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Speaker 2: I'm Miles Johnson, and I'm an investigative journalist with the
Speaker 2: Financial Times and the story I'm gonna tell you it's
Speaker 2: not a love story, but his stoughts with a wedding.
Speaker 2: It's a wedding that takes place in Dubai in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2: It's a hot summer's day at the Burj Al Arab,
Speaker 2: one of the most expensive hotels in the world. It's
Speaker 2: a skyscraper shaped like the sail of a ship, rising
Speaker 2: up from the glittering water of the Persian Gulf. Guests
Speaker 2: can arrive across a private bridge in the hotel's fleet
Speaker 2: of rolls, Royce phantoms or flyin landing on the helipad
Speaker 2: on the roof. The wedding party that day has been
Speaker 2: told to keep things discreete no photos and no social media.
Speaker 2: Security is tight. The groom is a young Irish entrepreneur
Speaker 2: and some of his most important business partners have come
Speaker 2: to celebrate his big day. But these aren't your average businessmen.
Speaker 2: Some of them hang priceless stolen masterpieces on their walls.
Speaker 2: They've got multiple passports with multiple identities, and they can
Speaker 2: order the assassination of almost anyone anywhere in the world.
Speaker 2: Because this isn't just a wedding, this is an international
Speaker 2: crime summit. It's a meeting of what will come to
Speaker 2: be known as the Dubai Supercartel, a shadowy criminal network
Speaker 2: that controls a multi billion dollar cocaine empire spanning the globe.
Speaker 2: Over the years, I've written about a lot of different things,
Speaker 2: but more recently you could perhaps describe my beat as
Speaker 2: the places where crime and business collide. I've written about
Speaker 2: Russian billionaires who control private mercenary armies and the Italian
Speaker 2: mafia laundering their cash through the City of London. Have
Speaker 2: covered Vatican, financial scandals and spy rings that smuggle microchips.
Speaker 2: Because crime is a business, and modern organized crime groups
Speaker 2: they're increasingly run like multinational companies. They have thousands of employees,
Speaker 2: complicated logistical supply chains, and even investment portfolios. It's a
Speaker 2: big economic story, but you don't usually read about it
Speaker 2: in the business pages because reporting on international crime groups
Speaker 2: in the same way we'd report on a blue chip corporation, well,
Speaker 2: it's hard. Crime bosses they don't usually have pr teams
Speaker 2: you can bring up, and mafias. They don't publish audited
Speaker 2: accounts or glossy annual reports. But the money generated by
Speaker 2: organized crime is vast, and most of the time it's invisible.
Speaker 2: It's like this ocean of shadow cash. We know it's there,
Speaker 2: but we can't ever really see it. It's trillions of
Speaker 2: dollars and it fuels things like weapons trafficking and war.
Speaker 2: It can even topple governments. And the men celebrating in
Speaker 2: that wedding in Dubai. They've come up with a new
Speaker 2: model of organized crime, and it's become so successful that
Speaker 2: by twenty seventeen, police believe that they control a third
Speaker 2: of Europe's cocaine market worth billions of dollars a year.
Speaker 2: When I first came across the du By Supercartel, it
Speaker 2: seems like something from a film, something almost ridiculous, like
Speaker 2: Specter from James Bond. I needed to find out more,
Speaker 2: so I started talking to people. I met with sources
Speaker 2: in law enforcement, undercover agents, spies. I got hold of
Speaker 2: legal documents and investigative dossiers, and then I realized, this
Speaker 2: isn't just a story about crime. This is a story
Speaker 2: about a secret economic war. It's a story about who
Speaker 2: gets to control how money moves around the world, and
Speaker 2: where the Western government can keep hold of that power
Speaker 2: as the rules based international order breaks apart. Because I
Speaker 2: discovered that the Dubai Supercartel, they're not just hiding from governments,
Speaker 2: they're working alongside them. But my first clue to understanding
Speaker 2: how this group of criminals became so rich and so
Speaker 2: powerful it took me somewhere that's a million miles away
Speaker 2: from the bling of a Dubai wedding, because one day
Speaker 2: I was speaking to a source and they told me
Speaker 2: something I just really wasn't expecting. They said, if you
Speaker 2: really want to understand how all of this works, you
Speaker 2: have to go and look at a murder in a
Speaker 2: small town in the Netherlands. This is Hot Money. Season
Speaker 2: two the New Narcos episode one, Murder Brokers.
