The Underworld Podcast

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The Triple Frontier: Triads, Hezbollah and Narco Heavies

When Paraguay extradited French-Corsican heroin kingpin Auguste Ricord to the US in 1972, some thought Paraguay’s narco trafficking days might be numbered. If anything they were just beginning. Within years the tiny nation had welcomed Hong Kong Triads and Lebanese militants — wh ... Show more

. 58min 17sec

How a Nazi French Mobster Made Paraguay a Smugglers’ Paradise

The French Connection and Paraguay In 1968, a gang of smartly-dressed gangsters robbed a bank in Buenos Aires. The fallout from the raid would lead authorities in all kinds of crazy directions — from French paramilitary hitmen to mobsters belonging to the feared Union Corse, Cors ... Show more

. 1h 3min

Boston's Irish Mob Gang War: The Winter Hill Gang

In 1960s Boston, Buddy McLean ignited a savage gang war after tensions with the McLaughlin brothers boiled over into open bloodshed. What started as neighborhood beef turned into a cycle of ambushes, barroom executions, and street hits that terrorized Boston. McLean’s Winter Hill ... Show more

. 52min 15sec

The Trillion Dollar Scam King Gangster Taking Over

When fleets of young Chinese men arrived in the tiny, Pacific nation of Palau in 2018, authorities wondered why they’d eschewed the archipelago’s pristine shores and coral reefs for a handful of tumbledown buildings on the edge of Koror, its biggest town. It wouldn’t take long fo ... Show more

. 1h 17min

Daniel Kinahan's Iran Oil Games, The King of the South & Trump's War on Narcos: Stashhouse!

We're back with another Stash House and there's a hell of a lot of crazy stuff going on. Daniel Kinahan is spotted in Dubai palling around with a shady oil trader, Sebastian "The King of the South" Marset is bagged up in Bolivia and extradited to the US, Trump goes in hard on Ecu ... Show more

. 58min 43sec