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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Paul_Le_RouxPaul Le Roux - Wikipedia

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   Paul Calder Le Roux (born 24 December 1972) is a former programmer, former criminal cartel boss, and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

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3. www.grunge.com › 485336Where Is Convicted Drug Smuggler Paul Le Roux Today?

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   Aug 11, 2021 · Le Roux obtained his security force through a company called Echelon Associates, which hired former military personnel to scout and safeguard smuggling routes and to threaten and kill those who crossed Le Roux (via The New York Times).

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4. www.wired.com › story › mastermind-excerptPaul Le Roux, the Coder Who Became a Criminal Mastermind - WIRED

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   Jan 29, 2019 · Earlier he described an employee who stole $5 million from him, then began driving a Lamborghini around Manila, buying his girlfriends designer handbags and diamond necklaces. The employee was no...

5. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › computerThe Computer Programmer Who Ran a Global Drug Trafficking ...

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   Jan 29, 2019 · The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux—the creator of a frighteningly powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with...

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6. www.vice.com › en › articleA Drug Kingpin Ran His Empire from a Laptop, Then ... - VICE

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   Jan 23, 2019 · Before he was an informant implicating former American soldiers in mercenary-style slayings on behalf of a global drug and gun empire he controlled, Paul Le Roux was a guy with a computer.

7. www.dailymaverick.co.za › article › 2019/03/14-how-aHow a South African man became the world’s most notorious ...

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   “ Paul Calder le Roux, 35, hired Ari Ben-Menashe, a self-proclaimed former Mossad spy who famously tried to discredit Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai by implicating him in a...

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   Who is Paul Le Roux?

   • Wittingly or not, they all found themselves caught in the web of computer programmer Paul Le Roux. In the 1990s, the Zimbabwe-born South African created a free, open-source encryption software that was later used to write better-known and more successful programs.

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   Who is Le Roux & what did he do?

   • On this occasion, Le Roux was named as “the financier of a 220-strong private Somali militia and a bizarre scheme to cultivate opium, coca and dagga in the war-torn country”.

   How a South African man became the world’s most notorious cyber-cri…

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   What happened to Le Roux?

   • But in September 2012, Le Roux saw his empire fall after he was arrested in a Drug Enforcement Agency sting operation in Monrovia, Liberia (via Wired). In what would be his final hours of freedom, Le Roux was lured to the city to meet with a purported member of a Columbian drug cartel to discuss selling him cocaine and methamphetamines.

   Where Is Convicted Drug Smuggler Paul Le Roux Today?

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   How much money did Le Roux make?

   • Le Roux would later tell the feds that he had made at least $300-million through this enterprise, which enabled Americans to buy painkillers online without a valid doctor’s prescription at a time when the USA’s opioid crisis was beginning to take root.

   How a South African man became the world’s most notorious cyber-cri…

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   How did Le Roux become a global cartel?

   • Le Roux later metastasized his operation into a true, global cartel. He started dealing in arms. He started dealing in hard drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine, and moving them all around the world, in yachts, by planes, with drones. He set up a militia in Somalia. He was buying gold all over Africa. He was laundering money in Hong Kong.

   The Computer Programmer Who Ran a Global Drug Trafficking Empire

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   What drugs did Le Roux sell?

   • The whole opioid epidemic flew under the radar for a long period of time. But even as it became more prominent, the three main drugs that Le Roux was selling, all of which are painkillers, and one of which is an opioid, were not scheduled substances like Oxycontin or fentanyl.

   The Computer Programmer Who Ran a Global Drug Trafficking Empire

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9. www.dw.com › en › from-programmer-to-gangster-bossThe unbelievable story of Paul le Roux – DW – 07/06/2020

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   Jul 6, 2020 · A hotel room in Monrovia, Liberia, in September 2012: Paul le Roux, a brilliant programmer from southern Africa with a passion for criminal business, meets a man named Pepe — the boss of a...