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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 · 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 ...

2. 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).

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

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   Jan 29, 2019 · What do a pharmacist in Wisconsin, a doctor in Pennsylvania and an ex-Army sniper from Kentucky have in common? Wittingly or not, they all found themselves caught in the web of computer programmer...

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5. 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.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...

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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   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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   What happened to Paul Le Roux?

   • Crystal meth, weapons smuggling, contract killings, an attempted coup — for Paul le Roux, no crime went too far. A New York court has now sentenced the gangster boss from Zimbabwe to 25 years in prison.

   The unbelievable story of Paul le Roux – DW – 07/06/2020

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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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   Was Le Roux a Mark Shuttleworth?

   • Le Roux had the coding abilities and brains to have been another Mark Shuttleworth – but he chose a different path. Now 46, Le Roux is in a federal jail in the USA, awaiting sentencing after being unmasked as the mastermind behind a global cyber-criminal enterprise involving drug trafficking, arms trading, and murder.

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

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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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9. 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.