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SNOWING IN BALI

The very beginning of Playboy Operation took place when I started to see – in the daily newspaper – that young folks from our city [Florianópolis] and state [Santa Catarina] were being arrested in Europe with 3, 4, 5 kilos of cocaine. So, someone, somehow with somebody else, was recruiting and hiring those young guys to do this, and those guys couldn’t be far from me. The challenge? Start to search, to find and put all the pieces together.

Once we started to investigate, we decided to call ‘Playboy Operation’ because we saw what kind of guys – high middle-class – were involved in those activities.

In six years Operation Playboy resulted in the arrest of more than 20 people who were exporting cocaine to Europe and Bali and returning to Brazil with ecstasy and dope.

Carlino

Carlino didn’t slow down after his horses got life and death sentences; he got busier. Until the day he was busted.

Rafael had finished the drug game, but was watching his friend still perilously playing.

It was only me and him still standing – from all the group but Carlino was dealing a lot. Doesn’t give a shit, like in Ku De Ta. He was too arrogant, like a big boss. He was asking for it the way he play, and then he say, ‘Rafael, can you help me?’ I say, ‘What?’ ‘You have any coke in Brazil, cheap, good stuff?’ I say, ‘Forget it man, everybody’s in jail, I cannot help you. Stop this shit. Come on, Carlino, it’s no good man. Make your villa.’ He was on the way to making a villa.

And then he goes to Brazil but he makes a big mistake. He goes on the same flight with the horse. And then they catch the horse in France, the horse points to him, and they catch him.

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