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“We have to do some damage control” - Profile of Moroccan-Dutch female drug boss Naima Jillal
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2021-04-02T11:00:00.000Z
2021-04-02T11:00:00.000Z
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<p>Women who climb to the top of the underworld remain a rare breed, but every now and then several manage to break through that glass ceiling. Among them Moroccan-Dutch drug boss Naima Jillal, dubbed “The Godmother of Cocaine” by the media. Just when police began finding out about her prominent position she vanished without a trace.</p>
<p>Jillal wasn’t a complete stranger to Dutch police. Born and raised in the city of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Utrecht" target="_blank">Utrecht</a>, the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Netherlands" target="_blank">Netherlands</a>, she was first arrested in 2005 and charged with making threats. In the years that followed she was busted for <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Fraud" target="_blank">fraud</a>, growing <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Marijuana" target="_blank">marijuana</a>, and assault. In her defense, she told police that she was in a lot of debt and borrowed money from a lot of people.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237159896,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237159896?profile=original" /></a>Becoming a narco middlewoman</strong></span></p>
<p>Just a woman down on her luck, trying to make it. But then, in 2014, she began popping up in several major drug trafficking conspiracies. Tons of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> were being shipped through ports in the Netherlands and Belgium in containers filled with fruit. Jillal emerged as the broker behind many of these lucrative shipments.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: Profile of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/profile-of-moroccan-drug-boss-ridouan-taghi-he-who-talks-goes-and" target="_blank">Moroccan drug boss Ridouan Taghi</a> - “He who talks, goes. And everyone around him goes to sleep”</strong></li>
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<p>She achieved this because she had all the right contacts, she knew the right people in the right places. From the drug dealers on the streets to the drug bosses paying for the shipments and the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/drug-cartels" target="_blank">drug lords</a> in Costa Rica and Ecuador supplying the goods, the corrupt custom agents who were able to let shipments go through to the people transporting the stuff to its destination.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“Auntie” goes on shopping sprees</strong></span></p>
<p>She was the spider in the web and by acting as a middle(wo)man between these contacts, she rose in stature and power. Because she was a lot older than many of the contacts she worked with, she was named “auntie” by her underlings and colleagues.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/wife-of-el-chapo-busted-on-international-drug-trafficking-charges" target="_blank">Wife of “El Chapo” busted on international drug trafficking charges</a>, aiding husband’s prison break</strong></li>
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<p>Operating out of the beach resort of Puerto Banús near Marbella in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Spain" target="_blank">Spain</a> where she lived in a luxury apartment, she enjoyed the riches that came with her job. She was mother to a son and would frequently take him on expensive shopping sprees in Spain and the Netherlands in which they would spend tens of thousands of euros on whatever they wanted. She even bought her son an apartment in the expensive Zuidas neighborhood in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Amsterdam" target="_blank">Amsterdam</a>, the Netherlands.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237160287,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237160287?profile=original" /></a>“Everything is fucked now”</strong></span></p>
<p>Then, on May 30, 2016, shit goes bad. Using encrypted phones, an alleged drug boss sent Jillal a text message: “Those containers are gonna be scanned. We are fucked, auntie. We can’t get to them. This is about a lot of money and long prison sentences, auntie. Everything is fucked now.”</p>
<p>One of these containers was filled with 4000 kilograms of cocaine hidden among a load of pineapples from Costa Rica. For some reason, customs at the port in Rotterdam received a tip and they planned to scan these containers to see what was inside. When they did, they found the load.</p>
<p>“We have to do some damage control,” Jillal texted back to the worried drug boss. “We will just put out a new story.” The drug boss answered: “Agreed.”</p>
<p>Apparently, the new “story” worked. Jillal continued bringing in shipments. But things were not well. Stories later emerge about Jillal in which she is accused of fleecing drug bosses. She offered gangsters to buy into a piece of shipment. This meant that drug bosses were able to spread the risk if a load was caught. But Jillal would allegedly bring in more buyers than was needed. She would than tip off the load to authorities and pocket the cash. Whether true or not, these type of stories are an indication that her position within the underworld was coming under serious pressure.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>The vanishing</strong></span></p>
<p>In October of 2019, 52-year-old Jillal underwent a stomach reduction. According to rumors, because she had enough of people calling her fat. She needed rest to recover, but business is always calling. For unknown reasons, she traveled from Spain to the Netherlands that same month.</p>
<p>On the evening of October 20, she was picked up by a car in front of her luxury apartment in Amsterdam. It is the last time she is seen or heard from.</p>
