Look, money corrupts. The extra money is black money. You're going out, spending money in clubs.

You have enough money, you can do what you want, and you feel yourself a king.

This world, the underworld has a different set of standards and morals.

Sometimes it can get a little bit dodgy.

I think that's the best way to describe it.

I'm in the Netherlands, where Vauta Laumans, one of the top Dutch crime reporters,

has been explaining in the last episode

how the cocaine business made his country a very violent place for a time.

In 2020, his contacts in the criminal underworld gave him a tip.

It would lead him to break one of the darkest stories of his career.

It's about a man called Roger P, better known by his nickname, Pete Costa.

We don't know that much about him.

He was a regular kind of guy.

He was born in 1971.

He's a guy who grew up in Rotterdam, and he's a fly under the radar kind of guy, an average Joe.

But that was a facade.

He went to court for a few robberies in the past, and people in the criminal world say he was making speed like amphetamines.

But he wasn't like a big drug figure until in the Nauties.

That's when his star kind of grew.

Roger P. eventually served jail time for armed robbery and assault in 2006.

But he was released a few years later and began to travel regularly to Latin America.

He settles in Costa Rica, where he's involved in pineapple trade.

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