Hotel K – Kathryn Bonella

You want ecstasy?’ Hotel K was Bali’s drug hub, its biggest and busiest drug market. ‘We are aware of the illegal drugs trade in big quantities in this prison. That’s why we wanted to launch a crackdown yesterday by dispatching 300 personnel to give them shock therapy,’ police spokesman I Gde Sugianyar said last night. – The Daily Telegraph, 20 June 2009 Most dealers were small time, selling a few ecstasy pills or a bit of shabu or smack to pay off their own drug bills.

But there were also drug bosses checking in, the high rollers. They could earn up to $10,000 a day, supplying to nightclubs in Bali and Jakarta, to other jails and to their regular customers outside. The high rollers organised shipments across the globe, moving drugs from as far as Peru to Sydney from their cells, utilising their regular suppliers in places such as Mexico, Bangkok, Pakistan and Jakarta. Hotel K drugs were the cheapest, and often the purest, in Bali. The free market and international dealers inside jail, who could buy high quality drugs in bulk from their overseas sources, drove the prices to rock bottom.

A 50,000 rupiah ($7) packet of heroin inside Hotel K would cost 200,000 rupiah ($28) outside. Inmate and Mexican dealer Vincente was working exclusively in the Hotel K high-roller room, and didn’t bother dealing on the public floor with the inmate masses. He didn’t need to. He was making thousands of dollars a month, using his private cell as an office. He regularly made calls to contacts in Mexico to organise deliveries of cocaine for his high-profile multi-millionaire Chinese client on the outside.

Before each delivery, his client made a payment into Vincente’s falsely named bank account, which Vincente checked by phone. His courier then flew into Bali, checked into a cheap hotel designated by Vincente, hid the cocaine in a drawer or cupboard, and gave the key to the front desk, saying, ‘My friend Wayan will arrive soon, please give him the key’.

After Vincente had confirmed with his courier that the drop was made, he rang his client to give him the collection details. Vincente set it up so the client and the courier never met. It ensured his client’s invisibility. More importantly, it secured Vincente’s lucrative job as the middle man. The system served both Vincente and his client well.

The client still got his pure cocaine, which he cut and sold to a network of customers in Australia and New Zealand, sending it by boat, and keeping him rich. It also made Vincente a wealthy man from jail, and ensured he and Clara were treated like platinum guests at Hotel K.

By applying a cash lubricant to just the right people, Vincente’s rich client was able to look after him. The client bought the Mexicans their up-market private cells, and also conjugal time together – after their sham airport relationship had turned into a real love affair in jail.

Since studying journalism at RMIT University in Melbourne, Kathryn Bonella has worked as a journalist in television and print. She moved to London eighteen months after graduating and spent several years freelancing for numerous English, American and Australian television programmes, magazines and newspapers. She returned to Australia in 2000 to work as a producer for the prestigious current affairs programme 60 Minutes, covering stories all round the world. At the end of 2005 she left 60 Minutes, and moved to Bali to write Schapelle Corby’s autobiography, No More Tomorrows.

It instantly became a number one bestseller and is now sold in six languages. Kathryn returned to Bali for two years to research and write Hotel K. www.kathrynbonella.com OceanofPDF.com Also by Kathryn Bonella No More Tomorrows OceanofPDF.com HOTEL K The Shocking Inside Story of Bali’s Most Notorious Jail KATHRYN BONELLA OceanofPDF.com First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Quercus 21 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2NS Originally published in 2009 by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited 1 Market Street, Sydney Copyright © 2009 Kathryn Bonella The moral right of Kathryn Bonella to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. 978 0 85738 268 9 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Text designed and typeset by Ellipsis Books Limited, Glasgow Printed and bound in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc OceanofPDF.com This book is dedicated to anyone travelling to the tropical paradise of Bali.

Be careful. It could be a holiday you never forget. Even one ecstasy pill could cost you tens of thousands of dollars and a stint in the hellhole Hotel Kerobokan. OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS AUTHOR’S NOTE FOREWORD FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY CHAPTER 1 WELCOME TO HOTEL KEROBOKAN CHAPTER 2 THOMAS CHAPTER 3 THE HEADLESS CORPSE CHAPTER 4 THE GREAT ESCAPE CHAPTER 5 LET’S PLAY CHAPTER 6 NO STAR TO FIVE STAR CHAPTER 7 TOUCHING PARADISE CHAPTER 8 THE WOMEN’S BLOCK CHAPTER 9 THE BLUE ROOM CHAPTER 10 PLASTICINE GUARDS CHAPTER 11 TERRORISTS AND THE KING CHECK IN CHAPTER 12 THE DEALERS CHAPTER 13 ROLLING THE DICE CHAPTER 14 ANIMAL FARM CHAPTER 15 WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE CHAPTER 16 AN EYE FOR AN EYE CHAPTER 17 SEX ON THE BEACH CHAPTER 18 RAIDS CHAPTER 19 KEROBOKAN CREW CHAPTER 20 ROOM CHAPTER 21 NO MORE TOMORROWS CHAPTER 22 OPERATION TRANSFER EPILOGUE WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

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