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(WHIMSICAL MUSIC)

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(SPEAKS DUTCH)

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(MAN SPEAKS DUTCH)

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Amsterdam is the heart
for the drug trade

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for thousands of people
who are in this game.

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And by the mid '90s the police
were using really strange methods

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to arrest smugglers.

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But the best-laid police plans
can always go to shit.

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(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)

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(WOMAN SPEAKS DUTCH)

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(MAN SPEAKS DUTCH)

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It was absolutely mad.

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If you're law enforcement,

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you're supposed to do things
by the book.

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You know, don't play the game
if you don't understand the rules.

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# ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN:
Come Undone #

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# I'd do it all again

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# But I can't get

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# Close to you

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# I come undone

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# I come undone... #

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(SHIP'S HORN BLARES)

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REPORTER: Rotterdam is the world's
largest port.

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Hardly surprising that it's also
Europe's biggest importing centre

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for illegal trafficking.

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By the '90s, if you were involved
in the smuggling industry,

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Amsterdam was definitely
the place to be.

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The Dutch did speak Dutch,

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and the British spoke British...

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..but we had the international
language of smuggling.

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I was looking desperately for
something that could generate money,

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and Amsterdam was
the Wall Street of drug dealing.

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It was somewhere
where prices were set...

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..products were introduced.

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They're tested, they're sampled,

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they're, basically,
brought to the marketplace

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before they're internationally
distributed.

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And there was one new frontier
just about to happen.

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A certain drug has
a certain golden era, so to speak,

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and the early mid '90s was really
a powerful introduction to cocaine.

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# THE PRODIGY: Breathe #

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(SPEAKS ENGLISH)

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When I'm riding my bike, the noise
of the motor gets my soul,

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gets my heart.

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# Breathe the pressure

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# Come play my game, I'll test ya

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# Psychosomatic, addict, insane... #

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(SPEAKS ENGLISH)

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And there's only one place
to find your fortune in Holland.

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(MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVS)

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# ROOTS MANUVA: Witness #

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In the beginning of the '90s,
Amsterdam was like an animal place.

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The red-light district,
the Coffee shops.

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You can go to everything,
and you can smell everything,

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you can taste everything,
just like Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Really, I felt it like, you know, I
wanna be there, I wanna experience.

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When I was 18 years old,

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one of my friends are asking me,
"Do you want to work as a bouncer?"

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And when my friend was coming,
he said to me,

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"Just go with me to the toilet."

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And he had a small envelope.

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I see just like a white powder.

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And he told me, you know,
"This is good for you,

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"because you can work
the whole night."

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And I was sniffing that coke
for the first moment.

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It give me so much energy.

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Like 30 Red Bulls.

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I was thinking that a lot of people
was looking at me...

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..everything in my body feels numb,
I feel sexy.

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Also it give me
just a little bit of power,

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that I can do more than ever before.

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I think, "Wow, man.

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"I want more of this."

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# ROOTS MANUVA: Witness #

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Cocaine at that time
was, like, really, really booming.

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And also the profit margin
is larger than ecstasy.

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So there was a lot of money
to be made on cocaine,

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so we started to sell it.

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We were the gang known as the Delta
Group by the Justice Department.

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25 men who had a reputation

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for being one
of the more intimidating groups

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because of the high number of people

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who arem basically, known
to have killed people.

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Erm, where should I start?

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Erm...

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Yeah, so it's late '80s,

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and I've been working
as a software developer

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for a number of years now..

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..and I was just getting more
and more fed up.

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Life in an office
just wasn't for me.

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And at the same time, maybe
I was also feeling the temptation

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because my childhood friend was
already involved in drug dealing.

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And it just looked
like a much more interesting life.

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It wasn't even about the money,
it was really about the excitement,

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and the thrills and the challenges.

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It's just a great life.
(LAUGHS) Sorry, but it is.

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I quit my job and asked my childhood
friend if I could work for him.

