Speaker 1: They were just the regular family with the child. If
Speaker 1: you see them in Serbia, you would think this is
Speaker 1: just another completely normal Serbian family.
Speaker 2: After the Dubai heist, Laden Lazarevich, the mastermind, and his
Speaker 2: co conspirator and girlfriend Buyana Mitch returned to Serbia. They
Speaker 2: had pulled off something truly spectacular. They had plenty of money,
Speaker 2: and they decided it was time to settle down. Here's
Speaker 2: a reporter, Ilena Zorich. We're hearing her through a translator.
Speaker 1: They prefer a more quiet life. They were buying their apartments,
Speaker 1: they cut their kids, They had their family life and
Speaker 1: that worked fine for them.
Speaker 2: They get married, have a son, and reportedly open a
Speaker 2: fitness club in Belgrade. As much as anyone could tell,
Speaker 2: they were in fact leading a quiet life.
Speaker 1: They could live very well in Serbia with the money
Speaker 1: that they got after each robbery, so they didn't want
Speaker 1: to complicate things more and go any further. They could
Speaker 1: feel pretty safe away from Dubai police, away from Interpol.
Speaker 2: It's a dream of domestic tranquility paid for by crimes
Speaker 2: that are firmly in the past. But in twenty thirteen,
Speaker 2: a bomb is discovered under Boyana Mitach's car. Luckily it
Speaker 2: falls to the ground without detonating. The police are called
Speaker 2: and when they questioned the couple laden Boyana express total shock.
Speaker 2: Who could possibly want to kill them? I'm Natalia Antalava.
Speaker 2: I'm a journalist based in Eastern Europe, and I'm going
Speaker 2: to take you into the world of Serbia's most brazen
Speaker 2: jewel thieves.
Speaker 3: The most daring and successful diamond things in the world.
Speaker 1: Thirty to forty seconds and help.
Speaker 3: They've stolen a half of billion dollars of the valuable.
Speaker 2: Two well dressed men strolled into an exclusive jewelry store
Speaker 2: in London and walked out with sixty six million dollars
Speaker 2: in jewels. They called the Pink Panthers, their loosely connected
Speaker 2: crew of over educated, underemployed ambitious young people who rose
Speaker 2: from the ashes of the Yugoslav Wars of the nineteen
Speaker 2: nineties to commit elaborate smash and grab heists all across
Speaker 2: the globe, often in broad daylight. This is infamous international
Speaker 2: The Pink Panther's Story, episode nine, Crime Doesn't Pay.
Speaker 1: He did a couple of hides, one of them pretty spectacular,
Speaker 1: but he didn't have the reason to believe that someone
Speaker 1: would want to kill him in Serbia.
Speaker 2: It's been six years since the waffe heist in Dubai,
Speaker 2: and although Vladen Lazarevich planned and led that job, he
Speaker 2: has seemingly gotten out of the game. It was Milan
Speaker 2: Lipoya who had taken most of the spotlight in the
Speaker 2: years since Serbian investigative journalist Helena's rage.
Speaker 1: Milan in fact was the most important person after Maladen,
Speaker 1: but he was presented in the media as the main one,
Speaker 1: as the number one. Milan didn't mind having this reputation.
Speaker 1: He liked the role to be presented in the media
Speaker 1: as the main one.
Speaker 2: Milan also returned to Serbia, but he was less interested
Speaker 2: in settling down. He opened a nightclub. He had a
Speaker 2: yacht and would cruise the Mediterranean, inviting rich and beautiful
Speaker 2: people aboard for lavish parties.
Speaker 1: His favorite destination when he was sailing on his yacht
Speaker 1: was between the Italian and French coast, near French Riviera.
Speaker 1: And during these little crew this oneasyacht, he was spending
Speaker 1: tons of money hundreds of thousands of euros and his
Speaker 1: guests were usually the famous businessman and also the world
Speaker 1: famous models.
