Follow the Money

September 8
7 mins

Episode Description

The Deep Dive — Follow the Money. What your news reporter didn't mention.

February 2021: the tanker Nehir is boarded off northern Spain. One thousand eight hundred thirty-five kilograms come off the deck. A second load of about one thousand six hundred fifty kilograms goes down with the scuttle. Combined: three point four nine tonnes.

Five years later Spain does not lead with another deck seizure. They announce an underground rail they call the Dubai Bank. Operation Drahab. Action day 22 July 2026. Press conference 8 September 2026. Twenty-one arrested. About twenty million euros in assets. Nineteen international warrants.

The cocaine left the water in 2021. The money did not.

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