Unlimited cash flow, hotels, and hookers - we get an inside glimpse into the criminal world of a European drug mule.
The Informer reveals how corrupt garages would build stashes in fast cars for him to stuff with bricks of cocaine before making the risky drop-off across Europe - taking thousands of euros in return.
00:00 Introduction
02:51 Choosing the Vehicle
05:15 Threats from the Dealer
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the fact that they do fake-police tests on their own gang is soo risky, but also shows how seriously they take loyalty
I didn't get that. So the gangs made fake police to intimidate their employees? For what?
@kelina aaa One-sided loyalty.
@kelina aaa 000g
@@soccerguy325 not to intimidate, but instead to see how they act under pressure.. if would they give up any info to police..
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I start sweating whenever I cross a border, and I'm not even smuggling anything. I can't imagine the stress if I had 150kgs of hard drugs in the car.
Right!?!?
@@Tricklarock I got stopped at the Swiss border on my motorbike a few years back. Border control checked my bags and everything. They did NOT check under my motorbike seat. Which is weird, because there was nothing there.
I would bet they probably take small doses of sedatives to relax.
@@Thebluesky0311 oh, Valium or Xans are a must when, ummm, uh... crossing borders.
Imagine that that is worth over 1.5 milion dollars
Reading between the lines I think this guy took a deal for no jail time in exchange for information. Which explains his paranoia about the gang catching up to him.
wow we've got a real detective here
I would rather live a simple life than looking over my shoulder in fear every day
They’ll find him eventually. I lived close to a very “bougie” city in the DFW area. We had a guy get shot dead in the middle of the town shopping square, middle of the day, people EVERYWHERE. He was with his wife and young kids. While they were putting all their shopping bags in their SUV, 2 masked men drove up, calmly walked up to him, and shot him. Witnesses said they were in and out like that. They still don’t know who did it and probably never will. Turns out, the guy that was shot used to be a cartel lawyer and then turned on them. He and his family were living under new identities and the mfs still found him.
@@Thatwitchbitch3 Better Call Saul
@@gitgudchannel Of course! And the best! It's Detective Steve Brule ya dangus!
Real talk from this man. There is nothing glamorous about being a drug trafficker. You're going to ruin your life.
Thats the only truth he told,all the rest is a lie and besides of that...that line he just took from someone else that you gone ruin your life...
@@high5compliments45 how do you know it's a lie? I've seen and heard the about the same story from other drug traffickers
That's only if you get caught. I wouldn't mind getting sentenced to prison. if I'm in prison then I can kill pedos and murderers and stuff that are there.
@Brian Peppers heroin is a retirement drug, cocaine is a wagie drug.
Unless your a guy at the very top than 9 times out of 10 your gonna get done. And those guys at the top are police commissioners, army generals, politicians, pharmacuetical companies. They are the real pushers with power
These need to be an hour long.
Your mom needs to be an hour long
I aint watching all that
@@chance258 if it had reenactments and maybe animation that'd make it worth watching
@@doingbettereveryday nah idc I’m not watching a yt video that long. The animation will be like 30 sec with a bunch of edits and cuts like they always do with these crime videos anyway
Keep rewinding it 😂
I had a professor who used to send chemicals needed to make artificial sweeteners to Bogota that happened to be a white powder. Every shipment, without fail, was flagged because it was suspected to be cocaine, and every time my professor was like “WHY WOULD I BE SENDING COCAINE TO COLOMBIA”
Stolen comment bro
Yeah, it's like sending amphetamines to China.
@@Ozzy4201 copypasta?
I seen this comment somewhere else
@@HOLDFASTBEAR nah, from another drug related video from vice
Work so hard and take so much risk to get that money just to blow it all away in one night out? Yep, that sounds like most of the dealers I've known.
🍏🍏C I A is still apparently profiting off the international trade. Their nurturing of specific cartels has been virtually out in the open.
I have been around drugs my whole life. My dad sold my whole life then I did for almost three decades. I know two real drug dealers,not nickel and dimers, that made it out with their money. One is still rolling with a sports book but left the dope alone.The other is living off his houses,trucking business and apartment buildings he bought with his dope money that he laundered through his landscaping company and house cleaning businesses. Even he did five years on a second degree murder. I do know a bunch of small time people that make a few extra bucks selling to friends that made it. It almost always ends bad.
