Mcmafia map of the world

Global crime guide, by author who inspired TV series The next 007? Norton would actually be a fine Bond villain

The biggest cocaine producers are Colombia, Peru and Bolivia and when it’s not going to Mexico and the US, much of their produce leaves the continent via neighbour Brazil.

The country has become so significant in the trafficking of illegal drugs that even the middle-classes are involved. “They use legitimate businesses to cover the shipping of cocaine to Brazil and on to Europe via West Africa,” says Glenny.

Some 80% of the cocaine arriving in Europe leaves through Brazil’s Santos port, he says. The cocaine industry is worth

£67billion annually. Almost all of it originates in Peru, Colombia and

Bolivia, where coca, the crop used to make coacaine, can be grown.

But in recent decades, they’ve left the transportation or trafficking to others. “You have a differentiated business chain where producers are in Colombia, global distributors are in Mexico and the main consumer is in the US. Colombia still has problems with drug cartels, informal militias.” IT WAS billed as a tryout for James Bond but it seems James Norton might be more suited to another role… that of Bond villain.

As banker Alex Godman tried to claw his way out and save his family from organised crime, each decision sucked him further in.

Until last night, when he somehow came out on top – of all of it. Just not in the way we wanted. The finale was an action and Britain is a central focus of Mcmafia as the home of Godman and his Russian family.

While the UK might seem safer than, say, Mexico or Afghanistan, it plays a key role in organised crime.

“The London property market and some of the banking and hedge fund facilities are used for moneylaundering,” says Glenny. “We are a huge market for narcotics and a significant market for women trafficked for sexual purposes.

“We are a market for people dealing in untaxed cigarettes, a market for bush meat, a market for all sorts of things. It’s very much the same for America.” intrigue-packed episode. With his father’s warning of “in Moscow they kill you” ringing in his ears, Alex faced threats, crooked cops, a kidnap attempt and gangsters chasing him within minutes of touching down in Russia.

After all that, the final confrontation with Vadim was a little disappointing, however ruthless. Told he’d have to be willing to lose everything to live in that world, he did just that, leaving not only a killer but a drug kingpin who signed the death warrant of thousands from a boardroom.

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In Mcmafia it’s the home of shady investor SemiyonKleiman, played by David Strathairn. Beauty therapist Lyudmilla, played by Sofya Lebedeva, is trafficked to Tel Aviv in episode two. Her story is based on a real woman trafficked from Moldova to Israel hoping to find a summer job but enslaved in a brothel instead.Like Britain and the US, Israel is a centre for the sex trafficking industry.But that’s not all...“In Israel, indigenous organised crime takes several forms,” saysGlenny. “First, the manufacture and export of synthetic narcotics. And a lot ofIsraeli businessmen are involved in dodgy deals to do with the extractive industries in the DemocraticRepublic of Congo and other central African countries – they are on the high end of criminal industrial business.” GRIM Lyudmilla & Kleiman, left The main transit point for drugs from SouthAmerica to NorthAmerica.In Mcmafia, a member of aMexican cartel tries to woo Godman to do business with him. There are seven main drugs cartels in Mexico and they are notorious for their extreme violence. There have been more than 200,000 deaths in the past 10 years due to the drug trafficking trade alone. Beheadings and torture have become commonplace. “Mexico is the contemporary killing fields of organised crime,” says Glenny. VIOLENCE Murder victims in Acapulco Godman visited Antibes with Rebecca to talk business with Mexican gangster Antonio Mendez.In real life, the French Riviera and Costa del Sol are the top holiday destinations for Russian and Eastern European gangsters. “People involved in organised crime are rich and like to use the fruits of their labour by having fun,” says Glenny. “They also tend to buy property.” Houses are also bought to launder illegally acquired money, he said. Russia played a big part in the Mcmafia story. The Godman family are Russian exiles living in London. When communism collapsed, there was a power vacuum in Russia and the rest of the Eastern Bloc. This was soon filled by the Russian mafia, as represented by Vadim Kalyagin, played by Merab Ninidze in the TV series (left).“Russia is involved in extortion and protection rackets in Russia itself. But it is also involved in the smuggling of untaxed cigarettes or sex trafficking and in bringing heroin from Afghanistan. Above all, they are the supreme criminal hackers.”Russia contains just 0.5% of the world’s population but is estimated to consume 12% of the world’s heroin. HARD ROLE Norton as banker Alex Godman EXPERT Misha Gl