Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller

TRAFFICKED explores the complex and often dangerous inner workings of the global underworld - smuggling networks, and black and informal markets.

TRAFFICKED explores the complex and often dangerous inner workings of the global underworld - smuggling networks, and black and informal markets.

Season 5 Episode Guide

10 Episodes 2025

Episode 1

Sat, Jul 19, 2025 44 mins

Mariana explores the growing influence of Mexican cartels in the U.S.

Episode 2

Sat, Jul 26, 2025

Mariana travels to a Southeast Asian scam hub where crime syndicates hold thousands captive, forcing them to perpetrate fraud.

Episode 3

Sat, Aug 2, 2025

With a lethal new fentanyl potion hitting the streets, Mariana travels to Mexico to investigate the evolving opioid crisis in America.

Episode 4

Sat, Aug 9, 2025

Mariana travels to Vietnam in order to investigate reports about young women who are being trafficked into China to be sold as unwilling brides.

Episode 5

Sat, Aug 16, 2025

Mariana investigates the global phenomenon of armoured car heists, responsible for some of the most brazen and dangerous robberies in the world.

Episode 6

Sat, Aug 23, 2025

Mariana investigates America's heavily armed militias and their growing influence.

Episode 7

Sat, Aug 30, 2025

Mariana investigates the scammers luring addicts into fraudulent sober homes, while billing health programmes for billions in bogus treatments.

Episode 8

Sat, Sep 6, 2025

Mariana investigates a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ violence and uncovers a well-funded global network pushing an anti-gay agenda around the world.

Episode 9

Sat, Sep 13, 2025

Mariana goes inside the adrenaline-fuelled, gambling-funded subculture of illegal street racing that's wreaking havoc on cities around the globe.

Episode 10

Sat, Sep 20, 2025

Mariana investigates the illegal trade in shark fins, going face-to-face with hunters and smugglers, and undercover to explore the demand in the US.