Phillipe Remy Darcet was a heroin and arms dealer based in Barcelona, Spain. In August before Day 1, George Mason took part in an operation to arrest Darcet and extradite him to the United States, where he was convicted of funding a failed terrorist attack on the American embassy in Cairo in 1999. After Darcet's bust, his assets were transferred from his account with the Bank of Barcelona into a custodial account in Langley, Virginia. However, Mason managed to skim $200,000 of the money into an offshore account in Aruba. Jack Bauer suspected this and later used the information to blackmail Mason into revealing the source of CTU's intelligence on the assassination threat against Senator David Palmer. ("Day 1: 12:00am-1:00am", Findings at CTU)