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(BANGS ON CAR DOOR)

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And then one day we were
actually just transferring gear

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from one car to another...

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..and we had observed police
observing us.

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Definitely, you see telephoto
lenses, and stuff like that.

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(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

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The police were really worried
about cocaine

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supercharging organised crime.

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In the '90s, they needed
something professional.

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Being an investigative journalist
was like being a detective.

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That is a fact.

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In the '90s, I needed a story
which would make a difference.

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I interviewed a criminal.

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He told me he was being interviewed
by a special police force.

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And they were called the IRT.

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So, what's the IRT?

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He explained it to me.

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The IRT was a specialised team,
comprised of the best

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of the best police officers
from the Netherlands.

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The super team.

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It was experimental.
Nobody knew about it.

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Their plan was to use any means
to contain organised crime.

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The IRT was set up
to take down Klaas Bruinsma,

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the real kingpin of drugs
in the '70s and '80s.

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After he was killed,

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they wanted to see
who would take over

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as the top criminals
of the Netherlands.

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There was one particular group -

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the Delta Organisation.

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They started to become the biggest
criminal gang in the Netherlands.

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It had three leaders.

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Three people, they were supposedly
the crime bosses of the Netherlands.

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The IRT,
their aim was to get to the top,

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to the kingpins, the crime bosses.

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(TENSE MUSIC)

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(DOOR OPENS)

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You're looking at quite
a stretch here, my friend.

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This was no small amount.

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I mean...

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(EXHALES)

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..I imagine your girlfriend
may visit,

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the first few years...

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sure.

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But after a while...

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she'll get bored.

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You know?

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Look for something else.

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I'm not a rat.

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OK.

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Wait!

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What do you want me to do?

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(MOODY JAZZ MUSIC)

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The IRT had
some kind of informant...

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..and he told me their plan.

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They wanted the informant
to offer the Delta group

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a new line of drugs being
imported into the Netherlands.

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The IRT would then organise
these drugs to be waived

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through the Customs.

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(TRUCK'S HORN BLARES)

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The informant would then
help the IRT follow

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the drugs to the leaders
of the Delta group.

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And then they would arrest them
and take the whole group down.

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Or so they thought.

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(TOILET FLUSHES)

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I've got something for you. Whew.

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I've got something for you. (LAUGHS)

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Yeah, I've got a...
I got a special deal.

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A special deal for you.

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I can get all the gear
into the country, yes.

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Why don't you just shut up? Shut up!

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I got a... I got a special...

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I got a special...
I got a deal for you.

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(EXHALES)

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(SOBS)

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(TENSE MUSIC)

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Thanks for meeting with me.

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There was this guy who approached
the group with an offer.

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And my boss,
just after hearing him out, thought

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that there was something fishy about
it and it was too good to be true.

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(GUN COCKS)

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Why should we trust you?

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It sounds like fucking bullshit!

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No, no, no, no. Wait! Wait

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He was trying to set us up.

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That could've been a death sentence.
That's just how those things work.

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OK, look, if you don't kill me,

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I can help you make so much money,
I swear.

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OK, OK, it's the police.

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They have this crazy plan.

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They gave me a free pass
to get anything you guys want

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through Customs,

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so they can follow the gear
and get to your boss.

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What if we work together?

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We can play them.

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Yeah, he was, basically, made
into a double agent.

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Police assumed that we believed
he was part of us now.

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Everything that he knew
he would tell us.

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But, more importantly,
he would convey everything

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that we wanted them to know.

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# SALT 'N' PEPPER: Push It #

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The informant tells them
we were transferring gear.

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So, they'll be there
with their cameras and stuff,

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and they'll film us taking it.

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And they say,
"OK, we've got them now,

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"and, hopefully, we can follow
the trio of leaders"

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But then we'll come up with a story
like, it isn't what we wanted,

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or we had to stash it
somewhere else.

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So you can just sell them
bullshit all the time,

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and because they don't know

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that we're onto them,
they will believe it.

