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The Underworld Podcast

Underworld exposes the secret world of transnational criminal networks that have flourished since th

Episodes

Total: 220

Amado Carrillo Fuentes was one of the most powerful drug traffickers of the 1990s, moving hundreds o

In 1987, Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona was on top of the world. He’d just handed his nation a

The 1990's in Moscow were the glory days of Russian organized crime. Emerging out of the downfall of

When cops on the English coast busted a bid to bring in a huge shipment of cocaine in 2020, it sent

When cops arrested a group of masked, black-robed protesters at a California campsite in 2019, most

There''s a new king at the top of the US weed game, raking in tens of billions of dollars, so organi

When Argentine soccer wizard Diego Armando Maradona swapped Barcelona for lowly Napoli in 1984, it s

How did a Canadian former Olympian build a one billion dollar narco empire? A few months ago, the f

You may have missed it, but there’s a new gang of train robbers in the American West — and they’re s

On Christmas Day, 1941, as bombs tear Hong Kong apart, gunrunner Morris "Two Gun" Cohen — a street h

In 1980s Miami, amid the glitz, gunfire, and power boats, two Cuban-American friends Sal Magluta and

Today the ‘Ndrangheta, Calabria’s clan-based Mafia, is one of the world’s richest and most powerful

Kurt Calabrese grew up in the Chicago mafia known as The Outfit. His father, Frank Calabrese Sr, was

Will Grant, the BBC’s Mexico, Central America and Cuba correspondent, was recently on the ground at

He’s a recluse, a cockfighting high-roller, a former cop and a maniac. But will Nemesio Oseguera Cer

South Africa's secretive Numbers Gangs almost defy description; they're one part cult, one part reli

Sean Williams reports from the Philippines, where former President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal drug war

Sean Williams reports from the Philippines, where former President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal drug war

The Ghost Shadows are said to have been the wildest of Chinatown's gun-toting teenage gangs in the 1

When Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms dealer and self-styled world’s richest man, met with US officials t