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The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

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Underworld exposes the secret world of transnational criminal networks that have flourished since there were banks to bust, drugs to smuggle, and scams to run. Journalists Danny Gold and Sean Williams bring their experience reporting on dangerous people and organizations to take listeners on a global tour of mobsters, warlords and crooks - from Brooklyn to Beijing, from the streets to the boardrooms - and everywhere in between. Underworld is a show about heroes, villains, and the barely visible mafias that affect all our lives, whether we know it or not.Copyright © 2002 Airwave Media. All rights reserved. Biographies & Memoirs Social Sciences True Crime World
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  • The Chinese Gangsters Taking Over a Tropical Country

    The Chinese Gangsters Taking Over a Tropical Country
    Mar 31 2026
    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 for the story to unfold. These men were the foot soldiers in a new crime wave hitting Palau: digital scammers at the sharp end of a trillion-dollar empire run by the world’s richest gangster, and orchestrated by one of China’s most infamous Triad kingpins. As Palauan cops dismantled the operation, they discovered it had more than a little to do with their nation’s recognition of Taiwan — and Beijing’s attempt to use organized crime to bring Asia’s states to heel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Daniel Kinahan's Iran Oil Games, The King of the South & Trump's War on Narcos: Stashhouse!

    Daniel Kinahan's Iran Oil Games, The King of the South & Trump's War on Narcos: Stashhouse!
    Mar 24 2026
    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 Ecuador's narcos and potentially the rest of Latin America, the Scam Lord King of Asia might be saying goodbye for good, and even more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    59 mins
  • The Iraqi-Aussie Gangster Lighting up Melbourne: Kaz Hamad

    The Iraqi-Aussie Gangster Lighting up Melbourne: Kaz Hamad
    Mar 17 2026
    Melbourne has been gripped by a new wave of underworld gang wars, this time fueled by the booming billion dollar black-market tobacco trade. Firebombings, drive-by shootings, and extortion targeting shops across the city have roiled the city as middle eastern syndicates and biker gangs fight over profit. At the center of the chaos is underworld figure Kaz Hamad, whose name keeps surfacing as rival crime crews battle for control of a trade worth tens of millions. Deported to Iraq, he kept running the racket remotely until his arrest in early 2026, blazing a path of ruthlessness that authorities seem incapable of stopping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 6 mins
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Great podcast about organized crime. learned a lot of new and interesting things about criminal groups around the globe.

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good podcast. white dude from NY insulted me one time years ago, thought about killing him, but realized he didn't mean to and he never realized he did it. all in all good podcast.

good podcast

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