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The informant told the IRT,
"You're getting there.

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"Keep on going,
you're getting close.

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"Keep on this track

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"because we're getting really close,
keep on going."

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Every time they got closer, so
called closer, to this triangle...

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..the informant said,
"We have to do one more time.

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"We have to do more transport."

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(TRUCK'S HORN BLARES)

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They had no idea we're stringing
them along constantly,

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so we, basically, had
the government helping us

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import and sell drugs.

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So, yeah.

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This method, the IRT method,

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helping to import
the tonnes of drugs,

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they thought they had it
all contained, but they didn't.

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There was so much cocaine
overflowing the Dutch market...

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..that the criminals
started exporting to the UK.

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(DOUBLE BASS JAZZ MUSIC)

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Quickly, get a picture of that!

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Big, fat Rolex.

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That's that.

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There are people who use brute force
and ignorance,

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and there are people
who use their minds,

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and I've always used my mind.

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I'm what you call a clue finder.

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If something
is a business opportunity,

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I'll be searching for it.

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The thing about the drug industry
is it's about supply and demand.

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In Britain, famous people
were making cocaine

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a lot more acceptable to do.

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REPORTER: It's now the country's
most high-profile drug.

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Powder cocaine became
known as pub grub,

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so English,
white, working-class guys,

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who wouldn't have looked at cocaine
before, suddenly was doing it.

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So, the demand for cocaine has grown
and grown and grown.

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So, as long as I could find a good,
strong supply line,

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I had customers
ready and waiting to buy.

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And there was a lot of cocaine
coming into Holland.

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It was like almost
a Santa's Grotto for a drug dealer.

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Just amazing, really.

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And if you were involved
in the smuggling industry,

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Amsterdam was perfect

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because it is so central to Europe.

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It allows you various routes,
globally,

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to get drugs through its airports,
through its docks.

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And there wasn't a place
left on the plane,

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or container ship
that we wouldn't stash drugs.

255
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We had an engineer that
worked on one of the planes.

256
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He could get anything off a plane
the size of a small fridge.

257
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We had one particular route
where we used

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to put them on the back
of computer screens.

259
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We'd have someone take two bags
onto the flight,

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pull the drugs out of it,

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throw it into lost luggage and
take the drugs out at the airport.

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If someone's cleaning the toilets
on an aeroplane,

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put those five keys of cocaine in
a compartment underneath the toilet.

264
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We had gear
in the nose of the plane,

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we had it in the cargo,

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we had it in dustbins,

267
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we had it in every single
moving mechanical part

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that existed on that plane or ship.

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So, we had a system

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where things were running
incredibly smoothly.

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Everything is just smoother,
and easier, and cheaper and faster.

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So, everything is just on steroids
now, that's the effect you have.

273
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The criminals, they were given
so much leverage by the IRT.

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They became multi-,
multi-millionaires

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maybe even billionaires.

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Yeah, we got a lot bigger and richer
because of them, absolutely.

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From the money exchanges
that we were doing,

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yeah, you can see that it
must be millions every week.

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(PISTOL COCKS)

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We were kind of gun nuts,

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so if we could get our hands on
stuff, then we would buy it.

282
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Handguns, a few machine guns.

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50 kilos of Semtex,

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which is a plastic explosive.

285
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And then there were some rifles
and some hand grenades.

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So, we were just expanding
in every direction,

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we were getting better
at what we were doing.

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By all metrics,
I think we were very successful.

289
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Instead of battling
the organised crime,

290
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the IRT made it bigger

291
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and more powerful and richer

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than any organised crime group
ever before.

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The cocaine was ending up
at the street.

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They made a lot of money.

295
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It was just free cash.

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There are hundreds
of thousands of users,

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and you can say
it's a free choice to use drugs,

298
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but at a certain point it isn't.

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I didn't have the coke
under control.

300
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The coke had me.

301
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I was in a tunnel.

