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LUCY CORMACK: We see
a kilo of cocaine wholesale

between $180,000 to $300,000.

(ship horn blares)

MARK SCHLIEBS:
The same quantity in the US

would go for $25,000.

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TOMMY CINDRIC:
That the issue with Australia,

it's always the issue
with Australia.

The price for a kilo of cocaine
is astronomical.

CHRIS DAWSON: We command
the highest prices in the world,

so therefore, they'll use
whatever mode they can

to bring those drugs
into Australia.

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DAVE CRAFT:
He's a puppet master,

someone that thrived on power,
on money, on influence.

SCHLIEBS: He was
an invisible boss.

He was an email address,
he was a pseudonym,

he was a phone number, he was a
voice down the end of the phone.

No one knew exactly who he was.

CINDRIC: He epitomizes what
everybody has in their mind

of a super villain.

DEREK MALTZ:
He was a brilliant mind,

working with the worst
of the worst around the world,

and it made me even hungrier to
want him off the playing field.

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The boat is capsized
off an island in Tonga.

CRAFT: The vessel, the JeReVe,
was well battered,

a male had been located on board
who was deceased.

CINDRIC: Tongan Navy
along with the AFP

found 204 kilos of cocaine
on the boat.

CRAFT: We were provided
documentation

which confirmed
Ivan Vaclavik was the skipper,

Milan Rindzak, a Slovakian
citizen, was also on board.

The clearance paperwork,
they declared

their ultimate destination
as Sydney, Australia.

MALTZ: There was one body
that was decomposed

on the boat that we found,

and the other body,
I don't know where he went.

There's all types of stories
about what happened.

CRAFT: How did they end up
in this predicament?

CINDRIC: Whatever happened to
Captain Ivan and his first mate?

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SCHLIEBS: Le Roux was
the biggest Australian criminal

that we've never heard of.

MALTZ: Paul Le Roux was
incredibly anxious

to have a massive cocaine
operation going on in Australia.

He thought he was untouchable!

INTERVIEWER: Can you
spell out for us

why he wanted to take
cocaine to Australia?

CINDRIC: Huge profit margin.

DYER: Narcos would perceive
the Australian market

as an extremely lucrative place
to send their cocaine.

NEIL GAUGHAN: If you're looking
at how much it costs in the US,

$87 a gram to buy cocaine

compared to $300 a gram
here in Australia,

it does go to show you

that there's a significant
profit margin differential.

CORMACK: Because it is
so hard to get it in,

and we are so far away,
that drives the price up,

and the demand is there
and people will pay it.

MALTZ: Australia is a gold mine
for cocaine traffickers.

DAWSON: Given the dominant
prices that we command,

the invisibles behind all this,
they'll use any means

if they think they're
gonna get it through.

MALTZ: If you're a business guy

and you have
a kilogram of cocaine

to sell in America for 25 grand,

or sell in Australia
for 300 grand,

what are you going to do?

CRAFT: Le Roux is
no doubt thinking

when he looks at Australia that
he's gonna make a lot of money.

He's the eternal businessman

if he can open up that pipeline
or that drug stream to Australia

and get that regular flow,

ultimately he's
gonna be the winner.

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CINDRIC: Paul Le Roux initially
was born in Rhodesia,

during the white flight
from Rhodesia

he ended up in South Africa
during the Mugabe takeover.

SCHLIEBS: By all accounts,
he was the kind of kid

that would close his door
at the end of the school day

and sit at the computer.

He wasn't out with his friends
every afternoon.

MALTZ: Very, very bright.

I believe he was
a high school dropout,

but he was fascinated
with technology.

SCHLIEBS: He showed a great
interest in computer programming

and that more or less dictated
the rest of his life.

CINDRIC: He was self‐taught.

That's the uniqueness of Paul
and the brilliance of Paul.

He wasn't taught a method,
he just did it.

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SCHLIEBS: He's been waiting
much of his teenage life

to escape that middle class
upbringing in South Africa.

All of a sudden, he's got
the opportunity and he takes it,

he moves to London.

He's talented with computers

and he finds work as
a software programmer.

