Chapter 178: A New Use of Chips

New York, Brooklyn, the streets at night are extraordinarily quiet. [Full text reading] Several young Hispanic youths in loose clothes and hip-hop sneaked along the street and gathered in a nightclub opened in a semi-basement.

The nightclub was full of smoke, and the girls burned their afro heads and twisted their bodies to the blaring music. The few people who just came in greeted their acquaintances warmly, and then walked across the dance floor to the staff passage at the back. After a series of body searches and inspections, they were able to enter a hidden room.

Everyone took the initiative to take out handfuls of change from their pockets and put them on the table, and soon someone began to count them.

"Why are there so many twenty-dollar bills?" An accountant-like person asked dissatisfied.

A young guy was startled, but he still replied fluently: "The guys who got the goods just robbed a convenience store, I think it's probably because of this reason!"

"Remember to change back next time, boy!" the man who had been sitting on the sofa smoking a cigarette said dissatisfiedly.

"I'm sorry Mr. Gomez, I will pay attention next time!" The young man bowed his head and said respectfully.

"Okay, go get the money, Brother Santiago!" The old accountant waved his hand and said to him.

Santiago walked to another table and was soon handed a bag of chips! These are his salary for this month. Santiago didn't show any dissatisfaction. He said thank you and left here.

Santiago walked quickly to the intersection. He looked back from time to time to look at the figure behind him, and his pace became faster and faster. At this moment, he just wanted to leave here as fast as possible. He turned a corner at the intersection, took a few steps forward, and came to a car parked on the side of the road. He opened the door and got in as fast as he could. The car quickly left the place.

"You got it?" asked someone sitting next to him in the car.

"Got it!" Santiago handed over a bag of chips to the other party.

"MD, these drug dealers are really cunning, they actually use casino chips for their salary!" The man sitting next to Santiago took out a handful of chips from his pocket and said angrily.

"What do we do next?" Santiago asked the others.

"Does that even matter? Go and find out the source of these things first!" someone replied.

This scene is not an isolated case. Recently, DEA (U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration) agents who have been active in the east coast states have discovered that the demolition houses of D products in their jurisdiction suddenly began to pay wages with casino chips.

This made the Drug Enforcement Administration more and more confused about the flow of funds of the D organization.

These chips probably came from Atlantic City, because Atlantic City is a city that allows the gaming industry to exist. In order to facilitate transactions, the local gaming association has developed a unified chip standard for all casinos in the city. In Atlantic City, chips are all about money. You can use it to pay for hotel bills, bar bills, tips for service staff, and even pay for prostitutes. No one can figure out where the money came from, the casino has no obligation to ask, and the gambler will not take the initiative to say. How does this let the agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration track down?

Recently, those drug dealers rushed to Atlantic City in groups. As long as they entered the casino, they could play a few games at any table! Then you can exchange all these chips back to cash. If they were caught, as long as they killed the money and won it themselves, the police would not have any evidence to charge them. As for the casino, if you want to sue the casino, you have to prove that the casino knew the source of the money was illegal, and this is simply an impossible task. Is there any safer way to launder money than this in the world? All of this left DEA agents in New Jersey feeling helpless.

And the root of all this comes from the cooperation between Yuri and Medellin Group. Now on the east coast, especially in New Jersey and New York, Atlantic City's bargaining chips began to circulate in the underground transactions outside the Medellin Group. Another effect of this is that more and more guests come to Atlantic City's casinos to play.

Yuri and Ivankov didn't continue to trouble those Irish casinos, so he wasn't so stupid as to let all the casinos in Atlantic City transfer all the pressure of the police to himself? On the contrary, he also needs to support those former competitors to attract firepower. The existence of those Irish casinos can confuse the police. Anyway, these chips cannot be traced from which casinos flowed out. On the contrary, those Irish casinos with better operating conditions are more eye-catching.

On the books, Yuri’s casino is still far from being profitable. In fact, Yuri and the others are making a lot of money behind the scenes. Everything has just begun. Yuri hopes to develop steadily and cautiously, so he is not in a hurry, and he He doesn't plan to continue to expand in Atlantic City's gaming market. Now that the layout in Atlantic City is very reasonable, Yuri plans to wait for a while to go to Las Vegas to see if there are any casinos for sale there.

During this time, Ivankov recruited from Brighton many Soviets who had fled to the United States from Afghanistan. As the Soviet Red Army's war in Afghanistan became more and more difficult, more and more Soviet soldiers were captured by the S station troops and defected voluntarily during this period, and among some troops composed of Turmans and Uzbeks, the trend of defection intensified. This forced the domestic decision-makers to mobilize troops from Russia and Ukraine to participate in the war. Ivankov's Asian face attracted many defectors and stowaways from Central Asia of the Soviet Union. They have all been on the battlefield, and they are simply the most precious talents in Ivankov's eyes.

After being hunted down by the Irish last time, both Yuri and Ivankov understood the importance of having force in their hands. In the multi-ethnic country of the United States, all ethnic minority gangs rely on their fellow countrymen to develop. Yuri and Ivankov have been on the road for so many years, and it is easy to form a violent organization that obeys their own orders. In addition, the recruited personnel are all veterans who have participated in battles, and their own combat qualities are very high. Coupled with sufficient sources of personnel and funds, Ivankov and Yuri believe that as long as time passes, their organization will gain a firm foothold in New York and New Jersey.

.