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OPERATION PLAYBOY

warrant? I want to see the court paper. I haven't seen any court papers yet. I want my lawyer. You busted me, now you take me to the police station. I need to see my lawyer.'

Unaware of the Federal Police raid, state military police turned up. They were responding to a call made 40 minutes earlier by a neighbour who'd heard the shouting and seen the dark figures jumping Andre's fence. Two Federal agents walked out to talk to them. Chief Caieron now agreed, 'Okay, Andre, let's go.'

As Andre sat in an office at the police station, a door to the adjacent office swung open. Sitting there on a chair was one of his horses: a childhood friend, Luiz Renato Pinheiro. Andre instantly knew the guy had snitched. He raised his handcuffed hands and slashed his thumbs across his throat. Luiz looked scared, quickly clasping his hands together in a 'please forgive me' gesture. He was deluded. Andre was never the forgiving type.

This guy Luiz, he got arrested with 6000 ecstasy pills. I loaned him the money to buy them because two days before I went on a trip to Hawaii with Gisele, he came to my house and says, 'Hey, Andre, I'm totally broke, please can you help?' I say, 'Man, I'm not working, I'm going with Gisele to Hawaii for a vacation. I don't want to move drugs now, I'm being quiet.' He says, 'Oh brother, please can you loan me some money, call your contacts in Amsterdam?' I say, 'Okay, I will loan you €10,000, you go to Holland buy 10,000 pills, bring them yourself, sell them and just give me my money and 100 grams of weed so I'll have something to smoke during the summer.' 'Oh Andre, that's great, thank you, you are my brother.'

– Andre

Despite being careful with cash, Andre didn't mind floating his childhood friend a relatively small sum, given he was flush with

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