In this week's episode CEE risk consultant and private detective P. "Konrad" Smith discusses a new twist on the "stripper scam" and why it is so difficult to prosecute, as well as regional crime, politics and mafia news, including: the IMF's decision to give Belarus USD 1 bln; allegations that the Czech SIS has been spying on the president; the continued investigation into former Latvian Central Bank governor Ilmars R. (as well as the flipping of a witness and death of another); the Polish lex-TVN conundrum; a massive Spanish-Swedish bust of a Swedish-Polish drug cartel possibly guilty of murdering some 50 persons; the weaponization by Belarus of migrants and the impasse at the Polish border; Ukrainian gas politics and finally the indictment of Yorgen F. in the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Galizia.
(Intro and outro riff copyright by Preston Smith and Marek Tymkoff).
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By PrestonIn this week's episode CEE risk consultant and private detective P. "Konrad" Smith discusses a new twist on the "stripper scam" and why it is so difficult to prosecute, as well as regional crime, politics and mafia news, including: the IMF's decision to give Belarus USD 1 bln; allegations that the Czech SIS has been spying on the president; the continued investigation into former Latvian Central Bank governor Ilmars R. (as well as the flipping of a witness and death of another); the Polish lex-TVN conundrum; a massive Spanish-Swedish bust of a Swedish-Polish drug cartel possibly guilty of murdering some 50 persons; the weaponization by Belarus of migrants and the impasse at the Polish border; Ukrainian gas politics and finally the indictment of Yorgen F. in the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Galizia.
(Intro and outro riff copyright by Preston Smith and Marek Tymkoff).