and back office work. To cover the two companies' expenses, Le Roux began wiring $300,000 a month from a bank in Hong Kong.

Oz brought in Dov Weinstein, an experienced CPA and a family friend, to make sure the company's books were clean. "They men- tioned all the time that there was a South African guy that hired them," Weinstein said. "He was working in the States, he asked them to be the back office, the telephone center." Weinstein got the sense that Oz and Berkman were uneasy about Le Roux. "If you ask me, I think that maybe they did not trust him," he said. Still, Oz and Berkman gave no indication that they were worried about running afoul of the law, much less about becoming a target of American authorities. They liked America. Oz had gone there on his honeymoon in 2008, a baffling choice for anyone who thought they might be breaking American laws.

The business was starting to look like a juggernaut. RX Limited's profits were climbing, and the company's growing volume of orders in the United States—fueled by the company's increasingly aggres- sive spam email marketing—created a need for more doctors and pharmacies, along with an endless stream of customer service re- quests. In the Israeli offices, there was talk that Le Roux might be planning an initial public offering, the ultimate coming-out party for any tech startup.

Oz and Berkman continued recruiting Israelis to fill jobs in the Philippines, but over time they discovered that Le Roux was often giving the transplants entirely new duties once they arrived, employing them in parts of the business for which they had zero experience. A childhood friend of Oz's named Asaf Shoshana transferred to the call center in Manila, then reported back to Oz that he had been put in charge of logging businesses in Vanuatu, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sho- shana, who had served in an elite unit of the Israeli Defense Forces called the Duvdevan, told Oz the work all appeared legal and le- gitimate. Another transplant, Shai Reuven—who fellow employ- ees whispered had Mafia connections in Israel—told colleagues that he had been assigned to run an operation procuring gold di-