A “ceasefire” story in the glue war. Gang millionaire plan lost the whole gas when Pepsi called the FBI.
The story has secret, intrigue, espionage, conspiracy, crime, prison and, of course, the giants involved in the permanent war of glues, Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
19 years ago, the manufacturer of Lata Azul had the opportunity to change $ 1.5 millionhave access to the famous secret recipe of the red can.
Joya Williams, secretary of Coca-Cola in Atlanta, USA, approached Pepsi with an Armani suitcase full of official documents where the secret formula of Coca-Cola would be, wrote a. The woman claimed that only top executives had access to that information and required an advance of $ 10,000 to move on with a possible deal.
But the 41 -year -old woman’s plan, which had two accomplices on her side, lost the gas all bad came to the hands of Pepsi executives.
Faced with the theft, Pepsi rejected the proposal of the competition employee and warned the FBI to the criminal plan.
Infiltrated agents, undergoing Pepsi representatives, set up a surveillance operation. At a meeting on June 16, in Atlanta, one of the suspects, 30 -year -old Ibrahim Dimson delivered an envelope with documents in exchange for $ 30,000 in cash, hidden in a listening cookie box. The group expected to receive the remaining value after a testing phase.
Authorities accompanied the movements of the suspects, who even opened a bank account registered at the home of the third accomplice, Edmund Duhaney, 41, in Decatur, Georgia. The three were arrested shortly before the completion of the transaction.
Later, 42 -year -old Joya Williams was formally accused of planning theft and sentenced to eight years in prison by conspiracy. Ibrahim Dimson was sentenced to five years in prison.
