Speaker 1: It's a fascinating place Monaco. Indeed, it's a strange place
Speaker 1: and it has I think higher ratio of police to
Speaker 1: residence than any other country.
Speaker 2: In the world.
Speaker 3: Michael Waldman is a British filmmaker who made a documentary
Speaker 3: series about Monaco for the BBC.
Speaker 1: What they did was a film in the prison the governor.
Speaker 1: When I asked him about who tended to be the
Speaker 1: prisoners from where they came, he said quite a lot
Speaker 1: were from Eastern Europe. He mentioned Hungarians, Serbians, Bulgarians. And
Speaker 1: when I said, well, why, given the level of policing
Speaker 1: and the extent of the surveillance, would any criminal come
Speaker 1: to Monaco to steal? He said, very simple and direct answer,
Speaker 1: he said, because there's a lot of money here.
Speaker 4: I'm Natalia Antalava.
Speaker 3: I'm a journalist based in Eastern Europe, and I'm going
Speaker 3: to take you into the world of Serbia's most brazen
Speaker 3: jewel thieves.
Speaker 5: The most daring and successful diamond thieves in the world.
Speaker 6: Thirty to forty seconds in.
Speaker 5: How they've stolen half a billion dollars worth of valuables.
Speaker 6: Two well dressed men strolled into an exclusive jewelry store
Speaker 6: in London, and walked out with sixty six million dollars
Speaker 6: in jewels.
Speaker 4: They called the Pink Panthers.
Speaker 3: They're a loosely connected group of over educated, underemployed, ambitious
Speaker 3: young people who rose from the ashes of the Yugoslav
Speaker 3: Wars of the nineteen nineties to commit elaborate smash and
Speaker 3: grab heists all across the globe, often in broad daylight.
Speaker 3: This is infamous international The Pink Panther.
Speaker 4: Story, episode seven, The Curious Case of Inspector Mahmerge.
Speaker 3: If ever there was a place designed to appeal to
Speaker 3: a pink panther, it's Monaco.
Speaker 4: Monaco is a tiny.
Speaker 3: Protectorate of France, less than one square mile of Mediterranean paradise.
Speaker 4: It's known for its casinos.
Speaker 3: Its royalty, its movie stars, the Grand Prix, racing beaches,
Speaker 3: and extremely accommodating tax laws. Grace Kelly made the place
Speaker 3: famous in the movie to Catch a Thief then marry
Speaker 3: the real life Prince. The rich flog there, attracted by
Speaker 3: its reputation as a safe haven for their money, As
Speaker 3: the writer W. Somerset mom famously said, it's a sunny
Speaker 3: place for shady people.
Speaker 1: A whole lot of things in Monaco are illegal, which
Speaker 1: in other places nobody would notice. There's rules about what
Speaker 1: you could. You know, you can't walk around topless. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about men. There is all sorts of strange rules
Speaker 1: that try to make the place of clean and decent
Speaker 1: in their view, and of course crime free. It is
Speaker 1: a strange place, and if you go there and look around,
Speaker 1: you cannot be on any street corner and not see
Speaker 1: that there is a discrete camera or sometimes indiscrete camera
Speaker 1: or cameras observing your every move. Depends on your position
Speaker 1: as to what you think about a place where you
Speaker 1: can't move without the eyes and the cameras of the
Speaker 1: state looking at you. If you're a very strong civil libertarian,
Speaker 1: you might think this is sort of not desirable. If
Speaker 1: you're a very rich person wanting to flaunt your diamonds
Speaker 1: as you walked from restaurant to apartment, it's rather comforting.
Speaker 1: The economy is based on people coming and spending money.
Speaker 1: So what they do is attract not only residents who come,
Speaker 1: and they come in many cases because they don't have
Speaker 1: to pay tax in Monaco, but they also then spend money,
Speaker 1: as do visitors, whether it be in the casino or
Speaker 1: shops or posh hotels or restaurants or whatever. So what
Speaker 1: they want is people with money to come and spend it.
