New Netflix Series Inspired By Real-life Teen Drug King

Anees Ahmed (@Aneesah05582539) Published April 08, 2019 | 03:14 PM

A new Netflix series billed as the teenage "Breaking Bad" is inspired by a real-life German youth who ran an online drug empire from his bedroom, its creators told AFP

Cannes, France, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 8th Apr, 2019 ) :A new Netflix series billed as the teenage "breaking Bad" is inspired by a real-life German youth who ran an online drug empire from his bedroom, its creators told AFP.

The makers of "How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)" even met up with Maximilian S. on one of his days out of prison where he is serving seven years for "running the Amazon of illegal drugs" -- selling everything from MDMA to marijuana.

While his mother thought of him as a "lazy and grumpy" 19-year-old who wouldn't leave his room, he made 4.

4 million Euros ($4.9 million) worth of Bitcoin in little over a year from his Shiny Flakes online store.

Police still couldn't access all of his Bitcoin accounts when he was jailed in 2015.

"When you think of the drug business, you think of the Cali cartel and Pablo Escobar," said the series' makers Philipp Kassbohrer and Matthias Murmann Sunday as it was premiered at the Canneseries festival in the French Riviera resort.

"But this young German weirdo guy who was doing this himself was having a big effect on the European drug market.