@@terryt2728 Drug dealing is a victimless crime. it only becomes bad when they cut the substance with fentanyl. I think they should just legalize everything for recreational use. that way we wouldn't be funding terrorists and the Cartels.
In what world is driving a few hundred miles hard work? High risk? Yup. Hard work? Hardly.
@@MS-tc2fs Go away trollface
Great job once again vice, you need to make these longer! this was intense, you guys seems to really capture that feeling as if someone is telling you directly the story.
someone was directly telling the story
@@njwtube I mean directly speaking to you in person.
👍👍👍
they can't force these people to do long interviews
Same problem as any dealer , no exit strategy , no end date . You're just thinking about the money and what will happen if you get caught .
with all that easy money pouring in and no career/trade it’s hard to leave that dangerous game….
That's the psychology of the manipulation game, you're nothing more than a pawn, for a pawn that represents a circle of shadow investors from different states.
Nacho Varga
Part of the problem is, when you start you say you will quit when you have a certain amount of euros saved up in cash under your bed. But at that point once you have it saved up, you are making thousands every day which makes it hard to quit. You tell yourself "well, at this point I'm making the same amount in one week that used to take me a full year to earn before. I have been doing this so long, I have never been caught the risk is worth it. It's small risk anyway, or else I would have been caught already." Also you learn from your past mistakes, learn how to handle everything with less risk and you start to think you have been doing it for so long that you have it figured out by now. It's seriously very hard to quit when you can just "make one last flip for an easy 10k" etc.
Yeah but its 2023 and only cash, you cant put it in your bank. Only thing you can do with cash is party and hookers
I was trafficking in my early 20s and it was just like 4-6 Kilos or 15 pounds of weed and got away quite fair without a prison sentence and without snitching on my friends, but it still cost me a few years of my youth since I was not allowed to leave the country for 3 years. I know it sounds cheesy but please be aware that drug trafficking gives you only a short satisfaction, the first 2 rides are fun but after that you get paranoid and believe me, in the end it’s not worth all the stress for cash only , stay safe ☝🏻
Marianneeeee also wirklich...
USA? They would've thrown you in for half a decade there
Police will be knocking tomorrow
sag mal hast du n Schuss ?!!
@@cinnamon.matcha😊
How did these informers come to tell their stories to the world? The motivation, connection to VICE, the trust they won't suffer negative consequences after... stunning stories...
They’re probably fake man, why would they do this interview 😂 can’t understand why
@@cianelliot1183 probably they are actors, but the story could be real. It would be too dangerous for people even to speak considering that somebody could recognize them for the skin color or their accent, the way they dress etc
200 kilo for 20k euro sound like a pretty bad deal when you risk 10-12 years of your life
AGREED!✊️✊️✊️✊️
he was most definitely exaggerating
Moral lesson: One day you will get caught, regardless of all the money you make
I didn't get caught and had two cars and traded shares from it
Also save up the money or some of it for a rainy day
Yes but before you lived a life full of drugs hookers partying...a life many people want.......
@Brian Peppers Shut up 🤣😂
@@so1667 only degenerates want that so we don't care about what they want.
"Only cash" well, I've never heard of a drug dealer handing out paychecks.
The governent does itd called liquer stores lol
They can pay workers in product, lot's of users sell just to maintain their own habits
BTC
@@toxicavenger7073 You can't trust a guy that gets high, they'll rat you out or try to kill you to get high, you never trust any one who gets high with $1000's of dollars with your supply.
Paycheques*
The fact that we get free videos on KZhead by VICE is truly a gift. 🤚
Nah Vice is a cancer. They came after Elliott Hulse a good man.
Sart fmeller
I was offered a muling job when I lived in Guatemala back in 2000. I was offered $5000 USD. I told the guy no way I'll do it and he punched me in the face so hard it left a mark for a week.
Good for you, these people are just using poor people for their own gains.
@@aesyamazeli8804 It wouldn't be possible without the drug prohibition.
@@aesyamazeli8804 is that not what all low paid jobs do?