And he comes across
this Australian girl

who's on holidays in London.

They form a connection
which turns romantic.

Eventually, he follows her
back to Australia.

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He moves to Sydney,

he finds a way to continue
his software programming,

and he forms
an Australian company.

CINDRIC: And he was married
to an Australian woman

and gained status in Australia
based upon that marriage.

SCHLIEBS: Where they're living,
it's not glamorous.

It's a two‐story,
yellow brick unit

in Belmore in Sydney's west.

By day, he's working as an
on‐contract software programmer.

But at nighttime he's
working on a secret project

which is a military‐grade
encryption program.

This is software that locks up
every file on a computer

and stops any government agency
from accessing it.

CINDRIC: They called it
Encryption for The Masses

is what it was, E4M.

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I guess you would call Paul

kind of a privacy
anarchist‐type,

he didn't believe
the government had the right

to look at people's
private emails, et cetera.

Everybody likes
to categorize Paul,

they call him the fat geek
and all this kind of stuff.

Paul is far from a fat geek.

Paul is a brilliant individual

who has a personality
like a Fortune 500 CEO.

SCHLIEBS: But at that point
in his life,

Le Roux hates Australia,
he hates Australians.

He hates the welfare system,

he hates the attitude
of Australians,

he hates the way Australians
see themselves in the world.

He criticizes it
any chance he gets online.

MAN: Australia could disappear
into the Pacific

and the only difference
it would make

is the Americans would have one
less (bleep) country to protect.

SCHLIEBS: Going on
the discussion board forums

enraging every Australian
on the forums,

he creates a campaign
of hate against him.

CINDRIC: Australia had too much
law and structure for Paul.

Paul needed a bit of
lawlessness to thrive.

CRAFT: He was scathing
of Australia's laws,

and I think that caused him
to move offshore.

CINDRIC: He ultimately
divorced that woman

and then found his way
to the Philippines.

MALTZ:
Any successful transnational
organized crime boss

has corruption involvement

at the highest levels
of the government, period.

So, Paul Le Roux, he knew
he can get away with a lot

in the Philippines.

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SCHLIEBS: He discovered
he was adopted.

For him, that was heartbreaking.

He had absolutely no idea,
and he took it really badly.

His view of the world
and his life changed.

At that point Le Roux starts
talking about a business venture

that he's setting up in the US.

CINDRIC: The US is
a pill market, okay,

you can see it today even
with the opioid crisis.

US people want, you know,
take a pill, make me skinny,

take a pill,
get my (bleep) hard,

take a pill, take a pill.

Paul foresaw all that.

He was ahead of his time and he
had thought this out very well.

MALTZ: So he was brilliant

in far as how he set up
his company called RX Limited.

This illegal
pharmaceutical business

to sell pills on the Internet

that were being distributed
all over America

and making hundreds
of millions of dollars.

CINDRIC: Paul Le Roux was
trafficking in tramadol,

Viagra, oxycodone, all sorts
of pharmaceutical substances

where they had doctors
on the payroll,

and the doctors would take
incoming calls and go,

"Okay, I'll give you
20 pills of Viagra,"

without ever seeing
the individual.

MALTZ: He knew that
US law enforcement

would not be that concerned
with Schedule 4 drugs

and non‐controlled substances.

Even though people were dying,

and even though people
were getting addicted,

he knew it wasn't going to
create a lot of attention.

CINDRIC: Paul Le Roux was making
approximately $9 million a month

on online pharmacy
operations alone.

CINDRIC: Profit.

SCHLIEBS: Some estimates put
the income of RX Limited

at about $200 million a year,

which is phenomenal.

Now he's not keeping that money,
he's investing it elsewhere.

He's looking at where
he can make a profit.

CINDRIC: He had conquered the RX
Limited thing in his mind.

He had conquered
pharmaceuticals.

Okay, what's next?

The time now was for Paul
to take it to the next level.

Basically he was like
a one‐man crime enterprise

in the Philippines,

and he had his tentacles
everywhere in the world.

SCHLIEBS: He starts looking
at forestry concessions,

at gold mining and diamonds.

He starts looking at
a whole range of commodities

where there's very little laws.

