Kurupt

About Kurupt

Kurupt looks at the greatest heist stories. How did they actually do it? Every week, Charlie Cruz takes one clever true crime apart and shows you exactly how it worked. Whether a heist, con, fraud, art theft, espionage case, or famous escape, the show walks you through specific operational trick that the culprits used to run the scheme. Kurupt is for people who watch Ocean's Eleven, The Gentlemen, and Catch Me If You Can. Cleverness over violence. Substance over sensation. A new case every week. Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. https://grep.news/podcast/kurupt

Publisher

Grep News | Charlie Cruz

Category

society & culture · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Dec 2025

Latest episode

8 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

40 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Sept 2026

   Renoir Museum Heist: Four Paintings, Five Minutes, Two Left Behind

   In the pre-dawn hours on the French Riviera, two men in combat gear cut a fence, sliced four Renoirs off the walls of the artist's own home, and ran straight into a five-minute police response they hadn't accounted for. This episode walks through the mechanics of the 2025 theft at the Musée Renoir in Cagnes-sur-Mer — what the crew got right, what they miscalculated, and why two of the four paintings ended up lying in the garden.

2. 

   14 Aug 2026

   Filchenkov: Russia's Tokyo Arms Buyer Where Spying Is Legal

   After Western expulsions gutted Russian intelligence networks, a procurement pipeline for war-critical microchips quietly relocated to Tokyo — operating out of a real airline office in broad daylight. Charlie Cruz walks through the scheme step by step, explaining how Japan's postwar legal gap made exposure the only enforcement tool anyone had.

3. 

   17 Jun 2026

   Rubin Carter spent 19 years in prison on witness identifications that changed

   Rubin Carter spent nineteen years in prison for a triple murder he almost certainly did not commit, convicted on eyewitness identifications that only appeared after sustained police contact and a racial revenge motive the state's own witnesses later denied. The prosecution stitched two unrelated crimes from the same night into a coherent story, then suppressed the deal they cut with a witness who was burglarizing a building next door when the shooting happened. Charlie Cruz walks through the whole construction.

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

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