Episodi

  • Assassination Nation: The Balkan Clan War that Took Over Europe

    Assassination Nation: The Balkan Clan War that Took Over Europe
    Sep 22 2026
    In the picturesque Montenegrin port of Kotor, a cocaine trafficking partnership fractured into one of Europe’s bloodiest gang wars. A dispute over a drug shipment in Spain in 2014 split the organization into two rival clans, the Kavač and Škaljari, turning former allies into sworn enemies. What followed was a sprawling campaign of revenge, with gunmen hunting their targets across borders and leaving dozens dead. How did a feud born in a tiny Adriatic town became an international bloodbath with a brutal house of horrors and hundreds of millions of dollars of coke at stake. Some music licensed through Soundstripe.Code: 1VDUSIE5HAQQOMKK, ICXE0MTBHKMQDI84 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 ora e 16 min
  • The Fall & Rise of Pakistan’s Escobar

    The Fall & Rise of Pakistan’s Escobar
    Sep 15 2026
    In our final episode on the rise and fall and rise of the Pablo Escobar of Pakistan, he negotiates his own surrender to the DEA, maneuvers his way into the U.S. while dodging Pakistani intelligence agents out to kill him, and enjoys the hospitality of the American justice system. Then he returns to Pakistan, gets arrested again, and things get weird. Taliban weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    52 min
  • How an Albanian Mobster Derailed MAGA Island

    How an Albanian Mobster Derailed MAGA Island
    Sep 8 2026
    In Albania's turbulent Nineties, the small, seaside town of Vlore became a gangster’s paradise, playing host to hundreds of crooks ferrying drugs, weapons and people into nearby Puglia alongside Italian mafiosi. One of them was a slim, slick-haired former military man named Artur Shehu, who amassed a formidable property portfolio across Vlore — most reckoned, due to his friends in the Sacra Corona Unita, Italy's “fourth Mafia.” But when a 1999 bar gunfight forced Shehu into hiding, only to reappear in Miami two years later, his life was sent on a wild journey that would collide, in 2020, with America’s first family. And its fallout would echo to the highest levels of politics, crime and controversy in Albania and far beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 ora e 5 min
  • The Biggest Unknown Drug Dealer in US History

    The Biggest Unknown Drug Dealer in US History
    Sep 1 2026
    He might just be the biggest US drug smuggler you’ve never heard of. 1.3 billion in product moved. 16 different aliases. Bank accounts in 10 countries. A phantom, and a logistical genius. Stewart Newton quietly built what feds called the biggest ever drug smuggling operation in New England’s history, before suffering the largest ever narco assets seizure in US history. And he did it by leaving his Long Island mansion and going to Pakistan to meet the country’s biggest drug syndicate, the mountain warlords who ran the country. It’s one of the wildest stories in American crime history, never before told, until now. One scam can cost you everything. Use the code UNDERWORLD for up to 76 percent off at coveron.com/underworld Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 ora e 11 min
  • Shafted: How Cartels are Killing for Rare-Earths

    Shafted: How Cartels are Killing for Rare-Earths
    Aug 25 2026
    Bolivia's Cerro Rico has been spewing out tons of silver for centuries. It was the economic bellows of the Spanish Revolution, whose lust for the precious metal came at the price of some eight million slaves. Some of the empire's earliest gangs formed around the Cerro. They were called ‘Jukus,’ and one man stood above (or below) them all. Today's there's another, modern silver rush at Cerro Rico — and it's being led by the green energy revolution. EVs, wind turbines and data centers are all hungry for silver. Its price has almost quadrupled. That has brought a new wave of organized crime to Bolivia. This time they're smart, and armed. And the only people holding them back are a band of women packing nothing but dogs and sticks of dynamite. But Bolivia isn't alone. The race for rare-earth minerals has drawn cartels to mines across Latin America, killing miners and taking over entire operations from Quito to Cali. This documentary-style episode digs into organized crime's newest trend — and shows how dirty clean energy really is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    45 min
  • The Heroin Warlord of Pakistan: Armed Tribesman, the CIA, & a Smuggling Empire

    The Heroin Warlord of Pakistan: Armed Tribesman, the CIA, & a Smuggling Empire
    Aug 18 2026
    5000 armed tribesman at his beck and a call. A mountain compound in a lawless territory. A seat in Pakistan’s parliament bought and paid for. And a heroin and hash empire that stretched from the mountains of Afghanistan to million dollar mansions in Long Island. Ayub Afridi started life as a poor, illiterate truck driver in a mud hut and turned a trucking company into a global drug trafficking operation. And once the Soviet Union went to war with Afghanistan, his control of Pakistan’s tribal areas perfectly positioned him to become a kingmaker. The guns went up in his trucks, the the opium came down to be refined into heroin that would stretch across the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 ora e 3 min
  • Russian Mercenaries African Drug Empire, Israel’s Sushi Mob war & the murdered Assassin: Stash House

    Russian Mercenaries African Drug Empire, Israel’s Sushi Mob war & the murdered Assassin: Stash House
    Aug 11 2026
    On this episode of Stashhouse: Wagner's leftover mercenaries are running a tramadol empire in the heart of Africa, while in Monaco a bomb takes out a Ukrainian tycoon, then someone takes out the assassin. Grenades, the mob, and Japanese food: an Israeli underworld war is being waged on the country's biggest sushi chain. Plus updates on friends of the show Kaz Hamad and Lawrence Bishnoi, two men proving you can run a thriving criminal empire from a prison cell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 ora e 5 min
  • El Mayo Behind Bars: Cartel War, Conspiracy and Narcopolitics

    El Mayo Behind Bars: Cartel War, Conspiracy and Narcopolitics
    Aug 4 2026
    Earlier this month, Sinaloa Cartel mastermind Ismael Zambada García, aka El Mayo, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in growing one of the world’s biggest criminal empires. But while Mayo’s story may be ending, he leaves behind a mountain of unanswered questions. What actually went down on the day of his 2024 capture? Were US agents on the ground running the show? Who ordered the death of a major politician that same day? And who will come out on top, in the brutal Sinaloa civil war that has raged since Mayo was taken into American custody? A bumper show featuring Mayo’s attorney, a legal expert and Mexican investigative reporter Luis Chaparro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 ora e 8 min