Speaker 3: One of the good things about being a crime reporter
Speaker 3: is let you talk to everyone who wants to talk
Speaker 3: to you, very different people, and I like to do that.
Speaker 2: This is Paul Volks. He's a reporter in anster that
Speaker 2: and for more than twenty years he's been working the
Speaker 2: local crime beat for Het Parole, a daily city newspaper.
Speaker 2: Paul wears black t shirts and a leather jacket and
Speaker 2: has a gold hoop in one ear. He's old school.
Speaker 2: He's not posting hot takes on social media. When I
Speaker 2: first met Paul, he didn't take long before he showed
Speaker 2: me his bike. He rides it everywhere down cobblestone streets
Speaker 2: and squares and along beautiful canals, going to coffee shops
Speaker 2: and bars to meet his sources. But if that sounds
Speaker 2: a bit quaint, there's a fast, seedy aside to Amsterdam
Speaker 2: that keeps a crime reporter like Paul pretty busy. Because
Speaker 2: Amsterdam is famous for his beauty, but it's also well
Speaker 2: known for its red light district. It's relaxed drug laws
Speaker 2: and a vibrant criminal underworld, and that means Paul always
Speaker 2: has plenty to write about. Like all good crime reporters,
Speaker 2: Paul works his beat. He speaks to everyone. He talks
Speaker 2: to police officers, lawyers, the local prosecutor's office. But Paul
Speaker 2: is also always cultivating his underworld sources.
Speaker 3: I tried to build my network step by step because,
Speaker 3: as you might know, as a crime journalist, your colleague
Speaker 3: cannot give you his or her network. That's not possible.
Speaker 2: And he learns early on the criminals well, they care
Speaker 2: about journalistic standards too. A notorious underworld figure reaches out
Speaker 2: to Paul about a mistake he thought he'd made in
Speaker 2: one of his articles, because he wanted to set the
Speaker 2: record straight.
Speaker 3: But the first time, of course, I thought where to meet,
Speaker 3: how to meet, how to keep it safe. I learned
Speaker 3: quite fast that some public space as a coffee bar,
Speaker 3: is the best place to sit. Or an airport where
Speaker 3: everybody knows there are lots of cameras, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of security. Nothing will happen there. You'll know for sure
Speaker 3: that all eyes will be focused on you as a criminal.
Speaker 3: And I we don't fit in so if something weird
Speaker 3: would deppen, everybody would be a witness and they know
Speaker 3: it as well.
Speaker 2: Back in twenty fifteen, Paul is busy covering crime in Amsterdam. Muggings,
Speaker 2: rival gangsters trying to kill each other, batches of dodgy
Speaker 2: drugs that put people's lives in danger. These seem like
Speaker 2: the sort of things you'd imagine happen in any big city.
Speaker 2: Then one morning in December, he gets a call. It's
Speaker 2: from the police department.
Speaker 3: A man in his fifties was shot with one bullet
Speaker 3: in the head and standing next to his fan. Going
Speaker 3: to work from Amsterdam. I went to Almira, which is
Speaker 3: twenty minute rides.
Speaker 2: Is it somewhere you expect there to be shootings, murders?
Speaker 2: You know what sort of areas there's There are lots
Speaker 2: of crime there. What's it like?
Speaker 3: The area and they live in in Alma is just
Speaker 3: very normal neighborhood with normal working class people.
Speaker 4: Not much trouble over there.
Speaker 2: When Paul arrives, there's already red and white tape blocking
Speaker 2: the area and police up a tent to cover the body.
Speaker 2: He gets out his notebook and starts to gather the facts.
Speaker 2: The victim is called Ali Mtamad. He's fifty six years
Speaker 2: old and he's an engineer at the state electric company.
Speaker 2: He's got a wife, a son. He's a family man.
Speaker 2: But there isn't much else to go on. The electrician
Speaker 2: doesn't seem to have any connection to crime.
Speaker 3: All the sources I asked, nobody knew who was this Alimodamet.
Speaker 2: To Paul, it just seems to be a random shooting,
Speaker 2: So he heads back to his office and files a
Speaker 2: short story. A few weeks later, his editor asked him
Speaker 2: to write a roundup of the most notable crime stories
Speaker 2: of the last year, and the murder in al Mayor
Speaker 2: doesn't make the cut. Paul goes back to riding around
Speaker 2: on his bike and meeting his sources. But in the
Speaker 2: months after, Paul finds that he can't get the Matamid
Speaker 2: case out of his head. That thing when you write
Speaker 2: a story and you have a nagging voice in your head,
Speaker 2: maybe there's something that I'm missing. Paul's covered a lot
Speaker 2: of murders, but this one it seems weird. He can't
Speaker 2: shake the feeling that something doesn't quite add up. The
Speaker 2: first thing is the style of the killing. It wasn't
Speaker 2: a sloppy job or a wild act of rage.
