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There was many different layers to the operation—what made it successful, what made it challenging. I think one of the most important things that everybody knows is we have great partnerships, not only with our Five Eyes partners, Australia, Canada, the U.K., the people that we traditionally work with. But we have great partnerships in Nigeria as well. So when we go over there, we're working with real humans that work for EFCC and they are just invested as we are in trying to make this problem go away because we all know Nigerian prince scams, we know all of the scams that are traditionally done over there.

They're very aware of it, too, and don't like that their country is known for that type of activity. So everybody was equally invested in making this one goal happen. So we were very fortunate to have RCMP and AFP with us, as well as working with EFCC to make all of this happen. So that was one layer of it.

But then once you actually start getting people and getting to speak with them, that's much, that's a much different experience because you're kind of confronting the person who you've been after for a year-plus, and it means so much to have this person in custody. You're able to give closure to a family who probably thought they wouldn't get it otherwise. And what we're doing is so meaningful to the victims in this case.

So it was very powerful for me to be able to sit down with some of these and not only learn some of the trends that we were seeing and why things were happening for the last year. But you also know in the back of your mind that this is very meaningful for somebody out there and you're getting justice for somebody.

When we talked to them, we made it very clear that we were here trying to figure out what happened, why there's a child that is no longer with their family, why a son isn't with their parents, why a brother isn't with their sibling. We were very specific in how we were approaching those interviews, not only to make the best case possible and make sure that we get justice, but also just to let them know that this isn't a victimless crime.

It's very easy when you're on the other end of a cell phone or a laptop or some other electronic device to think that person isn't real. But this is real life.