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Doctor Naji: Dentist, Murderer, and Trafficker of Honor · Crime Night

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Imagine it's late evening, a quiet apartment building in Alexandria.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: It's humid, sticky, you can almost feel it.
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  Speaker 2: And inside, on the stairs, maybe heading home, a neighbor's
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  Speaker 2: son hears something.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Not just noise, something yeah, violent, muffled, heavy banging coming
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  Speaker 1: from the dental clinic on the.
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  Speaker 2: Lower floor, right, an apartment converted into a clinic. The
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  Speaker 2: door's locked. He can't see in, but the sound itself,
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  Speaker 2: it's pure panic, chaos.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: And behind that door two men. Doctor Najy Helmi al Chaffe,
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  Speaker 1: the dentist, and singed his.
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  Speaker 2: Business partner, if you can call it that, their criminal
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: partnership had just impluded. So Ead had just laid down
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  Speaker 2: the ultimate threat, utterly terrifying sollas.
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  Speaker 1: What was the threat?
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  Speaker 2: Fail me? He basically said, And I splashed fire acid
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  Speaker 2: on your daughter's face. Oh my god, exactly, corner family friend,
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  Speaker 2: All bets are off, Naujy. He reacted instantly, primal fear.
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  Speaker 1: What did he do?
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  Speaker 2: He grabbed the nearest thing heavy, a big glass fire extinguisher.
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  Speaker 1: And he just swam hit said.
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  Speaker 2: Crushing blow to the head, said went down, collapse.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't the end of it, was it? No?
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  Speaker 2: Naji needed absolute certainty. He moved from like blunt force
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  Speaker 2: to something else, something chillingly precise. He uses cools, his
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  Speaker 2: medical scalpel, an instrument meant for healing. He stabs, said
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  Speaker 2: again and again, until there was no doubt he was dead.
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  Speaker 1: A dentist clinic turned into that. It's a shocking end,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe uh.
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  Speaker 2: The inevitable end. There's this phrase used to describe Naji's
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  Speaker 2: whole life path after graduation, shamal, meaning every single step
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  Speaker 2: he took was off the track, deviant, wrong.
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  Speaker 1: So this deep dive it's about him, doctor Naji, the
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  Speaker 1: respectable professional who somehow ends up running this dark enterprise.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, this so called trade of honor? How ambition greed
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  Speaker 2: this off the track mentality led from dentistry to brutality
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  Speaker 2: and finally to murder.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's go back. How does a dentist even get
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  Speaker 1: involved in something like the trade of honor? We need
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  Speaker 1: to start to begin early two.
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  Speaker 2: Thousands, right after graduation. And here's the key thing. Najee
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  Speaker 2: never really wanted to be a dentist. His dream was
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  Speaker 2: human medicine.
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  Speaker 1: So dentistry was second choice, a fallback.
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  Speaker 2: And crucially, he wasn't motivated by, you know, helping people.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted the status, the perceived wealth that comes with
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  Speaker 2: being called doctor, that instant respect, that money.
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  Speaker 1: But legitimate dentistry it doesn't work like that, does it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not instant wealth, not at all.
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  Speaker 2: He realized pretty quickly that real success, the kind he
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  Speaker 2: craved took years building a reputation, further study, serious capital
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  Speaker 2: investment for a top clinic. It was just too slow.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted a shortcut, a fast track illegal money. And
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  Speaker 2: he saw that dentistry itself, well, it didn't offer many
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  Speaker 2: shady avenues, unlike human medicine.
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  Speaker 1: Which had its own black markets exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Organ trafficking, sure, but also what became his specialty a
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  Speaker 2: trade of honor. We're talking prohibited abortions and virginity restoration surgeries,
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  Speaker 2: procedures tapping into some really complexes idle pressures.
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  Speaker 1: So how does he learn this trade. He's just a dentist.
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  Speaker 2: He starts his career properly in a public health unit,
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  Speaker 2: but he's not really focused on teeth. He's plotting, looking
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  Speaker 2: for an.
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  Speaker 1: In, and he finds one.
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  Speaker 2: Took him two years. He found well, the description is
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  Speaker 2: just a vile gynecologist. This guy specialized in every illegal procedure.
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  Speaker 2: You can imagine ran a clinic that was basically a
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  Speaker 2: black market surgery, zero hygiene, ready for anything ilicit. And
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  Speaker 2: Nagy Nagy saw this criminal as a.
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  Speaker 1: Role model, a role model that tells you everything about
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  Speaker 1: his mindset right there.