CINDRIC: He was involved in
getting meth out of North Korea,

in the illegal transport
of weapons,

purchasing weapons out of India.

He was in business with Iran

to create
a missile guidance system,

but he also was looking
to obtain weapons

directly from Iran.

There was really nothing that
Paul did not have his hands in.

SCHLIEBS: Le Roux was pretty
much one guy sitting in a room

with a laptop controlling
hundreds of other people.

Few people knew the extent
of his criminal empire.

(horns honking)

CINDRIC: He also had
a team of US mercenaries

who worked for him
committing violence

in order to secure and
protect his operations.

The leader of the mercenary team
was Joseph "Rambo" Hunter.

Joseph Hunter was a former
US military, US army.

MALTZ: Obviously he had years
of experience in the military,

and then when
he left the military,

wanted to make some big money,

and he chose the mercenary route

to work for this madman
Paul Le Roux.

CINDRIC: Joseph Hunter
had cultivated

a group of mercenaries
to work for him,

Western‐trained soldiers,

which made them all
the more dangerous, too,

because it wasn't just some,
you know, Filipino street thug,

it wasn't some low‐level guy;

they had military guys
planning these operations

to kill and hurt people.

SCHLIEBS: Le Roux was involved
in a boatload of guns,

Indonesian‐made assault rifles

that were captured by
the Philippines authorities,

and the boat captain who, who
sailed that ship turns up dead.

Two other people end up dead.

CINDRIC: Everybody associated
with the seizure of those arms

all got killed.

Very cold blooded.

He could kill
his best friend tomorrow

if he felt he was cheated and
not have any, any real remorse.

That's if Paul Le Roux
really ever had a best friend,

'cause I don't believe he did.

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MALTZ: He was playing
a little bit of a mind game,

you know, he was trying to see
how much he can do,

how much he can get away with.

So we wanted to put
the best and brightest

that the DEA had
to get this guy.

CINDRIC: My name's
Tommy Cindric.

When I first got to
the Special Operations Division,

I'd came there after being
a police officer and DEA agent

domestically for 18, 20 years.

So for me, I was taking
a fresh look at everything.

MALTZ: The Special Operations
Division's primary focus

is to go after the biggest
and baddest threats

that are out there causing
havoc and chaos to communities

across the world
and put 'em in jail

and have them face the rule
of law and justice in America.

CINDRIC: Myself and Eric Stouch
worked together as partners,

and we were operating in Africa,

that was kinda of my beat,
was Africa.

So, we met with this
former military attaché.

He had expertise
on things in Somalia,

because he was
very much involved

in the whole pirating
at the time

that was going on off
the coast of East Africa.

He emailed me a UN report

that showed that Paul Le Roux

was running a 220‐man militia
in Somalia,

and he shifted to wanting
to do coca cultivation,

opium cultivation

and methamphetamine production
in Somalia.

He brought in horticulturalists,

and he deemed it was
possible to do it,

but he also deemed it wasn't
cost effective to do it.

What he then did do, though,
is he decided that he wanted

to deal with trying to fight
against al‐Shabaab

and take over the weapons trade.

I was like, "Look, if this guy
did half of this stuff,

we got a real target."

MALTZ: I'm not afraid to say,
hey, this was, like, a first.

I never came across
the guy that actually had

so much connectivity to
bad guys around the world.

CINDRIC: So we spoke to our
counterpart in South Africa,

and he had run that,
run Le Roux's name

by the intelligence community,
and they had provided us a tip.

(phone rings)

A particular individual
had provided them

extensive information
regarding Paul Le Roux,

and he had left his number
and email address.

I was like,
"What the (bleep)?"

And I just started
dialing the number.

(phone ringing)

This individual picked up
the phone, Jack,

I said, "Hi, my name's
Tommy Cindric,

I'm from
the United States government.

You have provided information
regarding Paul Le Roux.

Are you interested
in talking to us?"

He says, "Yes."

"Are you willing
to meet with us?"

He said, "Yes."

And it ultimately
broke open the case.

CINDRIC: Jack was an individual

who had worked in
the Le Roux organization.