Speaker 2: Milan is hardly keeping a low profile despite the fact
Speaker 2: that he's a wanted man.
Speaker 1: So during this time there were people who were looking
Speaker 1: for him, but he was somewhere near frank Riviera having fun,
Speaker 1: so at that time they didn't find him.
Speaker 2: Milan would often videotape his escapades and share them with
Speaker 2: his friends back in Niche, and every video ends with
Speaker 2: the same sentence.
Speaker 1: The sentence was, well, two days after these parties, after
Speaker 1: all this fun that I used to have, I didn't
Speaker 1: have a penny in my pocket, so I had to
Speaker 1: go and steal again so that I have some money
Speaker 1: to live with.
Speaker 2: And Milan did go and steal again. He continued to
Speaker 2: pull heists around Europe until he was finally arrested, tried,
Speaker 2: and sent to prison. He spent nearly a decade behind bars.
Speaker 2: When he returned home, he didn't last long. The criminal
Speaker 2: world in Niche had changed become more dangerous As a
Speaker 2: rival gangs battled for turf. Milan chose a side, and
Speaker 2: it cost him his life. His violent and had a
Speaker 2: certain logic to it. But why would Boyana's car be
Speaker 2: targeted with a car bomb? Both she and her husband
Speaker 2: had left the life of crime. Police assume the bomb
Speaker 2: was actually intended for London, and the media is quick
Speaker 2: to start digging into his background.
Speaker 1: It's very interesting that in our country practically nobody was
Speaker 1: talking about him until the bomb attempt. That's when the
Speaker 1: media started talking about him, and that's when they said, okay,
Speaker 1: this person might be someone who is involved with the
Speaker 1: Pink Panthers, but they never mentioned it before.
Speaker 2: Journalists try to contact Boyana too, but she's not talking utter.
Speaker 2: Helenazorich reaches out to her repeatedly.
Speaker 1: She was not in the mood to give any statement.
Speaker 1: She refuses any way of communication with anyone.
Speaker 2: Buyanna even takes down her Twitter profile.
Speaker 1: She used a picture of a diamond as her profile picture,
Speaker 1: but when they tried to kill her husband, obviously it
Speaker 1: wasn't funny anymore, so she removed it. Than she she
Speaker 1: was not active there either.
Speaker 2: The case of the attempted bombing is never solved. Then
Speaker 2: two years after that failed car bomb, there is another
Speaker 2: attempt on Laden Lazarevich's life. He's waiting at a stoplight
Speaker 2: in his land robber when an audi pulls up next
Speaker 2: to him and then jumps out of the audi and
Speaker 2: approaches Laden's land robber. He Lena Zorich. Again.
Speaker 1: This all happened in the suburbs of Belgrade. He was
Speaker 1: in his car when they started shooting in him, and
Speaker 1: there were thirty shots.
Speaker 2: Somehow Bladin is able to pull away as bullets fly
Speaker 2: around him, blood pouring down his face, he manages to
Speaker 2: drive to the nearest hospital. Incredibly, he has suffered only
Speaker 2: superficial wounds cuts on his face and head from the
Speaker 2: shattered glass of the windshield. Again, he's questioned by the police,
Speaker 2: and again he claims he could not be more surprised.
Speaker 1: He even says in the hospital that he doesn't understand
Speaker 1: why it happened to him because he didn't have any enemies,
Speaker 1: so he wasn't sure who would want to kill him.
Speaker 2: Bladen is well aware that whoever is trying to kill
Speaker 2: him is still out there. The police assigned a guard
Speaker 2: to stay outside his hospital.
Speaker 1: Room, and of course he didn't feel safe, so his
Speaker 1: friends managed to take him from the hospital. They practically
Speaker 1: kidnapped him from the hospital.
Speaker 2: Even with the police officers stationed outside his room, London
Speaker 2: manages to leave with his friends as an extra precausion
Speaker 2: picked him up in an armored car.
