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The Financial Times’ award-a hit podcast series Sizzling Money is back. On this series our reporter Miles Johnson investigates a mysterious crash in a limited town that outcomes in a web based of substances, money laundering and notify-backed assassinations stretching from Dublin to Dubai. On the centre is a cocaine huge cartel that’s revolutionising the area pills market. This eight-portion investigative podcast, revealed twice-weekly, probes the links between criminals and loyal businesses, and between governments and gangsters.
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Episode 8: The Red Pocket guide
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Episode 7: In opposition to the Ropes
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Episode 6: Ties with Tehran
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Episode 5: Nerds vs Narcos
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Episode 4: Gangsters’ Paradise
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Episode 3: Solar, Weapons & Sangria
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Episode 2: Cocaine CEO
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Episode 1: Abolish Brokers
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Miles Johnson is an investigative reporter for the Financial Times. He has written tales about Russian mercenaries, Mayfair on line casino heists, money laundering by the Italian mafia, Vatican financial scandals, and covert sanctions busting.
He is the creator of Chasing Shadows: A Smartly suited Legend of Capsules, War and the Secret World of International Crime (Dinky, Brown Book Community, 2023), a legend non-fiction guide about worldwide organised crime, drug trafficking and terrorism.
He joined the FT in 2008 and has reported from London and quite a lot of completely different countries, including as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Madrid and New York.
