. that is one of the reasons why his well started developing relations with organized crime because it's network of supporters around the world could actually be leveraged to provide the service to organize cry . in 2019 a lebanese man was arrested in south america on suspicion of money laundering. the criminals need not only to longer the cash but also to move the merchandise. and they provide that service to. for years us authorities have been cracking down on has balance money, landers, in 2019, one of the leaders was sentenced to 5 years in prison. others are still awaiting trial. hezbollah maintains contacts with expatriate lebanese, almost everywhere in the world. a global network of organized crime has belies like the amazon d h l, and western union of the criminal underworld. well,
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this video shows a rate in europe fighting transnational criminal syndicates is getting more complicated for euro poll. the european police agency, headquartered in the hague, organized crime. he's no longer based on groups. it's based on networks. they're using also the service providers, people who are x person id shoes her. finally, she's legal issues, logistical issues. they tried to minimize the risks and then of course also minimize the costs. cooperation is highly interlinked. alliances can change over night and borders are no longer much of an issue. euro poll itself is a long way from being that flexible. when i started to work here in europe, all the view, oh, glasgow has completed chased. so it, sir. much more difficult situation than i expected to be honest. europa regularly publishes videos of operations around europe. they break up group
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after group arrest dealer after dealer new criminals, simply spring up in their place. whenever there is an empty place, somebody will fill it in, in a really short time period. often only the small fish are caught without bankers and lawyers in the background. the business wouldn't function thus far. you have to focus on those who are leading the communal activities and not all those persons who are operating on the street level. easier said than done case in point. the netherlands in september 2019 dutch lawyer dec version was shot. he was representing a key witness who wanted to testify against moroccan drug smugglers. and 18 months later, journalist pated of reese was murdered in amsterdam. he was advising the same key witnesses. the orders for the killings came from high up in the cocaine trade, we should acknowledge that organized crime, exposing an increasing and diverse race called up. each member stays under
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societies as a whole. we have to take action. no before he said before, it's too late. and just the jobs, higher regional court and explosive trial depicts the new normal members of the mafia are alleged to have lend money to turkish defendants. for a cocaine deal with moroccan traffickers, the public prosecutor has evidence from undercover officers. the dealers at the end of the chain earned $5000.00 euros per kilo. all this is part of an international shadow economy that the german justice system can hardly touch restarts. i'm fine on visual stella v. i can't think of any way we could have really delta blow against organized crimes. edson didn't just video broadened us because even talking about it would be proof enough that we were furthering our own political goals on. she's not our messen lawson for decades. criminal violence, like the italian in diameter have succeeded in building structures in germany.
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sounds ro, maturity researchers had the calibri and group has succeeded in germany. marty olias read thousands of pages of files on the ind along it out from italian authorities. the mafioso were overheard praising germany, saying anything was possible there to keep it that way. they said it was important to be quiet, like in keesa, in church. it isn't, you know, invasion be like they know exactly where they can work without attracting attention or having to fear consequences and confusions. the problem is that that realm is just too big. in the city center of juice borg directly opposite the district court monsters spent years quietly laundering money through an ice cream parlor. what's in yonder? i'm gone 10 years ago when i started looking at the mafia ice, i always thought it was impossible to know who belong to the organisation lies east us. but up now it's clear that the police know a lot in terms of affiliations. they know exactly who moves and what circles in,
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obviously convey, but there are no further consequences, site or consequences in buttons written bag restauranteur mario l. b came a respected person, is that it was clear to every investigator who dealt with him that he was in the mafia. he opened one restaurant after another and probably many more. 3 front meadow does not feed me in the italian files. the number is over 140 mario l organized, catering for the centre ride cd. you party and med future. european commissioner ginger a dinner after years without facing justice. he was sentenced to 10 years by an italian court in 2019. since the beginning of 2021, the largest mafia trial in years has been taking place in calabria. with $355.00 defendants and hundreds of defense lawyers. prosecutors want to expose the overall structure in germany, that sort of trial is a long way off video. it's gone. if we don't even make the effort to recognize this
