A century ago until the sound of modern military equipment brings you back. That on a drone power us says confused about where it is. Who is it is to the for carrying off. Thats where at the exact place where you printing and forces are trying to drive a wedge into a russian lines. Theres russian positions on 2 sides of the units based here. And whenever they take over these former russian trenches, what is the biggest problem . Suppose to the troops here are land mines, unexploded ordnance, improvise tracts, and whenever they try to move forward, they see the russians have move back to other layers of trenches. And that is what is slowing down the counter offensive areas like this on the southern front. Much needed ammunition arrives, sir. He, a carpenter before the war says there was only one thing. Frontline soldiers need more than most of the sugars. The people most is to go home, wishes to go home, to see the family apart from that, we have everything we need. It was because we can fight. We want to get rid of them and go home to see the russians are adjusting fire. He says, telling everyone that they cover the job of holding positions and pushing forward is a lot tougher than it looks where ukrainians, fire mortars and russians respond with 500 kilograms laser guided ariel zain bus route. The ultra 0 year rebecca and ukraines operational region. And thats it from me, emily anglin, reminder you can keep up today on our website, which is 0. Com. People impala is next. And then ill be back at the top of the hour with more needs the we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. So not to have the tank, it will bring you the news and current to fast that matter to you, the every, its a multi 1000000000. 00 price, each of organized crime pumped into the global economy, a turn to the money thats known to through the banking system. To disguise its origins. So how is it done . Came to find out to journalists, began to investigate the man allegedly involved in hiding devoss profit. Sophia, tell in mass. Yeah. But as this remarkable free episode report reveals little in this complex and 6 to 12 is quite what it seems. The the utility is the Perfect Place to be an investigative journalist. Its complicated history and politics. Its food and culture. Its ties to the vatican. Even. Its football. All of these things have been the source of interesting stories in the past, the assembly. And this is mike production parker and manuel a piano. For many years weve made documentary films, and most of them have been pretty straightforward. But the story that were about to tell you is Something Else entirely. It is a routine. Its an enigma, wrapped in riddles, buried in mysteries. Its the most remarkable and complicated story weve ever come across. And we found that almost by x its about Money Laundering. And much else, besides the next 3 episodes of people in power will tell you about the internet conspiracy theories. Your confidence, tricksters, and organized pricing. For a while it weighs all the the serial and the, the status of your thoughts for divorce and only. And youll hear the names of a famous russian movie director or ukrainian folk dancer computer hackers and even african fall edition. So this is a scale of the number one in the same as we try and make sense of what we havent covered. I mean all the mysterious businesses and people who dont seem to exist fully introduced the person at the heart of this complicated when a man most reluctant to reveal his secrets. Shes begging cma financial award on so many goals as the off coupon. With more of them later for now, lets start with we began almost 3 years ago with the International Narcotics trade and the italian mafia. Back in 2020, we were working on another story about organized crime and all too frequent occurrence for italian journalist. In the process, we interviewed michael, a former member of them that i can get the mafia from the region of calabria in southern italy and beautiful, you know, what are the we know which will be on your not present . Remember, one of the cubicle people martco told us that back in the 19 ninetys that arent you to build ties with latin american, cocaine cartels. Wanted to open up markets in europe. The prophets from the distribution of cocaine, he said, were loaded onto trucks and transported from italy to switzerland. By complacent banks, took the money and sent it out to other International Banks. Then when needed, some of it would come to the, to the, for me, the specific let me just see what the signatures i remember just starting to let me spend joyner moment. Your side of your marriage with you over somebody was a Drug Trafficking is immensely profitable. The cocaine trade alone is believe to be worth at least 130000000000. 