How I Trafficked $5 Million Worth Of Cocaine | Posh Pete's Uncut Story | How Crime Works

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Former cocaine smuggler Pieter Tritton returns for a second interview with Business Insider about his experience trafficking drugs from South America to the United Kingdom. Tritton says he started selling cocaine in the illegal rave scene in the UK in the 2000s. He then established a cartel connection and began importing cocaine to Europe in larger quantities. Tritton was arrested in Ecuador and served 10 years in prison there, first in Garcia Moreno in Quito, and later in Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, which is one of the world's most violent and corrupt prisons.

He now works as a public speaker on the dangers of drugs, consults with the UK police force, and is writing a follow-up to his 2017 memoir, "El Infierno: Drugs, Gangs, Riots and Murder: My time inside Ecuador's toughest prisons."

The NCA estimates the UK cocaine market is worth $13.8 billion (£11 billion) a year.
In the year ending March 2023, over 92 metric tons of illegal drugs were seized by police and Border Force, the highest volume since 2003/4.

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00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:40 - The Connoisseur
00:02:44 - Trafficking Methods
00:09:15 - The Structure
00:14:15 - The Mules
00:23:13 - The Transport
00:33:40 - Farming And Processing
00:37:27 - The Cartels
00:46:31 - The Market
00:50:15 - The Arrest
01:00:49 - The Prisons
01:05:59 - Prison Gangs
01:12:31 - The Rise
01:14:46 - The Bigger Picture
01:21:53 - The Backstory
01:25:31 - The Aftermath
01:30:11 - Credits

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All Comments (21)

@dizzlx4662 4 months ago

This guy just spit straight info for 1.5 hours, no fluff. Very interesting episode.
@TheUnbekantxe36 4 months ago

If you didn't read the title you would think he's an art professor lecturing about the Baroque period.
@frankmcclusky7870 4 months ago

he seems to have a genuine enthusiasm for cocaine being turned into rubber and latex lmao
@demanorazfly 4 months ago

I would like to congratulate drugs for winning the War on Drugs
@jamesburke4505 4 months ago

"It's a bit like a French vinyard, they keep the best bottles in the Chateau" - and we wonder how he got the name Posh Pete.
@rundown132 4 months ago

Thanks for the tutorial Insider! I will keep this video as reference as I get my business up and running
@pennzilla57 4 months ago

I can't even sneak a candy bar out of a grocery store, and this guy is moving 5 mil in powder like he is ordering a pizza.
@camillat984 4 months ago

I could listen to Piet talk forever. Thanks for getting him in to tell a longer version of his story.
@user-ix9qx7po1f 4 months ago

I could totally imagine at least a six season series about this guy's life divided in arcs.
@johngammon963 4 months ago

This is what a pro looks like - you've got to respect his brains and his balls.
@jamesburk8145 3 months ago

The whole war on drugs has basically been like trying to empty a swimming pool by scooping out the water with a rake.
@David_brent 4 months ago

These are the real gangsters, not the rappers you see pretending to be
@lakid9749 4 months ago

He's the perfect cover, who would ever think it! He looks like a math teacher
@sparkplug964 4 months ago

This is the kind of guy you might randomly meet in a bar and before you know it 5 hours have past and he has told you a story of a life time.
@marvinschumacher8549 4 months ago

I did 8 years in France and most of my best friends were international cocaine traffickers. They were the most intellectually elevated of the prison. They almost all spoke English and Spanish very well, plus other languages, which i do too. They were often educated in business or international transport such as shipping. They also liked a life of high risk. They were well travelled and often well read. They were not Scarface. Not at all.
@hamishalexander5294 4 months ago

Laughed at the end when he was offering his painting services 😂
@cking509 4 months ago

Great story. Genuinely enjoyed the straightforward, deadpan delivery. No fluff or embellishment.
@StephenMintz 4 months ago

Thanks for helping me fall asleep with your monotone calm voice. But his details are terrific, one of the most insightful How Crime Works tell-alls ever.
@Enaiarr 4 months ago

Said it before, I'll say it again. Get Eddie Redmayne in for his biopic.
@mylesstevens4367 4 months ago

What, do you think we're corrupt? We're the Ecuadorian police 💀💀💀💀💀