To the Police Officer in the law. Why did you decide to come back after you went south . Ever been . Is a little bit to the site to boat. No house. It doesnt matter what it is. For now, is this the bakery in line to actually be able to vice bread . This has been sadly, has been, is displaced just full of troubles. You can literally just street the city is really worth the i see it for me, emily, im going to people and pallet the the challenges here with 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 2 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 secretive world is quite what it seems. The the utility is the Perfect Place to be an investigative journalist. Its, 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 in 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. Already ways 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 of ukrainians. Folk dancer, computer hackers, and even african follow the dish. So this is a skin, im the number one in honey. And as we try and make sense of what we havent covered, i mean all the mysterious businesses and people who dont seem to exist will introduce you to the person at the heart of this complicated with a man most reluctant to reveal his secrets. Shes begging c l a, a financial award on somebody else as the off of the picture of something 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 to the mafia from the region of calabria in southern italy and beautiful which will be on your not present. Remember, one of the 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 to specifically see what the signatures i remember just starting to let me spend joiner. Im at your side of your marriage with you over somebody. I think Drug Trafficking is immensely profitable. The cocaine trade alone is believed to be worth at least 130000000000. 00. And some estimate. It could be 5 times that figure that i can get that has been controlling cocaine routes from south america to europe for at least 30 years. In this time, despite the periodic seizures of not maddox, authorities have never managed to find the money until he retired in 2022. From best up in easy was a senior magistrate in the dna battalion, national mt mafia director, it, they lost the call, but they never gave that ceiling agreement. How do you people, my, feels it great low the or ben i have a minimum the middle a few months. So in a given the amenities including a few minutes like home, if i dont know that will be come. If im not, i dont know. Same thing, i have these put the 2 on the but i spend on me on so chip that 50 c k. No, no, no, i get this past, then my thing better. If i didnt that and this youd point the ways to solve the equation velocity. I dont go in, do they or getting that to any agreement that we have tv coleman way. Hang on it. Paul go, sees law is the same pretty to compare 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 called it and they told me 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 problems that spoke of a man called the best protocol 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 the account. Oh, she played a competitive document throughout the new for them at the by the people for the month. Do you own the 160 charlotte . Thats the label he thought to in the process. So okay. I left boca and then close to that. And you can opt out in place. Uh, you guess. Uh, yeah, for the most people would uh, move them for 5 days, but i mean, so then you know what i can see and im not able to not kept your kid. Luckily t i lose goes to bob a home they throw on you on a limb, in the middle of the on me quite a look in the, in a quality and i look to the see it kind of go down. I simply someones when its a new door that it goes out and would be something bothering them just because he knew if he got significant im not im not too. Yeah. Ill do it. One more gab, display. He turned in on the bus. They needed the mfc that she had a little thing just soon. I will 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 wanted 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 lets get sue to come in and move. So was better than quantity. The thing to do me poor can be laid off on the lock it a pushing destruction of whites 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 bachelor didnt threw up anything in our online searches. But we found central contest. I was named in an article from 1989 about a murder out of highway toll gate near austin in central get to the report said that on the day contest 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 the i meant that you have money in my statement to show kathy political car wash your mama. Unfortunately, checked out of pocket to take we saw the notion part of the marketing actually called the manual, meet you to the conditions of the brussel not be not finished. On monday the multiple worked shoulder to shoulder was central contest. So throughout the late 19 eighties, lending cash to high rollers at the famous month, a capital casino in monaco. Together they ran an operation associated with the casino, known as a loans office. Feel free to add a little feature to reconnect fee. It 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 information comfortably. Just wish to send you in a while for copying it died. Yeah, they could of yeah, the model got any thought. Yeah. In the for safety orthogeorgia on this chart. I know its funny really because he had he put a label on it quite daunted at 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 does that order. They put a stop to what are they putting the 1st thing putting in more than that im going to pick out or is that with a minor to directly and fill up a c c map that what our dc . Well, i would, i still felt the issue dont you should clean this on . No, no problem really. It, im going try to do it. Heres the green, the blanket thats think im not sure whether surgical this was 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 best protocol to died in connection with suppose in mock, you Bank Accounts overseas. The, our aim was to try and unlock some of the secrets of the cliff, not as networks to establish whether he really was the master money launder and 