Speaker 3: All that money, all that flauntic Monaco has an obvious
Speaker 3: appeal for the Pink Panthers.
Speaker 4: Dana Kennedy is a national.
Speaker 3: Reporter with the New York Post who spent fifteen years
Speaker 3: based in Europe. She lived in Nice, just thirteen miles
Speaker 3: from the Monaco border, and she got to know the
Speaker 3: place pretty well.
Speaker 7: I was based in the South of France, and one
Speaker 7: reason why I know a bit about jewelry heis and
Speaker 7: why the Pink Panthers are on my radar, is because
Speaker 7: the South of France is really one of the main
Speaker 7: places where the Pink Panthers go to pull off their
Speaker 7: incredible heist. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was filmed in the.
Speaker 6: South of France.
Speaker 7: It took place there and is all about con artists
Speaker 7: and shysters and pulling off a fast one.
Speaker 6: It's sort of an.
Speaker 7: Epicenter for too much money, too many con men, too
Speaker 7: many police looking the other way.
Speaker 3: For Dana Kennedy, Monaco is a strange mix of cultures.
Speaker 7: I'll never forget someone who said that Monaco is like
Speaker 7: France if it were run by Americans. And what I
Speaker 7: mean by that is when you go over there, you
Speaker 7: don't see a lot of this sort of fussy French
Speaker 7: cultural stuff that you might see in France. People still
Speaker 7: speak French, of course, and it's beautiful and there's beautiful
Speaker 7: food and beautiful architecture, but it's something a little bit different.
Speaker 7: It's also one of the world's biggest police states.
Speaker 6: Before the rest of the world.
Speaker 7: Had CCTV cameras, Monaco had like about one hundred cameras
Speaker 7: per capita. There are cameras at every possible inch of Monico.
Speaker 4: Monaco even has its own famous curse.
Speaker 6: The Principality of Monaco is thought.
Speaker 7: To have had a curse on it for eight hundred
Speaker 7: years since the House of Grimaldi came into being basically
Speaker 7: around the year eight hundred and that's when pirates from Genoa,
Speaker 7: Italy snuck into Monaco disguised as Franciscan monks and took
Speaker 7: over the principality. And over the years many tragic things
Speaker 7: have happened, especially in modern times.
Speaker 6: The death of Princess Grace.
Speaker 7: She drove off a cliff above Monaco in nineteen eighty
Speaker 7: two and She's only fifty two years old. Her daughter,
Speaker 7: Princess Caroline's husband, Stefano Kosaragi. He was killed in a
Speaker 7: boating accident off Monaco, which many people.
Speaker 6: Thought was very suspicious.
Speaker 7: There had been a lot of larger than life tragedies
Speaker 7: coming out of Monaco for decades.
Speaker 3: But despite its beautiful Mediterranean setting, most residents choose to
Speaker 3: live in Monaco for more practical reasons.
Speaker 7: A lot of the people live there not because they
Speaker 7: really love it. They live there because their husbands worked
Speaker 7: for gas prom in Moscow, or you know, one of
Speaker 7: the biggest banks in England and they are there to
Speaker 7: save money on taxes. But it's a crazy, wild, interesting place,
Speaker 7: and I grew to love it.
Speaker 3: A crazy wild place, one that presents a tempting target
Speaker 3: for the being anthers, and one where they struck more
Speaker 3: than once with their hallmark speed at precision.
Speaker 4: They hit a.
Speaker 3: Jewelry shop, smashing the windows with hammers and making off
Speaker 3: with thirty two watchers worth half a million dollars. They
Speaker 3: even took the luxury watch of the wrist of a
Speaker 3: footballer who happened to be in the shop at the time.
Speaker 7: In Monaco, the amount that they're pulling in these like
Speaker 7: two minute heis is so astonishing.
Speaker 6: I think people can't really grasp it.