Speaker 1: The person who provided this armored car. His name is
Speaker 1: the Dragon.
Speaker 2: Mikic, Dragon Mackage, a name we've heard before. I spoke
Speaker 2: to my colleague, reporter Elan Greenberg, who gave me some context. Elans,
Speaker 2: the last time we were talking about Dragon Mackage, that
Speaker 2: was when he broke out of a French prison and
Speaker 2: then he basically vanished, He disappeared, and because of that,
Speaker 2: I was a bit shocked when Helena Zorich suddenly mentioned
Speaker 2: him again.
Speaker 4: Well, look, if you think about it, Serbia's a small country,
Speaker 4: niche is a small city, and these guys, even if
Speaker 4: they're not part of a you know, a unified criminal syndicate,
Speaker 4: they're still all in the same business. They're like friendly associates.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure that all makes sense, but can you just
Speaker 2: bring us up to speed on who this guy, Dragon
Speaker 2: Mickage is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, his name comes up all the time and stories
Speaker 4: about Pink Panthers. People say he's one of the leaders
Speaker 4: of the gang. And you know, he's a big guy.
Speaker 4: He's like six foot six with muscles and top of muscles.
Speaker 4: Remember that the Paris police detective Ever Kannan said that
Speaker 4: Mikish did two thousand push ups a day in prison,
Speaker 4: so he's an intimidating presence and pretty clearly he's someone
Speaker 4: with influence. A couple of fellow panthers Building Ak forty
Speaker 4: seven's broke him out of that French jail and he
Speaker 4: ended up back in Serbia.
Speaker 2: Where apparently he has access to an armored car he
Speaker 2: can leand to his friendly associate Laden Lazarvich when he
Speaker 2: needs one.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, and more than that, because don't forget Milanin
Speaker 4: is in the hospital, he's recovering from his injuries. He
Speaker 4: has a police guard sitting right outside his room. Dragon
Speaker 4: Mekish also helps with that, does he now, Yes, Mikish
Speaker 4: was arrested for making fouriged documents. He had a partner
Speaker 4: woman who turned out to be a member of the police,
Speaker 4: so it appears that Mikish may have had connections on
Speaker 4: the police force who could get that officer outside his
Speaker 4: hospital room to stand down or at least not getting
Speaker 4: and the way when Miki shows up with that armored car.
Speaker 2: So with the help of his friends, Laden is safe
Speaker 2: again and now he's not taking any chances.
Speaker 1: Madame Lazareg has his own security and these are actually
Speaker 1: the ex members of the special police Units against terrorism.
Speaker 1: Some of them actually are working like a private security
Speaker 1: and that's what he has at this moment.
Speaker 2: But why would anyone want to kill Vladen the former
Speaker 2: jewel thief turned family man. Based on her reporting and sources,
Speaker 2: Yelena Zorich has an idea.
Speaker 1: So all those stories about his family life with Buena,
Speaker 1: with his wife, that's actually not happening anymore and he's
Speaker 1: doing something completely different. Maladen Lazarevich's life is much more
Speaker 1: dangerous today than what it used to be when he
Speaker 1: was in Pink Panther because he is the most powerful
Speaker 1: cocaine a dealer in our country.
Speaker 2: Yeladasorig believes that Ladon Lazarevich is in all likelihood a
Speaker 2: powerful crime boss. Based on recent reporting, we think that
Speaker 2: he's likely working for Klan America, a Balkan gang with
Speaker 2: connections to the South American drug trade. So this image
Speaker 2: of the quiet family life with Boyana, it's a front.
Speaker 1: Boyanav is someone who is the wife of an arko boss, definitely,
Speaker 1: and he is not just any narko boss. He is
Speaker 1: the most important man in this area.
Speaker 2: Ladon Lazarevitch celebrated his thirty seventh birthday in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: The party brought out some notable guests.
