Chapter 73 King

The Minister of Defense's suggestion to President Quartas is to find a way to give Escobar some hope first, and let him automatically cut off with those left-wing guerrillas. As long as the Colombian drug cartel does not assist those left-wing guerrillas to raise funds through the sale of cocaine, then the government forces can withstand this wave of aggressive attacks from the left-wing guerrillas.

The Minister of Defense left the cabinet meeting early after leaving these words. In fact, he is the one under the most pressure in the cabinet now. He will do his best to suppress the attack of the guerrillas and prevent Colombia from becoming the second Cuba. But President Quartas really believes in the Americans too much, completely disregarding the actual situation in Colombia. Today, when coca has in fact become the main cash crop in Colombia, it is only fantasizing that the population below the poverty line will give up their dependence on the cocaine industry by relying on administrative means, and even fantasizing that Americans can help Colombia revive the declining economy. economy. It now appears that the Colombians can only get a fragmented and turbulent country. Defense Minister Juan is a sensible person, but he does not want to embark on the dictatorial road of Pinochet. Juan firmly believes that Colombia's problems can only be solved by the Colombians themselves.

Seryozha's right-hand men, Ivankov and Yuri, temporarily withdrew from the United States and took refuge in Switzerland. But Seryozha didn't intend to just give up his years of business in the United States, he wanted to go back to the United States in another way.

After years of operation by Serezha, the Gorky Brotherhood is no longer just a gangster, it is more like a financial platform in the underground world, dealing with illegal funds from the Americas and Europe. Seryozha's business is more similar to a multinational financial institution, a multinational financial institution that specializes in serving gangsters.

Seryozha's influence has been achieved, for the Colombian drug cartel with an annual income of up to 30 billion U.S. dollars and the mafia group engaged in smuggling and drug trade along the Mediterranean coast. Their money is not clean enough for several casinos and the large hotel chain industry to handle. Seryozha wants to find more efficient, safer and more concealed means of money laundering to rebuild the Gorky Brotherhood, the world's largest money laundering group.

Seryozha focused his attention on the investment banking business, because he knew that this was the most suitable means of operation for the Gorky Brotherhood in terms of efficiency and safety.

Why is this the safest and most efficient method? For example, if money is laundered through the gaming industry, a large number of head accounts need to be involved, because the casino cannot always let a gambler win money, and it must be averaged to head accounts so that it is not easy to be discovered. The equity acquisition through overseas offshore companies is completely different. Objectively speaking, if it cannot be proved that the investment bank knows the true identities of the parties to the transaction during the acquisition, then the investment bank does not have to bear any legal responsibility. And to prove that an investment bank knew that a certain acquisition was money laundering, it must break down the judicial and trade barriers of these offshore financial centers, even if it is as powerful as the United States, it cannot do this.

If all this is realized, money laundering will become a very simple matter,

Sergey only needs to set up a foreign trade company in Colombia in the name of Escobar's relatives, and then ask his subordinates to deposit his funds into the overseas investment account opened for the company by the Bank of Colombia. Panama also set up an unregistered stock investment company to hold the Colombian foreign trade company, so that funds can enter Panama freely and safely. Then Seryozha used exactly the same method to go to the Netherlands Antilles, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, and even the Virgin Islands, Liechtenstein and other places to set up the same bearer stock investment company, as long as there are more companies in this chain, Then the difficulty of judicial tracing will be even greater. Because it is a bearer stock investment company, even the company insiders in these offshore financial centers will not know who the shareholders are. Moreover, these offshore centers have strict bank protection laws and judicial secrecy systems, and the tax rate is extremely low, or even negligible. To open a company in the Cayman Islands, you only need to pay $300 in taxes per year.

Prior to this, it was not that Seryozha had tried using this method to transfer funds. The huge foreign exchange reserves of the VTB Bank of the Soviet Union were all transferred to Japan in a short period of time in this way. With the current scale and outlets of Bank of Colombia, the conditions for free transfer of funds between Japan, Eastern and Western European countries, as well as Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Canada in the Americas are ripe. Seryozha felt that it was time to take this step.

However, there is still a fatal shortcoming in Seryozha's financial career that restricts Seryozha, that is, he does not have a fund manager who can manage trillions of dollars in assets. Such talents are scarce in Wall Street, the City of London, and the central banks of various countries, not to mention the Gorky Brotherhood. Because when the capital reaches the trillion level, any small changes in the financial market will be magnified. To take the simplest example, if one trillion dollars is lying in a bank account without doing anything, then after a few years, you will find that the value of this money has shrunk greatly. It is all determined by inflation and economic development. Even if a rich man does nothing, his money will become less and less valuable.

Seryozha has already decided that Mikhail will be the first person in charge of the Bank of Colombia, but the specific business Mikhail still has to be handed over to someone more professional than him. So Seryozha wants to recruit Columbia Bank as a master of asset management on a global scale. This matter was carried out by Sergey Shale through regular high-end headhunting channels. According to the list given by the human resources company hired by the Bank of Colombia, Sergey Sha will decide who will be in charge of the trillions of funds of the Bank of Colombia.

There are many candidates on the list, but those famous fund managers who have already established their own businesses, such as Sergey Sha, are not sure about inviting them back. On this list, Seriosha saw a professional fund manager who was already well-known in the industry, Bill Gross, who worked for Pacific Investment Management Corporation.

Sergey asked Mikhail to inquire about the scale of the Pacific Investment Management Company. Mikhail moved quickly. He told Sergey that the investment management company currently manages assets of about Two billion, mainly engaged in bond investment. Although Bill Gross is the pillar of this company, he is only a senior partner and does not have many shares in the company.

Seryozha immediately said to Mikhail: "Take this company and make Bill Gross the president of the creditor's rights business of the Bank of Colombia at all costs!"

"Seryozha, what's so special about this Bill Gross, it's not high on our recommendation list!"

Seryozha didn't answer, but he had already recognized Bill Gross, because this man was so famous in the future, his title was "Debt King".

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