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Kimberly Brill. McGowan was the kind of insider she and Bailey had been seeking for years: a former employee who claimed Le Roux had stolen his identity and was eager to take him down.

Brill and Bailey had been around the informant carousel too many times to be overly optimistic. But in February 2012, Brill called McGowan, with his attorney on the line, to evaluate what he knew. "The SOI [source of information] provided information regarding companies and bank accounts operated by Paul LE ROUX and general information regarding LE ROUX and his op- erations and some of his associates," Brill wrote in her report of the call. McGowan told her that he'd traveled to Israel, at Le Roux's direction, to meet with Moran Oz and Alon Berkman— whom he could identify—and incorporate Le Roux's call center companies there. He'd done the same in Hong Kong and Florida, he said, ticking off a list of corporate names that matched those Brill had been tracking: Diko, Wilex, and First Globe in Hong Kong; Quality Fountain and Armada Commerce in Florida. Mc- Gowan asserted that he'd never been involved in the pharmaceuti- cal business, and that after the logging project evaporated, Le Roux had simply kept using his name on companies like Southern Ace. McGowan wouldn't be a slam-dunk witness, but he could at least claim firsthand contact with their target.

Then another source came in out of the cold, this one even closer to Le Roux: his cousin Mathew Smith. He had contacted the Aus- tralian Federal Police, who after several months referred the whole matter to the CIA office in South Africa. When Brill finally con- nected with him, the cousin had a dramatic story to tell: After a falling-out in which Le Roux accused him of stealing money, some- one had firebombed his house and made an attempt on his life. He suspected it was his cousin.

A few weeks after her phone call with McGowan, Brill flew to Zimbabwe to meet both of them in person. They connected her with a third potential informant, Robson Tandanayi, a local from Bulawayo who had spent years as a paid "dummy," opening com- panies and transferring assets in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Aus-