Uncovering the Complexity of Transnational Crime

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The chapter explores the speaker's interest in transnational organized crime and their research on Italian investigations. It delves into the internal culture of a news organization and the challenges faced by journalists in investigating these criminal networks. The speaker discusses the interconnectedness of criminal activities and the difficulties of gathering and organizing vast amounts of information.

Miles Johnson is an investigative reporter for the Financial Times. He is the author of Chasing Shadows: A True Story of Drugs, War and the Secret World of International Crime and the host of Hot Money: The New Narcos.

“I’m really fascinated always by the ways in which people just have to do really boring parts of running a crime organization … I love the banalities of this stuff. We have a fictionalized version of crime groups and it’s obviously glamorous, and they’re really smart, but there’s a lot of stuff that’s bumbling incompetence as well or just quite unglamorous.”

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