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system with the shine, a lights on it and understand it, and we, we won't be able to fight it with any precision good will. for years italian prosecutors like nicola godaddy have been trying to take on the internet into he carried out a spectacular anti mafia operation named metropolis. back in 2013. at the time italian investigators uncovered a linked to irish extremists and ex member of the provisional i. r a was arrested in the operation metropolis. the paramilitaries had huge, huge amounts of stock piles of cash that they wanted to invest. so the mafia basic, he said, well we can help you clean that money and invest it into a legitimate business. the mafia developed land building luxury apartments. when necessary they put pressure on the previous owners. the mafia helped launder
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450000000 euros. was this supposedly former provisional iran member pouring money into property and calabria to the key figure in the money laundering plot was jailed for years in the 1970s. after being convicted of involvement in an ira bombing registered as shown. how volatile the situation in northern ireland still is most in northern ireland is actually run by parmelee to groups. there are certain parts of northern ireland that the police just can't police. they're not allowed to enter . and the message they get from local communities is where governs why paramilitaries and even in england, the police can be everywhere we unnoticed. as paula was using a london warehouse to store thousands of coolant pads filled with ammonium nitrate,
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only nitrogen is used mainly as fertilizer. it also is found commonly in small quantities in medical equipment. the chemicals lethal capability was shown in the summer of 2020 in beirut. $500.00 tons exploded in the port, destroying part of the city. ah, you can't just walk into a pharmacy and buy 3 tons of ammonium nitrate that were found in london. that's where these support networks around the globe come handy. you buy icebox 1st aid kits and you slowly accumulate them over time in warehouses. and then at some point, the quantity is enough to enable the bomb makers to come in. in 1995 u. s. terrorists used ammonium nitrate to blow up
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a federal building in oklahoma. it's a substance that alarms investigators. in germany chew has paula has set up an organizational structure and stored ammonium nitrate in spring. 2020 has beula was banned in germany, but it continues to operate illegally. oh has more of his land there. patient, much like al qaeda and are likely going to take their time to pick and choose their spots where they feel like they can have maximum impact at the end of the day. they're ross on the tray, right? is terrorism. just like drug cartels, terrorist groups like hes paula need to launch their money and move it around the world. often major financial centers are used in london, former finance watchdog and banker graham barrows has seen the practice close up.
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london is a kind of perfect storm of a legal system which is useful corporate structures which are useful that provides a lot of the toes with which to own the money. so companies, for example, that, that exists solely to, to move money around the world. 80 percent of global trade is done in dollars. so a few large banks play a key role, only they have license to inject dollars into the financial system. one of them is deutsche bank which have since become notorious for the levels of dirty money that's moved through them. it will them move through torture, back to all the safe places. they want it to be lebanon's f b m e bank was one such client in july 2020 new york's banking regulator determined
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that it and dodge a bank, had pumped $618000000000.00 into the financial market. much of the money can be traced to terrorist groups and drug cartels to retain you. and he is a global network of companies, banks, and operators who will provide those services to anyone operating in the criminal economy. whether that's re corruption, organized, crime, all the financing of terrorism, the financial crisis exposed, why many financial authorities only half heartedly challenged the system. the global economy has long been too dependent on dirty money. the kind of the un o d. c, the office of drugs and crime effectively said, the only thing that stopped the global economy collapsing was the dirty money entering the system. and that's as good as clear as you'll ever gonna get how important 30 money is to the global economy. that dependence continued after the financial crisis up to 3 trillion euros are generated illegally every year. that's
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close to the gross domestic product of germany and about 3 per cent of global g d p . imagine if we wipe 3 percent of global economic activity out to morrow, we would have the worst depression. the world is ever seen, it would collapse the global economy. so there is this kind of interlink between criminal activity and economic activity, which you can wipe out instantly prod in the czech republic like neighboring slovakia, the e statist thought to suffer from widespread organized crime. in 2017 check journalist pavlov. whatsoever. and jer, slovak colleague yon could see act began researching the anthropologist, influence on the government. piano called me one day that the prime minister has a new assistant. she's really young. she's former miss universe contestant, and there is no public information. what made her eligible for such a position?