Speaker 3: The thing was that one shut through the heads. It's
Speaker 3: not the familiar way of assassinating people. In other assassinations,
Speaker 3: automatic rifles are used, many bullets are shut.
Speaker 2: And then there was the motive. One theory is that
Speaker 2: Mtommed was part of some family feud or had argued
Speaker 2: with a friend. Most of the murders, Paul writes about
Speaker 2: that kind of thing, or criminals killing each other over
Speaker 2: money or tough settling scores. But that didn't really fit
Speaker 2: with the matomic case. So there were other theories.
Speaker 3: Oh, maybe electricians so him. Maybe he was in hemp business.
Speaker 3: The hemp people they need illegal electricity.
Speaker 2: Hemp is another name for weed, and some weed grows
Speaker 2: in the Netherlands steel electricity to power their operations. Matammed
Speaker 2: was an electrician. Maybe that was his connection to crime.
Speaker 3: Maybe he was a wrong person. That was an idea.
Speaker 2: This seemed like the most plausible explanation, a terrible case
Speaker 2: of mistaken identity. Paul keeps thinking about it as he
Speaker 2: drops into cafes to meet informants about other stories. He
Speaker 2: mentions Alimtammad's name.
Speaker 3: Criminals didn't know him, Policemen didn't know him. I tried
Speaker 3: to do some research, but I didn't get a clue.
Speaker 2: To be honest, as a reporter, you can have dozens
Speaker 2: of meetings that lead to nothing, but once in a
Speaker 2: while you get lucky. And that's what happens to Paul.
Speaker 2: Out of nowhere, he gets a tip.
Speaker 3: I was talking to some source I knew very well,
Speaker 3: and this source A told me just at the second
Speaker 3: cup of coffee in and he said, well, you remember
Speaker 3: this story of Alimo Damett. You're working on that still, Yes,
Speaker 3: you should go on and go on and dig and dick,
Speaker 3: because there's a very weird, big story behind this murder.
Speaker 2: Paul wasn't the only person thinking about what happened in
Speaker 2: al Mayor that day.
Speaker 5: I remember this, this shooting December fifteenth. Your really nice
Speaker 5: neighbor got guilt. Nobody knows why.
Speaker 2: At the time, Eliam was involved with the local city council.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I remember it was like this mystery for
Speaker 5: people like, well, what happened?
Speaker 2: Uler say. He's this intense guy who locks you into
Speaker 2: his gaze, and he's a sharp dresser. When we meet,
Speaker 2: he's wearing this charcoal suit and a black unbuttoned shirt
Speaker 2: down to his chest. When Alimtammed is murdered, Ulis is
Speaker 2: just getting into local politics. He's a spokesperson for safety
Speaker 2: in public order in our mayor where Alimtammad was killed.
Speaker 5: What was strange in this case there was nothing and
Speaker 5: this was fueled by the National police.
Speaker 2: Police appealed on national television for any information that the
Speaker 2: public could give them.
Speaker 5: Have any tips, do you have any suggestions. We put
Speaker 5: out this reward.
Speaker 2: But no one came forward. A year goes by, still nothing.
Speaker 5: I thought, this is getting this is getting a bit weird.
Speaker 5: So we don't have any clues to find the shooters.
Speaker 5: There's no information about the circumstances of the of the shooting.
Speaker 2: Ulisse is particularly interested in this case because Alimtomed, it
Speaker 2: turns out, was born in Iran and his own family
Speaker 2: also moved to the Netherlands from Iran around the same
Speaker 2: time that alimtammedd did.
Speaker 5: I'm named after Odysseus, you know, the Greek king, because
Speaker 5: my father was he was reading Odysseus and my father
Speaker 5: was like, okay, I lost my home. I don't know
Speaker 5: where my home will be, but I'm sure this baby
Speaker 5: will find a new home.
Speaker 2: Ulissa's father was a critic of the hardline theocracy imposed
Speaker 2: by the new regime in Iran after the revolution. He
Speaker 2: knew his life might be in danger if he stayed.
