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diodeone
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veiledsentiments
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If he had just been making it, he likely would have been fine... selling it was his big mistake.
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diodeone
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| veiledsentiments wrote: |
If he had just been making it, he likely would have been fine... selling it was his big mistake.
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He made his own in the beginning but then started bootlegging whiskey from Bahrain |
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scot47
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This TV series originally entitled "Banged up Abroad" and re-named "Locked up Abroad" for the US market is about scumbags who deliberately set out to break the law and then squeal about the consequences. What do you expect if you go to Colombia and buy 10 kg of cocaine ? Ort try to smuggle whisky from Bahrain into Saudi Arabia ?
I will reserve my sympathies for more deserving cases.
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EnglishDoYouSpeakIt
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 11:49 am Post subject: |
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The youtube link doesn't work in Saudi Arabia, just a fyi.
Before your plane lands in KSA everyone gets a card that says in big red letters "DEATH TO DRUG TRAFFICKERS." You may disagree with a law but you better respect it if you're going to work in a country. Either accept the laws or don't come. |
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Qaaolchoura
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| EnglishDoYouSpeakIt wrote: |
| The youtube link doesn't work in Saudi Arabia, just a fyi. |
Doesn't work in Turkey either. "Blocked in your country on copyright grounds."
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diodeone
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Qaaolchoura wrote: |
| EnglishDoYouSpeakIt wrote: |
| The youtube link doesn't work in Saudi Arabia, just a fyi. |
Doesn't work in Turkey either. "Blocked in your country on copyright grounds."
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http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2011/10/09/scot-made-millions-making-moonshine-in-saudi-arabia-but-he-landed-in-torture-cell-86908-23477456/
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A BOOTLEGGER who was whipped and spent years in jail after making millions from Saudi moonshine has revealed the secrets of his double life.
Gordon Malloch worked by day as a chef in the Gulf but by night he was arranging massive illegal shipments of whisky into the alcohol-free Islamic state.
As he got better at it, he made more and more for sale, and he �realised that his job as a catering boss meant he could get ingredients �without alerting suspicion. He was soon making hundreds of litres a week, charging �50 per �container, making huge amounts of cash.
He also ran a �5000 still he kept in a secret room behind a fake wall in his villa.
The money afforded him lavish holidays and on one such break to Bahrain, he hooked up with some �businessmen who were �looking to bring named brands into Saudi.
He said: �These guys had the capital to buy up 400 to 600 cases at a time and I had the idea of bringing it into the country in �generators. I was �shipping out a quarter of a million dollars at a time.�
The profits meant he bought a 1977 Ferrari to keep back home in Scotland, while he was living the life of a prince in Riyadh.
The black market booze was drunk in secret desert parties arranged for expats.
But his empire ended when Gordon found himself hanging from a tree, being tortured with electric shocks and sentenced to 480 lashes.
After 17 months of political wrangling, Gordon was offered freedom.
�I have never had any regrets. I�m very nostalgic for those days �I made and spent two fortunes. You never think about what might happen because you never think they could catch you.�
Alternate video link
http://www.shallownation.com/2011/06/02/national-geographic-locked-up-abroad-saudi-bootlegger-video-photos-season-premiere/ |
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