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SNOWING IN BALI

more than half a million euros in his bank and various other places. Luiz and Andre had grown up in the same neighbourhood, played football in the streets, surfed and gone to parties together. One day, years later, Luiz had approached Andre asking for a gig to pay his family's bills, and ended up doing five runs. So, Andre was confident Luiz knew the ropes and could organise this himself. But it backfired spectacularly. Luiz smuggled the pills inside a paraglider sail safely through the airport. But after a tip that he was working for Andre, Chief Caieron was watching him. Luiz and his partner, Cristiane, were arrested with 6000 ecstasy pills in green-striped zip lock bags on the same morning as Andre. Luiz 'spontaneously cooperated', telling the cops the pills were Andre's.

This horse snitched on me. He tells police everything: 'I've known Andre for more than 20 years. He's a big drug dealer in South Brazil. He's the biggest one.'

– Andre

Later on, Andre would hear his childhood friend was shot 25 times in a typical snitch kill.

In Brazil, they kill snitches like that. Sometimes they cut the throat and pull the tongue through; this is called the 'Italian tie'. They do that to teach everybody, 'You want to snitch on somebody, take a look at this picture, now you sure you want to snitch?' My cop friend told me that somebody shot this guy 25 times. I was in the jail but everybody thinks someone did that for me. I think so too.

– Andre

Andre twice had people phoning him in jail, offering to kill Luiz. But talking on an unsecured jail phone line, his reply had

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