Speaker 5: He had to go into hiding very fast. He never
Speaker 5: had the chance to say goodbye to his mother, for example,
Speaker 5: because it was too dangerous.
Speaker 2: First his father moved to Afghanistan, where Ulisse was born,
Speaker 2: and then they moved to the Netherlands, eventually settling in
Speaker 2: al Mayor. Ulisse grew up in the same sleepy suburb
Speaker 2: where Alimtammed lived and died.
Speaker 5: I've been living there for twenty years now. And the
Speaker 5: funny thing is, or the special thing, it also relates
Speaker 5: to my history, you know, like it's a newc the province.
Speaker 5: One of the nicknames is like new land because it's
Speaker 5: built from water. Yeah, and my family came to a
Speaker 5: new land. It started a new life. So yeah, it
Speaker 5: all connects really nicely.
Speaker 2: Ulisses father became a law professor and he kept speaking
Speaker 2: out against the Iranian regime from his new home. But
Speaker 2: there was a cost, and this became a reality when
Speaker 2: the family moved to our Mayor. His father started getting
Speaker 2: serious threats.
Speaker 5: At that time, my father received a massive security protection.
Speaker 5: I was young, You're still focused on things you do
Speaker 5: when you're at that age, you know, playing football, trying
Speaker 5: to enjoy life. But yeah, when you see your dad
Speaker 5: being transported with multiple bodyguards, yeah, of course your life changes.
Speaker 2: So decades later, when an Iranian man is shot in
Speaker 2: his hometown, it gets Ulysses' attention. Even more so when
Speaker 2: police finally share what they've pieced together from CCTV footage,
Speaker 2: it shows that the idea the assassin's made a mistake
Speaker 2: looks less and less plausible. This was a meticulously planned operation.
Speaker 2: The police report is a difficult read. It's a chilling
Speaker 2: account of a cold, premeditated murder planned over weeks, and
Speaker 2: it reveals that the killers made two failed attempts in
Speaker 2: the days before Alie Mtummed was shot. On December eleventh,
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, at around quarter past six in the morning,
Speaker 2: a blue BMW drives slowly down the dark suburban street.
Speaker 2: The driver stops outside one of the houses and turns
Speaker 2: the car's headlights off. Inside, Alie Mtammed is getting started
Speaker 2: with his day. Usually he leaves his house a quarter
Speaker 2: to seven, but today he has a job nearby, so
Speaker 2: he leaves later at eight thirty am. At about eight am,
Speaker 2: the driver of the BMW turns the car back and
Speaker 2: leaves the street. A few days later, Monday, December fourteenth,
Speaker 2: the BMW arrives again at around quarter past six. It's
Speaker 2: a regular work day, and Mohammed walks out of his
Speaker 2: front door a little before seven. A neighbor is also
Speaker 2: leaving their house at the same time, and the driver
Speaker 2: of the BMW spots him and Muhammed and drives off. Tuesday,
Speaker 2: December fifteenth, the BMW appears at six o'clock. Mohammed's wife
Speaker 2: and teenage son are asleep upstairs as he steps out
Speaker 2: of his house and shuts the front door. That is
Speaker 2: dark outside. No neighbors around this morning. As the electrician
Speaker 2: walks towards his van, a man walks up behind him
Speaker 2: and shoots him in the head. Mahammed slumps to the
Speaker 2: ground and the shooter gets back in his BMW car
Speaker 2: speeds off.
Speaker 5: They hit him directly left with the car I think,
Speaker 5: if I remember correctly, BMW five. They went to the
Speaker 5: specific spot in another part of Olmer, burned the car
Speaker 5: and they leave.
Speaker 2: The BMW was found burned out a few miles away
Speaker 2: and witnesses saw two men walking off.
Speaker 5: There's all the signs of professionals in the criminal circuit,
Speaker 5: so that made it even more strange, like, okay, this
Speaker 5: is really professional, and still we don't have any idea
Speaker 5: why who.
Speaker 2: This is the point that I started to see the
Speaker 2: first flicker to realize what a murder in a small
Speaker 2: Dutch town could have to do with the supercartel and
Speaker 2: what that could mean. Because Paul has kept on digging
Speaker 2: and he's made an unbelievable discovery.
Speaker 5: And I remember reading it and I think think it
Speaker 5: was on a sunny Monday morning, and I immediately I knew.
Speaker 5: I felt in all my body, I know, wow, this
Speaker 5: is crazy.
