Belgian DAVID NOEL CATRY Caught with Cocaine in Cambodia (UPDATE: RIP)

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fax wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 4:22 pm A lot of drug mules are working off debts. If I held a gun to your family's head you too would get on that airplane with whatever backpack I gave you. Lay down the smartassery.
That is bullshit and you know it. A lot of mules think they can outsmart the coppers and make a quick, easy, Buck.
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fax wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 4:11 pm
hanno wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 3:41 pm For a measly 3 grand; the mind boggles.
CEO news missed a 0 https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50496818/d ... caine-run/
No way you’ll get 30.000$ to fly in a kg, 3000 sounds plausible
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hanno wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 5:17 pm
fax wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 4:22 pm A lot of drug mules are working off debts. If I held a gun to your family's head you too would get on that airplane with whatever backpack I gave you. Lay down the smartassery.
That is bullshit and you know it. ALL mules think they can outsmart the coppers and make a quick, easy, Buck.
fixed that for ya :beer3:

$3,000 is low end for transporting a kilo. $30,000 is impossible, its barely worth that much uncut wholesale
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if it's 3000 $.......no words......

let's calculate a little bit: 3.000 $ for a possible 20 years "Holiday" in prison, it's 150 $ a year or 12,50 $ / month.....for the risk they take.....

It sonds very stupid for me, to take a risk like this for 12,50 $ / month........

also if you add a "0" at the end........
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Borum-Ex frm TOForum wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 5:19 pm
fax wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 4:11 pm
hanno wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 3:41 pm For a measly 3 grand; the mind boggles.
CEO news missed a 0 https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50496818/d ... caine-run/
No way you’ll get 30.000$ to fly in a kg, 3000 sounds plausible
Any ideas about how much a kilo of cocaine is worth ? As long as a piece of string, no doubt, but any estimates ?
$30,000 sounds like a big cut to me. Maybe it's the Khmer Times who have added a 0.
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You could cut 1kg cocaine with 3 kg cheese,1 kg bicycle parts and 1 kg basement concrete
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Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 5:38 pm
Borum-Ex frm TOForum wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 5:19 pm
fax wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 4:11 pm
hanno wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 3:41 pm For a measly 3 grand; the mind boggles.
CEO news missed a 0 https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50496818/d ... caine-run/
No way you’ll get 30.000$ to fly in a kg, 3000 sounds plausible
Any ideas about how much a kilo of cocaine is worth ? As long as a piece of string, no doubt, but any estimates ?
$30,000 sounds like a big cut to me. Maybe it's the Khmer Times who have added a 0.
Obviously depends on the location but I'd guess an average $100 a gram street price here or in Europe. So $30,000 wholesale a kilo sounds reasonable.
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John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 6:00 pm
Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 5:38 pm
Borum-Ex frm TOForum wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 5:19 pm
fax wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 4:11 pm
hanno wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 3:41 pm For a measly 3 grand; the mind boggles.
CEO news missed a 0 https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50496818/d ... caine-run/
No way you’ll get 30.000$ to fly in a kg, 3000 sounds plausible
Any ideas about how much a kilo of cocaine is worth ? As long as a piece of string, no doubt, but any estimates ?
$30,000 sounds like a big cut to me. Maybe it's the Khmer Times who have added a 0.
Obviously depends on the location but I'd guess an average $100 a gram street price here or in Europe. So $30,000 wholesale a kilo sounds reasonable.
Long report, but go to the end. Mean pay for a drug mule is $2,200 for smuggling a key of cocaine. Yes, the figures are from 2014 but it makes it highly unlikely that the guy got paid 30 grand.
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imho, I always viewed this as a parallel to gambling...if it were so easy, why didn't the top guy do it?

If you could consistently win at gambling, why were casinos so prolific?
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Sure, I agree. If the traffickers are getting $30,000 wholesale per kilo, nobody is getting more than 10-15% for transporting it.
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