Gold Mafia: Ep. 6 - The Crocodile

In the midst of a historic housing crisis, a tip came into the AJ I-Unit that a high-ranking politician from Bangladesh might be one the largest private landlords in the UK. The team set about chasing down the information; what’s true, what's not and how this story helped explain ...  Show more

With foreign ownership of UK housing skyrocketing, the team heads to an overseas property fair in Istanbul, Turkey. This is where overseas buyers scoop up great swaths of property in bulk. Our goal is to track down the estate agent who helped this Bangladeshi politician build his ...  Show more

The gang get down to business on their projects and acquire assets as their investigation leads them to an unexpected source. Beef bets on a diamond in the rough. Montrose talks to the press. Emerich does some dire work. 

Opening monologue performed by Autumn Seavey Hick ...

When a Dutch crime reporter makes an unbelievable discovery, a small-town murder case begins to look like an international assassination plot.

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The Financial Times’ award-winning podcast series Hot Money is back. In this series our reporter Miles Johnson investigates a mysterious murder in a small town that leads to a web of drugs, money laundering and state-sponsored assassinations stretching from Dublin to Dubai. At th ...  Show more

A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already rivals the size of the illicit drug trade. And it’s about to get bigger and much more powerful. 

The Economist’s Sue-Lin Wong follows a trail that starts ...