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SNOWING IN BALI

It's not easy to get those guys, but when you get them, the sensation is matching, is parallel to the difficulty.

- Chief Caieron

It was a great day for him when Diego turned rat on Andre, spilling names as well as explicit details of his runs for Andre. He told police of his previous run a few months earlier; he'd carried 3 kilos in windsurfer booms, delivered to his house by Andre, to Amsterdam - there Andre sold it, and together they counted the €66,000 in the hotel room. Using some of the cash, Andre bought 10,000 ecstasy pills and 2.2 kilos of skunk, which he wrapped together with €25,000 cash, in a kitesurfing kite, and then sent Diego back home with it. A week later he'd introduced Diego to another horse doing another run, offering him a chance to invest his trafficking fee.

But before Chief Caieron was able to use the information, he had to wait for Andre to return. The ambush was seven weeks later. Chief Caieron charged Andre for Diego's 8 kilos of coke, Luiz's 6000 ecstasy pills and for money-laundering.

Andre was sent to jail to await trial - a shocking and meteoric plunge from his glamour life. The loss of his status and his liberty hurt him badly, especially since it was his lust for sunsets and flying whimsically across the globe that first enticed him into drug trafficking.

When you get in the jail, it's like a bad dream, a nightmare. It takes weeks or months to go, 'It's true, I'm here.' Because you get so paralysed, so shocked.

- Andre

With his sharp mind, Andre was never going to quietly submit to his fate. Late one Friday night, exactly 120 days after first

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