Speaker 1: It's known as a fact, for example, that the last
Speaker 1: year he celebrated his birthday in the town of Nish
Speaker 1: and for this celebration for his birthday other people who
Speaker 1: were invited those were also other big cocaine bosses of
Speaker 1: West Balkans and police is aware of what's happening and
Speaker 1: who is right there, but there is no reaction from
Speaker 1: their part whatsoever.
Speaker 2: All of this might explain Whydin wasn't questioned more forcefully
Speaker 2: by the police after he was attacked, why his police
Speaker 2: escort allowed him to leave the hospital in that armored car,
Speaker 2: and why his name had not been publicly associated with
Speaker 2: any major crimes.
Speaker 1: The police and prosecutors when they hear his name in
Speaker 1: a connection with any murder or any severe crime, they
Speaker 1: simply just ignore it. And when you ask around in
Speaker 1: a niche about him, people are just scared. They don't
Speaker 1: want to share anything with you. He is a very
Speaker 1: dangerous man and he is more dangerous than he ever
Speaker 1: used to be before.
Speaker 2: We asked OLIVERA. Tcherkovic, the former basketball star and convicted
Speaker 2: Pink Panther, for her thoughts about Bloodin.
Speaker 5: To toyblo Robe.
Speaker 2: Her son Nicholas is translating here.
Speaker 6: I was not the part of the team who did
Speaker 6: it in Dubai. We can talk about the guys who
Speaker 6: were in Dubai because two of them are close friends
Speaker 6: of us, so we really know the story, but I
Speaker 6: don't want to speak of them.
Speaker 2: Over the past several years, the criminal underworld in the
Speaker 2: Balkans has come to be dominated by two major clans,
Speaker 2: the Kavakhs and the Scalieris in twenty twenty one about
Speaker 2: thirty criminals associated with the kavak where rest and charged
Speaker 2: with multiple counts of kidnapping, rape and murder, including the
Speaker 2: killing of Milan Li Puya. As of this recording, trials
Speaker 2: are still ongoing in Belgrade. It has become a media
Speaker 2: sensation throughout the Balkans.
Speaker 5: Tabloid media are all over it. You have front pages
Speaker 5: full of physic gluesome bloody details.
Speaker 2: Ivan and Gaelovski is a Serbian investigative journalist now based
Speaker 2: in Canada. He says that local tabloids are obsessed with
Speaker 2: all the grisly details that are emerging from the trial.
Speaker 5: It's not easy to read front pages where you can
Speaker 5: see pictures of people smiling holding other people's severed heads,
Speaker 5: which you can see right now or on front pages
Speaker 5: of some of Serbian tabloids. So it's very chilling atmosphere.
Speaker 2: The court proceedings have offered a particularly graphic look inside
Speaker 2: the dangerous world of drug trafficking.
Speaker 5: They have several insider witnesses and they don't spare any
Speaker 5: words in describing the grusolness of those murders. They would
Speaker 5: photograph their victims and they would send those images and
Speaker 5: videos to their bosses, and one message, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 5: was can you see this boss? It's Mexico in central Belgrade,
Speaker 5: so you can say that they were implementing brutal practices
Speaker 5: of criminal groups in South America. It's the same region
Speaker 5: that they would traffic the cocaine front.
Speaker 2: But the trial is drawing attention for more than its
Speaker 2: corey details.
Speaker 5: The trial is heavily politicized and everyone is following it
Speaker 5: because of political connections.
Speaker 2: As we've heard before from numerous journalists based in the Balkans.
Speaker 2: In Serbia, the ties between organized crime and the state
Speaker 2: run deep, and according to Angelovsky, that's particularly true in
Speaker 2: the case of the Kavakh Klan.
Speaker 5: They have you know their financial interests, they have their
Speaker 5: political connections. It is often considered that the members of
Speaker 5: this group are in one way or the other connected
Speaker 5: to the ruling party here in Belgrade, So everything around
Speaker 5: them has political consequences.