302
00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:57,160
I don't see anything anymore,

303
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but I only want to have
that feeling,

304
00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:04,600
that adrenaline feeling every moment
and every day in my life.

305
00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:08,480
First of all, it was a half gram.

306
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And then I used one gram.

307
00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:15,920
And after a couple of weeks
and months I just want to use more.

308
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After a year,
every day I use three grams.

309
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One gram was one hundred euro.

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And a half gram of heroin every day.

311
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I need 250 euro.

312
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Every day, when I woke up,

313
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I was thinking about
how can I buy drugs for this day?

314
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..first I sell drugs.

315
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And after I was selling drugs,

316
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,280
as a bouncer I can take drugs
from other people in the club.

317
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Only to use it for myself.

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Sometimes with my friends, you know,

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we'd go to make a deal
with some dealers,

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00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,720
and we'd go to there, but we don't
bring the money, we bring a gun.

321
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,200
A lot of robberies we do with
each other at the gas stations.

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And it was a really, erm...

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The IRT was active
for several years already,

324
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,440
but cocaine
was still flooding the market.

325
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(DOUBLE BASS JAZZ MUSIC)

326
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There is still a lot of crime.

327
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There were no arrests,
there were no seizures.

328
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,800
The IRT costs a lot of money,
a lot of manpower,

329
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:47,440
but shows no result.

330
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# CURTIS MAYFIELD: Superfly #

331
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:57,280
There was a decision made
that the leads of this IRT thing,

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that was in the hands
of the Utrecht Police,

333
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,080
had to come over
to the Amsterdam Police.

334
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,480
I already was in charge

335
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,600
of the crime squads
in the Amsterdam Police Force,

336
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,240
and I had a reputation
to bring results,

337
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:16,000
so the Chief of Police asked me
to be the new leader of the IRT.

338
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,120
# Oh, superfly

339
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,400
# You're gonna make your fortune,
by and by...

340
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:27,160
They worked in the special building
in a secret spot in Amsterdam

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00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,760
and didn't share information.

342
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:33,800
# Trying to get over

343
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:39,120
# Trying to get over... #

344
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:49,080
The first morning in the IRT was
not a morning of a warm welcome.

345
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:55,280
They weren't very excited for me
to take over the lead of the team.

346
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,760
There was an atmosphere
of suspicion.

347
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,560
The smell of the place was not good.

348
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,440
My feeling was
they are hiding information.

349
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:15,280
They're trying to avoid to share
their secrets with me.

350
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,280
So, I did some digging,
and I got the picture

351
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,120
that there was never
a criminal arrested

352
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,200
and never done a seizure
of all these drugs.

353
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,520
It was completely insane.

354
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:38,280
So I confronted the colleagues
with that.

355
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:48,160
I draw the whole line
on the whiteboard.

356
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,640
I said,
in my opinion, this is what happens.

357
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,080
Together with criminals,

358
00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:00,120
we are ordering drugs
from South America.

359
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,360
We are shipping drugs
to the Netherlands.

360
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,320
We ask Customs...

361
00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:11,120
"Don't check these container."

362
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,760
(TRUCK'S HORN BLARES)

363
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,400
And we put these containers,
split them in several portions

364
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:22,080
and drive these portions of drugs
to stashes for the criminal groups.

365
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,920
And we don't arrest the criminal,

366
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,160
we don't do seizures,

367
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:33,440
we just import a lot of drugs
to the Netherlands and Europe.

368
00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:36,720
And I asked them,

369
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:42,120
"When do you think where the point
is you will catch the crooks?"

370
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,080
They didn't know.

371
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,280
I was really shocked.

372
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,160
It's completely illegal what we do.

373
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:56,880
It's completely criminal
and I want to stop it.

374
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,120
..because I really had good parents.

375
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,160
She was in the kitchen,
cooking for us.

376
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:51,560
I took something out of that.
I think it was her necklace.

377
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,680
I was feeling
like it was not good...

378
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:05,480
But I was really needing the drugs,

379
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,560
and, you know
when I was selling it...

