Chapter 71 Sergey Sha's Gift

In the Guantanamo operation, Colombian armed groups and drug cartels gave the Gorky Brotherhood great help, and this friendship made Seryozha have to express it. So Seryozha decided to send a big gift to Escobar and his Mexican partners to help them expand the drug trade to the United States. The gifts Sergesha gave were nothing else but three decommissioned Soviet conventional submarines and two Soviet-made tunnel-boring shield machines.

The reason why Seryozha was sent to the submarine was mainly to make it easier for Escobar to transport cocaine to the United States. The shield machine is used to help the Mexican partners of the Medellin Group dig secret tunnels on the US-Mexico border. These three submarines were old antiques decades ago. After they were decommissioned, they were forgotten in the military port. They were used as combat supplies, training ships, or target ships during military exercises. Seryozha knew that this kind of thing was of little use to the Soviet Ministry of Defense. So after communicating with the Ministry of National Defense, he spent some money to buy three ships. Afterwards, they were taken to the Ukrainian shipyard for refurbishment, and the power and weapon systems were replaced. Although the three submarines were produced for a long time, it was not difficult to rest and reorganize. got silver. So the Ukrainian shipyards gave up almost all work to refit the three conventional submarines, so it took just over a month of events to complete all the work.

And Escobar of the Medellin Group was naturally very excited after learning about this gift from Nikolai. They selected some reliable drug dealers with some cultural foundation and came to the Soviet Union under forged identities. Learn basic submarine piloting skills at the Soviet Naval Academy. In order to ensure that after the delivery of these three submarines in the future, Medellin Group can give full play to their role.

Although the transportation capacity of the three submarines is not large, if they are transporting cocaine that is higher than the price of gold, then the value of these submarines is another matter. We must know that after these years of operation and operation of the Colombian drug cartel, the cocaine industry has formed a complete industrial trade chain. In the entire trade chain, the Colombians have taken the most lucrative profits because of their geographical advantages.

Cocaine is a drug extracted from nature, and its basic raw material is a plant called coca. This plant is one of the main crops in several countries on the South American continent. In the eyes of the Indians, coca leaves are probably similar to betel nuts. In addition, coca is also one of the raw materials in the mysterious formula of Coca-Cola.

Although the governments of Latin American countries have declared the cultivation and sale of coca illegal, for the common people in these countries, coca is the only livelihood they depend on. Although Colombian drug cartels almost monopolize most of the profits from the cocaine trade, when it comes to the scale of coca cultivation, Colombia can only rank third, followed by Bolivia and Peru.

Bolivia is subject to climate and natural conditions, making agricultural production extremely difficult. Traditionally intensive crops will not do well anywhere. Moreover, the gap between rich and poor in Bolivia is huge. For those poor farmers, coca is the only crop that can sustain them.

In Bolivia, coca leaves are sold like tobacco in rural and urban fairs. A good bundle of coca leaves costs about twenty dollars, and large quantities are favorable. But when these coca leaves are processed into cocaine, the price per kilogram can reach two thousand dollars. If you transport this kilogram of cocaine to Medellin, you can buy it for at least 6,000 US dollars, while it costs 10,000 US dollars per kilogram to Mexico, and the wholesale price in the United States is 30,000 US dollars. If it is broken down into small packages for retail , the same kilogram of cocaine can be sold for more than one hundred thousand dollars. Among them, how to safely transport cheap cocaine made in Bolivia and Peru to the United States has always been a major problem that has plagued Colombians in the drug trade.

Now with submarines, it seems that there is an immediate solution to this problem. Although the Soviet submarines are old, it is easy to deceive the coast guards of Mexico and the United States. The secret excavation of tunnels on the US-Mexico border through the shield machine has greatly increased the trade volume of the Medellin Group. It can be predicted that the small help provided by Seriosha will greatly increase the difficulty of inspection by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, and the income of the Medellin Group, the Cali Group, and those guerrillas will also be greatly increased. Serious Shasha's clients can earn more money, so the business of the Gorky Brotherhood will naturally increase.

Seryozha did not directly intervene in the matter of the submarine, but Valentin, a newly promoted senior cadre of the Gorky Brotherhood, was in charge of it. In order to facilitate Valentin's more convenient activities in the Soviet Union, Seryozha arranged for Valentin a nominal position in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. Specially assist the Ministry of National Defense in the export of conventional weapons and dual-use special equipment. It can be regarded as semi-legalizing Valentin's arms business in the Soviet Union. The weapons exported by Seryozha were not sold as arms, but as ordinary civilian commodities. Because many countries in the world, including some countries in Europe, do not prohibit ordinary people from owning guns, so Valentin's arms business can be used as a cover.

Valentin can legally sell Soviet-made pistols, shotguns, and some sniper rifles and assault rifles to arms retailers in European countries through the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, but it is still very easy to carry some private goods when exporting. Although from a global perspective, the market for civilian gun consumption is not large. However, the quality of the Soviet Union's firearms is still well-known, and its international competitiveness is several levels higher than that of household appliances, automobiles and other industrial products produced by the Soviet Union.

Valentin's arms business has finally put on a legal cloak, and he can now openly visit military enterprises and warehouses of war supplies in the Soviet Union to select the commodities he needs. This reduced Valentin's trade costs a lot in an instant. Valentin, who had finally made some achievements, began to continue recruiting for the development of his business. He contacted some old colleagues who worked in the KGB system through various relationships and channels. , old friends, pulling them into their newfound company. Because Valentin knows that only those who have worked in the KGB are the most suitable talents for this industry.

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