A birdwatcher's binoculars found the document that unraveled a six-year municipal extortion racket
A birdwatcher's binoculars found the document that unraveled a six-year municipal extortion racket
A retired postal clerk with binoculars for birdwatching found a rubber-banded bundle of documents under a refrigerated truck axle at the Strelka Street Market - the papers were dated four months in the future and were signed and sealed to certify farms that had not yet passed inspection. How did a routine inspection system become the mechanism for six years of paid extortion, and who paid the price?
In this episode, you will hear the sequence of events from the discovery at dawn to the…
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