380
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:13,040
I was really thinking about her,
about also my dad.

381
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,560
That the kind of things
they have been through

382
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,720
to come here to Holland.

383
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,680
REPORTER: Most of the expatriates
have now been integrated

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00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,600
into the community, but about
a thousand are still living

385
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,680
in former German
concentration camps like this.

386
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,840
My parents
and other Indonesian immigrants

387
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,920
were treated
really badly by the Dutch.

388
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,760
And, erm,
when I was selling her necklace,

389
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,560
you know,
I can buy three grams from it.

390
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:47,920
Yeah.

391
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,600
DIRECTOR: If your habit at that time
was at least three grams a day,

392
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,440
all it got you was
one day's worth of drugs.

393
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,800
Not only one day, a couple of hours.

394
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:00,720
It's not only about the last time

395
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:05,160
because it was a lot of times
I was robbing her gold,

396
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,760
but also her bank account.

397
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,680
Even the money
that she had in her pocket.

398
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,840
Seeing her emotion, seeing her pain,

399
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,600
she really was not trusting
me anymore,

400
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,440
but because her mother heart for me
was so much love

401
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,720
that she denied everything, to me.

402
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000
And it was, really, for me,
like, er...

403
00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:30,600
It's emotional for me now,
talking about it,

404
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,800
because she was really
the best mum in my life.

405
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,880
DIRECTOR: Did you ever think about
the people

406
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,520
that took the drugs that you
were getting into the country,

407
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,080
or producing, and the negative
effects that they could have had?

408
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,880
I don't think I have
any responsibility,

409
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:51,600
or blame in that at all.

410
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,200
No one forced you.

411
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,280
It's a voluntary transaction
between two adults,

412
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,200
two consenting adults.

413
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,400
Don't do drugs kids, yeah, whatever,

414
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,720
but if you do do drugs, it's on you.

415
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:10,840
All the Delta group cared about
was just making money.

416
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,120
I think they were
never worried about

417
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,680
the damage they would bring
to people's lives.

418
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,800
At the time the IRT
had been helping import

419
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,280
more than a hundred shipments
of drugs.

420
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,680
On some occasions the police
was actually driving the drugs

421
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,040
to where they were stashed
for the criminals.

422
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,240
Then I realised
I need to have proof.

423
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:50,720
I asked my police colleague
from Criminal Intelligence,

424
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,080
"I would like to have a word with
you when all the others are gone."

425
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,160
And then I said,

426
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,440
"You have all the secret
and confidential information

427
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,480
"about all the transports, about all
the informants in your computer,

428
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,880
"and you're going to give it to me
right this evening.

429
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:16,440
"If not so, then this will be
the last evening

430
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,040
"that you work with the police
force. I will see to that."

431
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,720
And he handed me over
two little dossiers,

432
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:26,240
and then he left the building.

433
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,040
It was a very exciting moment.

434
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:35,160
I think the smoking gun
is in these documents.

435
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,720
And I felt very, very tense.

436
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,120
It's hard to believe that none
of these involved detectives

437
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,920
ended up with cash
in their own pockets.

438
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,920
If so, they won't let me
in possession

439
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,880
of these papers
for a very long time.

440
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,560
I decided to make a copy

441
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,800
of all the secret information
about the transport.

442
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:09,840
I drove home like a mad man, fast,
too fast.

443
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,440
And this copy,
I put in a plastic case...

444
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,840
..and buried the documents
in the ground.

445
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,480
Sort of crazy situation.

446
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,920
And I think this is my securance.

447
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:34,280
This is my lifeline.

448
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:40,240
And with this information I will
stop the IRT and the Delta group.

449
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,280
(INSECTS CHIRRUPING)

450
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,680
(SINISTER MUSIC)

451
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,200
(SHIP'S HORN BLARES)

452
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,800
At that time there were
a lot of drugs coming in
from the Netherlands,

453
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,480
and our job was to stop it from
hitting the streets of the UK.