Speaker 3: It's like magic, which brings us to Inspector Marlberge Andrew
Speaker 3: Malberge was a young detective who had a fast ride
Speaker 3: in the French police. He had recently captured a ring
Speaker 3: of major drug dealers in Marseille. This high profile success
Speaker 3: is what got him hired to head a Monaco's police department.
Speaker 4: Marlberge was handsome and he was confident.
Speaker 3: New Yorker writer David Samuels described him as quote a
Speaker 3: cross between a Hollywood movie star and a car with
Speaker 3: a deep tand strong shoulders.
Speaker 4: And bad teeth.
Speaker 3: The pink panthers had been making moves in the south
Speaker 3: of France, and it was Marlbersh's idea to call an
Speaker 3: Interpol for help. In an interview on Dateline NBC, he
Speaker 3: talks about the wisdom of his decision, especially for a
Speaker 3: place like Monaco.
Speaker 8: It's a small territory, we have a lot of police,
Speaker 8: we have CCTV all around, and the population has no
Speaker 8: fear to call the police. And said, I saw something
Speaker 8: that it's not normal.
Speaker 4: Why did you think that, Peter Pol is the right way.
Speaker 8: To go because it's the only organization where we can
Speaker 8: share all the information about this. By asked him to
Speaker 8: fall to organize a meeting between all the countries who
Speaker 8: had to know robberies made by the pink Panthers.
Speaker 3: Captain erve Connon of the Paris Police collaborated with Marlberghe
Speaker 3: and thought quite highly of them.
Speaker 9: He was the very small guys because before the robbery
Speaker 9: in Monaco, in fact, there were no international channel about
Speaker 9: the ping panthers. And he has created this meeting that
Speaker 9: happens every years with all the law enforcement involved.
Speaker 2: In this topic.
Speaker 1: Ome.
Speaker 9: It was very clever because the other thing it is
Speaker 9: from Monaco, Abingerberry is impossible. It is a city where
Speaker 9: people are coming because they have a lot of money
Speaker 9: and they own safety. If you've got a robberies in Monaco,
Speaker 9: it is a danger for the city.
Speaker 2: In fact, for the.
Speaker 3: Prestige manager was well aware, as he explained in the
Speaker 3: New Yorker profile and the being panthers in Monoco, we
Speaker 3: cannot let anything happen. And so when Monaco's Prince Albert
Speaker 3: recruits Andrew Marlberge in two thousand and six as his
Speaker 3: director of Public security. He is looking for someone who
Speaker 3: will be able to handle this uniquely damaging proper them
Speaker 3: and Mobaschet fits the profile to perfection.
Speaker 7: No American police chief looks anything like.
Speaker 4: This guy, Dana Kennedy, He himself is.
Speaker 6: Something out of Central Casting.
Speaker 7: If you think of any French gendarmes you might have
Speaker 7: seen in the movies, they have a certain style, and
Speaker 7: a certain dignity, and a certain a line and a
Speaker 7: certain dashing nature to them. He's very French in that
Speaker 7: he takes himself extremely seriously, no joking around. He had a.
Speaker 6: Mission to accomplish. He accomplished it in Marseille with.
Speaker 7: Drug connection traffickers, and then when Prince Albert called him
Speaker 7: in to basically become the Pink Panther connection guy in Monaco.
Speaker 6: I mean he rose to the occasion.
Speaker 4: And Malberge's brainchild.
Speaker 3: This Pink Panther task force is a serious response to
Speaker 3: what he knows is a serious issue. Less than a
Speaker 3: year into his appointment, the Pink Panthers struck the Cerebelli
Speaker 3: Jewelry store in Monte Carlos Casino Square, despite the presence
Speaker 3: of some four hundred close circuit cameras.
Speaker 6: It's a huge embarrassment to Monaco.