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  Speaker 2: It really does. It wasn't just about money. It was
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  Speaker 2: a complete surrender to the dark side, you could say,
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  Speaker 2: greed over absolutely everything else.
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  Speaker 1: So the double life begins.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. Works for this gynecologists completely off the books, dentist
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  Speaker 2: by day, helping with these illegal surgeries by night.
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  Speaker 1: And they needed clients. How did that work?
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  Speaker 2: They built a network fast used brokers basically smugglers, fixers,
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  Speaker 2: people with deep ties into Alexandria's prostitution networks.
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  Speaker 1: So the brokers would be the girls.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly for the virginity restoration surgeries mostly. And let's talk money,
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  Speaker 2: because this explains the allure for naj Okay. The price
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  Speaker 2: was fifteen thousand Egyptian pounds per operation. That's fifteen thousand EGP.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the early two thousands.
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  Speaker 2: That's a fortune, huge, absolutely huge, And the split was
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  Speaker 2: ten thousand for the doctor, five thousand for the broker.
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  Speaker 1: And they were doing these often constantly.
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  Speaker 2: They're raking it in, making sums of money. Nagy couldn't
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  Speaker 2: have dreamed of earning legitimately in like a decade maybe.
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  Speaker 1: More, that kind of money. Yeah, it changes things, gives
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  Speaker 1: you confidence, maybe too much confidence.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, definitely. By two thousand and seven, Nag wasn't just
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  Speaker 2: assisting anymore. He'd mastered the procedures. He was fast, he
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  Speaker 2: was discreet. His reputation actually grew among the brokers, so.
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  Speaker 1: They started asking for him, not the older doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they wanted Naugy, specifically the senior guy, the vile gynecologist.
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  Speaker 2: He actually became dependent on. Nauj often just left him
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  Speaker 2: to do the surgeries alone.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I see where this is going. He's doing all
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  Speaker 1: the risky.
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  Speaker 2: Work, most of it. Yeah, but still getting the smaller
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  Speaker 2: cut technically working for the other guy.
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  Speaker 1: And Naji's greed wouldn't let that stand for long.
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  Speaker 2: Not a chance. He decided right time to cut out
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  Speaker 2: the mentor keep the lion's share. But he needed the clients,
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  Speaker 2: He needed the network, which the old gynecologists controlled well,
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  Speaker 2: the brokers did, so Naji needed a new partner, someone
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  Speaker 2: higher up.
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  Speaker 1: In that world. Enter siteyed exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Sayid was described as one of Alexandria's biggest dealers in
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  Speaker 2: the specific honor trade massive connections. He saw Naji skilled, young,
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  Speaker 2: maybe easier to control than the older doctor, so.
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  Speaker 1: They partnered up cut out the original guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. Now the massive profits were split just two ways
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  Speaker 2: between Nagy and said, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So Naji needs his own place now, but he can't
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  Speaker 1: just open a dodgy gynecologists clinic.
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  Speaker 2: He's a dentist precisely, So this is where the deep
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  Speaker 2: deception really kicks. In two thousand and seven, he opens
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  Speaker 2: his own private dental clinic.
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  Speaker 1: What's completely legitimate.
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  Speaker 2: From the outside, yes, all the proper dental chairs, is equipment,
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  Speaker 2: waiting room, everything you'd expect. But behind locked doors two
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  Speaker 2: extra rooms hidden.
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  Speaker 1: What were they for?
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  Speaker 2: One was the operating room for the dirty operations, as
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  Speaker 2: they called it, and second rate had a bed in
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  Speaker 2: it for patient recovery, right there inside the dental clinic.
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  Speaker 1: A bed in a dental office. That alone is incredibly suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: If anyone noticed, you'd think so.
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  Speaker 2: But he pulled it off. Think about the compartmentalization required
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  Speaker 2: the sheer nerve.
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  Speaker 1: And he kept this up for how long?
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  Speaker 2: Eight years? From twenty seven to twenty fifteen, living this
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  Speaker 2: complete double life. He and Seid apparently moved clinic locations
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  Speaker 2: several times, you know, for security, standard procedure for criminals.
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  Speaker 1: And during all this time, he gets married as a.
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  Speaker 2: Family, a wife, kids who believed he was just a
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  Speaker 2: very successful, very legitimate dentist. Imagine the stress of maintaining
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  Speaker 2: that lie for almost a decade.
