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Moran Oz returned to Israel, where he ignored requests for ad- ditional interviews. Alon Berkman remained in hiding, as he had since he was indicted in the United States in 2014. When I reached out to his family in 2016, they claimed to have no way of contact- ing him. Gone, too, was Omer Bezalel, since jumping bail in Min- nesota. One source told me he was living openly in Israel, but couldn’t put me in touch.

After his acquittal, Lachlan McConnell returned to Canada. When I last spoke to him, he declined to disclose his location and said he was considering returning to the Philippines.

Nestor Del Rosario went into hiding. After years of searching for him and hearing speculation that he was likely dead, I finally found a former Le Roux employee who was in touch with him. She passed along a message, but he never responded.

Prabhakara Tumpati lives with his family in Pennsylvania, and runs three successful sleep and obesity treatment clinics across the Northeast. He maintains an interest in pursuing telemedicine. By 2025, the global telemedicine market is expected to reach $80 bil- lion.

After his guilty plea, Charles Schultz sold Schultz Pharmacy and shuttered Medicine Mart. He died in 2018 at the age of eighty-six.

Paul Le Roux’s girlfriend, Cindy Cayanan, was never indicted or arrested by the U.S. government, and appears to run an invest- ment firm out of one of Paul Le Roux’s old offices. Lilian Cheung Yuen Pui and Le Roux were formally divorced in June 2013. Ac- cording to the letter from Le Roux’s lawyer in 2016, the United States was considering relocating her and her family from their home in Europe, for their safety. I was unable to confirm the exis- tence of his other rumored children in the Philippines.

Le Roux’s cousin Mathew Smith lives in Bulawayo, where he remains in contact with Steve and Andrew Hahn, the latter of whom was eventually released from Philippine custody after two years on false drug charges, trumped up by Le Roux and Dave Smith.

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