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It all started as an online prescription drug network, supplying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of painkillers to American customers. It would not stop there. Before long, the business had turned into a sprawling multinational conglomerate engaged in almost every conceivable aspect of criminal mayhem. Yachts carrying $100 million in cocaine. Safe houses in Hong Kong filled with gold bars. Shipments of methamphetamine from North Korea. Weapons deals with Iran. Mercenary armies in Somalia. Teams of hit men in the Philippines. Encryption programs so advanced that the government could not break them.The man behind it all, pulling the strings from a laptop in Manila, was Paul Calder Le Rouxa reclusive programmer turned criminal genius who could only exist in the networked world of the twenty-first century, and the kind of self-made crime boss that American law enforcement had never imagined.For half a decade, DEA agents played a global game of cat-and-mouse with Le Roux as he left terror and chaos in his wake. Each time they came close, he would slip away. It would take relentless investigative work, and a shocking betrayal from within his organization, to catch him. And when he was finally caught, the story turned again, as Le Roux struck a deal to bring down his own organization and the people he had once employed.Award-winning investigative journalist Evan Ratliff spent four years piecing together this intricate puzzle, chasing Le Rouxs empire and his shadowy henchmen around the world, conducting hundreds of interviews and uncovering thousands of documents. The result is a riveting, unprecedented account of a crime boss built by and for the digital age.

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Copyright 2019 by Evan Ratliff All rights reserved Published in the United - photo 1
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Copyright 2019 by Evan Ratliff

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

R ANDOM H OUSE and the H OUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Portions of this work were originally published in different form in The Atavist Magazine (magazine.atavist.com).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Ratliff, Evan, author.

Title: The mastermind: drugs, empire, murder, betrayal / by Evan Ratliff.

Description: First edition. | New York: Random House, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018035751 | ISBN 9780399590412 | ISBN 9780399590429 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Le Roux, Paul Calder. | CriminalsBiography. | Drug traffic.

Classification: LCC HV6248.L343 R37 2019 | DDC 364.1092 [B]dc23

LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/2018035751

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Contents

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

C ORMAC M C C ARTHY, No Country for Old Men

Cast of Characters

THE MASTERMIND

Paul Calder Le Roux

THE INVESTIGATORS

Kimberly Brill, Steven Holdren, Kent Bailey (DEA)

With: Rizaldy Rivera, Peter Lugay, and Inspector R (Philippines); Thomas Cindric and Eric Stouch (DEA)

THE OPERATORS

Moran Oz, Alon Berkman

With: Boaz and Tomer Taggart, Levi Kugel, Yehuda Ben-Dor, Shai Reuven, Robert McGowan, Asaf Shoshana, Nestor Del Rosario, Omer Bezalel, Babubhai Patel

THE PHARMACIST

Charles Schultz

THE DOCTOR

Prabhakara Tumpati

THE MERCENARIES

Lachlan McConnell, Dave Smith, Felix Klaussen, Joseph Hunter

With: Chris De Meyer, Marcus, Scott Stammers, Tim Vamvakias, Mathew Smith, Patrick Donovan, Andrew and Steve Hahn, Adam Samia, Bruce Jones, John Nash, Doron Shulman, Philip Shackels, David Stillwell

THE CONNECTORS

Patrick Donovan, Ari Ben-Menashe

THE ATTORNEYS

Joe Friedberg and Robert Richman (Moran Oz defense), Linda Marks (U.S. Department of Justice), Joe Frank Zuiga (Philippines)

Authors Note

This book is a work of nonfiction. It is based on more than four years of reporting, including hundreds of interviews, hundreds of thousands of pages of law enforcement reports, government databases, court documents, and internal communications from a criminal organization that involved thousands of people and conducted business on six continents. I have worked to corroborate every fact found in these pages, and to speak with as many participants as possible. Unfortunately, I couldnt speak to them all. Some are dead, murdered because of what they knew. Others declined to talk to me, out of a fear that they might meet the same fate. Still others are in prison and desperate to avoid the perception that they have turned on their compatriots. A few are in hiding, running from prosecution or vengeance, real or imagined.

But dozens of the people involved did share their stories with me, at risk of physical danger, legal jeopardy, or professional consequences. In three cases, specified in the source notes, I have altered subjects names. I did so because they feared for their safety and that of their families, because they were never prosecuted for the crimes described here, and because their names didnt appear in legal proceedings connected to these events. In other instances I have described certain minor players, including some law enforcement officials or family members, only by their job descriptions or connections to more principal figures.

Every individual in this book is real. The events they describe happened.

Prologue

2012The puzzle

MONROVIA, LIBERIA

September 26, 2012

On a gray afternoon, three men enter a drab hotel room for a business meeting, months in the making. Two are white: a portly South African and his muscled European deputy. The other, with dark hair and a paunch of his own, is LatinoColombian, or so he says. The hotel is in the Liberian capital, abutting the Atlantic Ocean on the coast of West Africa, but it could be any number of places in the world. The mens business is drugs and weapons, and drugs and weapons are everywhere. They shake hands, nod heads, and begin speaking in the elliptical but familiar way of people who share the vernacular of a trade. They are cautious, but not cautious enough. A video exists to prove it.

I can see why you picked this place, says the South African, settling his substantial bulk into a maroon leather couch pressed against the wall. Because its chaotic. It should be easy to move in and out, from what Ive seen. His name is Paul, and to a trained ear his cadence carries a tinge of not just South Africa but his childhood home, Zimbabwe, where he lived until his teens. His large white head is shaved close, and what hair remains has gone gray as he approaches forty. He has the look of a beach vacationer cleaned up for a dinner out, in an oversize blue polo shirt and a pair of khaki cargo shorts. His clothes seem out of keeping with both the scope of his international influence and the deal he is about to complete, with a man he believes to be the head of a South American drug cartel.

Very easy, replies the Colombian, whom Paul refers to only as Pepe. In the video recording of the meeting, Pepe sits down just offscreen, on a matching couch. His disembodied voice speaks in flawless, if heavily accented, English.

Very few people, not too many eyes. It looks like the right place.

Trust mewhats your name again?

Paul.

Paul, trust me, its the right place. Ive been here already for quite a bit of time. And always, me and my organization, we pick places like this. First of all, for corruption. You can buy anything you want here. Anything. You just tell me what you need.

Yeah, its safe here, Paul says. If theres a problem here, you can fix it. I understand this type of place.

Everything is easy here. Just hand to hand, boom boom boom, you can see, Pepe says, laughing. Well, thanks to your guy here, now we are meeting. He gestures at the third man in the room, the European employee of Pauls who goes by the name Jack. It was Jack who made the initial connection between Paul and Pepe.

The deal Jack brokered was complex enough that, when I meet him years later, I need him to walk me through it several times. The Colombians, who deal primarily in the cocaine produced in their own country, are looking to expand into methamphetamine, which they want to manufacture in Liberia and distribute to the United States and Europe. Paul, a computer programmer who heads his own kind of cartel based in the Philippines, will provide the materials to build the Colombians meth labs: precursor chemicals, formulas for cooking them into meth, and a clean room in which to synthesize it all. While the labs are being built, Paul has agreed to also sell Pepe his own stash of meth, in exchange for an equivalent amount of cocaine at market rates.

After months of back-and-forth, Jack has urged Paul to travel to Liberia and meet his new associate boss to boss to finalize the deal.

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