Speaker 2: And as we've seen, whenever crime and politics intermingo and Serbia,
Speaker 2: soccer or football is usually somewhere in the mix too.
Speaker 5: So the group that's on trial, they are members of
Speaker 5: an organized brand group, but they're also supporters of a
Speaker 5: football team in Belgrade. It's often considered that who leads
Speaker 5: the supporters on football stadiums, they lead the narcotics trade
Speaker 5: in country. So the group that's on trial are the
Speaker 5: main traffickers of cocaine from South America to Europe.
Speaker 2: Reporter Evan and Gilowski thinks all this media focus on
Speaker 2: the Serbian government's alleged ties to organized crime is unlikely
Speaker 2: to do much to stem the country's corruptions.
Speaker 5: It's not the first time we're seeing this. We were
Speaker 5: in this situation before. You know, first democratically elected Prime
Speaker 5: minister of Serbia, Zorojinich, was murdered in two thousand and three.
Speaker 5: We had a similar atmosphere as we have now. Back
Speaker 5: then the organized crime killed the Prime Minister, and that
Speaker 5: was a watershedting moment because people figured out how deep
Speaker 5: politics was involved with organized crime. Because you know, organized
Speaker 5: crime never died down. We are now seeing this.
Speaker 2: Two of the defendants who testified in the trial admitted
Speaker 2: that they actually work for the Serbian government, claiming they've
Speaker 2: met several times with the country's current president, Alexander Vocich,
Speaker 2: who asked them to perform various quld unquote favors over
Speaker 2: the years. Vutich has publicly denied all of these allegations.
Speaker 2: The trial has revealed shocking details about the nature of
Speaker 2: Serbia's criminal cartels, their fascination with the brutal style of
Speaker 2: their Central and South American business partners, their entrenched connections
Speaker 2: to the country's political class, and it has brought attention
Speaker 2: to another story, a more personal one. As troubling as
Speaker 2: it is hard to prove.
Speaker 1: It's important just to remember this information. A Malad and
Speaker 1: Lazarevich in a niche he had a nickname, and his
Speaker 1: nickname is Ladentu. That's like a little Maladen.
Speaker 2: Little Mladen, acute nickname for someone who's potentially a very
Speaker 2: dangerous man. Yelena's richest source tells her that Mladen knew
Speaker 2: that Milan Lepoye had joined up with the rival klan,
Speaker 2: and he was not.
Speaker 1: Pleased the fact that there were tape conversation when there
Speaker 1: was an investigation about the murder of Yapoya, and in
Speaker 1: this taped conversation, several times the name of Mladene was mentioned,
Speaker 1: so he was aware of what's going on with Yepoya
Speaker 1: and he was not happy with the fact that Yapoya
Speaker 1: was with the gang of SKAYERI.
Speaker 2: It's possible that the so called Little Laden was involved
Speaker 2: in some way in the murder of his old friend Milan,
Speaker 2: but so far he has not appeared at the trial.
Speaker 1: Despite the fact that the name of Mlada was always
Speaker 1: present in his conversation, the police actually never invited him
Speaker 1: to testify.
Speaker 2: None of this is proved that Laden Lazarevitch was involved
Speaker 2: in the killing of Milan le Poya, and Yelena says
Speaker 2: that she can fully verify this claim. The trial is
Speaker 2: ongoing as of the recording of this episode. While the
Speaker 2: cinematic tale of Milan Lipuyan, Milada Lazarevich and Boyana Mitic
Speaker 2: may sound like something straight out of Hollywood, for Jelena Zorich,
Speaker 2: there is little to root for in their story.
Speaker 1: So many people will probably try to make the story
Speaker 1: a little bit more romantic. They will probably talk about
Speaker 1: their spectacular heists, especially the one in Dubai. They're going
Speaker 1: to tell you how unique, how spectacular this was. But
Speaker 1: for me, this story is far away from that. It's
Speaker 1: not just the simple thieves who are maybe interesting to
Speaker 1: regular people because they steal from the rich. Know that
Speaker 1: these are thieves who later become a murderers.
