‘Inside the global cocaine industry, where profits are counted up in millions and losses are measured out in murders.’
This new eight-part investigative podcast series from The Times, Sunday Times and NewsCorp Australia reveals that the world’s legitimate business empires, trading floors and boardrooms have their direct equivalents in cocaine cartels, traffickers and kingpins.
Cocaine Inc. is hosted by Fiona Hamilton, chief reporter at The Times, David Collins, northern editor at The Sunday Times, and Stephen Drill, national correspondent at News Corp Australia.
Part 4: The Pineapple Trader
Europe’s vast ports act as logistic hubs in a worldwide operation that relies on corruption and torture. In the Netherlands, Fiona Hamilton reveals the industrial scale of the cocaine business – and how it always leads to violence. She interviews a former corrupt harbour worker who helped cocaine smugglers, an ex-criminal, the head of an arrest team of Dutch customs, the chief of the Rotterdam Sea Harbour Police and a known Dutch crime journalist.
For part four of the series Featurez gave advise, did the research, the setup and planning, the driving and accompaniment of the podcast recordings.