Losing $63 Billion to Gray Market Is Sleuth Obsession
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Private investigator Michael Kessler traveled to Honduras to track down some bleach.
The bleach’s manufacturer sent him to investigate how its merchandise, sold to a Central American distributor, kept showing up in U.S. stores at a higher price, cutting the maker out of the increased profit. Kessler arrived at the purchaser’s address only to find a gas station selling tires and chickens running across a dirt road. No buyer. No bleach.