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and walk away? It’s not that easy. We’ve been watching you for a long time, we know you are doing this business. We need names.’ Oh fuck.

And that’s where it all started. They say, ‘Okay, where do you stay?’ And we went to my place, then they start searching in the garden with flashlights, checking, checking everywhere. Then we all went into the house. I think there were five cops. They say, ‘Sit down and don’t move,’ and one guy sat next to me. They were all pissed off and angry. I was just sitting down with my mouth shut. They went through my wardrobes, through every pocket of all my clothes, through my bags, all the cabinets, everything. They kept on asking me, ‘Where is it?’ and I say, ‘Please, be my guest, bring dogs here if you want, I don’t have anything.’ Every five or ten minutes, they would say, ‘So, where is it? Come on, tell us’ – screaming, pissed off, angry, never being gentle or nice.

I say, ‘You won’t find anything; you’re wasting your time.’ And they were real mad because they wanted me to say, ‘Okay, I have a stash.’ I was just thinking, ‘Okay, how can I get out of this now?’ I didn’t know what to do. But I was expecting it to be okay, thinking this is going to end soon, like tomorrow I will be free. I was thinking maybe they’re going to settle for US$20,000 when they don’t find anything.

They searched for one and a half, two hours, and didn’t find anything. And then they took my phone and said, ‘Okay, call someone now, organise a deal and you walk free.’ I was like, ‘Fuck, I don’t know what you are talking about, I don’t do this business.’ They say, ‘Bullshit, we’re not stupid. If you want to do this the hard way, we do it the hard way.’

– Alberto

The cops blindfolded him, cuffed his hands behind his back and made him sit in the back of the black Kijang. As

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