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Inside the Biggest FBI Sting Operation in History
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.
Butina, who had recently served a long prison sentence and had no intention of going back behind bars, wanted to sell Anøm phones out in the open, in shops, maybe even use an Instagram profile to generate publicity. A courier named Jens Lindberg, he was told, was due to show up in a busy parking lot outside a shopping mall with a shipment of 50 liters of amphetamine oil, enough to cook up 100 kilograms of speed. Dressed in a black jacket and beanie, he loaded a shopping cart with three boxes containing the blocks of cooked amphetamine, then started to push the trolley across the lot while he held a phone in his hand to receive instructions.
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