Bar Lume - the organized crime podcast

Live from Italian Tech Week! On September 27, 2024 in Turin we recorded an interview in front of the audience of the largest tech event in Italy. Our guest: Federico Caruso, co-founder of Glaider, a startup that secures AI systems from cybercriminals. In this episode you will discover the risks and the criminal landscape behind generative AI and also some tips to deal with them

Organized crime groups do business in the legal economy as well as in the illegal one. They launder dirty money, thus also influencing economic actors who operate within the parameters of the law. With Antonio, we explore this phenomenon, also trying to understand how to prevent it, the connection between the mafia and technology, and much more

Last year, 11-year-old Firdaous became the first innocent victim of organized crime in Antwerp, Belgium, Europe's second largest drug port. Today, the city is grappling with drug-related violence often carried out by minors, multinational criminal networks and extensive money laundering involving the diamond, gold and luxury industries. Years of repression at local level have f

Environmental crime is the fourth largest criminal activity in the world after drug trafficking, human trafficking and counterfeiting. What is it about? Which countries are involved? And what makes it so profitable for organized crime? We discuss these and other questions with Valentina Beomonte Zobel, Policy Officer at the European Commission combating this phenomenon between Euro

A historic trial is underway in the Netherlands: boss Ridouan Taghi and 16 of his affiliates stay accused of murder, drug trafficking, money laundering and even torture. Their crimes have covered the pages of newspapers around the world. In this episode, you’ll learn about the most powerful drug lord in the Netherlands and his organization: the Mocro Mafia.

In this episode, we take a look at illicit art trafficking, an international issue that is linked to different causes and has serious consequences on cultural heritage. Countries are affected in different ways, individuals, criminal organizations and terrorist groups involved may have different reasons to join networks and the international community has developed international too

Sweden has a reputation as a safe and developed country, a stable democracy and a champion of gender and social equality. Yet a closer look at life in Sweden’s cities gives a quite different picture. In this episode you’ll learn about Sweden’s growing gang problem and its links to structural inequality in the country.

Have you ever wondered which tattoos you should very NOT make on yourself because of the risk to be associated to a mafia clan? In today's episode, we'll go through the main symbols used by criminals on their skin, their meaning and the history of tattoing art in the criminal world.

When we think of terrorism, Al Qaeda and its infamous attacks come to mind, first and foremost 9/11. The organisation founded by Usama Bin Laden is probably the symbol of jihadist terrorism as we understand it today. But have you ever wondered who and what is behind Al Qaeda? How has it historically financed its activities? This episode takes you into one of the lesser known aspect

In the early 1990s, Colombian football national team was one of the strongest in the world, thanks to the coach, Francisco Marturana, and his team, the Generaciòn Dorada. Their development, however, benefited of the money invested by Pablo Escobar, the Cocaine King, one of the most famous criminal in the world. The link between drug cartels and football allowed Colombia to almost