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OPERATION PLAYBOY

always been the same: ‘Do whatever you think is best.’ Andre didn’t have proof Luiz was dead, but if he was, felt he’d got his just deserts.

I say, ‘Fuck him. Dead? Oh, great.’ I lose my life; I lose my house because I had to sell to pay lawyers; I lose my love Gisele; I lose my family. The guy really, really destroyed my life. For what? Because he did bullshit. He did his own thing. Not me. And for this I don’t put my head on the pillow and say, ‘Oh, the poor guy is dead.’ Good luck to him in the sky, heaven, hell . . . I don’t know where God send this poor soul, because he is a poor soul. If you don’t have enough foundation, enough soul . . . If you’re not strong enough to go to the jail, to play with the cops, then don’t play with smuggling drugs, because probably you need to do that one day. Like this guy, ‘Oh, I go to Amsterdam to buy and sell,’ but not enough power, not strong enough when the cops say, ‘You . . .’ ‘Okay, it’s me, it’s me.’ The guy talk talk talk. And what made it worse is he was like family. – Andre

But Andre’s poolside ambush wasn’t precipitated only by Luiz’s ecstasy tablets.

There was another loose-lipped horse who’d given Chief Caieron evidence against him weeks earlier. Again, Andre’s unravelling was as a result of a favour. His corrupt cop friend Claudio had called asking if he had a spare horse to run with 8 kilos of confiscated coke to Amsterdam. Andre told him that Diego Amaral was available. As Diego flew out of São Paulo, he was busted. Diego cut a deal with Chief Caieron – whose fervent aim was to catch those who ‘lead the operation’.

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