In association with Alex Gibney’s Academy-Award winning Jigsaw Productions, Dirty Money is a Netflix original 6-part docuseries which tells stories of corporate corruption at the highest level.

Season 2, Episode 4, Emmy Award-winning Director Stephen Maing takes an immersive look into the sprawling underworld of illicit gold mining and deforestation of the Peruvian Amazon, as poverty stricken miners risk their health on a daily basis, digging in contaminated mines from the sudden rush of cartels entering the gold industry. A laundering scheme they discovered could clean their drug proceeeds, simply by generating fake compliance documents with shell companies to bypass custom authorities.

But it wasn’t until greed would lure 3 American gold brokers from Miami, Florida to take notice and wrecklessly begin buying every illegal gold particle cartels could offer at a lower price. Where, upon entering the legitimate market, is melted together by their refining company and sold to ever major consumer product company we all know and love. Finding themselves entangled in importing over $3.6 billion worth of illegal gold from Peru and other South American countries tainted by various criminal activities. The case put a spotlight on Miami as a major gold-import capital and on mining’s devastation of the rain forest and indigenous people in South America.