He was intimately involved
in certain businesses

on his behalf,
legal businesses initially.

And then Jack as he started
seeing the legal businesses

go in the illegal direction,

got very nervous and
wanted to turn away.

He basically laid out

that Le Roux was
a worldwide criminal,

operating at a level

that very few people truly knew
or truly understood.

Jack's life was under threat
at one time from Paul.

He had maintained this
good relationship with Paul,

but he worried that at some time
that could change.

So he believed that the only way
to protect himself

was to help put
Paul Le Roux in jail.

Myself and Eric Stouch became
more and more convinced

that Jack was the right person

to infiltrate
the Le Roux organization.

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SCHLIEBS: The heat's coming
on Le Roux in the Philippines.

He's getting reports
from people he's corrupted

within the Philippine
law enforcement agencies

that the DEA are looking at him,

that the Australian
Federal Police

are showing an interest in him.

And Le Roux decides to leave,

and he sets himself up
in Brazil.

CINDRIC: Paul established
himself in places

that he knew where he would
have a strong chance

of not being extradited.

And what he did is he actually
impregnated a woman in Brazil,

had a child, so that
he could not be extradited

should he be arrested by
US authorities in Brazil.

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SCHLIEBS: Le Roux looks like
a super villain.

He's running meth,
he's running guns,

he has a private militia,

he has heavily armed
and well‐trained

former army commandos
at his disposal,

but one of the few
illegal activities

that he hasn't yet been
involved in is cocaine.

CINDRIC: Paul wanted
to get into cocaine

in order to be the narco
like Pablo Escobar.

So that is what Paul
attempted to do.

What we learned from
the wire taps of Paul

was the identification
of the boat the MV JeReVe.

These guys would load
the cocaine in Peru

and then take this boat
all the way across the Pacific.

SCHLIEBS: The DEA, they believe
it's heading to Australia,

they tip off Australian
law enforcement agencies.

CRAFT: My name's Dave Craft,

I'm a federal agent with
the Australian Federal Police.

In August 2012, the DEA
provided information to the AFP,

that a vessel of interest,
the JeReVe,

was intending to make a shipment
of cocaine to Australia.

It was part of a wider
investigation into Paul Le Roux

and his wider syndicate
and activities.

Le Roux was looking to establish
a cocaine route

to Australia from Ecuador.

This vessel, the JeReVe,
was the first vessel

that was going to be utilized
under that syndicate.

He was looking to provide
a vessel every six weeks.

Le Roux is a holder of
an Australian passport

and lived in Australia for an
amount of time in the late '90s.

He knew the mark‐up in price
that he could make

for getting cocaine
to Australia.

Once he came up
with an idea or a venture,

he would go into it
wholeheartedly.

He was someone that wanted
things done quickly

and he wanted it
done succinctly.

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The JeReVe, it was conveyed
down to Panama.

The skipper,
who was Ivan Vaclavik,

who would be tasked
with moving the vessel

through the Panama Canal
down to Ecuador.

The Ecuadorian Navy
boarded the vessel

and did their compliance work.

We were provided with photos,
documentation,

everything from
on board the vessel.

Part of that were the passports
of the two occupants.

There was a level of confidence
by both Vaclavik and Rindzak

before they left the port.

They posed with customs agents,

they were extremely relaxed
in their dealings with them.

That indicated to us that
there were no drugs on board

at the time that they left port.

CINDRIC: The Ecuadorian Navy,

they placed a tracker
on the boat.

CRAFT: The JeReVe departed
Ecuador on the 20th of August.

Through their
clearance paperwork,

they declared
their ultimate destination

or their final destination,
as Sydney, Australia.

They went west for
a short period of time

before heading south.

We believe the vessel stopped
off the coast of Peru

where it met up
with another vessel

where the cocaine
was loaded on board.

There was a tracking device
on board

and we were getting live
locational feeds off that,

off that device
on a regular basis.

We just had no
Australian‐based intelligence

as to where the drugs
were going to go,

so we looked for opportunities

to disrupt this operation
offshore.

The best case scenario is
that we locate the vessel

at a stop point along the way,
interdict the vessel,

arrest those on board
and seize the cocaine.