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  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. The constant fear of discovery must have been immense.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely living that kind of lie, it takes a toll.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's why in twenty fifteen, maybe he just made
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  Speaker 2: enough money, or maybe the strain was too much. He
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  Speaker 2: decided he was out.
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  Speaker 1: He told said he was retiring.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, closed the clinic, said he was done with the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing, permanently, promised he'd keep quiet, wouldn't expose anything,
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  Speaker 2: and Seid agreed reluctantly. Seed probably figured he could find
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  Speaker 2: another surgeon eventually. So Najen walks away, opens a new
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  Speaker 2: dental practice, totally above board, different area. Looks like he's
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  Speaker 2: finally gone straight.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't true, was it not for long?
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  Speaker 2: Just four months later, said gets wind of something. He's
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  Speaker 2: a conducting business in a brothel apparently, and one of
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  Speaker 2: the girls there mentions she just had the operation.
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  Speaker 1: The restoration surgery.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and guess who performed it. Naji, doctor Naji at
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  Speaker 2: his new legitimate clinic. And here's the kicker. She paid
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  Speaker 2: less than Sad's network charged.
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  Speaker 1: So Naji didn't retire, He just cut Seed out.
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  Speaker 2: He went solo exactly. He'd learned enough, built enough contacts,
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  Speaker 2: maybe thought he could run it all himself. He even
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  Speaker 2: hired his own secretary to act as his personal broker, apparently,
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  Speaker 2: a woman he knew from her past work in Brussels.
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  Speaker 1: That's incredibly brazen, going behind Seeds back like that.
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  Speaker 2: Reckless is the word. Seid, of course, found out immediately
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  Speaker 2: and confronted him.
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  Speaker 1: How did Naji explain that?
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  Speaker 2: He tried to lie his way out of it, claimed
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  Speaker 2: it was a one off, a favor for an old patient.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't happen again?
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  Speaker 1: Did Seed buy it?
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  Speaker 2: See he'd pretended to play it along, but instantly he
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  Speaker 2: forced Naugy back into the partnership. Naji had no choice really,
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  Speaker 2: Seeid controlled the main flow of clients.
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  Speaker 1: So their partners again. But the trust is gone. It
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  Speaker 1: must have been.
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  Speaker 2: Hostile, completely toxic. Say he had never trusted him again,
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  Speaker 2: and apparently said started gathering dirt on Nagy during this period,
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  Speaker 2: compromont insurance to make sure Naji couldn't try to break
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  Speaker 2: away again.
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  Speaker 1: How long did that last, this forced partnership.
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  Speaker 2: Three more years, until twenty eighteen. Naji must have been desperate.
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  Speaker 1: He tries to disappear again, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Closes, the clinic vanishes. This time he moves to an
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  Speaker 2: apartment near that old public health unit where he first
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  Speaker 2: started his career. Kind of full circle in a grim way,
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  Speaker 2: and the clinic this time he doesn't even bother with
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  Speaker 2: the proper medical building facade. He sets up the clinic
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  Speaker 2: inside a regular residential apartment, trying to just blend in completely.
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  Speaker 1: But that seems even risk here, doesn't it. Neighbors notice
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  Speaker 1: things in apartment building.
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  Speaker 2: They absolutely did. The operation was just too weird to
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  Speaker 2: go unnoticed. Neighbors picked up on strange things like what
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  Speaker 2: the secretary for one Her appearance was described as worn out,
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  Speaker 2: which caught attention. The clinic hours were all over the place,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes morning, sometimes late at night, erratic.
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  Speaker 1: And the bed. Did they notice the bed again?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: During setup, someone saw a bed being delivered to the
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  Speaker 2: dental office. That was a huge red flag for the neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: So so Ed finds him again.
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  Speaker 2: It was inevitable, took about three months. At this time,
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  Speaker 2: Seid goes to the new apartment clinic. Naugy isn't there.
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  Speaker 1: What does ceed do?
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  Speaker 2: He leans hard on the new secretary, threatens her badly,
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  Speaker 2: leaves a message for Naujy, I know where you are.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be back soon.
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  Speaker 1: Naji gets the message. He knows the.
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: Eat is coming, yes, and he knows this confrontation will
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: be different, more dangerous. So before Said arrives, Naji dismisses
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  Speaker 2: his secretary, sends her home. He faces Said alone.
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  Speaker 1: And the confrontation happens late evening again.
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  Speaker 2: So he walks in, no discussion, no preamble, just immediately
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  Speaker 2: slaps Naujy hard across the face, accuses him rightly of
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  Speaker 2: running solo operations again.