Speaker 2: In twenty eighteen, Paul breaks a big story and it's
Speaker 2: not about the murderers, it's about the victim.
Speaker 3: I found out that Ali Motamet was not Ali mota Met,
Speaker 3: the electrician. He was an electrician, yes, but he lived
Speaker 3: in Holland with a false identity.
Speaker 2: Ali Matamid was, in reality and assumed identity the electrician
Speaker 2: from our mayor had been living a secret life, one
Speaker 2: so secret that even some members of his own family
Speaker 2: didn't know who he really was.
Speaker 3: Ali Motamet was Mohammed Reza colahis so mandy and when
Speaker 3: he was twenty three years old, he plays the bomb
Speaker 3: which blew up seventy four people of the Islamic Republican
Speaker 3: Party in Iran.
Speaker 5: This happened in my city, quite close to where I live,
Speaker 5: and probably the regime, you know, the whole reason I'm
Speaker 5: in Holland. They were able to find someone who they
Speaker 5: were looking for for like at that time, like thirty
Speaker 5: five years, who was like one of their prime targets
Speaker 5: because they wanted to revenge My dad always wanted me.
Speaker 5: They're dangerous, you know, they found him. These are not
Speaker 5: bedtime stories. This is getting real.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you get a glimpse of something, the edge of
Speaker 2: what seems like it might be a much bigger story,
Speaker 2: and it leads you into a whole new place, a
Speaker 2: place where you're not quite sure what's going on, and
Speaker 2: it's hard to know even where to start. That's where
Speaker 2: Paul finds himself after he learns about Ali Mtummit's past.
Speaker 3: I had no sources at all in Iran. I had
Speaker 3: no sources at all in geopolitical world.
Speaker 2: This clearly isn't a local murder case in a small
Speaker 2: town anymore. Paul has been pulled into what looks like
Speaker 2: a targeted assassination plot in the heart of Europe, but
Speaker 2: he doesn't have any proof, just a strong theory. Ulusa
Speaker 2: is looking for answers too. He posts online about the
Speaker 2: case and wonders does anyone know more about Matammad or
Speaker 2: how the Iranian regime might have found him? And Ulasa's
Speaker 2: posts they catch Paul's attention.
Speaker 5: Paul called me, I saw your questions. Let's talk.
Speaker 3: I broke the story. Ulus Elian and I met in
Speaker 3: our mea, had coffee and we tried to make plans
Speaker 3: to find the missing pieces of the puzzle. How can
Speaker 3: we get more insight in the backgrounds.
Speaker 2: Of this Aul? The man his neighbors knew as Alimtomid
Speaker 2: moved to the Netherlands in nineteen eighty five, he wouldn't
Speaker 2: have particularly stood out. It was a time when many
Speaker 2: Iranians were fleeing Iran, just like Ulyssa's father. But Ali
Speaker 2: Mtommid wasn't just fleeing. He was hiding. He was accused
Speaker 2: of carrying out the biggest terrorist attack in modern Iranian history.
Speaker 2: This is a big deal, this bombing in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 2: It killed a senior Iotola, four cabinet ministers, and reportedly
Speaker 2: dozens of other top Iranian officials. Matamid fled Iran after
Speaker 2: the bombing, but was found guilty in absentia and sentenced
Speaker 2: to death. We don't know much about his years in
Speaker 2: the Netherlands, but we do know that he adopted a
Speaker 2: new identity and built a new life. He married a
Speaker 2: woman who was originally from Afghanistan. They had a son,
Speaker 2: and Matammed got a job at the local electric company.
Speaker 2: For years, he led a simple suburban life. He went
Speaker 2: to work at the same time most days. His neighbors
Speaker 2: thought of him as punctual, trustworthy. No one really knew
Speaker 2: much more about him, but secretly, Mahamed knew that the
Speaker 2: Iranian regime was still looking for him, so he was
Speaker 2: incredibly careful. Reportedly, he didn't even tell his wife his
Speaker 2: true identity until a few years before his death, and
Speaker 2: his son had no idea about Mtummed's past. I keep
Speaker 2: thinking about the loneliness and the isolation of someone who's
Speaker 2: bearing this huge secret from the people in their life
Speaker 2: who they're closest to, someone who spent almost his entire
Speaker 2: adulthood trying to stay one step ahead of people he
Speaker 2: knew were trying to kill him. Mahammed was careful to
Speaker 2: avoid his photograph appearing on social media, but not long
Speaker 2: before his murder he seemed to slipped up. A single
Speaker 2: photograph of him went up on Facebook celebrating his teenage
Speaker 2: son's high school graduation, and months later a BMW pulled
Speaker 2: up outside his house early in the morning. So this
Speaker 2: is a story I've been told to look at the
Speaker 2: murder of a man living a secret life, a man
Speaker 2: on the run from a powerful regime. At this point,
Speaker 2: I can't see the connection between this murder and the
Speaker 2: Dubai supercartel. But then a few months later, something happens
Speaker 2: that takes us one step closer to understanding how all
Speaker 2: of this works. In April twenty sixteen, two Irish detectives
Speaker 2: arrive at a residential address not far from Dublin City Center.