Speaker 7: I just finished discussing how much of really a police
Speaker 7: security state Monico is, how the surveillance is unbelievable there,
Speaker 7: so the fact that the Pink Panthers could pull off
Speaker 7: a heist there under the nose of Prince Albert and
Speaker 7: people who paid millions to live in a place they
Speaker 7: think is secure.
Speaker 6: They had to have this task force.
Speaker 7: So the citizenry wouldn't, you know, basically rise up in arms.
Speaker 7: I mean, you pay a premium to live in Monaco
Speaker 7: for number one, so you don't have to pay taxes,
Speaker 7: and number two so you can feel safe. So it's
Speaker 7: highly embarrassing to have these Eastern European thieves just walk.
Speaker 6: In and steal jewels.
Speaker 4: So they had.
Speaker 7: To do something to make people think that they're really
Speaker 7: doing something, and I think he obviously was.
Speaker 6: He was a top level guy.
Speaker 4: And for a while. Andrew Marlberge is a smashing success.
Speaker 3: In two thousand and eight, he manages to arrest Pink
Speaker 3: Panther Dousko Poznan. A car happens to run over Dushko's
Speaker 3: foot while he's standing on a Monaco street corner. He
Speaker 3: is taken to the hospital recognized from an interpal red
Speaker 3: notice photo and summarily arrested.
Speaker 4: The arrest sparks speculation that Malberge.
Speaker 3: Had staged the accident to sweep the panther off the
Speaker 3: streets and into custody. Malberge himself denied it, but it
Speaker 3: was suspiciously bad luck for duschcom. In two thousand and nine,
Speaker 3: Marlberge helps track down another pink Panther who had dropped
Speaker 3: that luxury watch store in Monaco two years earlier. They
Speaker 3: trace him to the Sketchy Hotel in Paris, where Detective
Speaker 3: erve Konon makes the arrest. That same year, Marlberge's team
Speaker 3: catches three other pink Panthers in the parking lot of
Speaker 3: a Monaco casino the night before their plan jewelheist. This
Speaker 3: is all welcome news for the people of Monaco. Not
Speaker 3: to mention Marlberge's boss, the Prince, but chief Inspector. Under
Speaker 3: Malbersjet would end up making some dangerous enemies and some
Speaker 3: dangerous friends.
Speaker 7: What happened to Andre Milberger is a sort of quintessential
Speaker 7: Monico's story.
Speaker 3: Incidentally, Dana Kennedy pronounces his name Mulberger. Others he's the
Speaker 3: French Malberjet.
Speaker 7: On one hand, Mulberger was a good guy and that
Speaker 7: he got down on the Pink Panthers and was well
Speaker 7: known for making arrest there.
Speaker 6: But the fact that.
Speaker 7: He had Russian ties is absolutely unfortunately or fortunately completely
Speaker 7: business as usual in Monaco Russians.
Speaker 4: The plot thickens.
Speaker 6: There are a ton of Russians in Monaco.
Speaker 7: They have enormous influence.
Speaker 6: There are billionaires.
Speaker 7: From Russia who have Monaco residency because obviously they don't
Speaker 7: pay income taxes.
Speaker 3: Marlbersham defended his socializing with the wealthy Russians of monacom
Speaker 3: in an interview with French Vanity Fair, saying, I quote, yes,
Speaker 3: I hang out with Russians, So is it forbidden they're rich?
Speaker 3: Does that necessarily make the mafia? They're men of my generation.
Speaker 3: They have studied in the United States, in London or Switzerland.
Speaker 4: Why should we stop talking to them? End of quote.
Speaker 3: But Marlberge's defensive stance tells us that he saw how
Speaker 3: these friendships might have an effect on his carefully honed
Speaker 3: sterling reputation as an incorruptible cop.
Speaker 7: The problem is the fact that he had.
Speaker 6: A lot of suspect.
Speaker 7: Russian and Eastern European friends himself, means that we don't
Speaker 7: know if he was in Raley guy or what I mean.
