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Gangland Wire

Alain Olivier Part 2

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6623 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Most Wanted and The Trial of Alain Olivier Most Wanted, starring Josh Hartnett and Jim Gaffigan, is the real-life story of a French Canadian drug addict named Alain Olivier and how the Royal Canadian Mounted Police intimidated him into setting up an undercover narcotics operation. This plan went horribly wrong and ended with a Mountie getting killed under suspicious circumstances. In this second interview, Alain Olivier tells about his trial, 100-year sentence, and subsequent life in a Thai prison. The film crew of Most Wanted went to Thailand and used the actual Bang Kwang prison as a set for the time Olivier was in prison. Alain Olivier tells about how the Mounties testified against him to obtain a sentence of death. Once the court passed down a death sentence, they commuted it to 100 years because he was Canadian and Canada does not have a death penalty. Most Wanted and Prison Life Alain Olivier tells how one of the Mounties walked up to him during his trial and took a picture of him wearing his 40 pounds of chains for their family photo album. Alain alleges these Officers perjured themselves at trial and misrepresented him as a career criminal. In the end, one of them looked at him and stated “Good Luck Frency.” This became the title of his book and click on the title to find Alain Olivier’s website and the book.  Olivier explains in horrifying detail how he survived inside a Thai prison for 8 long years. Exoneration The film Most Wanted shows how Alain Olivier adapted to prison life and even thrived by helping his fellow prisoners. A Canadian journalist traveled to Thailand and interviewed Olivier inside the infamous Bang Kwang prison (click for a link to photos of the prison). Canadian journalist Victor Malarek was suspicious after asking his RCMP contacts about the buy-bust and they refused to talk about what should have been their greatest narcotics arrest. He followed up and learned the Mounties were hiding something. After a series of articles appeared, a Canadian attorney was able to get Olivier returned to Canada to finish out his 100-year sentence after 8 years in Thailand. Shortly after, the Canadian courts released Olivier. He is fighting today to restore his good name and to cause reform within the RCMP. Show Notes by Gary Jenkins  Support the Podcast Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire To go to the store or make a donation Click Here.   To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here.  To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast

Transcript

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0:00.0

You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective, Gary Jenkins.

0:19.4

So welcome Wiretappers to the second of the two-part series on this Royal Canadian

0:24.3

Mounted Police Operation that went wrong. If you remember, my guest, Elaine Olivier, was a young

0:30.8

drug addict up in Canada and he fell in with an informant who was working for the RCMP. And they have

0:37.0

a narcotics unit. You know, these guys are like Dudley Do-Right the RCMP, and they have a narcotics unit.

0:38.0

You know, these guys are like deadly due right kind of guys, but they have narcotics units

0:42.0

and detective units and all that.

0:44.0

Oh, this guy basically set him up.

0:45.9

At the end of the first episode, he was getting ready to do 100 years in a Thai prison.

0:52.0

This episode, he's going to talk about his time in the Thai prison

0:55.4

and what happened when he finally got back to Canada and his investigation into the dealings

1:01.2

of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. If you are just coming into this one, go back and listen to

1:07.6

episode one. I tell you, you need to listen to episode one. I got on to this

1:11.9

from a movie called Most Wanted on Amazon. It's a very recent film that stars Josh Harnett,

1:19.0

and a comedian of all people, Jim Gaffigan, in a really unusual cast selection. The funny man Gaffigan

1:25.0

plays a really bad character, a low-down double-dealing informant who destroyed this young man's life.

1:31.6

But, you know, this guy, you'll find out in this episode, this guy, Elaine Olivier had some real backbone.

1:37.7

And he practiced stoicism, I would say, in that prison.

1:40.9

I mentioned that to him in the interview that he got to acceptance, and then he

1:45.3

started helping other people, is how he got through those eight years in the Thai prison,

1:50.0

and in a way thrived, and has thrived ever since. He's written a book. Good luck, Frenchie.

1:55.9

He collaborated on this movie. He's doing podcasts now. He had a little bit of bad luck. The movie came out,

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