Yahoo Web Search

Search results

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

   www.wired.com › story › mastermind-excerpt

   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...

2. Images

   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 

   View all

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

   en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Paul_Le_Roux

   • Cached

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

   www.smithsonianmag.com › history › computer

   • Cached

   Jan 29, 2019 · After a U.S.-led sting operation caught Le Roux making a meth smuggling deal, he struck a plea bargain and became an informant on his own hires for the Drug Enforcement Administration.

   • Author: Anna Diamond

5. Videos

   • 

     22:35

     youtube.com

     5 Essential Jewelry Making Techniques You NEED To Know!

     6 Jul 2022

     527K views

   • 

     23:08

     youtube.com

     jewelry making tutorial. Elegant design. Beaded bracelet. Beaded earrings

     2 Mar 2023

     542.8K views

   • 

     14:54

     youtube.com

     Essential Techniques for Jewelry Making | Jewelry 101

     12 Sep 2018

     539.9K views

   View all

6. magazine.atavist.com › he-always-had-a-dark-sideThe Mastermind Episode 3: He Always Had a Dark Side

   magazine.atavist.com › he-always-had-a-dark-side

   Here was Le Roux listed as a director of a company in the UK called SSD Software in 2001. There was his name popping up in a 2008 FCC complaint regarding a company in Florida making a marketing call to someone on the National Do Not Call Registry.

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

   www.dailymaverick.co.za › article › 2019/03/14-how-a

   • Cached

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

   www.vice.com › en › article

   • Cached

   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.

9. People also ask

   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.

   Paul Le Roux | Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux

   See all results for this question

   What happened to Le Roux?

   • After a U.S.-led sting operation caught Le Roux making a meth smuggling deal, he struck a plea bargain and became an informant on his own hires for the Drug Enforcement Administration. He’s likely to be sentenced in the first half of this year. Smithsonian spoke with Ratliff about Le Roux, his empire and how it impacted Americans.

   The Computer Programmer Who Ran a Global Drug Trafficking Empire

   www.smithsonianmag.com/history/computer-programmer-ran-global-drug-trafficking-empire-180971355/

   See all results for this question

   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

   www.smithsonianmag.com/history/computer-programmer-ran-global-drug-trafficking-empire-180971355/

   See all results for this question

   Who is Le Roux in the mastermind?

   • Ratliff first wrote about Le Roux in an acclaimed multipart series in The Atavist and returns to and expands on the crime boss in his new book The Mastermind. After a U.S.-led sting operation caught Le Roux making a meth smuggling deal, he struck a plea bargain and became an informant on his own hires for the Drug Enforcement Administration.

   The Computer Programmer Who Ran a Global Drug Trafficking Empire

   www.smithsonianmag.com/history/computer-programmer-ran-global-drug-trafficking-empire-180971355/

   See all results for this question

   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

   www.wired.com/story/coder-turned-kingpin-paul-le-roux-gets-his-comeuppance/

   See all results for this question

   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

   www.smithsonianmag.com/history/computer-programmer-ran-global-drug-trafficking-empire-180971355/

   See all results for this question

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

    www.wired.com › story › coder-turned-kingpin-paul-le

    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...