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The Underworld Podcast

The Rise and Fall of the Dark Web Fentanyl King

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6871 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

When Mohammed Alaa Allawi, a former US military interpreter, moved to Texas in 2012, selling weed was a side hustle. But when a company asked him to design a website, the young Iraqi soon realised his American dream was better forged online. Soon Allawi was making millions on the dark web, selling counterfeit pills with precursors from China—including the deadly opioid fentanyl. When a Marine OD’d on the gear, the heat on Allawi intensified. Before long he was trapped in a spectacular multiagency sting. FOR NEW MERCH: https://underworldpodcast.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's March 23, 2017, and a group of four young men are living hard in Las Vegas,

0:07.0

camped out in the VIP area of Draes, a popular spot right in the center of the city's neon soaked strip.

0:13.7

It's one of the most expensive clubs in town, but money's no object for this

0:18.4

of the oldball quartet. They're all dressed in flashy new suits and deep into bottle service, all courtesy of their leader,

0:26.4

a diminutive Arab with short-jelled hair and an unkempt beard.

0:31.0

Mohammed Allahi doesn't look like the average drug kingpin, but boy, as he spent like one.

0:38.6

Cars, homes, chains, sneakers.

0:42.2

The American dream, by way of Baghdad.

0:45.0

Lil Wayne is performing on this particular Vegas night,

0:48.0

and as he stalks across the stage, he spots Alawi and his crew passing round a massive bottle of Verve Cleco.

0:54.4

It's a trashy call perhaps, but this is Sin City and the bottle doesn't go unnoticed

1:00.0

by the rap superstar. I don't know who these dudes is he shouts out but I need to be partying with

1:05.7

them. It's only three years since Alawi was sleeping in his car but in 2015 he's set up a vendor account on the dark website Alpha Bay under the name

1:15.3

Dope Boyer 210 importing a pharmacopia and reselling it by the mailman.

1:20.7

Now two years down the line Dope Boy 2010 offers no fewer than 80

1:26.5

products from Xanax and Adderol to fentanyl the feared opioid tearing

1:32.3

through America's cities.

1:34.0

And Alawi is making huge amounts of cash.

1:38.0

But he's a tech guy, not a pharmacist,

1:42.0

and has hundreds of thousands of homemade pills flood the market,

1:45.0

Dop Boyer 210 begins to rack up victims

1:49.0

and interest from law enforcement.

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