Crime
Station:
Fusion (US)
Status:
Ended
Start:
2016-11-13
Rating:
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Crossing the globe from Asia to Africa, the Americas and Europe, host Nelufar Hedayat goes under the radar and just out of sight in 21 countries to track down thriving black marketplaces. What she finds is a world of profit-driven dealers, compliant middlemen, bribe-taking officials, poachers and smugglers who move enormous amounts of money.
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S1E6 - The $3,000 Meal
Nelufar Hedayat investigates the black market behind the world's most trafficked mammal, the pangolin. She traces the smuggling route from the dining halls of China to the depths of the Indonesian jungle, where desperate hunters supply multi-million dollar syndicates.
Air Date: 11 Dec 2016 21:00 (CDT)
S1E7 - The Girl in the Window
Nelufar Hedayat investigates how the sex industry in Western Europe is funneling millions of girls worldwide into a market of sex slaves. Vulnerable children in poor Eastern European countries are groomed for years, targeted by unscrupulous traffickers who reveal their methods to our host.
Air Date: 18 Dec 2016 21:00 (CDT)
S1E8 - Fake Pharma
Nelufar Hedayat investigates one of the world's most prolific and virtually unheard of trafficking rings: fake pharmaceuticals, a market so profitable it has criminal gangs ditching cocaine and heroin. Nelufar follows the fake pharma trail across West Africa to the source of the drugs in China.
Air Date: 18 Dec 2016 22:00 (CDT)