<p>Since her disappearing, there have been many rumors. Multiple crime groups were keeping an eye on her – and not to keep her safe from harm. Some people said she was playing a double role for various rival crime groups, some claim that she might have been working as a police informant.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>READ: The man supplying France with 10% of its hashish:</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-man-supplying-france-with-10-of-its-hashish-profile-of-french" target="_blank"><strong>Profile of French drug boss Moufide Bouchibi</strong></a></li>
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<p>All pretty good reasons for any gangster to have her killed. This outcome becomes more likely when police put out a report that gruesome photos of a dead Jillal are circulating in the underworld. These photos allegedly show her lifeless corpse cut up in several pieces.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>UPDATE</strong></span>: On April 25, 2022, prosecutors in the case against drug boss Ridouan Taghi presented evidence they claim was taken from Taghi's encrypted cell phone. The evidence consists of one photo showing a naked woman bound to a chair. On her belly lay a cut off thumb or finger and a toe. A second photo shows the woman lying on the ground on her stomach. Metadata shows the pictures were taken on the night of Jillal's disappearance. Though it has not been definitively determined whether the woman is indeed Jillal, prosecutors suspect it is. </p>
<p>Taghi's lawyer denies her client has anything to do with this murder and says it is unclear how these photos ended up on this phone.</p>
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Profile of Turkish drug boss Cetin Gören, one of Europe's most wanted drug lords
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2020-06-30T15:13:14.000Z
2020-06-30T15:13:14.000Z
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<p>Cetin Gören is a true international operator. As a Dutchman with Turkish roots, he flawlessly moves through the European continent and beyond, organizing massive drug shipments during his travels.</p>
<p>In March of 2007, police in Brazil suspected him of involvement in the smuggling of the party drug ecstasy, along with the Dutchman Eric Adrian Mook, the Libian national Wassin Beyhod, and the Turkish national Mahmet Sait Mavi. Mook was caught with 2.8 kilograms of ecstasy in his luggage and began cooperating with authorities, pointing them towards the other suspects. The drugs were smuggled from <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Amsterdam" target="_blank">Amsterdam</a> in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Netherlands" target="_blank">Netherlands</a> via Frankfurt in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Germany" target="_blank">Germany</a> to <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Brazil" target="_blank">Brazil</a>.</p>
<p>Gören was also the suspected mastermind in the smuggling of 15,000 kilograms of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a>. The investigation into the shipment took two years and turned into one of the largest investigations of its kind. In October 2012, police seized 8,000 kilos of coke in the port of Antwerp in Belgium. The drugs were hidden inside a container packed with bananas from Ecuador. Police discovered the shipment during an investigation into a corrupt customs agent named Tim Deelen. The name of notorious crime lord Samir Bouyakhrichan was also dropped as one of the gangsters who participated in this piece of business.</p>
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<li><strong>Read: <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/exclusive-the-art-of-smuggling-by-britain-s-first-drug-baron" target="_blank">The Art of Smuggling by Britain's first drug baron</a></strong></li>
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<p>Authorities began investigating Gören in April, early May, of 2012, when an informant told the <em>Criminele Inlichtingen Eenheid</em> (Criminal Intelligence Unit) about largescale <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Money" target="_blank">money laundering</a> and possible possession of a firearm. After some further research, agents found that Gören had a criminal record and had been convicted of possession of a gun, drug possession, being a member of criminal organization, spending fake currency, and fraud.</p>
<p>He was also wanted internationally by authorities in both Brazil and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Turkey" target="_blank">Turkey</a> for his involvement in drug trafficking.</p>
<p>On May 4, 2012, Dutch police raided Gören’s residence in the city of Rotterdam. There, they seized a gun, €900,000 euros in cash, and eight cell phones. This evidence, paired with the story of the informant, led police to start Operation Murdoch, an investigation into Gören’s narcotics empire.</p>
<p>Before and during the investigation, police seized several cocaine shipments connected to Gören. The haul ranged from 35 kilos to over 8,000 kilos per seizure. For instance, on February 25, police in Ecuador seized a total of 3668 kilograms of coke, while cops in Belgium seized 8032 kilos of the drug in Antwerp on October 8, 2012. </p>
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<li><strong>Read: <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/south-america-is-quickly-becoming-a-deadly-destination-for-enterp" target="_blank">South America is a deadly destination for enterprising Dutch gangsters</a></strong></li>
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<p>On June 24, 2014, then 44-year-old Gören was arrested. Dutch newspaper the <em>Algemeen Dagblad</em> called Gören one of Europe’s biggest drug lords, a man who was on Interpol’s Most Wanted list.</p>
