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INTERVIEW: BBC HOST NICKY CAMPBELL PROBES THE INFILTRATOR’S MIND (EPISODE 2)

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Episode 2 takes you deeper into what you can expect if you chose to become a long-term undercover agent within the underworld. BBC host NICKY CAMPBELL probes what it was like to be asked by my cartel “friends” to kill for them, and how they shared secrets with me about corrupting country leaders that facilitated their massive drug trafficking empires.

During this episode, I explain how my journey within the “underground empire” of crime opened my eyes to the reality that laundering billions is not a challenge for powerful cartels, even today. The reality is that governments around the world fail to identify and seize more than 1% of the $400 billion in illicit funds generated from the sale of illegal drugs each year.

NICKY also got me to answer the question that defines my view of the value of what I did as an undercover agent. He asked, “If the clock were turned back to the day you decided to become a long-term undercover agent, would you do it again?” Click on the image to the left to hear my response, and the rest of Episode 2. I think you will be surprised.

VIDEO: HOW GOING UNDERCOVER IN THE CARTELS WORKS

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INSIDER has now released their second episode about my undercover life. This second episode focuses on the techniques I used to infiltrate the two largest drug cartels in Colombia. Click on the image to the left to see an excerpt from Episode 2.

Watch the full 20-minutes of Episode 2 to learn about how I built my undercover identities, why high-level organized crime members trusted me, the access I had to the Medellin Cartel board members, how I managed living two lives at the same time, when and why the cartel issued a contract on my life, the corruption within U.S. law enforcement that brought me within 3 minutes of my death, and much more: https://www.insider.com/how-colombian-cartels-work-former-undercover-agent-2023-9

VIDEO: MY LIFE INSIDE PABLO ESCOBAR’S CARTEL

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Earlier this summer, I was interviewed for hours by producers of INSIDER about my life inside the underworld. INSIDER has used that footage to produce a 2-episode series about my undercover life. The first episode, which focuses on behind the scenes events concerning my first book, THE INFILTRATOR, has just been released. Click on the image to the left to see a brief excerpt from episode 1.

Watch the full 22-minutes of episode 1 to learn about money laundering schemes, drug trafficking, corruption, what compliance professionals and law enforcement officers can do to improve their anti-money laundering skills, and much more: https://www.insider.com/undercover-agent-money-laundering-for-pablo-escobars-cartel-2023-8

INTERVIEW: iHEART RADIO HOST DAN HOLZMAN GOES UNDERCOVER WITH ROBERT MAZUR

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iHeart’s Dan Holzman leads a revealing discussion about Robert Mazur’s career as a long-term undercover agent within the underworld. Holzman inquires about how Mazur was trained to live a double life, the years he worked closely as a launderer with the leadership of the Medellin Drug Cartel, what drove him to risk his life working undercover, how agents are often compromised by their targets, the contract issued on Mazur’s life by drug kingpins, his long-term undercover assignment addressed in his new book, THE BETRAYAL, and much more.

INTERVIEW: LONDON BASED FILM DIRECTOR CHRIS CARR UNCOVERS SECRETS ABOUT THE BETRAYAL

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London based film director, writer, producer, and podcaster CHRIS CARR pries secrets from ROBERT MAZUR about his undercover work and THE BETRAYAL during this intriguing episode of the highly acclaimed SECRETS & SPIES podcast. Among other things, they discuss why money laundering impacts us all, how drug trafficking effects our daily lives, MAZUR’S motivation for working in deep cover, and the art of managing informants. This audio file is a high-light of excerpts from the full podcast. The entire podcast can be heard at https://secretsandspiespodcast.com/episode/s6-ep22-the-betrayal-with-robert-mazur

INTERVIEW: NEW YORK’S WYSL SYNDICATED RADIO HOST ROBERT D’ANGELO INTERVIEWS THE INFILTRATOR

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WYSL’s Robert D’Angelo questioned Robert Mazur about why changes are needed in the roadmap of our “War on Drugs”. Mazur offered his view about how and why the U.S. has failed to properly fund and address the demand side of this war, why and how fentanyl has flooded our streets, how the corrupting power of cartels has enhanced their ability to evade prosecution, why illegal immigration is far less of a drug trafficking threat than the movement of illicit drugs through legal points of entry in the U.S., and much more.