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M3, THE SUNSET CAR WASH

strategy was to fill the Porsche's spoiler with coke and cover it in resin, ensuring it would emit no smell.

It worked without a hitch. Chino flew to Sydney with his team and a spare spoiler and simply switched them, selling the 3 kilos of coke to one of his many connections and earning a quick $450,000.

Known as the world's multi-billion-dollar glamour drug, coke's array of euphemisms included snow, blow, Charlie, white dust and nose candy. Given the many borders it had to cross to get to Sydney, prices often skyrocketed to $250,000 a kilo. And using the police method for working out the value of a bust to trumpet it to the press, Chino's 3 kilos in Sydney would be worth well over a million dollars in 'street value' — assuming each gram sold for about $350 and the 3 kilos would be cut and mixed into 6 kilos.

Chino was au fait with Sydney, given it was a drug bosses' mecca on his doorstep, and often spent months at a time there, slinging cash to an Australian consulate official to give him visas in his rotating false passports. He set up an ecstasy factory in Sydney's beachside suburb of Maroubra so he could feed the voracious Australian market without crossing international borders. An Australian car wash café chain gave him the inspiration for his Bali car wash.

Chino's life in drugs started in Bali in the early 1990s when he was invited by a friend to join a rock band. He was in his early twenties and moved from Java to Bali, making $15 a night playing keyboards to tourists in pubs and private clubs. He played alongside guitarist Manto and bassist Putu Indrawan, once both stars in the Bali band, Harley Angel, critiqued by the Jakarta Post as 'arguably the best rock band Bali has ever produced'. The guys covered songs by bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. Chino's favourite was Pink Floyd's 'Comfortably

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