Two Steps East with private detective P. "Konrad" Smith

Two Steps East: the week, including low level gang crime; mobsters and the war in Ukraine; cocaine and Darko S. in the Balkans; the Albanian KLA pizza story; the bogus Kherson bomb link; Serbia woes; boxing, the vory and the Kinahans


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In this episode Your Preferred Consulting Detective in CEE covers low-level gangster crime returning to the region (currency exchange hits and more); more on MEK in Albania; the death of a Polish arms smuggler in Albania (and how he ripped off the Polish government); slander (maybe) against the KLA; a tale of the KLA, flat tires and pizza; Bulgarian denials and stress over the Kherson bridge bombing;  a convicted Romanian banker sues his bank; the Dodik factor in BiH; Serbia between a rock and a hard place (i.e. pressure from the EU, the US and Russia); the Balkan cocaine trade and the arrest and trial of Darko S. and the Sky App convictions; more on the Kinahan-Hutch war and Imre A. the assassin--and Lithuanian's muddled attempt to have him extradited; Johnny M., the Kinahans and boxing and the mess that it amateur boxing and the actual past connections to the Russian vory. 

Happy listening and have a great day!

[Soundtracks copyright Preston Smith/Marek Tymkoff (Bone Music/The Ohm Song). 

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Two Steps East with private detective P. "Konrad" SmithBy Preston