Speaker 2: They have a search warren because they've heard that an
Speaker 2: apartment in this building is being used as a safehouse
Speaker 2: by Ireland's most powerful and dangerous criminal organization. But inside
Speaker 2: there are no irishmen. Instead, the officers find a short
Speaker 2: man with a large belly who speaks only broken English.
Speaker 2: It's clear the man is rich. He's wearing bright blue
Speaker 2: designer sneakers covered in studs. When the detectives search the flat,
Speaker 2: they find thirteen thousand euros in cash and two Rolex watches.
Speaker 2: What's less clear is his identity. He has two different IDs,
Speaker 2: one Dutch one Belgian, each with a different name.
Speaker 4: I remember the morning on which he was arrested and
Speaker 4: I can tell you nobody knew who he was. Shamus
Speaker 4: Boland is Detective Chief Superintendent in the Irish Police Force.
Speaker 4: His officers raided the apartment that day. He was arrested
Speaker 4: for a possession of false documents and there was no
Speaker 4: certainty abode his identity at all.
Speaker 2: The police take him to the station and send his
Speaker 2: fingerprints and photo off to law enforcement agencies around the world.
Speaker 4: It's following his arrest and US issuing a an assistants
Speaker 4: request across Europe that within a number of errors, the
Speaker 4: Dutch police were in touch with us and they identified
Speaker 4: him from the photographs and fingerprints immediately, and senior Dutch
Speaker 4: police officers bordered the plane immediately and flew to Dublin.
Speaker 2: The Dutch police know who the man is, so does
Speaker 2: Paul Vooks.
Speaker 3: He was very well known and notorious in the Amsterdam
Speaker 3: crime scene.
Speaker 2: His name is now for Fassy and Paul calls him
Speaker 2: by his nickname. He's wanted for a string of drug
Speaker 2: related murders.
Speaker 3: He was seen as a guy would do anything for money,
Speaker 3: who would be able to do very serious crimes without
Speaker 3: blinking his eyes.
Speaker 2: Paul doesn't know it yet and noted the police. But
Speaker 2: the man who sent two assassins to murder Alimtamid, it
Speaker 2: was no for not as a murder broker, he can
Speaker 2: arrange the killing of anyone anywhere with just a couple
Speaker 2: of messages sent from his phone. And the people hiding
Speaker 2: the murder broker in their Dublin safehouse, Seamus knows exactly
Speaker 2: who they are.
Speaker 4: That organized crime group has been the primary group for
Speaker 4: the last twenty twenty five years that built the networks
Speaker 4: supplying drugs and firearms of this jurisdiction without a dot.
Speaker 2: That organized crime group, the people who are hiding the
Speaker 2: murder broker in their safe house. They're at the heart
Speaker 2: of the supercartel. They're the men who gathered that day
Speaker 2: for the wedding in the luxury hotel in Dubai. But
Speaker 2: if Ulasa is right, this isn't just a murder, This
Speaker 2: is a state sponsored assassination and it raises a big question.
Speaker 3: What is the link between Nooful, the broker and Irang.
Speaker 2: Why would a hit man working with top cocaine traffickers
Speaker 2: murder someone apparently on behalf of a government And if
Speaker 2: that's what happened, what does that tell us about the
Speaker 2: transformation of international organized crime? To find out, We're going
Speaker 2: to Ireland to talk to someone who's been following the
Speaker 2: family at the heart of the supercartel From the very start.
Speaker 6: You don't know if somebody behind that door has a gun.
Speaker 6: The adrenaline is flowing, you know, your heart is racing.
Speaker 6: Anything could go wrong.
Speaker 2: Hot Money is a production of The Financial Times and
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Speaker 2: Sound design from Jake Gorsky, Jeremy Walmsley wrote the original music.
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