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Season 2023
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Broadcast date
23-03-2023 • 3 episodes
The I-Unit infiltrates four gold-smuggling gangs, revealing a giant money laundering and sanctions-evasion scheme in Southern Africa.
Episodes of this season
1. Gold Mafia: Part 1 - The Laundry Service
Undercover reporters pose as gangsters with up to a billion dollars of black money that need to be cleaned. They gain remarkable access to members of Africa’s Gold Mafia and film closed door meetings with crime bosses.
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2. Gold Mafia: Part 2 - Smoke & Mirrors
South Africa’s most notorious money launderer is known as Mo Dollars. He cleans millions of dollars from the sale of illicit cigarettes through gold. Confidential documents expose an intricate web of shelf companies and fake invoices that hide a multi-million-dollar operation in plain sight.
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3. Gold Mafia: Part 3 – El Dorado
Enter the Gold Mafia’s headquarters in Dubai, preferred destination of the world’s dirty gold. As the rival mafia gangs compete to launder money for the I-Unit’s undercover team, we learn why gold is the perfect vessel to hide and move criminal wealth.
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