India Uniform Nine: Secrets From Inside a Covert Customs Unit

An eye-opening account from inside an ultra-secret Customs unit
Mark Perlstrom is no stranger to money laundering, drug smuggling and crooked firms.
In the late 1980s he started working for HM Customs and was quickly thrown in the deep end, joining Operation C-Chase, an undercover investigation that penetrated Pablo Escobar's mighty Medellin cartel, brought down the corrupt BCCI bank and stopped London's gangs from moving their ill-gotten gains around the capital.
As part of the Uniforms - the new, secret, anti-money-laundering squad - high-speed car chases, bugging homes and spying on targets was day-to-day business.
Told by a true insider and revealing never-before-told-secrets of the industry, India Uniform Nine lays bare the intense rivalry between crime-fighting organisations and how that leads to corruption, chaos and some scarcely believable antics in the covert world. And how Mark's own operation was nearly scuppered by a US Customs bungle.

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India Uniform Nine: Secrets From Inside a Covert Customs Unit

An eye-opening account from inside an ultra-secret Customs unit
Mark Perlstrom is no stranger to money laundering, drug smuggling and crooked firms.
In the late 1980s he started working for HM Customs and was quickly thrown in the deep end, joining Operation C-Chase, an undercover investigation that penetrated Pablo Escobar's mighty Medellin cartel, brought down the corrupt BCCI bank and stopped London's gangs from moving their ill-gotten gains around the capital.
As part of the Uniforms - the new, secret, anti-money-laundering squad - high-speed car chases, bugging homes and spying on targets was day-to-day business.
Told by a true insider and revealing never-before-told-secrets of the industry, India Uniform Nine lays bare the intense rivalry between crime-fighting organisations and how that leads to corruption, chaos and some scarcely believable antics in the covert world. And how Mark's own operation was nearly scuppered by a US Customs bungle.

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India Uniform Nine: Secrets From Inside a Covert Customs Unit

India Uniform Nine: Secrets From Inside a Covert Customs Unit

by Mark Perlstrom
India Uniform Nine: Secrets From Inside a Covert Customs Unit

India Uniform Nine: Secrets From Inside a Covert Customs Unit

by Mark Perlstrom

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An eye-opening account from inside an ultra-secret Customs unit
Mark Perlstrom is no stranger to money laundering, drug smuggling and crooked firms.
In the late 1980s he started working for HM Customs and was quickly thrown in the deep end, joining Operation C-Chase, an undercover investigation that penetrated Pablo Escobar's mighty Medellin cartel, brought down the corrupt BCCI bank and stopped London's gangs from moving their ill-gotten gains around the capital.
As part of the Uniforms - the new, secret, anti-money-laundering squad - high-speed car chases, bugging homes and spying on targets was day-to-day business.
Told by a true insider and revealing never-before-told-secrets of the industry, India Uniform Nine lays bare the intense rivalry between crime-fighting organisations and how that leads to corruption, chaos and some scarcely believable antics in the covert world. And how Mark's own operation was nearly scuppered by a US Customs bungle.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785788901
Publisher: Icon Books, Ltd. UK
Publication date: 09/01/2022
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 503 KB

About the Author

Mark Perlstrom joined the civil service in 1983, starting in the Ministry of Defence and moving to HM Customs. This is his first book. Douglas Wight is an author, ghostwriter and journalist. His recent titles include Son of Escobar, Against My Will and Amazon number 1-bestseller The Bad Room.

Table of Contents

Author's note ix

Prologue 1

Chapter 1 Spirit of adventure 11

Chapter 2 The Customs' philosophy 21

Chapter 3 Joining the big league 33

Chapter 4 The other office 49

Chapter 5 Following the money 59

Chapter 6 The tricks of the trade 65

Chapter 7 Takedown 79

Chapter 8 The suspect 93

Chapter 9 Stitch-up 99

Chapter 10 '90 per cent office, 10 per cent fun' 109

Chapter 11 The old boys' network 125

Chapter 12 On the Whiskies 137

Chapter 13 Stopping the rot 151

Chapter 14 Dirty tricks 163

Chapter 15 Operation Sea Chase 177

Chapter 16 Anything to declare? 189

Chapter 17 Trendsetters 203

Chapter 18 The fruit and veg team 213

Chapter 19 Doing my duty 219

Chapter 20 The raid 225

Chapter 21 No, Minister 231

Chapter 22 A storm brewing 239

Chapter 23 Getting out 249

Epilogue 257

Selected Sources 275

Acknowledgements 277

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