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beejeezuz
Jul 24, 2022
super informative and we'll put together podcast
Gangster presents...
A 6-part true crime podcast documenting the biggest organised crime bust in British policing history. It happens in 2020 when police in France penetrate an encrypted phone network called EncroChat. According to police, the phones were used exclusively by criminals. For over two months, police forces across Europe were reading the secret communications of major league criminal networks. The Metropolitan Police, working with the National Crime Agency and other forces, used this information to uncover the workings of organised crime groups. “It was like being in a room with them and they are talking freely, and they don't see you there,” says DCI Driss Hayoukane, the Senior Investigating Officer who led the Met’s EncroChat operation. Police went public about the EncroChat hack in July 2020. This is the first time that the inside story of some of the Met’s biggest EncroChat cases has been told to a broadcaster. Talking exclusively to BBC Sounds, police officers reveal how they used the gangsters’ messages to uncover arms dealing and expose murder plots as well as major drug trafficking and money laundering operations. Stories featured in the series include:
- A murder plot unearthed by the Met in a joint operation with South Wales police. - Two apparently legitimate businessmen, living in a Buckinghamshire village, whose wealth really came from cocaine trafficking and major league money laundering, - A corrupt police officer who was working for a notorious London crime group.
At a time when the Metropolitan Police Service has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, it’s a rare story of an extraordinary success: nearly 1000 arrests; over 400 convictions; the seizure of £19 million in cash, three tonnes of Class A and B drugs and 49 guns. But presenter Mobeen Azhar does not shy away from what have been difficult issues for the Met police: an officer from the Met’s anti-corruption unit speaks for the first time about how hacked EncroChat messages helped to expose the worst case of police corruption he had ever seen; and Mobeen asks the officer leading theMet’s EncroChat investigation about the experience of being an ethnic minority officer in a force found to be institutionally racist. Catching the Kingpins is a BBC Studios Production for BBC Sounds. Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Series Producer: Andrew Hosken Editor and Executive Producer: Innes Bowen Sound designer: Peregrine Andrews Assistant Commissioner: Lorraine Okuefuna Commissioning Editor: Louise Kattenhorn Production Executive: Laura Jordan-Rowell Creative Director for BBC Studios: Georgia Moseley Unit Manager: Lucy Bannister Production manager: Elaina Boateng Development Executive: Anya Saunders Editorial Policy Advice: Su Pennington Legal advice: Hashim Mude and Andrew Downey Consulting editor: Steve Boulton Production Co-ordinator: Juliette Harvey Thanks also to Beena Khetani, Adele Humbert, Hugh Levinson, Ali Rezakhani, Rhiannon Cobb, and Jack Griffith.
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Catching the Kingpins: 6. Final Reckoning
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Feb 11, 2024 |
Catching the Kingpins: 5. Line of Duty
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Feb 04, 2024 |
Catching the Kingpins: 4. Who Built EncroChat?
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Jan 28, 2024 |
Catching the Kingpins: 3. In Suburbia
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Jan 21, 2024 |
Catching the Kingpins: 2. Threat to Life
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Jan 14, 2024 |
Catching the Kingpins: 1. The Hack
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Jan 07, 2024 |
Gangster Presents... Catching the Kingpins
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Jan 03, 2024 |
The Burger Bar Boys: 6. Breaking Bad
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Dec 08, 2023 |
The Burger Bar Boys: 5. Judgement Day
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Dec 01, 2023 |
The Burger Bar Boys: 4. The Murder of Innocents
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Nov 24, 2023 |
The Burger Bar Boys: 3. Fall Out
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Nov 17, 2023 |
The Burger Bar Boys: 2. The Yardies
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Nov 10, 2023 |
The Burger Bar Boys: 1. Out of the Ashes
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Nov 03, 2023 |
Introducing Gangster: The Story of the Burger Bar Boys
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Oct 27, 2023 |
Killing Death Row: 6. Living and dying
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Oct 27, 2023 |
Killing Death Row: 5. What’s the Cost?
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Oct 27, 2023 |
Killing Death Row: 4. Who Cares if it Hurts?
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Oct 20, 2023 |
Killing Death Row: 3. Inside the Chamber
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Oct 20, 2023 |
Killing Death Row: 2. How to Kill the Killers
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Oct 13, 2023 |
Killing Death Row: 1. The Hunt for Lethal Drugs
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Oct 13, 2023 |
Gangster Presents... Killing Death Row
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Oct 06, 2023 |
Introducing: Blood on the Dance Floor
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Jul 03, 2023 |
John Palmer: 6. The Hitman
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Mar 08, 2023 |
John Palmer: 5. Self Defence
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Mar 01, 2023 |
John Palmer: 4. Chateau Palmer
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Feb 22, 2023 |
John Palmer: 3. The Clumpers
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Feb 15, 2023 |
John Palmer: 2. London Calling
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Feb 08, 2023 |
Introducing Gangster: The Story of John Palmer
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Feb 01, 2023 |
John Palmer: 1. Palmer Nova
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Feb 01, 2023 |
Curtis Warren: 6. This Charming Man
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Aug 10, 2022 |
Curtis Warren: 5. The Rich List
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Aug 03, 2022 |
Curtis Warren: 4. Double Dutch
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Jul 27, 2022 |
Curtis Warren: 3. Tigers and Cocaine
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Jul 20, 2022 |
Curtis Warren: 2. Narcos
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Jul 13, 2022 |
Curtis Warren: 1. Just a Lad from Tocky
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Jul 06, 2022 |
Introducing Gangster: The Story of Curtis Warren
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Jun 29, 2022 |
Paul Massey: 5. The Assassination
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Apr 19, 2021 |
Paul Massey: 4. The Serpent
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Apr 19, 2021 |
Paul Massey: 3. Steak Night
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Apr 19, 2021 |
Paul Massey: 2. Code of Silence
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Apr 19, 2021 |
Paul Massey: 1. Made in Salford
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Apr 19, 2021 |
Introducing Gangster: The Story of Paul Massey
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Apr 19, 2021 |