It is the leading cause of death among 18- to 45-year-olds in the United States: fentanyl. Or rather, its rigged version, M30, a blue pill twenty to forty times more powerful than heroin. A drug that kills but brings in tens of billions of dollars to those who make it.

Bertrand followed Monnet for two years The world at the heart of Mexico’s most powerful criminal organization: the Sinaloa Cartel. With the camera in hand, the professor and specialist in criminal economics at Edhec was able to document all phases of the crime for the first time Business model from “Narcos,” from making fentanyl in Culiacán garages to laundering dirty money in the skyscrapers of Dubai.

The images and interviews obtained allow us to better understand how these extremely 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 into the offices of a trust company located at the top of a skyscraper in Dubai. Here a member of the Sinaloa Cartel has to meet with financial advisors. The goal: launder tens of millions of dollars through the fentanyl trade. An unprecedented access that makes us understand that to eradicate human trafficking we must also fight against banking havens, those financial black holes that are essential for cartels to launder money.

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Editor’s note: Voices and names have been anonymized.

How to watch previous episodes:

“ In Culiacán, in the laboratories of hell »

“ From Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel to the Streets of New York: Death Cooperatives »

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