<p>Almost a year after his arrest, a court in Rotterdam allowed Gören to await his trial at home. However, he did have to put down €500,000 euro bail and wear an ankle bracelet. He did as ordered. But when, in November of 2016, Gören heard about a possible 14-year prison sentence, he took off his ankle bracelet and disappeared without a trace.</p>
<p>A court eventually sentenced Gören to 12 years in prison on December 9, 2016. According to the judge, Gören, over a period of two years, was the leader of a criminal organization that trafficked large quantities of cocaine from South America to the Netherlands.</p>
<p>To conceal his illegal activities, Gören bought and founded several fruit companies. He used these companies to buy fruit in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/drug-cartels" target="_blank">South America</a>, among the fruit his men hid large amounts of cocaine.</p>
<p>Gören was also found guilty of falsifying documents - he possessed a Bulgarian driver’s license and identity card – possession of an illegal firearm, and of laundering almost one million euros in illicit proceeds.</p>
<p>The public and media did not hear about Gören’s escape until April 26, 2017, when the news broke that one of Europe’s most prolific and successful drug traffickers had cut his ankle bracelet and become a most wanted fugitive.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>UPDATE</strong></span>: On June 30, 2020, police in Turkey arrested Gören in what that country's minister of the interior, Süleyman Soylu, dubbed "the most important anti-narcotics operation in the history of Turkey". Over 60 people were arrested, including Gören, who had been a fugitive for several years.</p>
<p><em><strong>Milko (a pseudonym) is a Dutchman who has studied organized crime in the Netherlands, its history, and its offshoots in foreign countries for over two decades. He is also very knowledgeable about crime in other European countries and is eager to share his information.</strong></em></p>
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Clan-based Albanian drug gang busted across Europe
https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/clan-based-albanian-drug-gang-busted-across-europe
2020-02-07T06:40:08.000Z
2020-02-07T06:40:08.000Z
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<p>An <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Albania" target="_blank">Albanian</a> organized crime clan was busted in multiple <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/europe-overview" target="_blank">European</a> countries yesterday. Over 600 police officers took part in a simultaneous operation carried out in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Belgium" target="_blank">Belgium</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Spain" target="_blank">Spain</a>, the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Netherlands" target="_blank">Netherlands</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Germany" target="_blank">Germany</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=France" target="_blank">France</a>. 25 suspects were arrested.</p>
<p>This cross-border sting follows a complex investigation initiated in 2017 by the Belgian Antwerp Local Police <a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237156858,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237156858?profile=original" /></a>(Politiezone Antwerpen), which uncovered that the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drugs</a> were being smuggled hidden in containers into Belgium before being distributed further throughout <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/europe-overview" target="_blank">Europe</a> by using vehicles equipped with sophisticated hidden compartments.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/blacklisted-albanian-mob-boss-naser-kelmendi-built-a-criminal-bus" target="_blank">Albanian mob boss Naser Kelmendi</a> built a criminal business empire on white heroin and ecstasy</strong></li>
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<p>The same gang is also believed to have been managing cannabis plantations in Spain and Germany where they cultivated and processed the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Marijuana" target="_blank">marijuana</a>, before it was transferred to other European countries for further sale and distribution.</p>
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<li><strong>READ:</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/profile-albanian-drug-boss-besnik-sinanaj" target="_blank"><strong>Profile of Albanian drug boss Besnik Sinanaj</strong></a></li>
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<p>The operation so far has resulted in 9 arrests in Belgium (including the group’s leader), 6 arrests in Spain, 3 arrests in the Netherlands, 6 arrests in Germany and a further one arrest in France, bringing the total number of arrests to 25; 30 houses were searched; 6 marijuana plantations dismantled; mobile phones, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Guns" target="_blank">handguns</a>, ammunition, and €60 000 in cash were seized. </p>
<p>This clan-based crime gang was hierarchically structured, with branches operating internationally. Some of its members arrested today have a history of drug trafficking in different countries.</p>
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A most wanted man: Moroccan-Belgian drug boss Rachid Bouazza
https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/a-most-wanted-man-moroccan-belgian-drug-boss-rachid-bouazza
2019-10-13T09:27:54.000Z
2019-10-13T09:27:54.000Z
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<p>An international drug boss from the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Belgium" target="_blank">Belgian</a> city of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Antwerp" target="_blank">Antwerp</a> was placed on the country’s most wanted list, this week. 55-year-old Rachid Bouazza is a Moroccan national and was sentenced to a 20-year prison term in March for his leading role in a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drug trafficking</a> conspiracy.</p>