Speaker 2: These days, alleged Pink Panthers make the occasional appearance in
Speaker 2: the medium, but more often than not their reports are
Speaker 2: a bit anti climactic because their highsts aren't successful.
Speaker 7: To the index.
Speaker 3: Now, in a major takedown overseas police arresting five suspected
Speaker 3: members of the notorious.
Speaker 2: Pink Panther gang during a jewel heist in Barcelona, Reports
Speaker 2: like this one from ABC News in twenty sixteen about
Speaker 2: a failed Pink Panther's heist, one where the authorities who
Speaker 2: are several steps ahead of the would be thieves, are
Speaker 2: becoming more common, and as Aveko Nan told NPR, one
Speaker 2: reason for this is geopolitics.
Speaker 7: Detective Kanan of the Paris Police says the Pink Panther
Speaker 7: era is nearly finished. He says most of the thieves
Speaker 7: hail from Serbia and Mountainegro, which are becoming more willing
Speaker 7: to hand over suspects to international law enforcements.
Speaker 5: Serbian Mantenegro want to go in the European Union, so
Speaker 5: in the pat that we're untouchable, and now they can
Speaker 5: be arrested.
Speaker 2: The panthers are no longer able to flee back to
Speaker 2: Serby and live openly and well on their ill gotten
Speaker 2: gains now that the Serbian government sees more value in
Speaker 2: extraditing them. Overall, the Ping Panthers simply can't operate the
Speaker 2: way they once did, and so they've become less of
Speaker 2: a priority for law enforcement. INTERPOL shut down Ron Nobles
Speaker 2: Ping Panther task force in twenty sixteen, and recently Interpal
Speaker 2: itself has come under scrutiny for alleged abuses of its
Speaker 2: Red Notice system. The alerted issues to law enforcement around
Speaker 2: the world about the presence of criminals in their jurisdiction.
Speaker 2: Chief among the abusers of this system, the United Arab
Speaker 2: Emirates Human rights attorney Rather Sterling, says that Interpol has
Speaker 2: allowed its red notices to be used by the Immerting
Speaker 2: government as a pretext to target its enemies. I've removed
Speaker 2: hundreds of these notices over the years. I present evidence
Speaker 2: to Interpol that this should never have been put to
Speaker 2: into Poland in the first place, and they agree with me.
Speaker 6: But they don't do anything to stop it.
Speaker 5: So the UA is absolutely abusing that access to the database,
Speaker 5: but into Pol doesn't want to upset them.
Speaker 2: In the past several years, the UAE has publicly donated
Speaker 2: over fifty million dollars to Interpol an incentive for the
Speaker 2: international organization to leave well enough alone.
Speaker 1: And they're a huge donor, and they're also a partner
Speaker 1: in fighting other.
Speaker 2: Sorts of more high profile crime, and they definitely don't
Speaker 2: want to lose that relationship. Something else has changed since Boyana,
Speaker 2: Landon and Milan pulled off their heist at the Waffi
Speaker 2: Mall in Dubai. According to journalist Devana and Gelowski, the
Speaker 2: United Arab Emirates and Serbia have developed a much more
Speaker 2: intimate relationship.
Speaker 5: After twenty twelve, UAE and Serbia got into some kind
Speaker 5: of cooperation from then on. There are lots of Balkan
Speaker 5: people in ue Now you have some of the main
Speaker 5: major kingpins of Palkan organized crime living in Uee because
Speaker 5: of protections they have.
Speaker 2: There and Sazangilowski. In twenty thirteen, the Emeratic government began
Speaker 2: pouring money into infrastructure projects in Serbia.
