Chapter 231 Glencore

Karim was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect the other party to be so direct. Mark Rich is a legendary trader in spot oil trading and is wanted by the US government. At this juncture, he actually came to join his little-known trading company. You must know that his company has only been established for more than a year .

"Is Mr. Rich joking?" Karim responded with a smile.

"Actually, I'm serious!" Mark Rich said seriously.

"With all due respect, you are now wanted by the US government. I'm afraid it's inconvenient for us to let you join our company!" Karim didn't understand what the other party wanted to do. If there is any plot, Karim instinctively wants to reject it.

"Please forgive me, I'm afraid you are not the real owner of this company! Why don't you ask the boss behind you! Maybe he will be more interested in me!" Mark Rich continued.

"Why don't you do it yourself, I heard that your own company has been operating in Switzerland for many years!" Karim was not angered by Rich's words, but continued to spy on Mark Rich's truth intention.

"I am now the most wanted criminal in the fbi, and all business is monitored by the US government, and I am very interested in your non-ferrous metal business. I am curious about where you got so many high-quality and cheap products Aluminum! I hope I can open up new markets outside of the oil market, and my joining will bring you and your company more customers and a bigger market!" Mark Rich pitched to Kalim said to himself.

"Don't be kidding, we also have business in the United States. If I hire you, who knows if it will cause trouble from the government?" Karim still refused.

"That's why I came to interview you about this matter! Please rest assured that only you, me, and the people behind you know about this matter!"

Mark Rich assured Karim.

"I'm afraid it's not as simple as wanting a job!" Karim decided not to go around in circles anymore, he wanted to know what Mark Rich wanted to do.

"You are very smart, what I want is a platform, a platform that can directly show my talents! Judging from the company I am currently running, there is still a long way to go to develop into what I envisioned. I have already I'm not young anymore, and I don't want to waste the rest of my life retracing the previous decades in the business world!" Mark Rich looked at Karim and said frankly.

Karim thought for a while, and then said: "Please give us a few minutes, we need to discuss it!" After speaking, he left his seat, opened the door, and signaled his entourage to take care of the gentleman inside. Then Karim came to his office and dialed Seryozha's number.

"Honey! What's the matter?" Seryozha asked softly on the phone.

"Seryozha, here comes a powerful guy who wants to join our company!" Karim quickly cut to the chase.

"A powerful guy? How powerful is it?" Seryozha asked curiously.

"Mark Rich is the spot trader who was wanted by the US government recently! If you are familiar with the oil spot market, you will know that he established this market by himself, grabbing meat from the mouths of large oil companies! Such The guy wants to join our company, I'm worried he has other plans!" Kalim expressed his worries.

"I know this guy, he is indeed very powerful, but you have to tell us if we need such a guy to join our company!" Seryosha asked for Karim's opinion.

"There are more and more resources and products that we need to deal with, which have eaten up a lot of our cash flow. I'm not sure if I can handle this situation!" Karim spoke out about her predicament.

"Then let him join us, hand over the phone to him, and I want to talk to him in person!" Sergey said decisively.

Karim returned to the room just now, he knocked on the door, then opened the door and walked in.

With a wave of his hand, all the employees in the room walked out. Then handed the phone to Mark Rich and said to him: "Our boss wants to talk to you!"

Karim put the satellite phone on the table, and then walked out of the room, leaving Mark Rich alone in the room. He picked up the phone on the table, put it to his ear and said cautiously, "Hi, I'm Mark Rich, what's your name?"

"You can call me Nikolai! I heard you want to join my company?" Seryozha replied with the voice of the voice changer.

"Yes, Mr. Nicholas! What advice do you have?" Mark Rich asked.

"I believe in your ability, and I welcome you to join us. If you do a good job, I can even hand over the entire Romanov to you!" Seryozha replied. The reason why Seryozha agreed to Mark Rich's request without hesitation was mainly because he had seen a lot of news about this person when he was in the United States. It is said that during the oil crisis in 1979, Mark Rich once Flew to Iran to meet Khomeini, and it is said that he can get through the phone of the Iranian oil minister at any time. At his peak, when his tanker was still sailing at sea, he had already dealt with more than a dozen buyers. It is also because of this that this person was brought to court jointly by the FBI and the CIA, and became one of the ten most wanted criminals by the US government. Now Mark Rich will never even think about going back to the United States in his life.

"Can I ask a question? Why did you trust me so easily? We haven't even met!" Seryozha's joy made Mark Rich uneasy, and he couldn't help asking.

"Because we are of the same kind!" replied Seryozha.

Hearing this sentence, Mark Rich felt a little surprised. But he forced himself to ignore these details and talk about the business first. So Mark Rich asked softly: "Mr. Nikolai, with all due respect, does the Romanov Company belong to the Soviet government?"

"I can tell you clearly, no! But we do business with the Soviet government." Seryozha didn't mind telling Mark Rich that his supply came from the Soviet Union, because Switzerland was a neutral country, and doing business with the Soviet Union did not violate the Swiss government's policy. Regulation.

Mark Rich asked this question because Romanov's electrolytic aluminum is too cheap, and the supply is still so large, there are not many people who can think of it. But Mark Rich wanted to make a suggestion to Seryozha, so he said: "Mr. Nikolai, I think since our company does not belong to the Soviet government, why should we use the name of the Tsar's family to cause misunderstanding? I think You should change your name to something less suggestive!"

"Mark, do you have any suggestions?" Sergey understood what the other party meant, and such an obvious hint was indeed not conducive to the company's expansion of business in Western countries.

"Glencore, what do you think of this name?" Mark Rich said the name he originally planned to use when setting up the new company.