Cocaine is big business. So big in fact it’s worth $180 billion globally, with Australians among its biggest customers.
Cocaine Inc. — a new podcast series from True Crime Australia and the UK’s The Times and Sunday Times, examines the global drug business.
News Corp Australia reporter Stephen Drill, The Times chief reporter Fiona Hamilton and The Sunday Times northern editor David Collins travel more than 50,000 kms across six countries to unmask the key players, how they operate and the trail of destruction they leave behind.
They expose how cocaine has become a global enterprise where the profits are in the millions and the losses are measured in murders.
You will hear exclusive interviews with money mules, corrupt dock workers, and some of the world’s most senior police and border force officers who are trying to stop the cocaine kingpins.
Do you know more? Contact us at cocaineinc@news.com.au
Cocaine Inc. is available with a subscription and features exclusive audio and video interviews and online interactives. You can get it by downloading your local News Corp title news app via the App store now.
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WATCH THE VIDEO
OUR INVESTIGATION: PART ONE
LISTEN TO EPISODE 1
A brutal attack on an innocent young woman sends the reporters on a global investigation. David Collins visits Merseyside in northern England, where 26-year-old Elle Edwards was shot while celebrating Christmas Eve.
OUR INVESTIGATION: PART TWO
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Where people fight and die in the coca plantations. In Colombia, Stephen Drill discovers how the international cocaine business starts, and the cost paid by everyone it touches.
OUR INVESTIGATION: PART THREE
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As cocaine is smuggled out of South America it multiplies in value, driving people to extremes.
OUR INVESTIGATION: PART FOUR
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Europe’s vast ports act as logistic hubs in a worldwide operation that relies on corruption and torture.
OUR INVESTIGATION: PART FIVE
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On the streets of northern England where chaos reigns among those doing the selling.
David Collins spends time in Merseyside, speaking to people working in the retail arm of the cocaine business.
OUR INVESTIGATION: PART SIX
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Drug money is carried out of the UK in suitcases carried by passengers travelling in luxury. A cash mule tells David Collins about the brazen operation used to smuggle millions to Dubai.
OUR INVESTIGATION: PART SEVEN
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Undercover in a gleaming world where nobody asks questions. David Collins follows the money trail through Dubai’s crowded gold souk to its luxurious office blocks.
OUR INVESTIGATION: PART EIGHT
LISTEN TO EPISODE 8
The investigation takes us to a $10 million home in a leafy city suburb. Back home in Melbourne, Stephen Drill picks up a money trail leading right past his front door.
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