Two Steps East with private detective P. "Konrad" Smith
Two Steps East with private detective P. "Konrad" Smith
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Two Step East on CEE crime realities--from gangsters to Bulgarian casino mobsters (i.e. the Skull winning in court) to KYC re Swiss bankers and Companies House to a massive child pornography bust; and is your neightborhood as safe as you think?
Yes, after a two-week hiatus (sorry, but sometimes your man in the field has to be... erm in the field) Two Steps East is back with your favorite consulting detective and the following topics: letters (and thanks for writing in); just how...
Two Steps East on tourist scams, including the toss-the-baby scam, bankomat/cash machine games; the nephew/niece number; doping-the-drinks scams; strange links; bordellos, strip bars and more...
By listener request: this week Two Steps East (lite) and your preferred consulting detective in CEE, P. Konrad Smith, run through the "real" scams that hit tourists in the region as well as "new-kid-on-the-block scams," which seem to nag foreig...
Two Steps East: the week, including low level gang crime; mobsters and the war in Ukraine; cocaine and Darko S. in the Balkans; the Albanian KLA pizza story; the bogus Kherson bomb link; Serbia woes; boxing, the vory and the Kinahans
In this episode Your Preferred Consulting Detective in CEE covers low-level gangster crime returning to the region (currency exchange hits and more); more on MEK in Albania; the death of a Polish arms smuggler in Albania (and how he ripped off ...
More murder and mayhem in CEE--i.e. Central European politics, spy arrests, money laundering busts, a cyber war between Albania and Iran... and possibly a break in the de Vries murder investigation
This week's Two Steps East podcast packs a lot into multiple punches, with a quick run through of Latvian, Bosnia and coming Bulgarian elections; breakthroughs and arrests in Peter de Vries murders case (with possible ties to a cocaine super ca...
Russian perturbations: mobilization and the Ukrainian war--plus the Serbian conundrum; BiH-Russian Dodik games, not to mention the "chronic" suicides among Russian oligarchs
Greetings and salutations! In this episode your favorite consulting detective (in Central Europe) finds himself reeling from Russia's spur of the moment partial (or is it full?) mobilization; the nuclear threat and more. Plus we'll get into the...