Twice winner of the 'Best Deep Dive Podcast' at the Publishers Podcast Awards, shortlisted four times for 'Best Investigative Podcast' and once for 'Best Video Podcast'.
The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime brings you stories and investigations from the global criminal underworld.
The topics covered by Deep Dive are far ranging, one episode could be looking at a hybrid paramilitary organized criminal cartel; the next could be the dismantling of an encrypted communications network; or the use of complex corporate structures to hide illicit activity; or the role organized crime has in the recycling industry.
This podcast series demonstrates the wide ranging investigations and research carried out by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
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Dethroning BigBoss: The Fall of Archetyp | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (01:00:36)
Inspired by the ethos of Silk Road and the lifespans of Agora and Dream Market, a new player emerged from the shadows of Tor in 2020: Archetyp. Built on promises of security, usability, and “ethical” ...
Living Together: The Gangs of Haiti - Part 3: "Wake Up! The Bandits Are Coming!" | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:44:43)
Part 3 - "Wake Up! The Bandits Are Coming!"At the end of March this year, officers from the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) responded to a request for assistance when an armour...
Living Together: The Gangs of Haiti - Part 2: Fighting Back | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:56:03)
Part 2 - 'Fighting Back'In 2022, a video emerged of an alleged senior gang member, Zo Pwason, who had been caught by an armed group of Haitian citizens, led by Commissioner Jean-Ernest Muscadin. Zo Pw...
Living Together: The Gangs of Haiti - Part 1: The Death of a President | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (01:06:28)
Part 1 - "The Death of a President"In July 2021, the President of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, was assassinated as he slept at home by a band of mercenaries. His murder sparked a wave of violent protests and...
Drugs, Dead Drops and the Battle Over Russian Darknet Markets | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (01:15:16)
If you were to walk around a Russian city, you might not realise it but hundreds of small packages of drugs, could be just below the surface, buried in the ground, or maybe attached to the back of a n...
Colombia & Total Peace: Part 2: Buenaventura – “The Pact for Life” | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:45:23)
Buenaventura – “The Pact for Life”Buenaventura has long been an important node in international illicit markets, particularly cocaine trafficking due to its port. Gangs, paramilitaries and organized c...
Colombia & Total Peace: Part 1 - "The ELN - The Easy Win" | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:59:04)
Colombia is a country that has been racked by conflict for around 60 years - multiple armed groups and organized crime have waged war against each other and the state.In 2016, after nearly seven years...
Mohamed Amra and the gangs of Marseille | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:36:01)
In May 2024, a prison van was attacked at a highway toll in Normandy, France. In dramatic footage shared on social media, a black SUV, driving the wrong direction, rammed into the prison van just as i...
The Long Tail: Cross-Channel Migrant Smuggling (France to the UK) | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:54:41)
On the 1st May 2024, 711 migrants successfully crossed the Channel between France and the UK in small boats. This year is so far on track to see the highest number of crossings on record.This highly i...
LockBit: Is this the end? | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:34:36)
LockBit, the world's largest ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) provider suffered a very public takedown by an international law enforcement task force, Operation Cronos.The ransomware behemoth quickly re...
Russia, War & Organized Crime | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:46:02)
Russian organized crime has a mythology attached to it - the brutal tattooed men of the Vory v Zakone. But those days are long in the past, rapid globalisation saw a new type of organized criminal tak...
What is going on in Ecuador? | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:28:15)
At the start of the year masked gunman burst into a television studio in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The cameras were live and the entire event was broadcast. The video shows gang members shouting at staff, p...
Monitoring: Ovidio Guzmán and the Kingpin Strategy | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:20:48)
'The King is dead, long live the King!'In September 2023, Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, stood in a courtroom as a series of charges were laid out, including his alleged ro...
Illicit Financial Flows in the Western Balkans | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:41:05)
“If you can do it without consequences, then you should do it”.What are illicit Financial Flows, or IFFs? And why do they matter? Every illicit market, from drug trafficking, people smuggling, the ill...
Monitoring: A Month of Drug Seizures | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:12:02)
In September 2023, there were four large cocaine seizures in and around the Atlantic Ocean - off the coast of Ireland, West Africa, Brazil, and Cape Verde. The flows of cocaine that traverse the Atlan...
“They don’t ******* withdraw it” - Scam Call Centres in Ukraine | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:40:31)
Scam call centres are a blight on the lives of anyone unfortunate enough to have any dealings with them. They come to you with promises of a short cut to wealth, to fix a non-existent issue with your ...
Colombia: In the face of crime and violence | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:43:53)
For over half a century armed groups in Colombia have battled one another and the state across the country. The FARC, ELN, AUC, AGC, and the infamous drug cartels, have committed untold atrocities on ...
The Rise and Fall of the Conti Ransomware Group | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (01:18:54)
For around two years the Conti ransomware group rampaged across the internet. They attacked hospitals, educational institutions, businesses, governments, and many more, raking in hundreds of millions ...
“Death Can Wait”: Drugs on the Frontline in Ukraine | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:41:03)
Throughout history soldiers have used drugs, sometimes to fight better or to stay alert, or perhaps to help cope with the extreme psychological situation and trauma they are faced with. The current co...
P2 - The Murder of Ahmed Divela | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:42:23)
Part 2: "The truth will triumph".The description of Ahmed's murder showed that the killers were professionals, trained in the use of firearms. But despite the crowds that witnessed the killing, no one...
P1 - The Murder of Ahmed Divela | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:29:30)
Part 1: "Ahmed was no coward".On World Press Freedom Day (3rd May) 2018, the Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo, took to the stage in Accra to deliver a speech on press freedom. Ghana, had long been ...
P2 - The Wagner Group in Sudan | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:52:18)
Part 2: “It’s the worst kept secret in Sudan”.In 2019, the Dossier Centre in London, shared some leaked internal documents from the private military company, the Wagner Group. The documents showed tha...
P1 - The Wagner Group in Sudan | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:42:33)
Part 1: “Who are these guys and what are they doing here?”In late February 2022, Airport workers in Khartoum International Airport in Sudan are stood glued to television screens, watching Russian tank...
The Drug Markets of East and Southern Africa | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:57:51)
Africa is often the forgotten continent for things like drug trafficking, but just look around the news, the African continent plays a critical role in the global illicit drug market – and its growing...
How to Respond to Environmental Crime | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime (00:51:23)
What does the term 'Environmental Crime' mean to you? Probably something like elephant or rhino poaching. Perhaps the plight of the pangolin, the adorable little armoured mammal, often sighted as the ...