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 quite what is 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 the go daddy received the power of attorney from body took on this to administer his fathers accounts. We managed to find moti 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 delays. But the actual lead me is the, is the a chair that was i going to that im either in a bunk cousins that i live that i me day when i, when im buying kind of the so the me but soon inputs done. Do you get to know whats going on . What is it ended up on visions around a multi 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 signatories, the meet the van motives. Youll 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 that the central bank of denmark to it is really beck called hoppel and live 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 the shop, filed the lawsuit against the bank body to explain that the man called them unit. The shop was an exceptionally skilled hacker who used to work for him to own the. Busy of the, 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 next . You stem ivy . Thats very mean calling you support from the simple ok. A number of yellow need since you said a corner here, if you the movie that thats it. Okay, sure. Plus the leave of normally less of a lot, peggy buckley, i said, these are multi to a city works as an art dealer. But what do you so candidly described sounded more like a hacking attempt than a banking transaction. He also showed a swift or seats of deal injured transfers. We asked money 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 see, like i said, the banjo and the way get that, that you brought up in cheap. Im into the budget to the bank. Ok. Because i said this week to week this saturday, but they are right. A lot of times thats the only you that a question to them on the 3 fat and most boss spanish, some denado, maybe the spa, stuff, it just the shit youve added me. Sad cheek to see my hand, i went up and i went out and got the chain. The p e o u v o, which doesnt at all see is the same as we from quite yet, but all but again, i consider method on the permit satchel. Was the issue with this week to get them on the to cause any bands us on last it and then it goes at a put in a family, the post the book to give you an a gig if thats possible today 5, itll be nice in punk here, so would you be, she would, i mean, the e called the to meet, click this link denison. Correct. Did anybody back . Not listed on not just if you go through the steps of the lab, we need to go that over to the chief study multiple times. The according to the israel, the Court Documents the lawsuit against toppling bank was discontinued in 2009 because couldnt they sign his partners failed to pay in advance on legal fees demanded by the court . We contacted hoppel in bank 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 accounts. 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, saddlebrook on this ever did have billions of euro stashed away in Denmarks National bank 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 meet 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 then. 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 with. We took a moment to translate the cyrillic script on it. It reveals that the actual name written in brushing on the document was giving you the best, 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 all the didnt make up cost multi to them. They said decline to say more. And of course, its impossible to say for sure that im the day to go see the movie director. Never use the identity of someone called the meet the vet. But it seems extraordinarily unlikely yet if you 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, the me 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 the 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 up. According to background checks run by its housing authorities during the 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 a 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 as 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 bump, bottle. Why dont people, what is it called top hill . I keep keep occupancy because i for monday difficult. Ill get somebody going cause they give me a bit of 40 on my case. I dont, i run the light of this to lesson, but i that is something with that all cat or send, but i know they called say they are more all my thoughts than that. Youd be just a general because okay, a lot of people, several minors, a lot of the you gentlemen bundle of paper said because the whole is out bundle according to files from the 2014 investigation on vladimir comes out and others in 2009, the russian forger enlisted hacker done yet, it does show and brokers in the buttons on 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 with vladimir, come to himself, take project with those who stay machine and the ocean he goes and see, but 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 heck for 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. So just kinda move in yet and im a septic. Why was it about that one . Think a sedan while we were about to leave this family came walking out of the gate. Rough enough grandmother. You gotta have being any ideas of what time are you . Im a little do this just like i said, were going through this google mash. It doesnt finish to do this, they will listen to you and part of it they have no, they have to deal with the account on the account and move on to a level myself. So the so 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 web, 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 the me and it was out. Finally, we were asked to desist, so we decided to leave a message with a telephone number, but then 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 board, both possibly as part of a Money Laundering scheme. Or fraud was in matthews 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 a court in t of ukraine. One of the operations and the list match to the letter. One of the transactions via tell the police had overheard got a bad political not to discuss. 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