Good plan bro. You seem to have moved country? That’s the best thing to do. 5k USD is really nothing to us here in Europe. Obviously I’d be happy to receive 5K but that kind of money isn’t life changing. I bought my first car at 17 years old for €4.3k (which is $5k)
@@burn5011Can we be friends bro
20 thousand euros is nothing compared to the profit they made at your risk.
legalize cocaine and heroin for recreational use
Exactly! That is why if you are dumb enough to risk your life for this, it HAS to be worth it. You need to be making at least $100,000 for EACH trip, have a figure in mind, and when you reach that exact figure then QUIT, but that's if you can! Of course anybody with a strategy like this would never be recruited, cos you are playing them at their own game.
I love this series. Keep it up.
I'm in Afghanistan that area bro
my cousin had a similar offer but refused, he even asked me, so I suggested him not to do it. Glad he didn't. It was a offer from a nearby drug dealer which had many people working for him, now he is in jail.
Got a number? Ha
Boring stories of asshokes
@@nicolasdegiosa287 what u want me to work for FBI?
Yeah ive had similar offers aswell as my friends. We all refused, thank god.
@@rogermoore3991 wow bro
Thank you for your service! T. Finnish dude
I wonder how vice found this person because I don’t see how anyone in their right mind would reach out and go on what’s basically national tv and tell so much of his former life especially if he knows they will kill him if they catch him.
Money
@@happychappy27 yup!
they all are paid actors bro
@@Copemaxx Yeah there's no way to verify so you may be right. I think they get people who where there and know what's up, but weren't the super big dealer or hitman that they claim to be, it was probably their former boss
They pay
Sellings drugs is a little bit like gambling with your freedom 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks for the tutorial!
150 kilos in his car but getting 20k bro got played honestly
I love how they show so much detail of the interviewee. Like....do they not know how the internet works
So much detail? So you could pick this man out of a line up? Behave yourself 🤣🤦🏻♂️
Wonderful job with this ‘The Informer' serie of interviews. But please consider also to make a similar one with witnesses of extreme examples of kindness and positivity. Humanity need to know also its bright sides. Thank you
boring
@@tobixclusive578this is so embarrassing
watch a different show if you want happy endings
Need the blueprints to the trunk mechanism, askin for a friend
“The hookers was not making me happy” damn dude, thats deep depression 😔
😂
Lmao
I'd rather say deep listening. That only cheers you superficially.
The man has no taste at all 😆
If we didn’t have so many American drug addicts those dealers would be out of business. The problem is the American addicts who are the customers. No customers no business. But Americans who use drugs are too addicted or stupid to know this and to stop. Drug addiction is just as addictive as our natural sins against God.
Okaay vice keep the bangers coming then
Anxiety through the roof just thinking about transporting 200 kilos.... one little slip up and you're done 🚔
I work as a van driver, and I deliver books to bookstores, sometimes over one ton of books a day. Hiding 200 kilos wouldn't be hard.
@@mode3763 unless they bring the drug sniffing dogs out!
Yep, dogs or x-rays @@lalodominguez7121
Great content 👌
Nice tutorial, gonna try it yesterday xD.
If you get caught in Finland for drugs, you don’t get 15 years. You get that for double or triple homicide… ”Life sentence” is approximately that. The longest consecutive time anyone has ever done in jail in Finland, is 25 years. 25. Let that sink in.
22 years 🎯
OK sign me up 😅
The other countrys he said like poland and such are really bad to go inside
@@djsonofibiza yeah don't wanna end up in russia or poland lol
Same as Ireland
The ethereal music goes well with the theme of this vid.
never clicked any faster when I see these Informer series show up
From Colombia to Antwerp port in Belgium, that's how.
I wonder if cartel operations are live government jobs: one person to measure, one person to cut, one person to hold it stable, one person to record the cut, and one person to overview the cutting process.
🤦
Well yeah, but at least with a government job you get to retire
@@M-I with a pension 😜
He blew his cover to cartels by confessing that the dealer guy was always named "Jerry".... Now his former dealer friends will know about this..
The guy ain’t even telling the truth
That could of be a different name to the actual name used.
@@AshtonAU but they'll know because this guy is an ex smuggler..and don't work for them anymore and they also know that name "Jerry" was a thing when he used to work with them....
@@lakhanyadav9 Yes but what if "Jerry" was a replacement name...so not the actual one he used. It probably depends on how many ex smugglers there are, but I'm sure "jerry" wasn't the real name, or if it was, he's silly for using it, when he could (and probably did) say any name isntead.