Worst‐case scenario is that
we don't locate the vessel,

that we miss the vessel,

that it meets a daughter vessel
off the coast of Australia,

exchanges those drugs to another
unknown vessel, and we miss it.

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SCHLIEBS: In South America
he's an outsider,

he's someone who's not
a known quantity,

and it's very hard
for him to break through

and to get on the inside
of the cocaine trade.

CINDRIC: Paul was looking
to obtain cocaine,

and we came up with the plan
to introduce a Colombian

and a cocaine deal.

The Colombian boss
was a DEA source.

He fit a look that Paul
would be intrigued by

of a Colombian boss.

He was a tall, good‐looking,
salt and pepper hair,

mid‐40 Colombian.

Paul 100% revered
the Colombian drug dealers.

He liked the idea of
the top boss, the Pablo Escobar,

the guy sitting
on top of the throne,

and so we wanted
to give him that guy.

He felt that by having
this Colombian connection,

he could obtain cocaine
from the Colombians

and in exchange
he would provide meth.

What they agreed to
was a straight swap:

100 kilos of meth for
100 kilos of cocaine.

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Jack explained to Paul
that Colombians,

they need a boss‐to‐boss meeting

before business is
consummated, okay.

Paul got that,
he understood that.

Paul agreed to that meeting.

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MALTZ: We picked Liberia

because we had
previous successes

working with
the Liberian officials.

The president of Liberia
was very, very pro‐DEA

and was very interested
in working a joint operation

with us on this case.

This one I wanted to go on,
I wanted to see firsthand,

you know, what would happen
on the ground in Liberia

and how this whole thing
played out.

So we planned where we got
a chartered flight,

flew down into Liberia,
landed late in the night,

and set up the operation
once on the ground in Liberia

with the other DEA agents.

CINDRIC: So myself and
Eric Stouch get on the ground,

we get everything lined up
with the Liberians.

You can indict anybody
sometimes, right,

but can you grab 'em?

And that's where this kinda
ratcheted up the intensity.

This was the coup de grâce
for us.

CINDRIC: Paul doesn't show up
when he's supposed to.

It was a very tense time.

If he doesn't get on that plane,
we have him indicted,

but all that work's for nothing
at this point.

So, ultimately, we find out
after being on the ground

for about two and a half,
three weeks, Paul's coming.

I saw him when he got
to the hotel parking lot

and watched him head in.

It was the first time we had
laid eyes on him firsthand.

He looked like
a big rugby player.

He was definitely a guy who
was not impressed by clothes,

impressed by jewelry.

He was in a pair of shorts, polo
shirt and a pair of flip‐flops.

Jack takes him in and gets him
settled for the evening.

The plan is for the next day,

for Paul to have a meeting
with the Colombian boss.

When he comes back to the hotel
room, our plan is to arrest him.

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CINDRIC: During that meeting
with the Colombian boss,

Paul basically gave his résumé,

talked about having
killed opposition,

was very forthright
and open about everything.

They conclude the meeting,

Jack takes Paul back
to his hotel room,

and then with the Liberians

we decide we're gonna
go affect the arrest.

MALTZ: What they did was
they knocked on the door

to try to get him
to come to the door,

and they had to identify
themselves as room service.

PAUL: Hello?

CINDRIC: As we make entry, Paul
immediately goes into defensive,

you can tell it completely
caught him off guard.

PAUL: No, no, no, no, no, no!

CINDRIC: "No, no, no, no, no,

you're not going to put me under
arrest, no, no, no, no, no."

OFFICER: Put your hands
behind your back.

PAUL: No.
OFFICER: You're under arrest.

PAUL: You're not putting me
under arrest.

OFFICER: Stop resisting!
(Paul screams)

CINDRIC: I think he's trying to
figure out how two dumb cops

actually were able to catch
somebody as smart as him.

PAUL: Ahhh! Ahhh!

CINDRIC: Paul's screaming
like a madman.

No "(bleep) you's",
no "go to hells,"

just screaming.

Finally, the Liberian goes,

"Sir, put your hands
behind your back,

you are under arrest
or I will shoot you."

