Crime World

THE Marengo case against super-cartel kingpin Ridouan Taghi is drawing to a close in the Netherlands, where state prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for the feared gangster and a number of his senior lieutenants.Decrypted messages taken from a series of secretive phone networks used by criminals - including Encrochat and Ennetcom - have formed the backbone of the case and include evidence that Taghi ordered murders and drug shipments from his Dubai bolthole while partnered up with Daniel Kinahan.Nicola Tallant is joined by Jan Meeus, crime correspondent and podcaster with Amsterdam’s NRC media outlet, to discuss the Marengo trial, an appeal which may hear the first evidence of super-cartel supergrass Raffael Imperiale and an eerie calm that has settled in a country exhausted by narco terrorism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One year since the Kinahan Organised Crime Group were sanctioned by the US treasury, the bad news has continued for it’s exiled leaders in Dubai.Nicola talks to journalist Eamon Dillon about the dramatic arrests, shocking revelations and the complex takedown plan targeted on the Irish who are last of the Super Cartel still free in the United Arab Emirates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

IT'S the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement when a monumental task was achieved, and political divides agreed to peace in Northern Ireland.So what has that 67-page document meant for those living north of the border and for their futures, and can we ever really move on from such a bloody past?Nicola Tallant is joined by Belfast Telegraph Crime Correspondent Allison Morris about growing up in West Belfast, working the crime beat towards the end of the Troubles and being there for the momentous occasion 25 years ago when the impossible became a reality. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

He is locked up in a Colorado jail with some of the world’s most notorious prisoners, but the legacy of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman lives on in a never ending cycle of violence and corruption in Mexico.Since his incarceration his Sinaloa Cartel has continued to flood the US with drugs and terrorise the Mexican people from it’s base in Culiacan.Now with his chief bodyguard and right hand man handed over to the US and his son Ovidio Guzman finally arrested after a gun battle with Mexican military which resulted in the death of 29 people will things improve. Or is Mexico gone beyond being saved from the revelations of political corruption that have dogged each success.Nicola Tallant is joined by author Doug Century, whose book Hunting El Chapo, tells the story of the drug boss known as ‘Shorty’ and his on going influence on his homeland of Mexico. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Frank Sinatra or Ol' Blue Eyes as he was known was one of the most popular entertainers in the 1940s and 50s. A singer, an actor and a member of the famous Rat Pack, the New Jersey-born, bobby soxxer was also moonlighting as an associate of the mafia.Crime World's Clodagh Meaney talks to Douglas Thompson and Mike Rothmiller about their explosive new book Frank Sinatra and the Mafia Murders.They tell Crime World about the shocking revelations in the hundreds of pages of files kept by the FBI, the mafia’s influence on Hollywood and how Sinatra’s relationship with the mob was mutually beneficial. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

He has dedicated his life to working with those in crisis and Vivian Geiran, the former Director of the Probation and Parole service of Ireland, has had to manage the supervision of hundreds of criminals released from jail.So how do you manage a killer in the community or balance the rights of those who are guilty with those of their victims?Nicola Tallant is joined by Vivian to chat about his lengthy career, his thoughts on managing offenders and life after crime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SERIAL sex offender Maurice Fitzgerald was jailed this week after he pleaded guilty to a shocking attack on a woman who he bound and gagged with duct tape and dragged down a city lane way.The former jockey had taken a train from Cork to Dublin and hunted for a victim in the capital's pubs - carrying a bag containing a change of clothing, condoms and three rolls of the tape which he later used to restrain his victim.Nicola and Niall Donald are joined by journalist and Crime World researcher Clodagh Meaney, who attended Fitzgerald’s sentence hearing where he was jailed for ten years.They discuss Fitzgerald’s terrifying history of crimes against women, his predatory actions in the run-up to his latest attack and about the observations of the normal looking 29-year-old. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The shock arrest of a man and a woman by officers investigating the case of the Kerry Baby could bring to an end the mystery of who the parents of the child are.But however Baby John came to wash up on a beach with multiple stab wounds remains a mystery. This week Crime World reposts an interview with journalist Ralph Regal when it was announced that DNA would solve the crime and which details the almost 40 year case and its twists and turns. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They were once the most powerful force in America, bigger than General Motors and with a finger in every pie from politics to prostitution.But what has become of the Mafia and its old school criminal code? Is it a dying force? Has the mafia peaked or has it hit a comfortable plateau in a new world order where stringent Racketeering Laws keeps all criminality at bay?Nicola Tallant talks to Toronto Sun mafia expert and former New York Post crime correspondent Brad Hunter about the past and the future of the legendary Cosa Nostra. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Boxing champion Katie Taylor is building up for a homecoming in Dublin in May in the 3 Arena.But behind the scenes characters who once surrounded and defended mob boss Daniel Kinahan are lurking.Boxer trainer Jamie Moore and others who had previous ties to MTK boxing, which Kinahan founded, will be in the ring and ringside for the event.So has boxing washed itself clean of organised crime or will Taylor big night be overshadowed by the exiled Daniel Kinahan?Nicola Tallant is joined by Niall Donald to discuss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.