Everyone saying that's not his name, I think that's sort of the joke
I love your episodes
Ty
Thanks buddy x
My favourite series
The fact that they just killed you and hide your body from everyone else is cold. Your family and friends can’t even mourn over your dead body. Damn
$20,000 for delivering over $1,000,000 worth not worth the risk my guy !!
Jep my friend Swim... got 6k for 2 kg from Spain to Netherlands.. 2 kg would be like 60k/70k in euro if sold at ones
@@polski1986 stop snitchin 😂
what do you expect them to give you 10% of the whole sum just for driving? you have no leverage to bargain with them, if you try to play smart they can always put the gun to your head and offer other terms
@@anthonyvaughn488 dude $20000 is about how u deliver all the stock and u have not spent any money on labs or product's u just have to drive From A to B and u getting that money ofcourse the risks are high but it's totally on u and for this jobs u should be ruthless and strong hearted
@@Gamerboy-gl7di usually the ones who think like that get set up to get caught because that’s the game pride is a weakness they will use against you if you are not at the top of the pyramid you will always be a puppet my guy
Wow what a crazy life to live 😳
Funny, because Sinaloa cartel members call it "la vida loca." Literally "the crazy life."
The lifestyle itself is more addictive than the drugs.
Respect the hustle, ppl be living in that culture for years
@@blueewavessczm you respect it? You must have been brought up well.
@@dalermehndi4663 untill you end up in jail or get shot
more of informer videos please
I wish Vice would once and for all tell us what the name of the music is on these Informer videos.
Ikr
its possible it's just stock background music from youtube library or some other commercial library
its very simple they probably just made it themselves
Darude - Sandstorm
@@high5compliments45 mate stuck in 2015
3 years ago about $1.3 billion in cocaine was busted from on a Pennsylvania port, ship owned by JP Morgan and operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company, it was at least the third drug bust on ships operated by the Switzerland-based company that year. which is now the second-largest container shipping line in the world in terms of vessel capacity, just behind global leader AP Møller Maersk, is owned by one of the world’s richest couples, Gianluigi and Rafaela Aponte. Together the couple is worth an estimated $11.1 billion, ranked 133rd in the world by Forbes.
Dang. That's NUMBERS. 💰💰💰💴💵💴💶💷
This is insane 🥴
@@-441- what good is millions if there is inflation, no economy and hell ergo why countries don't want drugs at least publicly
@@-441- don't know if you're low iq or an illuminati shill, I'm guessing both
@The Duke who died?
Thank you
Why are comments closed on the banker video?
This guy seems super chill
And a big liar!!! 150 kilo's and get only 100-150 euro for one kilo???🥳😂😅😄🤣
@@high5compliments45 nothing wrong with lying
@@high5compliments45 I don't find it hard to belive that the driver would be given a lump sum.
That was mad to hear dudes definitely go through a lot and you taking all the risk like that for that kinda abuse and pay is not worth it
It's surreal to me that I know one person who was involved in this and maybe still is. He gave me access to one of the best secret social networks. It was able to get me anything I wanted with a single message, dropped off by a different friendly normal guy every time.
Sure you do
You do realise that loads of dealers use social networks to sell drugs?
@@happychappy27 no you don't understand this guy is different
@@jesseberdowski3148 haha is he like the Jeff bezos of the social network drug selling?
Let me guess silk road
€20,000 for delivering 150kg. Sounds like they completely ripped him off 😂
well, I'm sure one has a lot of leverage to pressure them into more favorable offer lmao
For real lol here in Netherlands you get 1k for every kilo you get out of the shipping container .. do the math
@@JimskiBeatz good money for the uithalers
@@JimskiBeatz how do they tresspass so easily when the port territory is guarded and with video cameras? how can they escape when theres cameras everywhere nowadays?
thats the magic. @@Copemaxx
For moving 150kilo I would want a lot more tha 20k🤣 150 is worth millionsssss and if your caught with that your fuckedddd
Man that activation system
Simple narrative video but the background sound makes it highly effective
Vice coming thru for us 🔥
FR fr. 🔥🔥
20K divided per 150 keys, is 133 euros per kilo! Adding the fact he was taking it to Finland (a lucrative market with absurd retail prices) this guy was making peanuts.
Exactly lol.
He was making money wdym?