OFFICER: Or I'll shoot you.

CINDRIC:
We're all like, "Oh, no!"

Because in Africa
arrests go from zero to 60,

there's no escalation
of force in Africa.

PAUL: Okay, okay, okay, okay.

Okay, okay.

CINDRIC: So finally,
everything calms down,

we get him handcuffed,
we secure the evidence,

he starts immediately trying
to bribe the police officers.

He's going, "My African brother,
my African brother,

how can we work this out?"

And he wouldn't even look at me.

PAUL: This is a mess,
we're like kin.

We're like kin forever.

CINDRIC: He wouldn't look
at any of the other DEA agents.

He would only focus on them,

and he was trying to get them
to let him go.

MALTZ: Paul Le Roux
learned at some point

he was going back to America
to face justice.

He wasn't happy about that.

CINDRIC: Paul laughs and says,
"I'm gonna apologize in advance,

I'm not getting on that plane."

"What?"

He goes, "I'm not getting
on that plane."

MALTZ: I heard him yelling,
he didn't want to go back,

he felt like
it was a kidnapping.

PAUL: Ah! Ah!

CINDRIC: It takes not only
all the agents,

but about six Liberians

to carry him down
three flights of stairs.

We get him pressed up
into the van,

one Liberian goes,
"Shut the door! Shut the door!"

And he shoves him in,
I'm telling you,

it's like 10 pounds of (bleep)
in a five‐pound bag.

Paul is like twisted and turned,

pressed against the door,
can't sit down,

and we're just like, "We're
going to the airport like this."

PAUL: Ah! Ah!

CINDRIC: Paul breaks
into hysterics,

and he goes,
"I did apologize in advance,

I told you I wasn't
getting on the plane."

MALTZ: As the head
of this operation,

I was concerned about
one thing only.

We were going back on this jet,
and this guy, 300 pounds,

is gonna break bad
and charge to the cockpit,

that had no cockpit door.

So I was afraid, like,

this guy's gonna try
to take over the plane.

CINDRIC: He was told to behave
himself on the plane,

or that he would probably be
thrown off the plane, okay,

at 35,000 feet.

I'm being facetious,

but, you know, we were tired
of the antics at that point.

Everybody's just happy
to get on the plane.

He decides to be agreeable then.

We sit him in a chair
on the plane,

and he becomes
the chairman of the board.

The time now was
for Paul to negotiate

the best deal possible.

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CRAFT: Based off
the tracking of the vessel,

the path it was taking,
the weather conditions,

we believed it was
going to make a stop

in the northern area
of the Cook Islands.

We identified a possible area
that we thought it might go,

which was a place called
Penrhyn Island,

which was a small atoll.

One of our concerns when
we looked at that area

was that it had an airstrip.

You look at the options,
is this a case of the vessel

simply arriving at a location
unloading to another vessel,

or potentially to an aircraft?

So myself and a member of
the Australian Border Force

traveled to the Cook Islands

to coordinate
a possible interdiction.

Um, unfortunately the vessel
just didn't arrive.

We're no longer getting
locational data

as to where the vessel may be.

CINDRIC: Captain Ivan
found the tracker,

and he tossed the tracker
off the boat.

CRAFT: Did the vessel
meet with another vessel

that we weren't aware of?

Did it go to another location
that we didn't suspect?

There was a multitude of things

running through our minds
at that time.

We were baffled as
to what had happened.

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MALTZ: He decided to come
fully aboard, as we call,

joining Team America, right,

and he wanted to cooperate
with the government.

So one of the questions
on my mind,

"Hey, Paul, what the hell
happened with that vessel?"

CINDRIC:
After the arrest of Paul,

he made a call in an effort
to locate where the boat was.

Couldn't get hold of Ivan,

couldn't get hold of
anybody on the boat.

So he called Ivan's wife.

She said that they were
got by the fish men.

We were never able to determine
who the fish men was.

The working hypothesis on this

is that maybe they got
interdicted by pirates.

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CRAFT: We got a message
that the Tongan Navy

had located the vessel washed
ashore at an atoll in Tonga.

