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Episode 244: How British mobster Robert Dawes became a pied piper for a generation of Dubai-based criminals

BRITISH drug baron Robert Dawes became known as the pathfinder for a generation of criminals, including the Kinahan Cartel, when he was one of the first to make Dubai his home and the headquarters of his trans-global empire.Ancient money transfer systems, a blind eye to suitcases of cash and easily attained residential permits all added to the attraction of the United Arab Emirates for Dawes and the countless other drug dealers that followed him to the Gulf paradiseBut the 55-year-old has found that not everything is fool-proof and that the past can have a sneaky way of creeping up on…

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