Speaker 7: Everything is very murky in Monaco for a reason. There's
Speaker 7: way too much money and way too many people who
Speaker 7: got their money in mysterious ways for anybody to ever
Speaker 7: totally see what's going on, and the amount of skullduggery
Speaker 7: and corruption is kind of off the charts there. Prince Albert,
Speaker 7: since the death of his father in two thousand and five,
Speaker 7: has really tried to clean up Monico's image, and he
Speaker 7: succeeded in many ways.
Speaker 6: But it's still true.
Speaker 7: It's still a funny place for shady people, and Neilburger
Speaker 7: is right up there with.
Speaker 6: The shady people.
Speaker 7: And the fact that he had Russian friends and he
Speaker 7: had a Russian girlfriend is kind of part for the course.
Speaker 6: It's not unusual.
Speaker 7: What would be unusual if you had a Monaco cop
Speaker 7: with no ties.
Speaker 6: However, to that world.
Speaker 3: Okay, so Mobajet made friends with some Russians, but he
Speaker 3: also made one series enemy.
Speaker 5: My name is Robert Earinger, and I have a forty
Speaker 5: five year background in what I call the information business,
Speaker 5: and that encompasses journalism as well as intelligence.
Speaker 3: The recording you'll hear of our interview with Robert Erainger
Speaker 3: is not of the highest quality. He insisted on being
Speaker 3: recorded only over the phone.
Speaker 5: I was an investigative reporter for a British newspapers through
Speaker 5: the nineteen eighties. In the nineteen nineties I did private
Speaker 5: sector intelligence, and in two thousand and two I was
Speaker 5: retained by Prince Albert Monaco to be his intelligence advisor.
Speaker 5: At that time, the Prince was the hereditary Prince, meaning
Speaker 5: he wasn't the ruling Prince yet. In two thousand and
Speaker 5: five he became the ruling Prince when his father, Prince Rani,
Speaker 5: had passed, and at that time I created for Albert
Speaker 5: the unofficial Monaco Intelligence Service.
Speaker 3: We should say from the outset that Erringer, who once
Speaker 3: had a close connection to Prince Albert, has been on
Speaker 3: the outs with him ever since he left Monaco.
Speaker 4: In two thousand and seven.
Speaker 3: That he sued the Prince for breach of contract, claiming
Speaker 3: that he was not paid for his final invoice, and
Speaker 3: Prince Albert filed a number of lawsuits against Erringer for
Speaker 3: defamation in his gossipy blog posts. The subject of one
Speaker 3: of those lawsuits was actually Andra Marlbershe. But let's go
Speaker 3: back to a happier time in the relationship between Robert
Speaker 3: Erainger and Prince Albert of Monaco.
Speaker 5: We got to know each other in the late nineteen
Speaker 5: eighties when I lived in Monaco for a couple of years.
Speaker 5: Thereafter I moved to Washington and he got involved in
Speaker 5: intelligence work.
Speaker 2: I let him know what I was doing.
Speaker 5: He was rather intrigued, and when he had a question
Speaker 5: one day about a particular Russian who wanted to invest
Speaker 5: in Monico's football team, he asked me to investigate the
Speaker 5: background of that individual. I did discover that he was dirty.
Speaker 5: I then pointed out to Albert that the Russian influence
Speaker 5: in the south of France was deafening, and that it
Speaker 5: was expected the Russian influence would expand and try to
Speaker 5: move into Monaco.
Speaker 2: Its two president inclusion, had indeed.
Speaker 5: Fixated on Monaco as a fabulous place from which to
Speaker 5: lauder money and conduct intelligence operations.
Speaker 3: Russian oligarchs were looking for new places to park their money,
Speaker 3: and Monaco, with its friendly tax laws, seemed perfect. Erringer
Speaker 3: claims he predicted that this influx of Russian money would
Speaker 3: bring more crime and corruption to Monoco, and off the
Speaker 3: back of that, he says, he sold his services to
Speaker 3: Prince Albert.
