It's in early June morning in Dubai and six fully kidded out SWAT teams are on the move

through the halls of one of the city's most exclusive condos.

I mean you know it's Dubai, it's fancy. But these cops aren't messing around and they look like they're fully ready to engage in a firefight full of automatic weapons.

I mean they look like they're about to take down a terrorist cell.

The United Arab Emirates and Dubai clearly want to send a little bit of a message.

Dubai can kind of seem like a lawless place when it comes to international criminals, just setting

up shop there.

It's just kind of wild.

I haven't spent that much time there.

But it sounds like it's a combo of Beirut in the 80s and Casablanca in the 40s just all sorts of

big money criminals based there terrorist groups mafiosos white collar criminals

spies you know to be a fly on the wall of a seven-star hotel bar in Dubai.

In some of our episodes, we've actually talked about various mafiosos who have set up shop there to avoid

extra legal situations like the Kinnahan cartel.

But now in 2020 they've started

cracking down on some of the more explicit criminals including a Belgian

Moroccan drug lord accused of killing 11 people. This operation, dubbed

Fox Hunt 2, is launched in coordination with

American law enforcement. The cops here don't end up facing any

resistance though. Their targets aren't known for their violence. Instead, these cops just barrel into these spotless luxury apartments

and handcuff a bunch of really godly dressed Nigerian men,

drip down in luxury brands and jewelry.

...