@@dontbelikeme9165 Only 20g's
exactly bro. also, from the netherlands to spain or germany or italy is not really that long of a drive....but all the way to finland? My guy was crossing like 7-8 borders on every single trip...thats like a 30 hour trip every time. god damn. thats like driving from los angeles to dallas, only europe has worse open roads than the united states, so it takes like 10 more hours to do the same distance throughout europe.
Last words are scary like you are never running away
So nice
this guy sounds like a real og
Not at all 🤣🤦🏻♂️
I don’t think I’ll ever understand why people do such things. I know it’s a lot of money, but freedom and living without fear is so much better.
its simple, you cant afford freedom and life without money. Ever seen africa?
Well for alot of people, with no money, and nothing to really live for, freedom is not worth so much. Then all of a sudden, making hundreds of thousand in a few days can feel like it's worth the risk.
i start sweating even when i'm only carrying a freaking VAPE bro
Got a love face recognition.
When he said that he was smiling when they caught him with just weed - he probably meant that they caught him on a minor offense and he decided to cut a deal with (Dutch?) police. That is why he can't go back to the Netherlands
lovve that music
I used to smuggle Oreo cookies from NY to Canada!! it's a very lucrative market...
Just having your dog in the trunk would make border patrol and customs people raise some questions
Good point.
Hey I mean better having a dog in the trunk compared to them opening it and it reeking of weed
I'd say it depends on the trunk, if it's a station wagon then it's really common to have your dog in the trunk
I can just imagine a french poodle wearing a maids outfit with some windex & a towel diligently "hiding all the drug smells..." 😝👍
Better a dog in the trunk than an trunk in a dog
Love the mask 😂
Thank you the the sibtitles
Love the repetiton
For a 20.000 euro trip I'm not waking up in the morning knowing 5-10 years cold walls are waiting for me if something goes wrong, so a 1000 euro per kilo and half of that i want up front just in case i fell down the very first time...anyway never gonna actually do it.
coerced by financial deprivation and threat of violence, poor soul.
Coerced by coke and strippers more like 😂
Gosh, just watched the Queen of the South- after this interview, it seems like a documentary.
I met him near Schiphol last year
Here in America the word for a drug smuggler is called a ‘Mule’ . These mules which is pretty much the same name for a donkey for those who might not know. These mules typically smuggle gigantic loads of meth , coke, fetynal , for the Mexican cartels across the border and d as I needless to say how great the risks are in this business regardless of where you live !
fetynal sounds awesome, is it a new substance?
Looks like he snitched and knows he’ll be dead anytime soon he sees his coworkers
Me: Life it's Priceless! Him: Give me €20,000 For mine.
Give “marching powder” a read, guy gets caught smuggling cocaine in Bolivia. Very good read
There's people in your local streets that have moved more weight and for bigger people than whoever this is.
Maybe, maybe not
His voice may be lower but his accent is a giveaway
Is accent is pretty ez and I'm pretty sure u don't know it.
Next time, they should have the person come out in a Michael Meyer’s mask. Then, Freddy Krueger. Finally, Jason…
This is every locked up abroad episode.
Welp, let's hope he doesn't disappear after this
Wow I thought it was 20,000$ to take it one place and not stopping Thru 6-9 countries wtf definitely not worth it
What a mess
Intresting
Mexico 🇲🇽: hold my tequila
I always wondered how vice can find these guys from the world. I mean like who would actually self request to do this interview?
they are paid actors
@@Copemaxx yeah my guess is that vice is getting the stories( because all of these informer stories are surely things happening in the world) and then getting actors to narrate them, i would be hella impressed if they have the actual people in it
@@Copemaxxno they aren't ffs.
They shoulda played that song "informer" for the opening credits. A licky boom boom yeah!😂😂😂
I’m doing the wrong job I’m not making that much and I sure as heck wouldn’t party on it I would save it up just in case something happened.
Gotta love the dutchies and our drug trade
Mostly done by Albanians though ...
@@ThinLineMedia In the netherlands its mostly the moroccan mafia though, look up there is a documentary about it
20k a ride, that is actually quite decent
Thought that as well till i heard its 150 bricks from amsterdam to finland 😂.
20k for delivering 150 kilos! That’s crazy that means he only got €133 for each kilo.
The dog was in the trunk? Never heard of that.
Please do a masked interview of a slaughterhouse worker.
The crime is no joke
This is scary
People need to find these corrupt cops
Could I hand my CV to your boss