Speaker 5: In June two thousand and two. He retained meaning to
Speaker 5: be his intelligence advisor and keep an eye on the
Speaker 5: Russians who were trying to muscle their way into Monaco,
Speaker 5: along with other seating characters who were attempting to penetrate.
Speaker 2: The royal court. That is, Albert forman.
Speaker 3: Erranger was in the position to run his own show
Speaker 3: until Andrew Marlberger arrived.
Speaker 5: Andre Muhlberget arrived from France at a very opportune moment.
Speaker 2: If I met him soon after.
Speaker 5: He became police chief, it should have been a time
Speaker 5: when he could have done very very well there, because
Speaker 5: by that time, my service to Albert and the unofficial
Speaker 5: intelligence service we created had put together a blueprint of
Speaker 5: everything that was going wrong in Monaco with regard to
Speaker 5: money laundering and corruption and Russian influence. I think it
Speaker 5: bothered Malberge quite a bit of an American was running
Speaker 5: Albert's intelligence when he felt that it should be his role,
Speaker 5: and he was jealous of the relationship I had with
Speaker 5: Albert and wanted that for himself.
Speaker 2: So although he pretended to.
Speaker 5: Be a friend and supporter of.
Speaker 2: What we were doing.
Speaker 5: It later appeared to me that he was working behind
Speaker 5: the scenes against us.
Speaker 4: Robert Eranger thought he was suddenly in a power struggle.
Speaker 5: Mouhlberge tried to make that look like I was stepping
Speaker 5: on the toes of his police department and feeling there information,
Speaker 5: so he would do things. I'd go to Albert and
Speaker 5: complain that I was taking information out of their files
Speaker 5: and calling it our own, which was actually quite incorrect.
Speaker 3: But Erringer doesn't think Marlbajet started out corrupt, if in
Speaker 3: fact he was ever corrupted.
Speaker 5: In my opinion, he came to Monaco with good intentions,
Speaker 5: at least that's the feeling I had when I first
Speaker 5: met him, and I think he actually wanted to act
Speaker 5: on some of the information. But I believe he got
Speaker 5: neutered by the powers that be in Monaco, the ministers,
Speaker 5: especially the chief judicial officer, who was terribly corrupt himself.
Speaker 3: Rangers says these Monaco officials warned Marlbergjet to back off,
Speaker 3: to stop his investigations.
Speaker 5: In our last meeting, he seemed rather upset me. He said,
Speaker 5: they want me only to direct traffic.
Speaker 2: And so I think at some.
Speaker 5: Stage, he thought, well, obviously I can't investigate crime and
Speaker 5: they don't want me to, so I might as well
Speaker 5: just become part of it.
Speaker 2: And I believe that that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 4: Eventually.
Speaker 3: Chief Inspector Marlberje did make friends with some Russians, but
Speaker 3: it was his relationship with a former beauty queen from
Speaker 3: Belarus that would be his downfall.
Speaker 5: I mean, you have to talk about the circumstances under
Speaker 5: which he had to leave his job as police chief.
Speaker 5: He did not resign. He was fired after it was
Speaker 5: exposed that he had a relationship with a beauty queen
Speaker 5: from Belarus and had been discovered to have been coboarding
Speaker 5: with her on a boat, and those photographs came out.
Speaker 2: He was married.
Speaker 3: He was disgraced when Ranger says it was exposed regarding
Speaker 3: Marlbach's affair with the beauty queen and that the quote
Speaker 3: photos came out, What he means is that he Ranger
Speaker 3: posted the photos of Marlberje on vacation with a woman
Speaker 3: on his blog and created a scandal that consumed Monaco
Speaker 3: and much of Europe. The photos, he says, were sent
Speaker 3: to him by some unnamed source.
Speaker 2: He tried to save his job. He went to see
Speaker 2: Prince Albert and couldn't do it.
Speaker 4: Prince Albert did not take the scandal well.
