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The Infiltrator Podcast is an audio documentary that delves into the world of global crime, each episode exploring a new case that mines the depths of international money laundering, narco-terror, arms trafficking, and the hunt by DEA, FBI, HSI, and Interpol agents to bring down these notorious criminal syndicates. Narrated by Robert Mazur, with appearances by real-life law enforcement agents, The Infiltrator is an action movie in each episode, with scripted re-enactments by Hollywood actors and robust archival audio.
BCCI was at the global nexus of the drug, guns, and arms trade. In the follow-up to the Infiltrator, Amazon Studios has optioned Mazur's second book, The Betrayal, which follows an undercover DEA operation that Mazur initiated inside the world of dirty Panamanian money launderers, all tied to the Cali Cartel.
THE SET UP
THE INFILTRATOR was a 2017 Hollywood film starring Bryan Cranston, Benjamin Bratt, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger, and Yul Vasquez.
The story was based on the life of Robert Mazur and his notorious undercover operation that took down BCCI Bank, which was laundering money for Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Pablo Escobar, and rogue arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, to name a few.
SEASON 1. EPISODE 1. Former Chief of Honduran National Police Extradited To The United States On Drug Trafficking And Weapons Offenses. EPISODE 2. U.S. Attorney Announces Extradition Of Brazilian Citizen From Paraguay For Participation In Money Laundering And Unlicensed Money Transmitting Schemes. EPISODE 3. U.S. Attorney Announces Arrests Of A Yakuza Leader And Affiliates For International Trafficking Of Narcotics And Weapons, Including Surface-To-Air Missiles. EPISODE 4. United States Obtains Warrant For Seizure Of Two planes Of Russian Oligarch Roman Abramovich Worth Over $400 Million. EPISODE 5. Third Defendant Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Large-Scale Trafficking Of Rhinoceros Horns And Elephant Ivory Conspiracy. EPISODE 6. DEA Agent John Costanzo Jr. Charged with Accepting Bribes from Former DEA Agent Manuel Recio in Exchange for Sharing of Sensitive DEA Information. EPISODE 7. Fred Assante was sentenced to 108 months for his role as the top U.S.-based money launderer for a criminal enterprise based in the Republic of Ghana. EPISODE 8. U.S. Attorney Announces Extradition Of Colombian National For Narco-Terrorism, Firearms, AndDrug Trafficking Charges. EPISODE 9. Four Charged with Racketeering and Fraud Offenses In Connection With Multi-Billion Dollar Collapse Of Archegos Capital Management. EPISODE 10. Former Head of Bolivian Anti-Narcotics Agency Charged With Cocaine Importation And Firearms Offenses
SEASON 2. EPISODE 1. Movie Producer Sentenced to Over 21 Years for Role in Film Financing Scheme. Jason Van Eman guilty of conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering. EPISODE 2. Senior FARC Commander Extradited from Colombia to Face Charges of Operating a Violent Narcotics Distribution Organization. EPISODE 3. Federal Jury Convicts High Level ISIS Member of Material Support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization, Including Two Counts Resulting in Death. EPISODE 4. Leader of the Violent “Clan del Golfo” Multi-Billion Dollar Drug Trafficking Organization Extradited from Colombia to Face Federal Indictment. EPISODE 5. Two NYC Correction Officers Charged with Conspiring to Accept Bribes and Smuggle Contraband into Rikers Island Facilities for Gang Members. EPISODE 6. Former Mexican Federal Police Commander Sentenced to 10 Years’ Imprisonment for Drug Trafficking Conspiracy. EPISODE 7. Colombo Crime Family Boss, Underboss, Consigliere and Captains Are Among the Defendants Charged with Labor Racketeering, Extortion and Money Laundering. EPISODE 8. Bank Julius Baer Admits Laundering Over $36 Million in Bribes in FIFA Case. Swiss Bank Agrees to Pay More than $79 Million in Penalties. EPISODE 9. Former Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna Charged with Engaging in a Continuing Criminal Enterprise. EPISODE 10. Deutsche Bank Agrees to Pay Over $130 Million to Resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and a separate investigation into a commodities fraud scheme.
While working for Escobar and others as their launderer, he also infiltrated the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, the 7th largest privately held institution in the world, a bank that laundered billions in illicit funds for drug traffickers, illegal arms dealers, terrorists, tax evaders, corrupt third-world leaders, and other criminals.
ROBERT MAZUR
Robert Mazur has earned global acclaim as one of the world’s leading experts on the financial escapades of the underworld. There is no one with more first-hand knowledge about how international black money markets launder nearly $2 trillion in criminal proceeds annually. For years, in the eyes of organized crime leaders he was a highly successful mob connected money launderer that helped manage their illicit fortunes. He spent five years as a deep undercover agent for US, UK, French and other government law enforcement, gathering evidence that led to some of the largest money laundering prosecutions in history. He is the only undercover agent in the world to have infiltrated so deeply into the inner circle of financial crime, his experience is unique. He’s seen how the system works from the inside, and the insights he holds are so valuable that the criminal world offered $1/2 million for his death.
Robert Mazur was also the inspiration and Executive Produce behind the internationally released major motion picture The Infiltrator, starring Bryan Cranston and Diane
Mr. Mazur is the author of two books, each of which detail long-term undercover infiltrations he executed within separate criminal organizations. He first wrote the New York Times Best Seller, The Infiltrator, a memoir about his face-to-face dealings with deadly direct reports to Pablo Escobar.
HisKrueger.second book, The Betrayal, is a true-life story about a 2½ year undercover assignment he carried out after the events of The Infiltrator.
Mr. Mazur is a contributor to money laundering related programing that has aired on PBS, ABC, CNN, Univision, BBC and hundreds of other TV and radio networks. He is widely published on the issues of money laundering. His articles have been published in journals and many media outlets, including the NY Times. He is certified in both U.S. and Canadian courts as an expert in money laundering.
