McMafia, starring James Norton as the son of a former Russian gangster living in exile in London, is a fictional drama series adapted from the nonfiction book McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime by the journalist Misha Glenny. The writers of the TV show, Hossein Amini and James Watkins, came up with the storyline in which banker Alex Godman is drawn into the world of organised crime to protect his family. However, they took the details of the workings of modern organised crime from Glenny’s book. So what’s fact and what’s fiction in the first two episodes? Sofia Lebedeva as Lyudmilla Nikolayeva, a trafficking victim NICK WALLPeople traffickingIn episode two we follow a young woman named Lyudmilla, who is lured to Egypt under false pretences and then sold into the hands of gangsters.

Source: The Times January 03, 2018 17:16 UTC