Speaker 3: Malbergem was informed that he had to find an elegant
Speaker 3: way to resign. An official press release announced his departure,
Speaker 3: saying he was starting a new career in.
Speaker 4: The private sector.
Speaker 3: In late June twenty thirteen, Malbergem meets some friends at
Speaker 3: Camp Dye, a popular beach just west of Monaco.
Speaker 7: I know where he was because I've been there myself.
Speaker 7: It's the one town over for Monica, one of the
Speaker 7: most gorgeous beaches in that area of the French and
Speaker 7: Monica Riviera. It's kind of a little hidden gem. The
Speaker 7: locals know it, tourists don't know it, which makes it
Speaker 7: all bit better. And he was there for lunch, and
Speaker 7: he was very tight with certain Russians. He had Russian friends,
Speaker 7: he had a Russian girlfriend, and there was a yacht
Speaker 7: that some of his Russian friends were on.
Speaker 6: And I don't know if he was dared to go
Speaker 6: out swim to the yacht or not, because people do
Speaker 6: that a lot.
Speaker 2: He's with this group of Russians. They go to a
Speaker 2: lunch spot and cap Die. I've been there. I know
Speaker 2: how it works. You park your boat out in the
Speaker 2: water and then you shuttle in.
Speaker 5: He has a long three hour lunch in which he's
Speaker 5: applied with booze.
Speaker 2: They know what a mancho guy he is.
Speaker 5: Aaron Aja shim you can't swim out to that boat,
Speaker 5: and moul Briget, being an arrogant prick full of bravado,
Speaker 5: does sho.
Speaker 7: I mean, everybody travels by yacht in this area, and
Speaker 7: it's really typical to be on a yacht and pull
Speaker 7: up a certain place for lunch.
Speaker 6: I don't know how.
Speaker 7: Far the boat was, but it's not unusual to go
Speaker 7: swim out to a boat.
Speaker 6: It happens all the time. But this time when he
Speaker 6: was swimming out to the boat.
Speaker 7: This high level, prestigious, just retired police investigator was swimming
Speaker 7: out to me his friends on the yacht, and somehow
Speaker 7: another boat came by cut him off and he was
Speaker 7: cut by the propeller and killed.
Speaker 6: I can't imagine.
Speaker 7: A more hideous but yet in some ways fitting death
Speaker 7: for someone who was as powerful as this guy really
Speaker 7: was in Monaco. I mean, he had this incredible career,
Speaker 7: first in Marseille, French connection drug trafficking copp in Marseille.
Speaker 7: Then he's brought to Monaco to run the Pink Panther
Speaker 7: task Force. It's Prince Albert himself who appoints him, and
Speaker 7: he does a bang up job. And just after he
Speaker 7: retired from this incredible career, he met with a horrible
Speaker 7: and grisly death.
Speaker 5: I think he may have promised things to certain Russians
Speaker 5: that he could no longer deliver. In my opinion, he
Speaker 5: was murdered by Russians. I don't know which Russians, so
Speaker 5: I believe the whole thing was set up and that
Speaker 5: when he swam out to the boat, they purposely backed
Speaker 5: into him and he was murdered. Is it because he
Speaker 5: was blackmailing certain Russians with information that he had possession
Speaker 5: of from his job as police chief.
Speaker 2: I think that's one possibility.
Speaker 5: Another is that he had made deals with Russians that
Speaker 5: he could no longer deliver on it because he was
Speaker 5: no longer police chief and they wanted payback.
Speaker 7: So as you could just picture this, this big, strong
Speaker 7: French police investigator swimming through the waves to meet this yacht,
Speaker 7: to meet his friends, maybe have a drink with.
Speaker 6: Them on their yacht.
Speaker 7: He's cut down by a boat and the propeller is
Speaker 7: thought to have slice the back of his head and
Speaker 7: almost severed.
Speaker 6: One of his legs.
