Things were moving fast now. The Chiang Mai end was all tied up and ready to go and was just waiting for all the details and for Chamreun to give me a green light to place the first order. Peter in Holland had put me in touch with his weed connection, a guy called Alex from Hannover. After a little bit of to and fro haggling, we’d agreed on a price of $1million US for every shipment of five tons.
Peter was taking all the safrole off our hands; the initial shipment of 10,000kg would cost him $600,000 and the shipments after that would cost him $80,000 for each 1,000kg. In return, he had agreed to ship us monthly 20,000 ecstasy tablets at $2 each, and 2kg of MDMA powder at a cost of $30,000. So, in effect, the only money changing hands with Peter after that initial shipment would be a balan