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or we started to dig a little bit deeper and we found out that she was co sharing a company with antony, nevada law, who was based in calabria. and that he made heavy ties to the wrong into young who's zach was 27 at the time working from home as an investigative journalist. jada was really much more into documents, analyzing them then talking to on the school source. he's, he was this kind of silent, analytical type, putting it piece by piece to get her to understand the whole picture. we understood both of us that it could be tricky, but we thought that we may be facing risk from italy. so we were kind of more careful if we are being followed or not. but we believe that there will be not much impact of the story. no one really paid attention to park or organized crime in
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slovakia by them. on february 21st 2018 in the middle of the night, a former soldier entered could see aunts house shooting the journalist dead, whose youngest 27 year old fiance. martina was also killed when it became known that could see i had been researching possible crimes among the prime ministers entourage. thousands demonstrated against corruption slow that prime minister roberts pizza went on the offensive offering 1000000 euros as a cash reward for clues. both of them will not me, but the questions remained unanswered. after ayana was killed, of course we took over and we actually tried to finish to work on a started and was never able to finish. hudson valley was temporarily under police protection, but she continued to follow could see acts leads. the reporter had been investigating
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marianne coach nor a well known businessman in st. louis, coached, or had allegedly evaded millions of euros in texas. one day coach norrick called gucci act. he recorded how the business man was telling him, i'm going to collect art on you and your family, and you will stop writing, coached are came under pressure, gucci ex killer, and his assistant were arrested, leading investigators towards the business ban. eventually, coach no was brought to trial as the alleged mastermind of the murder his activities were probed by the court end by journalists one of the key pieces of the evidence where 2 cell phones of muddy, unquote, ada. one of the cellphones contained a back up of 3 mamma, messy cheese and the conversation actually revealed his conversations with judges with prosecutors. this was proof that coach nor it bribe politicians and judges.
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one judge had been intimidated by one of his associates. you send this message and it was actually saying she should do what she promised, and she should rule otherwise. she might end up escal tech hudson van published the reports, prompting a shockwave, one to run jackie's where actually detained. it was passive and i don't remember this happening in an outer european country. the former police chief was still investigating the could see, i case was also arrested on suspicion of corruption. they were charged wis headink organized criminal groups. what dislike mind blowing in the could see at murder trial. marianna coach now was initially acquitted. it was a shock for the families of the victims. then in the spring of 2021, the supreme court ordered a new trial,
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a sign of slovakian constant struggle against organized crime, by his decision to kill it or not his money on coach that actually destroyed the whole system. littles in place for 12 years. and before the murder happened, we could hardly mentioned that as his them would ever change. it was so much embedded in the society. when the small island nation of malta joined the e. u in 2004, a lock changed for its half 1000000 inhabitants. it also became a gateway for criminals into the u. reported. daphne caruana delicia was interested in the issue as her sister tells us, she actually covered politics in malta and that led her to discover crime which was actually trans national. the last sentence her sister wrote was there are crooks everywhere you look, the situation is desperate. it does feel desperate at times because it feels like the criminals are winning. daphne cur wanted elisia had been intimidated and
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threatened for years. she had become isolated by the end of her life. you know, there was such a long drawn out in such an intense campaign against her in it. legitimized socially to the point of people could crack jokes about murder on which is and homes is for real. said privately when daphne was killed. it was shocking which wasn't surprising. hit men shadowed the journalist and blew her up along with her car. because if you report one story after another, nothing happens, you become the last line of defense between the rule of law and its collapse. and it becomes very easy to take the person out. and this is what happened enough, nice case. after the murder maltese police took action against the criminal
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structures, arresting the perpetrators just like in slovakia, the trail led to the ruling party that caused protests. you'll love to chat with they underestimated who they killed in the end. that's what it's in the man suspected of ordering. the killing was arrested in late 2019 while trying to flee on his yacht for years after the murder. there's still no verdict in the case. the victim's family continues to fight for justice. meanwhile, the european parliament has named a press room after daphne caroway migalia. if you just back down what you're saying is, yes, you are right. she didn't matter. you could kill, hang it with the fact they're not going to get that. if we set out to say, ok,
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we're going to solve organized crime globally. it's going to happen. but you don't set out to win a war. you just sit out to deal with the things you can do is the q a nation of all the small actions that will make the big difference. organized crime is a global problem and to have any chance of defeating it. those fighting for justice must think globally to ah, a wildlife 2 turns in her wanda. these kids belong to a club that wants to protect it. it's part of the government's educational program
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