Speaker 7: I mean, you can't even a matt You couldn't write
Speaker 7: the script for the death of the man who took
Speaker 7: on the pink Panthers in the South of France.
Speaker 3: Investigators could never confirm whether another boat struck Malberge or
Speaker 3: of the yacht he was swimming to somehow backed into him.
Speaker 3: Whatever the truth behind event, it was a shocking end
Speaker 3: to Inspector Malberge.
Speaker 7: There are a lot of incredibly crazy stories that happen
Speaker 7: in Monaco. Monaco and the South of France are run
Speaker 7: on myth, They're run on fantasy.
Speaker 6: The local press.
Speaker 7: Is really controlled by the local powers, and they're not
Speaker 7: going to spend too much time looking into any of this.
Speaker 6: They don't want people to get too deep into the
Speaker 6: dark side.
Speaker 7: But the dark side of Monaco is always there, and
Speaker 7: it has been there for centuries. So this poor police
Speaker 7: chief's downfall in many ways, people see as just another
Speaker 7: side of the dark side of Monaco.
Speaker 3: Andra Malberje may have gotten on the wrong side of
Speaker 3: the wrong people and pay the price, but his pursuit
Speaker 3: of the Ping Panthers had proven highly effective. Dushko Poznan,
Speaker 3: one of the members of the Dubai team, arrested, three
Speaker 3: other Ping Panthers and an aborted highest of a Monaco
Speaker 3: casino arrested, and Milan Lipuya arrested for the Liechtenstein job
Speaker 3: and the highst at the Waffe Mall. Thanks to Marlberje's
Speaker 3: efforts to involve inter Paul, Milan would face justice, even
Speaker 3: if Malberje would face a grisly and on a beautiful
Speaker 3: beach just.
Speaker 4: West of Monaco.
Speaker 3: Coming up next on Infamous International, the Pink Panthers story.
Speaker 6: Yepuya trying to live a quiet life.
Speaker 2: Let's say, after what happened in Dubai, he got married,
Speaker 2: he got a dog, he got another dog for his
Speaker 2: mom and sister, the.
Speaker 4: Return of the Pink Panther Milan le Poya.
Speaker 8: These guys were linked some other revenue, and they understood
Speaker 8: now it's time to move to Cocainsmith.
Speaker 3: The criminal world of Niche is changing and things are
Speaker 3: getting dangerous.
Speaker 2: Organizing is very similar to organizing a murder as well.
Speaker 3: And the Pink Panthers discover how hard it is to
Speaker 3: keep your hands clean in a dirty world of international crime.
Speaker 9: They got involved in this open ward that flipped the
Speaker 9: whole Balkan underworld.
Speaker 3: That's next time on Infamous International. The Pink Panthers Story.
Speaker 4: Infamous International.
Speaker 3: The Pink Panthers Story was produced by Best Case Studios
Speaker 3: in association with Kodas story hosted by me Natalia ant
Speaker 3: Lava and written by Katrina wolf Adam Pinkis, Suzanne Myers,
Speaker 3: and David Markowitz, with help from Brent Katz and Matt Levin.
Speaker 3: For Best Case Studios Executive producer Adam Pinkis, Senior producer
Speaker 3: David Markowitz, Producer Katrina Wolfe, Associate producer Hannah Libovitz, Lockhart,
Speaker 3: and consulting producers Julie Goldstein and Louis Spiegeler. For Koda Story,
Speaker 3: reporting by Lane Greenberg with associate producer Rebecca Robinson. Edited
Speaker 3: and sound designed by Gaylan Mullins and Max Michael Miller.
Speaker 3: Music by Dave Harrington. Archival producers Mark Degra.
Speaker 4: And Paul Dallas.
Speaker 3: This has been an Exactly Wright production. Executive producers Karen
Speaker 3: Kilgareth Georgia hart Stark and Daniel Kramer, with consulting producer
Speaker 3: Kyle Ryan,