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Jun 2024
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The Pineapple Trader | 4

The Times & True Crime Australia
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Europe’s vast ports act as logistic hubs in a worldwide operation that relies on corruption and torture.

In the Netherlands, Fiona Hamilton reveals the industrial scale of the cocaine business - and how it always leads to violence.

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