00. And some estimate. It could be 5 times that figure then that i can get that has been trolling cocaine routes from south america to europe for at least 30 years. In this time, despite the periodic seizures of narcotics authorities of never managed to find the money until he retired in 2022. The best up in easy was the senior magistrate in the dna battalion, national mt mafia director. It, they lost the call, but they never gave that ceiling agreement. I need people, my feels a great low the, or ben i have a minimum the middle a few months. So in a given that the amenities component clean a few minutes might come. If im not at all bad, come, if im not, i dont know. Same thing. I just put the 2 on it, but i spend on me on food kit, thats d c. K. No, no, no, i get this past them up a bad of it. If i didnt that and this, youd point ways to solve the equity velocity i do, do you do . They are getting that to any agreement that we have. Tv that coleman way. Im on a ball. Go see as long as the same, pretty a copy of the quasi loan, but ive been finding the money thats for our own interest in this matter began for decades. Italian authorities, magistrates and journalists have tried to pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding the matthews treasure without ever succeeding and often dying in the process. Only if they call it and it will be the mafias code of silence. But in november 2020, we stories from columbia started appearing in the national press. We thought that this might change. The stories were based on an Italian Police report, dated february 2018. From the small city of father spoke of a man called the best way to go to that who was allegedly laundry, hundreds of billions of yours, on behalf of the mafia. The 1st journalist to break the story was on a 2nd child. She played a competitive document throughout the new for them at the, by the people for the month. Do you own the ones that you saw it as the label he talked to in the process. So. Okay. I left book. Uh, and in close to that i took it out to english. Uh you guess uh, yeah, the 40 most people would uh, move them for 5 days, but i mean, i need what i can see and im not able to not accept yon. Okay. Luckily tier loons goes to bob a home they throw on you on a limb in the middle of the on me quite look in the, in a quality and i look to the see it kind of go down. I some additional months when the new door that uh it goes out and would be something bothering them just because he needs he goes to the new york. Im not, im not too. Yeah. Itll, it wont move gab, display. He turned in on the bus, they needed the mfc that she had a little thing just soon. I won, youll for the. So itd be you said b c boss last saturday. So this was the only thing william and thoughts and if you on see i have yeah. Yeah. Why dont you see the sun, the chief of the 40 so, but let me do a bit of sunni, the, the out of being on the one on monday. Something i yeah. But we want it to know more if itll best to, to go to that it was really moving billions. And how was he doing it . Some of the sudden not that he can get but also in a spot for you all team long as the kid needs to do to loan to cut off cheap role models that uh uh, is it a uh pc. Uh and then mosque. Uh and see it off the lot of money from the couple of weeks before yesterday. And and then the other because this one only got in the carrier for monday. Good. Get the equipment the other loaded this the, this is from 2 to 3 minutes to do with the subject on this stuff inside the destination. It needs to be that looks good. Deal to come in then. So was better than quantity. Uh, i think shes the only pool can be laid off on the lock it a pushing destruction of wifes beautiful boy. Remember that expression . White, spiritual boy, youll hear it a number of times. The italian cord files described how the names of 2 men surgical, these in the meet the bad or associated with International Bank accounts leave to contain billions of dollars. According to police, roberto recorded that. It was trying to recover these assets for the mafia allegations. He is always strongly denied, but who exactly . Were a subject on this. Certainly me too bad. And why were their names connected to organized crime . Initially, the name of the me through vax didnt threw up anything in our online searches. But we found subject on this. I was named in an article from 1989 about a murder out of highway toll gate near austin in central utilities. The report said that on the date of day so was shot and killed. He was carrying 350000000 leading cash in the trunk of his car. Quando, suppose the machines are defined, they solve your manifest their money. In my statement to show kathy political car usher rama. Unfortunately, check out the kids to think we saw the notion part of the marketing actually going to manual, meet you to the contents of the brooklyn that are not finished. My, my billing im up to fort shoulder to shoulder with central contest. So throughout the late 19 eighties, lending cash to high rollers at the famous month to capital casino in monaco. Together they ran an operation associated with the casino, known as a loans office. Feel free to add a little free. Turbo recreating fee should be void j. Let me know if it available. So you dont. If were pretty low, siobhan, lets say you have a lender and you want to send a debit. And if you should come to the wish to send you a new one know photocopy natalia, they call. Yeah, the model cocked in the side. Yeah. It dont push that, dr. Jordan from the charlotte. I know its funny really because he had he put a label on the content of the 1st time i know. But if i got a little feel free to do the saturday, i dont put them in the job to do. Shotwell, but they stop or they put the spectral one or they bring me 1st thing pre more than that. Im one pick out or hes ever very minor to, to luckily and fill up a c. C map that what our dc will allow us to find a dish or dont you should clean this on. No, no problem. No. Later i was going try to do it. A queen the blank is actually kept up from without knowing whether subject on this as depth was a targeted killings or merely a robbery for cash that went wrong. We didnt yet know nor did we. I dont understand why his name had more recently been used by to better political died in connection with. Suppose that matthew Bank Accounts overseas the our aim was to try and unlock some of the secrets that it was not as networks