In a special Two Steps East series, CEE private detective/risk intelligence expert and investigator Preston Smith examines the history of the Thieves-in-Law/Vory v Zakone crime groups and how Russian spy games, modern organized crime a North Ossetian murder gang and an NGO all became entwined in one of the largest money-laundering schemes ever--and how they came under the eye of Spanish police and Polish authorities both.
In this episode the ring of mafia players, including Niall M., Aslan G. and Tambovskaya mob leader Gennady P., Niall M. is bought to justice by Spanish, Russian and Austrian law enforcement despite the lobbying of a mysterious NGO based in Poland--an NGO whose track record is questionable and whose leaders have themselves run afoul, controversially, with the law while also pushing for the ouster of the current, equally controversial government.
(Bonemusic [intro and outro] copyright Preston Smith and Marek Tymkoff)
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By Preston In a special Two Steps East series, CEE private detective/risk intelligence expert and investigator Preston Smith examines the history of the Thieves-in-Law/Vory v Zakone crime groups and how Russian spy games, modern organized crime a North Ossetian murder gang and an NGO all became entwined in one of the largest money-laundering schemes ever--and how they came under the eye of Spanish police and Polish authorities both.
In this episode the ring of mafia players, including Niall M., Aslan G. and Tambovskaya mob leader Gennady P., Niall M. is bought to justice by Spanish, Russian and Austrian law enforcement despite the lobbying of a mysterious NGO based in Poland--an NGO whose track record is questionable and whose leaders have themselves run afoul, controversially, with the law while also pushing for the ouster of the current, equally controversial government.
(Bonemusic [intro and outro] copyright Preston Smith and Marek Tymkoff)