454
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:08,240
Cocaine smugglers were organised
criminals doing damage to the UK,

455
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,720
doing damage to people,
children and families,

456
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,360
and that gave us our determination
to arrest them.

457
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:20,400
At the peak,
I would say of cocaine smuggling

458
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,200
I was comfortably in the top
one percent of smugglers.

459
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,960
REPORTER: Despite the increase
in drug seizures,

460
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,840
there's still no shortage
of cocaine supply.

461
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:30,560
During that period,

462
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,600
I was responsible for importing

463
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,920
over a metric tonne
of cocaine monthly.

464
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,640
REPORTER: Methods of smuggling are
getting more and more devious.

465
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,120
Investigators fear that huge
stockpiles of cocaine

466
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,000
destined for the UK
are being built up in Holland.

467
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,400
At the peak of my success
I had a huge shipment coming in.

468
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:55,200
Half a metric tonne of cocaine
in a consignment of coconuts.

469
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,800
Destined for the fruit and veg
market in London.

470
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:07,640
We literally put it in sacks,
threw it on a container

471
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,040
and threw a bunch of coconut sacks
in with that container.

472
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,160
(SHIPS' HORNS BLARE)

473
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,120
Sometimes we would have names

474
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,840
or intelligence provided
by a human source

475
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,240
that pointed
to a particular shipment.

476
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,280
(TENSE MUSIC)

477
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:33,920
(CHATTER ON POLICE RADIO)

478
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:38,920
It was all going smoothly.

479
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,040
Once the container arrived
at the docks, they'd been cleared.

480
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,040
(SHIP'S HORN BLARES)

481
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:49,080
So if we established
that we had a shipment of coconuts

482
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,120
coming into a market in London...

483
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,160
..we might still ship the coconuts
to the recipient...

484
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:04,440
..in order to arrest some more
senior people in the organisation.

485
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,560
I turned up at the fruit market,
ready to oversee the handover.

486
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,800
Where I parked,
keeping an eye on it...

487
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,280
(POLICE SIREN BLARES)

488
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,159
..two cars raced up to me,

489
00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:22,600
and the guy jumped out
with this iron bar

490
00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:24,560
and started smashing the windows,
shouting.

491
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:25,960
(GLASS SHATTERING)

492
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,120
Next thing I knew,
they reached in and grabbed me.

493
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,520
I thought, "I'm finished."

494
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:38,159
when they said, "You're nicked,"
I couldn't believe it.

495
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,320
The point at which
you make that seizure,

496
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,040
and you make those arrests,
it's exhilarating.

497
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,360
Drug traffickers are not the sort
of people we wanted to allow

498
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,440
to be on the streets of the UK.

499
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,560
At that time,
it was the biggest seizure

500
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,680
ever, in London history, of cocaine.

501
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:06,480
Understanding you're going to spend
the next number of years in prison

502
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,600
wasn't a wonderful thought.

503
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,920
Obviously,
there's the danger of getting caught

504
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,720
and for many people
jail was a really scary thing.

505
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,040
That is what occupies you most of
the time.

506
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,200
You just have to be really,
really careful,

507
00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:26,160
and you can never really let up.

508
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,560
Even with the IRT helping us,

509
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,520
they had no way of keeping us safe

510
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,240
from the other cops
looking into what's happening.

511
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,840
'So, now we have a problem.'

512
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:52,480
I got a call
from a colleague from the IRT.

513
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:59,000
And he said..."Man, you're crazy
you can't stop this."

514
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,480
Why can't I stop this? It's illegal.

515
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,760
And he said, "Well, you know..."

516
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,800
I can't control these criminals
and these informants,

517
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:11,800
and they told me, "If this Amsterdam
guy tries to stop our operation,

518
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,800
"We're gonna stop him."

519
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,800
It was a severe threat.

520
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,760
I make a report of what I found out.

521
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,560
I had to get my report
out to the public.