to establish whether he really was the master money launder that the police had suspected. And if so, what else he in the mafia might have been up to. But we soon began to realize that nothing in this Looking Glass world was white. What do you see . The subject of this was survive by his son body to, according to the problem, the police wire taps in late 2017, go back to godaddy, received the power of attorney from body took on this to administer his fathers account. We managed to find body to he agreed to meet us at the toll gate in order to where his father was killed over 30 years ago. We wanted to ask him about his fathers a legit accounts and whether there was any tangible evidence of their existence. Beautiful delight. But thats what ive actually let me in the minutes. Yeah. Chad, that was i think going to that i mean, a bunk engines that i live that i me there when i, when i bought a new cars and i dont know, i cant read this. So the sooner impulse done it. But as it ended up on visions around a body to denied any connection with the mafia, he claimed that he found documents testing to the existence of his fathers accounts in a briefcase after his fathers death. The accounts he said were given to his father, to administer during the 1980s by the 2nd signatory the meeting that motivates you also said that she had tried to withdraw the money in the past without ever succeeding. We found evidence that in 2007 body to clean to have transferred 1300000000. 00 from san jose and legit accounts at the central bank of denmark. Twin is really beck calling pop only according to is rarely court documents. When hoppel in bank refused to hand over the some body to his brother in law, and a 3rd person called danielle at the shop, filed the lawsuit against the bank body to explain that the man called them in at the shop was an exceptionally skilled hacker who used to work for him. This furniture and the money i bought in my own computer, it was almost done so, so its a shot here. So this was the wont do that. So what is it in nancy stam ivy just very mean call need bus support from normally less trouble. Ok. A normal the just sent a corner. Yeah. Itd be the movie that thats it. Okay, sure. Plus the leave of normally less of a lot of us. It is a multi to a city works as an art dealer, but what he so candidly described sounded more like hacking attempt than a banking transaction. He also showed a swift or seats of deal engine transfers. We asked matthew to like an expert on Money Laundering and banking transactions. What swift receipts are, and whether the print that was provided by modi. Typical, this were real sweet to a when asked that i guess it even bad job and the way get back that you brought up in cheap. Im into the budget to the bank. Ok. Because i said this week to week this saturday, the book theater, right . A lot of times thats the only email that you requested to them on the reset. No spa status, and that will not be c spa stuff. It just be shit. Youve got it mixed g c, my hand. I went up and i, when i got the chain book k, e o u v, a student at o. C is the same as me for quite yet, but all but then i consider method on the permit satchel. Was the issue this week to get them on the to cause any balance bus one last, so that will cause a put in all right, the post the book is being a big subsystem possible today. 5, itll be nice in bunk keel. So when you think she could, i mean the e call did she meet kick . Assuming dana single quarterback, delivery back not listed. Im not sure if you guys use the lab will need to go down with the 253 multi point time according to the is rarely court documents. The lawsuit against helpful in bank was discontinued in 2009 because they signed his partners failed to pay in advance on legal fees demanded by the court. We contacted hoppel him back to ask them what they could tell us about the affair. They replied with a one line statement. Due to banking secrecy, we are unable to comment on individual clients. We also wrote to Denmarks National bank asking about the account. They replied as a central bank. We do not engage in commercial banking activities, and we have no knowledge of the accounts and or transactions as described. It always seems highly improbable that just so you know, money lenders, surgical this ever did have billions of euro stashed away in denmark, special banks and other international institutions. But it beg the question, there is no such funds existed in the 1st place. Then why was the legend master money launder the best way to go to di trying to others to access the money . While we puzzled over that riddle, we also tried to find out more about the identity of the meat to basically the 2nd supposed and signatories of the mysterious accounts. And it means that when the total size, yeah, give me the dont well and so they dont know, maybe events. Lets see what i mean. Civil and so it along with a to pay to prove is chase. Moti took on the sub, showed us a photocopy of the meat events, the passport, the photograph on it and see what vaguely familiar. We took a moment to translate the cyrillic script on it. It reveals that the actual name written the brush on the document was giving you the data of a far more famous russian imaginary movie director. And they upset me, reach that cost the vascular version of the passport shown by moody 2 of them. This was in fact an obvious fate of the federal government from the kitchen stuff and the cost body took them this decline to say more. And of course, its impossible to say for sure that im the golf ski. The movie director never used the identity of someone