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SNOWING IN BALI

Chief Caieron had been watching Dimitrius for 16 months since his horse, Luis Cafiero, had been busted and snitched. Luis was the horse whose 'fair complexion' — incongruous with his surfer cover story — had created suspicion, and instigated a customs search, which uncovered 7.3 kilos of cocaine between his surfboards. The small detail of no suntan had brought the horse crashing down and subsequently his boss too, proving that Rafael's usual pedantic scrutiny of a horse's look — ruffling hair, buying outfits — was worth the effort.

The defendant, Dimitrius Christopoulos was arrested in February this year, after being denounced by co-defendant Luis Alberto Faria Cafiero, caught with 7.3 kilos of cocaine trying to board a flight to Indonesia, with a stopover in South Africa.

— Federal Court for the Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná, 1 April 2005

Luis Alberto Faria Cafiero, 27, was arrested in São Paulo. 'He did not have a surfer's typical tan,' a police official said.

— Orlando Sentinel, 12 October 2003

Chief Caieron had also watched the bust of Rodrigo Gularte, revealing it had sped up their investigations. The Operation Playboy team had evidence that Dimitrius had bought tickets for Rodrigo and the two surfers he'd travelled with, and had partly paid for the operation.

In Dimitrius' confiscated electronic organiser, Chief Caieron hit the jackpot, finding more playboy names, including Rodrigo Gularte.

According to the Federal Police, it was the gang of Dimitrius Christopoulos who sent to Indonesia the Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte, 32,

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