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  • TRAFFICKED WITH MARIANA VAN ZELLER

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Award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller explores the inner workings of the global underworld's most dangerous black markets. In each episode, she journeys inside a different black market or trafficking network - from drugs and stolen cars to outlaw bikers and Amazon mafias - to meet the players, learn the business, and better understand the world’s multi-trillion-dollar shadow economy.

EPISODE GUIDE

  • Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller: Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs
    Mariana van Zeller goes inside the secretive world of outlaw motorcycle gangs, also known as 1% clubs, when her interest is piqued by a string of biker-related violence. Undeterred by a strict code of silence, she interviews members of three major clubs, as well as ATF agents and cartel contacts, to learn about the bonds of blood and brotherhood that fuel these groups.
  • Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller: Stolen Cars
    Mariana follows a smuggling route of cars stolen from the U.S. to shipping containers bound for West Africa, where the demand is skyrocketing.
  • Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller: Romance Scams
    In 2020 alone, romance scammers exploited Americans out of more than $600M. Mariana’s investigation takes her to Ghana, where she meets a gang of scammers who are relentless in searching for high-income targets on dating apps and social media. The gang shows her their secrets to seduction, how much money they’re making, and the lifestyle that has blossomed alongside the scam’s growing popularity.
  • Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller: Amazon Mafia
    Mariana travels to the Amazon to track down the criminal networks behind a slew of killings and the illegal destruction of the rainforest.
  • Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller: Fish Pirates
    As much as 30% of our seafood has been caught illegally. Mariana searches for the fish pirates who make billions each year while destroying our oceans.
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