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'Cash, chemicals, drugs, and gold': The incredible story of how a 350-pound programming genius became 'the Jeff Bezos of the dark web' by trafficking crystal meth from North Korea and selling missile technology to Iran
Paul Le Roux, 46, is considered the 'Jeff Bezos of transnational organized crime'
Le Roux is a former programming genius who developed encryption software
He used his internet savvy to make $250million a year by using the dark web to traffic drugs, weapons, and murder-for-hire schemes
Le Roux also sold the services of an army of mercenaries that he used to try to overthrow governments
In 2012, he was arrested by undercover DEA agents after he was lured to a hotel in Liberia where he thought he was meeting Colombian drug dealers
Le Roux then made a deal with the feds, agreeing to entrap co-conspirators in exchange for limited immunity and a reduced sentence
Le Roux's life story is subject of a new book, Hunting Le Roux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire, by Elaine Shannon
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6712945/Amazing-story-350-pound-programming-genius-Jeff-Bezos-dark-web.html