<p>Bouazza led an organization that smuggled large shipments of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> from the Dominican Republic into the port of Antwerp. According to Belgium media, he has been a leading figure in the city’s underworld for the better part of two decades.</p>
<p>In May of 2013 he was sentenced to 4 years behind bars for drug trafficking. Rather than serve his sentence, he vanished and remained a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Fugitive" target="_blank">fugitive</a> ever since. Now, he finds himself standing in the spotlight.</p>
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Profile: Russian mob boss Boris Nayfeld
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2016-10-13T18:00:00.000Z
2016-10-13T18:00:00.000Z
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<p>Russian mob boss Boris Nayfeld (photo above) just can’t stay on the straight and narrow, nor can he keep his mouth shut. In January, prosecutors in the Southern District of New York charged the notorious gangster and coconspirator Boris Kotlyarsky with an extortion plot in which the two men sought payment from a victim who they claimed Nayfeld had been hired to murder.</p>
<p>Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara explained the scheme as follows, “Boris Kotlyarsky and Boris Nayfeld conspired to extort $125,000 from a victim, claiming that Nayfeld had been hired to murder the victim.”</p>
<p>In October of last year, Kotlyarsky told the victim, who runs an international shipping business in Newark, New Jersey, that a Russian businessman had approached infamous mob boss Boris Nayfeld with a contract to kill him in exchange for a $100,000 payment. Kotlyarsky offered to broker a meeting between the victim and Nayfeld at which he could make things right and cancel the contract.</p>
<p>The following months, Kotlyarsky arranged a series of meetings between the victim and Nayfeld. During these meetings, Nayfeld told him, among other things, that the businessman had transferred $50,000 to Nayfeld as partial payment on a contract for his murder, and that it was good that Kotlyarsky had intervened on the victim’s behalf. Nayfeld told the victim to pay him $125,000 due January 15. </p>
<p>At a meeting on January 14, the victim met Nayfeld at a restaurant in Brooklyn, New York, to finish up business. He wanted assurances from Nayfeld that no harm would come to him after he had paid him the money. Nayfeld then called the businessman who supposedly had ordered the hit and told him, aloud, that the victim should not be touched or he would punish the businessman.</p>
<p>After that, the victim wrote Nayfeld a check worth $50,000 without specifying a recipient.</p>
<p>Easy money, Nayfeld must’ve thought. Right up until the moment he exited the restaurant and was swarmed by law enforcement officers. When he saw them come at him, he cursed and tore up the check as fast as he could.</p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE</strong></span></p>
<p>Try as he might, Nayfeld continues to have trouble evading indictments. He has been a fixture in New York’s <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/russian-mafia-overview">Russian underworld</a> since the 1980s. Starting out as the bodyguard and enforcer for mob boss <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/russian-boss-evsei-agron">Evsei Agron</a>, Nayfeld was always looking for ways to move up in the world. When he was approached by Marat Balagula, another crime boss, to join his crew and help set up Agron, he saw an opportunity. Nayfeld switched sides and in May of 1985 a hitman shot Agron twice in the head, leaving his dead body in the streets.</p>
<p>After Marat Balagula was sent away to prison, Nayfeld began asserting himself as the main Mr. Big in New York’s Russian mob. He fought a bloody war with rivals in the 1990s and narrowly escaped death himself on quite a few occasions. On February 14, 1991, he discovered an unexploded bomb under his car and decided to lay low in the Belgium city of Antwerp, while his troops roamed the streets of New York.</p>
<p>In Belgium, Nayfeld organized several lucrative smuggling routes with other Eastern European gangsters, including a heroin pipeline that stretched from Thailand, where he acquired the drugs, to Singapore and on to Poland, from where it was shipped to the United States and sold to distributors in New York.</p>
<p>American authorities were onto the ring, however, and in January of 1994, they shut it down, charging Nayfeld and several others with the smuggling, distribution, and sale of heroin.</p>
<p>An <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/13/nyregion/14-years-later-2-killings-are-linked-to-russian-mob.html?_r=0" target="_blank">article in the New York Times</a>, describes the period following, "In recent years, [...] Mr. Nayfeld started cooperating with investigators to avoid prosecution."</p>
<p>And now, 22 years later, Nayfeld returns to an American prison. Some people never change. Allegedly, of course.</p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>SNITCHING PART 2</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>UPDATE:</strong></span> On October 12, 2016, Nayfeld made yet another familiar move: He flipped on his codefendant. <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/10/13/mob-boss-who-spared-millionaires-life-will-squeal-on-mobster-cronies/" target="_blank">The New York Post</a> reported that Nayfeld signed a plea agreement. Asked by the judge if he would "truthfully and completely disclose all information with respect to yourself and others about which the US Attorney’s office is asking of you?"</p>
<p>Nayfeld answered, "Yes."</p>
<p>"And the US Attorney can use that information for any purpose?" the judge asked.</p>
<p>“Yes,” Nayfeld answered.</p>
<p>“And you are agreeing to testify if asked to testify?”</p>
<p>“Yes,” the fallen mob boss said.</p>
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