tralia. After years of experiencing Le Roux's network through the digital prism of emails, wiretaps, and Internet traces, Brill was fi- nally talking to the people within it. These were witnesses that Linda Marks, the DOJ attorney, could put in front of a grand jury in Minnesota to finally obtain an indictment against Le Roux. All of them said they were willing to testify about what they knew of Le Roux and his businesses.

The Rio wiretaps were a continuous revelation, a trove of leads and evidence, and a chance, finally, to hear at length from the man him- self. "He felt very safe in Brazil," one of the GISE agents said. Safe enough to let down his guard. With Alon Berkman, Le Roux dis- cussed shifting money between accounts in Hong Kong, and estab- lishing new protocols for the call center business in Israel. With Shai Reuven, they heard him trying to arrange new credit card pro- cessors for RX Limited. "They'll be on us for money laundering and passport fraud" if the deals weren't made correctly, Le Roux warned. With his wife, Lilian, he arranged for the transport of funds into Brazil through one "Eddie," who GISE agents determined was an Israeli working out of Hong Kong named Yoav Hen. Hen landed in Rio on March 28 to deliver $300,000 in cash.

The surveillance made clear to the American investigators the scope of Le Roux's shift from pharmaceuticals into international weapons and narcotics. In early April, he texted an employee in Hong Kong about a shipment of red phosphorus, a chemical pre- cursor to methamphetamine, bound for Manila by boat. Shep- herding the phosphorus, together with a load of computer parts, was Ivan Vaclavic, an Eastern European who—along with Philip Shackels—was one of Le Roux's key lieutenants in the drug trade.

Le Roux alerted Doron Shulman, back in the Philippines, to the impending arrival, instructing him to send a boat out from Subic Bay to off-load the computer equipment and leave the chemicals on board. As with the Ufuk, the job was undone by a tip. The Brazil-