It is the leading cause of death among 18-45 year olds in the United States: fentanyl. Or rather its doctored version, M30, a blue pill twenty to forty times more powerful than heroin. A drug that kills, but which brings tens of billions of dollars to those who produce it.
For two years, Bertrand Monnet dove for The world at the heart of the most powerful Mexican criminal organization: the Sinaloa cartel. Camera in hand, the professor and specialist in criminal economics at Edhec was able to document for the first time all the stages of the business model from “narcos”, from the manufacture of fentanyl in garages of Culiacan to the laundering of dirty money in the skyscrapers of Dubai.
The images and interviews obtained allow us to better understand how these ultra-efficient and violent multinational crime companies operate, which are now targeting a new market: France.
Dubai connection
In this third episode, we invite you to follow us to the offices of a trust company, perched at the top of a skyscraper in Dubai. This is where a member of the Sinaloa Cartel must meet with financial advisors. The objective: to launder tens of millions of dollars from fentanyl trafficking. An unprecedented access which allows us to understand that, to eradicate trafficking, we must also fight against banking havens, these black holes of finance, essential to cartels to launder their money.
Watch the third episode of “Narco Business” :
Editor’s note: Voices and names have been anonymized.
To watch previous episodes:
“In Culiacan, in the laboratories of hell”
“From the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel to the streets of New York: the cooperatives of death”
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