22: It Could Be Your High Street: How Cartels Wash Their Dirty Billions
JUN 15, 202629 MIN
22: It Could Be Your High Street: How Cartels Wash Their Dirty Billions
JUN 15, 202629 MIN
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<p>You probably walk past it every day without knowing...</p><p>Every drug empire produces one thing above all else: cash. <strong>Mountains of it. </strong>The International Monetary Fund estimates that between two and five trillion dollars is laundered around the world every year - and at least half a trillion comes from the drug trade alone. But how do you clean dirty money?</p><p>From the black market ‘peso exchange’ to purpose-built deposit windows at high street banks, offshore shell companies, and cryptocurrency: the methods have evolved, but the goal never changes. </p><p>In this episode, we follow the money with three men who spent careers tracking it: <strong>Terry Burke</strong>, former head of security at the Bank of England; <strong>Martin Dubbey</strong>, former UK customs drug liaison officer; and <strong>Phil Matthews</strong>, who worked the money trail from Washington alongside the DEA, FBI and CIA.</p><p>And the answer to where the money hides might surprise you. It could be the nail bar on the corner. The barber shop you walk past every day. <strong>It could be your high street.<br><br></strong>But the cartels didn’t always have it their own way. Here’s the real sting from the investigstors on the front lines. <strong><br></strong><br>These are the Narco Warriors.<br>New episodes every Monday.</p></div>