As per the initial arrangement, the transaction was scheduled to take place three days later in international waters.
This was by no means an ordinary transaction— thousands of grams of Golden Sand were at stake, with a price tag that could easily reach into the billions. Naturally, the Interpol would not squander such a brilliant opportunity to set up an ambush, determined to seize such a lucrative and exorbitantly-priced narcotic.
On the very day of their phone call, Marius deliberately tipped off Myanmar's anti-drug enforcement officers about the impending major deal, and the next day, a special investigation team was formed to target the locations where these kinds of transactions usually went down, all in an effort to seize the illicit substance and thwart the exchange.
