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OPERATION PLAYBOOK 2

And that's the moment he heard, 'You're under arrest.' When I was handcuffing him, he turned his neck, looked at me and asked, 'Why are you doing this? What did I do?' I put my hand on his shoulder and said, 'Think it over, my friend!'

– Chief Caieron

Rafael found out his friend had been busted when his daughter saw it on the internet.

'Papa, look, your friend got caught.' 'What? Show me!' My daughter had been doing some exercise with Dimitrius, working out with him, and spotted it in the news.

– Rafael

... Dimitrius Christopoulos, 36, arrested during Operation Playboy by Federal Police. Christopoulos is accused of participating in a gang involved in international trafficking of narcotics, specifically to the Netherlands and Indonesia.

– Federal Court for the Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná, 27 May 2005

Dimitrius, who also has Greek nationality, is accused of running a gang that in recent years has solicited young upper middle-class people often in extreme sports like surfing to transport cocaine to countries with high tourism flows in Europe and Asia.

The Federal Police said that the gang moved a lot of money, but did not know the exact amount. 'We have arrested one of the largest organisations of drug trafficking in synthetic drugs in the country – a gang which operated using cocaine as a bargaining chip in Europe and Asia,' the delegate Ronald Magalhães said.

– O Estado do Paraná, 20 February 2005

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