Speaker 5: There are these several projects in Serbia funded by money
Speaker 5: from UAE. Some suspect that it's actually money from Serbia
Speaker 5: advent to UAE and then back to Serbia. And there
Speaker 5: are lots of for example, arms deals, So there are
Speaker 5: these connections that are basically shady. But all of that
Speaker 5: comes after Dubai heist.
Speaker 2: As for Interpose energetic young Secretary General Ron Noble, who
Speaker 2: championed the organization's pursuit of the Ping panthers. He retired
Speaker 2: from Interpol in twenty sixteen to enter the private sector.
Speaker 2: He now has a number of business interests in Dubai.
Speaker 3: Why do people get driven to a life of crime?
Speaker 2: Former interpoal director with in Salesgabor I.
Speaker 3: Think certainly in the recent history you've seen people with
Speaker 3: high skill sets that now are confronted with a economic issue,
Speaker 3: like in the US Lago when the sanctions came in,
Speaker 3: they're forced to do other things they'll figure out how
Speaker 3: to use their skills, whether it be with weapons, with violence,
Speaker 3: with technology, whether it be state driven or motivated by money.
Speaker 5: So I think all of it.
Speaker 3: You know, it is the story of crime.
Speaker 8: When you become someone who can survive in a broken society,
Speaker 8: you get creative, you get resourceful.
Speaker 2: Reporter Eric Pape has thought a lot about the roads
Speaker 2: not taken of people like Milani Puya, lad Laza Rich
Speaker 2: and Boyana Metage, the hypothetical lives they and other Pink
Speaker 2: Panthers might have had given other circumstances.
Speaker 8: In Malcolm X's autobiography, he writes the whole section about
Speaker 8: all the different people he's doing time with in prison,
Speaker 8: and at one point he says, you know, there are
Speaker 8: all these guys. If they had access to a different life,
Speaker 8: they could have been amazing. And he went crime by
Speaker 8: crime among his friends in prison and sort of thought,
Speaker 8: what would they have been like in a better life.
Speaker 2: Of course, not every person facing the challenges of life
Speaker 2: in post war Serbia turned to boosting diamonds from Grafen
Speaker 2: Harry Winston. Some adapted in other ways that were less
Speaker 2: criminal in nature. But for Eric Paige, the Big Panthers
Speaker 2: ultimately may have managed to acquire that one thing that
Speaker 2: they seem to value lost.
Speaker 9: Just the fact that we're talking about this, you know,
Speaker 9: almost a decade and a half later, tells me that, Yeah,
Speaker 9: it was a really great yarn. And I think that
Speaker 9: authors of this yarn aren't the Pink Panthers themselves. They
Speaker 9: seem to have been brilliant in their choice of crimes,
Speaker 9: but they also told a story. I think it's the
Speaker 9: reason that we are still talking about it.
Speaker 2: That's it for this season of Infamous International, The Story
Speaker 2: of the Pink Panthers. I'm Natalia Antalava of Koda Story.
Speaker 2: Thank you for listening. Infamous International The Pink Panthers Story
Speaker 2: was produced by Best Case Studios in association with Koda Story,
Speaker 2: hosted by me Natalia Antalava, and written by Katrina Wolfe,
Speaker 2: Adam Pinkis, Suszanne Myers, and David Markowitz, with help from
Speaker 2: Brent Katz and Matt Levin. For Best Case Studios, Executive
Speaker 2: producer Adam Pinkis, Senior producer David Markowitz, producer Katrina Wolfe,
Speaker 2: Associate producer Hannah Libovitz Lockhart, and consulting producers Julie Goldstein,
Speaker 2: and Louis Spiegler for Koda. Story reporting by Lane Greenberg
Speaker 2: with associate producer Rebecca Robinson. Edited and sound designed by
Speaker 2: Gaylen Mullins and Max Michael Miller. Special thanks to Dean
Speaker 2: White and James Hansen. Music by Dave Harrington. Archival producers
Speaker 2: Mark Degora and Paul Dallas. This has been an exactly
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