Name: Episode 8: Criminal gangs targeting online dating sites as millions look for love online in 2021 by Crime World
Duration: 35 min 38 s
Description: In this week's Crime World podcast, Nicola Tallant talks to Dr Nicola Fox Hamilton, an expert in cyberpsychology. She talks about online crime and dating during the pandemic. She reveals the dangers that can be hiding behind the faces of attractive strangers and how romance fraudsters and sexploitation scams are now being run by organised criminal gangs.

Considered one of Italy’s most dangerous fugitives, suspected of being a boss of the Camorra mafia and the one-time owner of two stolen Van Gogh masterpieces, Raffaele Imperiale is now counting the cost of his life of crime.

Arrested earlier this month in Dubai, he is facing hefty charges back in Italy and a lengthy prison sentence for his role at the very top of organised crime.

But Imperiale is no ordinary mafia Don. Documents from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in the U.S. suggest that he was part of a European cocaine super cartel which included, amongst others, the Kinahan mafia.

Nicola Tallant chats with Sunday World deputy editor Niall Donald about what his capture means for the takedown of the European narcos and how it leaves Daniel Kinahan as one of the last men standing in Dubai.

Crime World Extra: The Arrest Of Kinahan-Linked Mafia Boss Raffaele Imperiale

Mob boss Daniel Kinahan’s much anticipated interview due out this week has been shelved due to legal issues at the Anything Goes Podcast with James English.

While the nature of the legal problems are unknown, Kinahan has already been hit with new court proceedings after he was named in a Proceeds of Crime Case against shamed businessman Jim Mansfield Jnr.

For years Mansfield and his late father, Jim Mansfield Snr, denied rumours that they were linked to criminality but Junior is now locked up in Portlaoise prison, guilty of perverting the course of justice, and now he has been named along the biggest figure in organised crime.

Today I’m talking with Sunday World Deputy Editor Niall Donald about the court proceedings linking Ireland’s one time richest son and heir to the head of the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.

Episode 84: Daniel Kinahan, hotel tycoon Jim Mansfield and the house CAB want

It was an extraordinary series of events. A high-ranking Sinn Fein official is outed as an informer in the employ of M15 and the Special Branch of the PSNI.

On the steps of Stormont, Denis Donaldson admits his role as a spy within the Republican ranks – then disappears.

Six months later an intrepid journalist Hugh Jordan tracks him down to an isolated farmhouse in Glenties in Donegal confirming that his whereabouts aren’t such a well-kept secret.

Weeks later Donaldson is shot dead in the same cottage but mystery still surrounds what happened and why he remained there after he was discovered.

Today I’m talking with Hugh Jordan about the case of Donaldson and a recent Police Ombudsman report which points the finger of blame at police and their failures to properly evaluate the threat to his life.

Episode 86 - The Mysterious Death Of Sinn Fein 'spy' Denis Donaldson

His end was swift, delivered in the cold confines of a courtroom where Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh was committed to 21 years in prison for his crimes.

The mob boss who sat at the very top of the Kinahan organisation and who pumped guns and weapons into the UK and Ireland for decades is now counting the costs of his chosen career.

But how did Gardai and their UK colleagues in the National Crime Agency (NCA) eventually catch the violent and untouchable crime boss and how many others have gone down with him.

Nicola Tallant talks with Sunday World Deputy Editor Niall Donald about the fall of the bomb squad and the ramifications of his demise further up the Kinahan food chain.

Episode 89: The jailing of Kinahan Cartel kingpin Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh

The antics of Daniel Kinahan and his insistence that he is an innocent boxing promoter wrongly accused of involvement in organised crime spectacularly backfired this week.

In an extraordinary conference in Dublin, the Kinahan mob were sanctioned just like Russian Oligarchs as the forces of law from the US, Europe and the UK stood together to declare Christy Kinahan Snr and his two sons as enemies of the State.

In a series of speeches, border officers, police chiefs and our own Commissioners laid bare the Kinahans' journey from the streets of Dublin to the very top of a trans-global network dealing in drugs, guns and murder while laundering €1 billion profits in business interests across the world.

Nicola Tallant chats with Sunday World Deputy Editor, Niall Donald, about the most incredible day in Irish criminal history – one which will cement the role the Kinahans have played in changing the face of crime fighting for good.

Episode 94: How the world's law enforcement plotted the downfall of the Kinahan Cartel

They are the wives and girlfriends of the first family of crime who have lived a lavish lifestyle built on the Kinahan’s billion-dollar drug business.