522
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,560
There were a lot of people
involved with this drug business...

523
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,680
..from the IRT team itself,

524
00:36:36,720 --> 00:36:38,840
to the Delta group, the criminals.

525
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,800
It's hard to find out
where the danger is coming from.

526
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,680
But it was clear that I had to stop
the whole operation.

527
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:56,520
The same day, my report
was in the hands of the minister.

528
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:02,880
A commission was set up to
investigate what was going on.

529
00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:12,120
I thought that finally this whole
issue was going to be resolved.

530
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,320
When I was interrogated
by this commission...

531
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,440
..I told them what I had seen.

532
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,120
Of all the drug transports,

533
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,320
where the drug transports had ended,
on the free market.

534
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,080
I thought it was
an open-and-shut case,

535
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,640
but after looking at the evidence,
the commission concluded,

536
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,480
in fact, there was nothing wrong

537
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:45,200
with the investigation method
of the IRT.

538
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,520
And I was, in fact, the bad guy

539
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,480
in this whole situation.

540
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,360
And I felt very...let down.

541
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,800
How can you draw such a conclusion?

542
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,240
Were they corrupt?

543
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:11,600
Or were they much too stubborn
to admit their own mistakes?

544
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:13,520
For me, it's hard to say,

545
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,800
but after this commission
went nowhere,

546
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:20,040
I thought,
"This is the end of the story."

547
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,000
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

548
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,760
But after a while there were
some journalists

549
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,280
from one of the newspapers
in the country...

550
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,000
..and they started looking
into the IRT.

551
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:40,800
They showed that the conclusions
of this commission, they were false.

552
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:47,560
And there was a lot of publicity
about it in the newspapers.

553
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,280
This put a lot of pressure
on the Dutch government,

554
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:59,440
so quickly after that there
was a second special enquiry,

555
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,240
and that was
the Parliamentary enquiry.

556
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:09,840
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

557
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:11,440
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)

558
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,400
(MAN SPEAKS DUTCH)

559
00:39:26,720 --> 00:39:29,640
(MAN SPEAKS DUTCH)

560
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:43,440
All the hearings of this commission
took place over several years,

561
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:47,360
and they were broadcast
live on television.

562
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,720
So, the Dutch public could see
and hear

563
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,640
what are the testimony
of all these relevant authorities.

564
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,080
# STEALERS WHEEL:
Stuck In The Middle With You #

565
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:04,040
The detectives involved were covered
with wigs

566
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,320
and moustaches,
or even motor helmets,

567
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,320
because they didn't want to
show themselves to the public.

568
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,880
# I'm so scared
in case I fall off my chair...

569
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,160
That's a very funny situation.

570
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,520
# Clowns to the left of me

571
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,360
# Jokers to the right

572
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,520
# Here I am,
stuck in the middle with you

573
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:29,080
# Yes, I'm stuck in the middle
with you... #

574
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,600
In the Parliament enquiry,
it came out

575
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,880
that there was a lot wrong
with this method.

576
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,480
(THEY SPEAK DUTCH)

577
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:48,280
Then the numbers came out:
298,000 kilos of hashish,

578
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:49,920
20,000 kilos of coke,

579
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:51,640
tonnes of ecstasy pills,

580
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,840
and an unknown amount
exported to the UK.

581
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,600
There was outrage, really, yeah.

582
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,240
(THEY SPEAK DUTCH)

583
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:19,320
Nobody could believe it,
that they even thought of it,

584
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,160
that they even considered it.

585
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,960
And so there was one minister that
said, "We have to stop this IRT.

586
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,720
"Until the last brick,
break it down."

587
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:41,920
But the investigation,

588
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,240
they never got to the truth

589
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,360
until I wrote a book about it.

590
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,960
(UNSETTLING MUSIC)

591
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,520
There was a big question:

592
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,480
Were the police making money?

593
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,840
But it wasn't about corruption.

594
00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,640
They just kept on going.

