Lors du dernier Festival de Cannes, Broad Green Pictures a acheté les droits de distribution de THE INFILTRATOR. Réalisé par Brad Furman (« La Défense Lincoln »), THE INFILTRATOR a été tourné en janvier dernier à Londres, à Paris et en Floride, avec dans le rôle principal Bryan Cranston, l’acteur qui incarne Walter White dans « Breaking Bad ».

Ce film est tiré de l’autobiographie de Robert Mazur, ancien agent du FBI, qui  infiltra le milieu des cartels colombiens. L’ouvrage est paru en 2009 chez Little Brown :

An incredible true story

THE INFILTRATOR
My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel
by Robert Mazur
Little, Brown and Company, July 2009

Federal Agent Robert Mazur spent five years undercover as a money launderer to the international underworld, gaining access to the zenith of a criminal hierarchy safeguarded by a circle of dirty bankers and businessmen who quietly shape power across the globe. These men and women control multibillion-dollar drug-trafficking empires, running their organizations like public companies. Accountants, attorneys, and financial advisors, their roots run deep in their communities, and they are laundering billions of dollars a year, manipulating complex international finance systems to serve drug lords, corrupt politicians, tax cheats, and terrorists. In 1987, Mazur began infiltrating BCCI, bankers behind the Medellín cartel. He meticulously gathered evidence for years until, during a fake wedding, federal agents arrested over 40 high-ranking criminals, who were all found guilty and sent to prison. Never before told, this is the incredible, true story of how he did it.