who called the meet the vet. But it seems extraordinarily unlikely that if they meet the battle of wasnt that golf ski then who was searching through the archives of websites set up over the years by hackers . Them yet at the show, we found the 1st occurrence of the name you need to back. Those spelled slightly differently. The name was published on the website of a u. K. Company called the g f service limited, late 2014. The gf service was part of the network of a Mysterious Organization called alpha omega station. Its strange manifesto, published in 2014, announced many coming of a new world order. Among other ramblings a u. S. Claim to control assets within the Federal Reserve system. And at the b, i s. The bank for international settlements, an Umbrella Organization for central banks. The leader of a o. S, we learned was a russian man called lobby me even though beach comes according to background checks, run by a tell. You know, ford is during a 2014 securities Fraud Investigation blog. You may have come to had previously been at the center of a number of scams involving faith securities. We wrote the comes up well now seems to reside in the United States to ask him about alpha omega station. Not for the 1st time in this investigation. We had a less than clear reply comes. I simply told us to look for a man called the nearly buttons former commodities broker, who could explain the matter to us. They may be able to afford for an economic interest on a fucking nickel promptly for like a bottle. Why dont people, what is it called top hill keep keep occupied for money each of to feed. Ill get somebody quin carpet. Give me a bit of 40 on my case. I dont, i run the light of this to lesson, but i that is Something Like that. All cat or sing, but i know they called say they ali more. All my thoughts than that youd be just a general because okay, a lot of people, several miners, a lot of the you gentlemen bundled last day to say because the whole is up on to 40 to files from 2014 investigation on flag to me comes out and others in 2009, the russian forger enlisted hacker done yet the short and broken nearly bottom line in his team. In an exchange of emails found in the police files the latter to discuss the steps to be taken to activate a system of accounts in anticipation of a meeting, which will allow the me to come to himself. Take project with those who stand she the sham goes and see that i just say, oh, not go look at bob. You got the car. Got uh, is the cause of the your test would it be stopped near the bottom line, refused to explain further what the system of accounts was all about. The only other person who could answer our questions was the hacker himself, then unit ashanti. We found an address for his family in a small town near rome and went to look for his sake, but also saw that cells just got moved in yet and im a septic. Why was it about that one . Think a fan while we were about to leave any of this family came walking out of the gate. Rough enough . You gotta have being any ideas of what time are you . Im a little do quite emissions because i was going through this google mash. It doesnt finish to do this, they will listen to you and part of it, they have know they have to deal with the account on the account and move on to a web level. Most of the the, you know, the some of that the yeah. The, although his relatives said they hadnt seen him for years. The shop does seem to be still active on the way through a search in the internet registry. Who is we manage to find his fiance is address. We rang the buzzer several times, but were always told that them. Yeah. And it was out. Finally, we were asked to desist, so we decided to leave a message with a telephone number. But them, yeah, they never called us back. What had started as an investigation into Money Laundering was quickly turning bizarre. Our findings showed that there was much more inside the body. The Police Report that it tells you authorities had missed. The banking accounts allegedly managed by to better go to court that it seemed to be part of a wider system of special accounts created by forger or hacker, or both, possibly as part of a Money Laundering scheme or fraud. Was the mafias treasure hidden in the folds of the system . Or was it all of a smoke screen hiding Something Else entirely . We were at a dead thats when we stumbled on the list of banking Operations Published by, according to you, if you create one of the operations and the list match to the letter. One of the transactions via tell the police had overheard the best political not to discuss. It wasnt apparent transfer of money from germany to malaysia. The amount was beyond belief to trillion yours. In the next step is so people in power. As the mystery deepens, we travel to ukraine in search of answers and some familiar needs. Well, the chiller, the vice of me 30 to, to look to the this is the real, this is no joke. And this is, this is just now that you heard, it seems here from the area where we are constantly and ask along being fired from the papers to the southern areas of the goals district. And they have been targeted by the is really very close to the gossip or the weve seen a lot of times last fall. But i will say we are seeing increasing numbers. This is giving a picture of what kind of to be on this front inequality corruption, depression, and range in. Its just this ties, it costs the piece of cake. Im sure its a joke you meant for it. Explores the desperate states of democracy and 11 through the eyes of those who are losing home every day. 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