595
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,800
Like when you're on
a gambling table,

596
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,120
you keep on putting money on red

597
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,440
because next time
it's going to be red.

598
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,280
But that wasn't
the end of the story.

599
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,080
I talked to the criminals,

600
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:13,960
I talked to the authorities.

601
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,560
I interviewed, like, 150 people.

602
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,240
They all pointed to one conclusion.

603
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,960
(AUSTERE CHORAL MUSIC)

604
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:34,600
The IRT, they were focused at this
triangle, these three people.

605
00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:38,440
They wanted to get this triangle

606
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,120
because in the newspaper
it said this triangle,

607
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,640
they are the real kingpins of drugs.

608
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:46,160
But I found out they didn't exist.

609
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,280
It was one big scheme,

610
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,240
one big...scam.

611
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:57,640
The middlemen said,

612
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:01,360
"If you help us
get the drugs through..."

613
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,160
(TRUCK'S HORN BLARES)

614
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,120
"..we'll get you
to the crime bosses."

615
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:10,720
But the real bosses
were this middle management.

616
00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:14,160
They were the triangle.

617
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,480
The middlemen was the triangle.

618
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:18,400
(LAUGHS)

619
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,320
They had in their heads
this whole story,

620
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:26,080
and it had no bearing on reality
whatsoever.

621
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,080
It was just ridiculous.

622
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,440
And these people are then advising
the Justice Department

623
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:35,880
and politicians on what is happening
in Amsterdam crime life.

624
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,440
It just beggars belief, really.

625
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,320
I cannot believe it happened.

626
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,800
I cannot believe they fell for it.

627
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,840
It's so incredible, so amateurish,

628
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:50,440
and they made a mediocre
criminal organisation,

629
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:55,480
they made them the richest criminal
organisation at least of Europe.

630
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:57,520
# JOHNNY CASH: Ring Of Fire #

631
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,920
This whole story started
with good intentions,

632
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,880
but completely ran out of hand,

633
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:15,640
and I think it's a question
of incompetence.

634
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:31,240
They had used methods that were,
in fact, highly illegal,

635
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,560
which made it impossible to
prosecute us for anything we'd done

636
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,280
because they were, basically,
full accomplices, in fact.

637
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:55,120
Nobody was convicted, nobody was
caught, nobody was arrested.

638
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:56,960
Everybody got away with it.

639
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,240
Even if you scripted it,
you couldn't have invented this.

640
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:18,800
When I got a hung jury,

641
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:23,680
I remember the prosecution and she
physically, physically cried tears.

642
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:43,120
I was always a debt collector,

643
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,080
and now it's with my face and
my heart and with my lips

644
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:47,880
and with my smile,

645
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,600
and not with a gun anymore.

646
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:52,160
# The flames went higher

647
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,720
# And it burns, burns, burns

648
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,040
# The ring of fire...

649
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:59,760
The whole story of Amsterdam
and drugs,

650
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,760
whether it was hash
in the '70Ss or '80s...

651
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,360
..or ecstasy or cocaine
in the '90s...

652
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:13,480
..it shows whether
you're lenient or tough on drugs,

653
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:18,360
the criminals will always find
a way to exploit the system,

654
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,080
and the cops will always
try to stop them.

655
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:27,400
After the IRT affair,
the criminals won the battle

656
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:29,440
but they didn't win the war.

657
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:32,520
It's still ongoing.

658
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:34,680
The war on drugs can't be won...

659
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,320
..by any side.

660
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,360
# The ring of fire

661
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,400
# The ring of fire

662
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:44,440
# The ring of fire. #

663
00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:49,720
# PRIMAL SCREAM: Movin' On Up #

664
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,040
# I was blind

665
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,600
# Now I can see

666
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,360
# You made a believer

667
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,280
# Out of me

668
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:04,040
# I'm movin' on up now

669
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,840
# My light shines on

670
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,480
# My light shines on

671
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:15,240
# My light shines on... #

672
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,720
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