LE Roux: i need a dead body certified as me and a death certificate

LE Roux: i talked to you about it in HK

Mathew: yes

LE Roux: then i will need a way out to Mozambique without going through a border

LE Roux: and my guys will collect me there and get me out the country

LE Roux: at the same time i will need a new identity

LE Roux: RSA [Republic of South Africa] is ok but it needs to check out 100%

LE Roux: ie: birth certificate in the records etc.

LE Roux: not just a pp [passport]

LE Roux: the body should have a certificate saying died from multiple gun shot wounds

LE Roux: and then be cremated, although when i am there they can take dna from me etc if it is needed,

LE Roux: i dont know the system there

Mathew: understood

Mathew urged him to quit, retire to a quiet part of Africa, and live on his riches for the rest of his life. "But he said he loved what he did and wouldn't give it up," Mathew told me. "He was al- ways after the next big deal." To Mathew, his cousin was still the clever, computer-obsessed kid made good, a near-billionaire who had beaten the system and done them all proud. He told me he'd once seen what he estimated was tens of millions of dollars in Le Roux's office. "Cash," he said. "It was fucking ridiculous. It was in wicker baskets lined up on the side of the wall."

Le Roux in turn seemed to treasure his family's pride. "I remem- ber meeting him at the Hong Kong airport once; he told me he was flying to Lithuania, but it could have been anywhere," Mathew told me. "He had this nice suit on and wanted me to take his pic- ture to show all the family. For some strange reason I felt really sorry for him." At times there were glimpses that Le Roux longed to get out of the business. Once, sitting on a plane next to a rela-