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SNOWING IN BALI

Meanwhile Chief Caieron wanted his other big fish back behind bars. Soon he’d have his chance. Andre was bored up north and flew back to Santa Catarina. He was still trafficking, without pause even in jail – ‘Money was running like water’ – but he was being extra careful. When he got a call from one of his horses, asking for a job, he agreed, but insisted he wouldn’t be going anywhere near the cocaine.

I don’t feel the real, real danger around me, I still feel smart. Stupid!

– Andre

After a tip-off that Andre was doing another project, Chief Caieron put a surveillance team on Andre after he’d come back from Fortaleza.

We had information that Andre had gone back from Fortaleza and was planning to send a new shipment of narcotics to other countries. Because of that, the Police Chief told us to intensify the surveillance on him.

– Federal Police Agent, Macos Cezar Pitangui Pereira,
court statement

With Andre’s 3 kilos of cocaine hidden in one of his kitesurfing kites, 26-year-old horse Marco Froes went to board a 7.30 am flight from Florianópolis to Fortaleza, north Brazil. But police busted him. Within 90 minutes, they were at Andre’s house. Andre knew it was too fast for a random bust.

He was right; the Operation Playboy team had been watching every move. But Andre suspected it was more sinister, and that his horse, who’d come to him keenly asking to do this run, had

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