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1. 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...

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3. 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).

4. 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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6. 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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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 plot...

8. www.wired.com › story › coder-turned-kingpin-paul-leCoder-Turned-Kingpin Paul Le Roux Gets His Comeuppance

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   Jun 12, 2020 · As the pair discussed prices and drop-off points, Le Roux—a programmer who had turned an online pharmacy business into a global criminal empire, trafficking in drugs, arms, and...

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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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   What did Le Roux do?

   • Le Roux would recruit local pharmacies and local doctors in the United States and patch them into this brilliant network that he had built, so that orders would come through online spamming and search results.

   The Computer Programmer Who Ran a Global Drug Trafficking Empire

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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.

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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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   Why did Le Roux change his tune?

   • 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. After initially resisting arrest, Le Roux quickly changed his tune as he was taken aboard a flight to the United States.

   Where Is Convicted Drug Smuggler Paul Le Roux Today?

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   Was Le Roux a paid informant?

   • Le Roux’s philosophy was quickly put to the test when he was arrested the same day in a sting operation orchestrated by the US Drug Enforcement Administration. The supposed Colombian cartel leader, it turned out, was a paid informant, and the trusted Le Roux employee who had orchestrated the drug deal had been working with the DEA for months.

   Coder-Turned-Kingpin Paul Le Roux Gets His Comeuppance

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10. 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.