The male had been located
on board who was deceased.

And that person on board
was Milan Rindzak.

A load of 204 kilos of cocaine
was located

secreted underneath the bunk

in the forward cabin
in a purpose‐built hide.

We were wondering
what happened to Vaclavik,

you know, how did they end up
in this predicament?

CINDRIC: But the odd thing was,

if they were interdicted
by pirates,

they would have
searched that boat

and found those kilos
and taken 'em.

So we really don't know the
mystery behind the MV JeReVe,

and who actually,
who the fish men were,

and whatever happened
to Captain Ivan

and the, and his first mate.

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CINDRIC: Le Roux told myself
that he believed

that if anybody
was gonna survive

it was gonna be Captain Ivan,
that he was a survivor.

And after the seizure
of the MV JeReVe,

we saw on TV
that some guy showed up

saying that he had
been thrown overboard

out in the Pacific and survived.

Eric Stouch and I are
at breakfast discussing this,

and we're laughing, but
we're like, is this possible?

We pull it up on the Internet
and Paul looks at the picture,

and he goes,
"Ah, it's not Captain Ivan."

To this day we really
don't know what happened.

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CRAFT: If you look
at some of the images

from when they first left,

they were very buoyant
in their photographs.

And then towards the end

they were, you know, almost
weather‐beaten and downcast.

We know that a quantity of
cocaine was on board the vessel.

I think if you look at
a journey of this length,

obviously boredom sets in.

My belief is that simply
that they,

they took part in some of
the drugs that were on board.

Obviously the effects
of cocaine,

especially of high purity,

have the potential to,
not only cause cardiac arrest,

but possibly hallucinations.

That may account for
some of the disjointed

and bizarre conversations

that Vaclavik may have had
with his wife,

that he'd been taken
by the fish men.

I believe that they probably
partook in some of the cocaine.

As a result they've both died

when the vessel is
ultimately come to rest

on the reef and on its side.

Rindzak, that fact that his body
was located in the wheel well,

this caused his body
to stay on board,

that fact that he was in
the steering well of the vessel.

I believe that Vaclavik's body
has become dislodged

and been lost at sea.

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CINDRIC: As a result
of Paul's working

with myself and Eric Stouch,

we created a scenario
to arrest Joseph Hunter

and the mercenary team.

We decided to throw out
an opportunity for them

to kill a mythical DEA agent
and mythical DEA source.

And we actually used,
which is kind of amusing,

the backdrop of the JeReVe

as one of the reasons
for them being killed.

Hunter believed that
there's no way people died

and just left 204 kilos.

It had to be
a law enforcement operation,

so we let them believe that.

So we used that scenario
to create these two guys

that needed to be killed

on behalf of the Colombians
and Paul.

MALTZ: We set up this complex
multi‐country operation

in Thailand, Estonia
and Liberia.

CINDRIC: So all in all,
we had 10 people arrested,

three continents, nine hours.

I still am amazed
that we were able

to pull off that coordination.

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Paul Le Roux is a Rubik's Cube.

He's complicated,
he's multifaceted.

He could be gregarious
and affable on one hand,

and then the next day
that could be a total spin,

and he could be

the most dangerous man
you'd ever meet.

He is the pinnacle of the cases
I've done in my career.

I don't think I would ever
get the opportunity

to arrest another Paul Le Roux
or anybody of his significance.

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CRAFT: Paul Le Roux wanted to be
one of those drug lords,

he wanted to be one
of those kingpins,

wanted to be someone
of influence,

whether that be in Africa,
or whether that be in Asia,

or whether that be in Australia,

I think it was just
an ultimate goal

he wanted to be one
of those big players.

MALTZ: Paul Le Roux was like

the typical
James Bond villain, right?

Anytime he could
beat the government,

anytime he can make more money,
it excited him.

The guy was very, you know,
global in nature.

But he also sat
behind his computer

with a sophisticated technology
and did all his business.

Law enforcement
must start embracing

the Paul Le Roux types,

because there's more and more
of them out there

with the same motives,

the same methods
of beating the system.

PAUL: Everything is sweet,
everything is sweet.

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