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  Speaker 1: And then comes the threat.
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  Speaker 2: The threat about his daughter fire acid. That specific, horrifying detail.
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  Speaker 1: That was the breaking point, the moment everything changed for Naji, the.
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  Speaker 2: Moment the off the track journey reached its final destination.
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  Speaker 2: He saw red, the man who chased illicit wealth for
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  Speaker 2: over a decade suddenly had something real, something precious to
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: protect the fire extinguisher, the heavy glass fire extinguisher, the
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  Speaker 2: blow to the head, and then the scalpel, the tools
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: of his trade into weapons.
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  Speaker 1: And all this noise. The initial struggle. The neighbor's son
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  Speaker 1: heard it earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Right while Nagy is dealing with the body, trying to
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  Speaker 2: dismember it, the neighbor whose son heard the banging comes knocking.
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  Speaker 1: What does Nagy say?
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  Speaker 2: He lies, claims the patient had a seizure or fainted,
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: fell heavily during a difficult tooth extraction, something like that.
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  Speaker 2: He works through the night trying to dispose of the
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: body parts and bags, scattering them.
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: But you can't hide something like that easily, Yeah, especially
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: not the smell.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly the next day, the clinic stays closed, locked up tight,
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  Speaker 2: but the smell, it starts to permeate the building. It's unmistakable. Powerful.
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  Speaker 1: The neighbor, who is already suspicious, Yeah, he knows something
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: is deeply wrong.
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  Speaker 2: He calls Nagy and basically gives him an ultimatum. Tell
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  Speaker 2: me what's going on. Explain the noise, Explain this god
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  Speaker 2: awful smell, or I'm calling the police right now.
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  Speaker 1: What does Nagy do he's cornered.
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  Speaker 2: He completely breaks down, panicked, maybe seeing no way out,
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  Speaker 2: He confesses everything the phone tells the neighbor, his entire
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: criminal history, the surgeries, the partnership with Saheid, and the murder.
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  Speaker 1: You confessed to the neighbor, the.
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  Speaker 2: Whole sordid story. But the neighbor he was smart. He
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: didn't react with horror, not outwardly.
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  Speaker 1: What did you do?
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  Speaker 2: He pretended he wanted to help. Najy feigned sympathy, said
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  Speaker 2: he'd help with the cover up, but only if Naji
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  Speaker 2: came back to the apartment building immediately and let him
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  Speaker 2: see inside the clinic first, see the situation for himself.
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  Speaker 2: Good trap, a very clever trap. Najy, desperate, maybe thinking
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  Speaker 2: he'd found an ally, agrees. He comes back, hands over
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  Speaker 2: the clinic key to the neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: The neighbor stalls him, keeps him.
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  Speaker 2: Talking upstairs while he and two other residents go down
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  Speaker 2: and unlock the clinic door.
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  Speaker 1: What did they find?
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  Speaker 2: The smell hit them like a wall. Blood stains everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: and then the remains, some in the bath cub, bags
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  Speaker 2: of body parts in a refrigerator.
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  Speaker 1: God, they called the police immediately.
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  Speaker 2: I assume instantly the whole community was just rocked, shell shocked.
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  Speaker 2: This seemingly respectable dentis doctor Nagy living amongst them, had
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: been running this horrifying secret operation for over eleven years.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the end result, arrested, convicted. The evidence was overwhelming,
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  Speaker 2: especially with his confession. He was sentenced to death.
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  Speaker 1: It all comes back to that phrase, doesn't it? Shum
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  Speaker 1: all off the track from day one.
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  Speaker 2: Almost step from wanting medicine for the status, not the service,
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  Speaker 2: to settling for dentistry, but hating its slow path, finding
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  Speaker 2: that corrupt mentor embracing the illegal trade, the betrayals.
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  Speaker 1: It really makes you think, what is it inside someone? Ambition, greed,
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  Speaker 1: maybe fear that lets then make choice after choice like that,
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  Speaker 1: compromising everything, ethics, reputation, family, safety, life itself.
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  Speaker 2: It's a chilling question. Was the final act the murder,
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  Speaker 2: just this isolated explosion of violence born from a specific threat,
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  Speaker 2: or was it simply the last most extreme off the
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  Speaker 2: track decision on a path he chose years and years ago,
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  Speaker 2: the moment he decided illicit money mattered more than anything else.
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  Speaker 2: That's the dark trajectory where left contemplating