- [Voice On Phone] Is this Kenny?
- [Kenny] Yeah.
- [Voice On Phone] We hear you can handle gold.
Kenny Noye only comes in once the gold has been stolen.
So a friend says you can shift it.
I find it fascinating that you cannot really trust him.
He also operates in the sort of shadows of the police and the masons, and we get to see that in operation.
You take this as a grateful thank you from the public for keeping all them nasty villains off our streets.
He sort of becomes a middleman with then getting hold of people like John Palmer, a gold expert, and then ultimately, Coopers, who was the sort of a money man, front man that washed the money.
- John Palmer has a business which is called Scadlynn Gold Merchants, and he deals in gold.
When the gold ends up at Kenny Noye's front door, he approached John Palmer.
John Palmer's reticent.
But as soon as he lays eyes on that gold, it's impossible to say no.
And he ends up smelting.
Kenny Noye and John Palmer, they're not exactly doing badly, but there's something in the reflection of this gold bar that they can see a future for themselves.
That means that they're almost untouchable.
Look, it's not just how to shift a bar, Kenny.
What you're talking about that is, that's a different level.
And there's no point doing it if you can't clean what comes out the other side.
(dramatic music) - Edwin Cooper is a successful solicitor, and on the side, he has a close link through the Masons with helping the police force gets slightly, sometimes naught, but corrupt officers off.
I've represented 42 police officers accused of corruption, and I'm yet to lose.
And he's good at it.
But this means he's got connections to the underworld and he knows a lot of criminals.
- I represent a group of businessmen who have a lot of money that needs to be made respectable.
- I think it's easy to underestimate the power that greed and a huge amount of money has on people.
And I think what's particularly surprising is what people are willing to risk to try and get it.
A lot of people in the golds come from rich, affluent backgrounds, and yet they still throw themselves into the criminal behaviors that they do.
I think if people are driven by that kind of thing, it's an insatiable appetite.
And the power of greeds you can never underestimate.
(fire burning)
