Chapter 186 Nicholas Emerges

One month is enough to change the fate of many people. As the Uzbek cotton case continues to ferment, the Uzbek Republic falsely reports more than 5 million tons of output every year and defrauds state subsidies of up to 1.4 billion rubles. The 13 core members of the Central Committee from Uzbekistan's First Secretary Rashidov down were all involved. Now wave after wave of KGB investigators were being sent from Moscow to Tashkent to investigate the ever-deepening prostitution den there.

Churbanov was glad that he followed Sergey's advice and he did not take money from Rashidov. This catastrophe made him lucky to escape. However, the high pressure of anti-corruption made Churbanov still panic all day long. To be honest, there are not a few high-level people who have sheltered Rashidov and his group in Moscow. Strictly speaking, Churbanov's behavior in Tashkent at that time is definitely dereliction of duty.

Seryozha was not as lucky as Churbanov. The intelligence sent by Hassan from Tashkent showed that many of his clients were under the control of the KGB. The situation was so bad that Seryosha felt that there was no point in letting Hassan stay in Tashkent any longer. Instead, he would be easily discovered by the KGB and cause trouble. So he contacted Hassan and told him to come back from Tashkent immediately and not to stay any longer.

Seryozha made a good estimate. The KGB has actually discovered a problem, that is, the officials here have already transferred their money abroad. When the KGB came to them, they had the attitude of a dead pig not afraid of boiling water. They know that even if they are finished, their children can enjoy the money safely. There are not a few people with this mentality. The KGB knew that in order to track down the money, they had to discover how their money was being transferred. So after a series of investigations and evidence collection, a guy named Nicholas came into their sight.

Nikolai is completely different from the local underground money houses in Uzbekistan, and he has never shown up. The only way to contact him is by anonymous letter. When Nikolai intends to develop someone to become his client, he will send an invitation letter signed by Nikolai, inviting you to become their client. Then when you need to transfer funds abroad, just place an ad in the local newspaper for the sale of second-hand furniture, and Nikolai will tell you where the deal is going. That's usually a place like a gym, swimming pool, or train station that has public storage lockers for items. You only need to put the money in the designated cabinet, and the money will be deposited in the Swiss bank in a short time, and they will automatically take their own reward.

Now recovering stolen money and stolen goods has become another important task for KGB investigators. The gold and silver jewelry, high-end wine utensils, high-end carpets, paintings by famous painters, and some other luxury items seized from the homes of these officials were all packed Boarded the plane and flew back to Moscow. Under the unified deployment of the KGB, the local underground banks were mobilized from Moscow to mobilize personnel from the KGB operation force to take them all together. Only this Nicholas who came and went without a trace has never had any clues.

Uzbek investigators felt helpless, they could only report this Nicholas to the KGB department responsible for economic crimes. But unfortunately, the KGB has never heard of this name. So after the coordination of the economic crime department, they took over all the materials related to Nikolai in the Uzbekistan rape case.

In fact, there were not many such materials, and most of them were destroyed by the officials involved in the case after the transaction. There are not many complete anonymous letters signed by Nicola, and the rest of the information is information such as the address of the contact with Nicola that those involved in the case have confessed. Nicholas has a strong sense of anti-investigation, not only never shows up, but also chooses the location of the transaction in a crowded public place, which brings great difficulty to the investigation. Until new leads are discovered, the only thing the KGB can do right now is wait.

When Seryozha was in torment,

But he got a pleasant surprise. For his outstanding performance in the new workers' village project, Seryozha was awarded the title of "Hero of Soviet Socialist Labor". This is an honor comparable to that of the Heroes of the Soviet Union! The Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded only to combatants, while the Hero of Soviet Socialist Labor was set for non-combatants. Both titles are awarded with a Gold Star, but the Hero of Soviet Socialist Labour's Gold Star bears the party emblem of the Soviet Union.

At the same time, Seryozha was officially appointed as Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Youth League and concurrently as Deputy Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. Seryozha knew exactly who was helping him. The Romanov trading company's grain ships began to dock at the port of Gdansk in Poland on a regular basis. At the same time, the trading company recruited cotton, oil and non-ferrous metal traders around the world. Looking for a buyer who can pay a high price within the range. Barriers to trade between the East and West camps made the business very lucrative. During this time, the beginning of the Romanov Trading Company gradually got on the right track. Karim has successively opened market trading seats in London, New York and Chicago, but here Karim does not expect to make money from the futures market, she just hopes that here can help him hedge risks, and now every month Romanov Traders at trading houses have to deal with twice as many commodities as last month. Likewise, as new crops were imminently harvested, the price of wheat fell and the amount of wheat exported to the Soviet Union increased. This also allowed Seriosha's Moscow Trading Company to expand its grain business to more areas in the Soviet Union.

As for the other force that was eyeing Sergey, the Leningrad branch, stimulated by Chernenko's confession, quickly started the investigation of Sergey. They checked Sergey's file, but the file actually only recorded what happened after Sergey went to Afghanistan, and the previous content was nowhere to be found. This situation made the Leningrad branch pay more attention, because the person who can modify the file must be a person with good hands and eyes, and ordinary people cannot do this. However, the Leningrad branch is not without insiders, and Vladimir still remembers what happened back then. He clearly remembered that it was an order from above to delete Seryozha's files, but those who were ordering them had no way of knowing. But under the current atmosphere, the people in the investigation team are not afraid of offending people at all. Therefore, in order to continue the investigation, the eager Leningrad branch planned to send people to Sergey's hometown of Gorky to find out, vowing to dig out the backer who was hiding behind Ulyanov. (To be continued..)