Inside the Biggest FBI Sting Operation in History

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Inside the Biggest FBI Sting Operation in History
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When a drug kingpin named Microsoft tried to seize control of an encrypted phone company for criminals, he was playing right into its real owners’ hands.

On its way from Brazil to Poland, the Donousa had made this unofficial stop in the North Sea so that some corrupt sailors could throw nets holding 400 kilograms of cocaine—a quantity with a street value of about $39 million—into the water. Then the ship would light up the area “like a disco in the middle of the sea,” a member of the drug gang wrote in a text message. And with that, the speedboat crew would reel in the nets and whisk the drugs to docks on Swedish soil.

Microsoft made Walczak agree to work exclusively with the Firm. Microsoft and other members of the Firm coordinated the sale of amphetamine to wholesale buyers across Sweden. Microsoft remotely piloted drop-offs in parking lots, near hospitals, and in quiet sections of the Swedish countryside via Anøm, acting as a hectic relay point for information.

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