So, what next for the WAGS of gangland, as the carefully-constructed money machine behind the Kinahan Organised Crime Group crumbles under the weight of U.S. sanctions.

Nicola Tallant talks with Sunday World Deputy Editor Niall Donald about the women behind the men of the underworld, and what the future may hold for them now the tables have turned.

Episode 101: What's next for the WAGS of the Kinahan Cartel?

He’s one of Ireland’s most sinister and twisted killers who groomed his vulnerable victim and gave her take a starring role in her own murder. 
In this two-part Crime World special, written by Niamh O'Connor, we look back on the gruesome details of Graham Dwyer's relationship with Elaine O'Hara, and her tragic, brutal killing.  
We hear the text messages that passed between the pair in the days before her death, and get a glimpse of the sickening bloodlust hidden inside this seemingly ordinary family man.  
And we learn how, over a year after her death, a series of miracles would lead police to Elaine O'Hara's body — and her killer.  
The story of Graham Dwyer and Elaine O'Hara is a shocking one, so, if you're squeamish, this episode isn't one for you. And it definitely isn't one for a younger audience, so be mindful where you listen to it.

Crime World Long Read: The twisted secrets of sadistic killer Graham Dwyer (Part 1)

Cocaine starts out as a leaf on a tree but how does it get from the jungles of Colombia to the streets of Ireland? How many people die and who gets rich along the way?

In this week's episode of Crime World, Nicola Tallant talks to film-maker Toby Muse and traces a Kilo of coke from its beginnings in a makeshift laboratory to the Pacific Coast where it sets sail for the US and Europe.

Episode 3: Cocaine - a deadly journey to our shores

The secret past of Godfather of Crime George ‘The Penguin’ Mitchell is forming part of an intriguing trial into a dark net bunker and a Dutchman called Herman Xennt.

This week on Crime World Ed Caesar of the New Yorker explains how Mitchell and Xennt’s relationship goes back decades right to the very beginning of the internet and to an underground porn hub.

Episode 4: The Penguin and the bunker

In this week's Crime World podcast, Nicola Tallant talks to Dr Nicola Fox Hamilton, an expert in cyberpsychology. She talks about online crime and dating during the pandemic. She reveals the dangers that can be hiding behind the faces of attractive strangers and how romance fraudsters and sexploitation scams are now being run by organised criminal gangs.

Episode 8: Criminal gangs targeting online dating sites as millions look for love online in 2021

Partons ensemble à la découverte de la Côte d'Ivoire dans cet épisode d'Ici ou Là (https://www.allolaplanete.fr/shows/ici-ou-la/).
Dam's de cet épisode commence par Lago Zikou pour illustrer la musique traditionnelle, ivoirienne.
Puis, il poursuit dans les 70's à la rencontre de Seigneur Ekissi Pierre, l'un des précurseurs de la musique moderne africaine. 
Ensuite, il évoque Allah Thérèse, nommée aussi "mémé". Coiffée d'une coiffe traditionnelle en forme d'araignée, elle était accompagnée de son mari, l'accordéonniste N'Goran La Loi.
Dam's vous fait également découvrir "Moussio Moussio", le tube d'Amédée Pierre, un homme de théâtre et chanteur. 
La musique de Cote d'Ivoire c'est aussi le Jazz !  Luc Sigui en est l'un des protagonistes les plus connus ! 
Cote d'Ivoire est aussi le reggae, notamment au cours des années 80 et 90 ! Les reggaemen les plus connus sont sans doute Alpha Blondy ou Tiken Jah Fakoly.
Découvrons aussi l'Akeikoï, un subtil mélange entre rock et musique ethnique Sénoufo.
Nous retracerons ensemble l'histoire du "coupé-décalé", style musical apparu dans les années 2000 avec Beno.
Ici où Là, l’émission présenté par Dam’s (https://www.allolaplanete.fr/members/dams/) qui vous fait voyager en musique.
Ici ou là sur la radio voyage Allô la Planète (https://www.allolaplanete.fr/),    vous propose, durant une heure, de découvrir la culture musicale d’un    pays, en retraçant son histoire en musique ! Décennies par décennies,    découvrez ce qui a marqué la scène locale, avec des anecdotes, et les    dernières tendances du moment !

Ici ou Là S2-Ep#7 - La Cote d'Ivoire

Crime World, with Nicola Tallant, is a weekly Irish podcast about criminals, drugs and the sins of the underworld. Discussing the real stories, and the real people, behind the grisly headlines.

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