Chapter 88 Dark Clouds
The resolution of the Congress to send people to Somalia for investigation caught the Sergei camp a little unprepared. Originally, Sergey used the lawsuit to hold back the reporters, but the Congress managed to circumvent the legal restrictions. It can be seen that the Democratic Party in Congress It is hoped that this matter will give the Reagan administration a good blow, so under their operation, five of the nine federal Supreme Court judges agreed to Congress's proposal for the female reporter Zoe, which is related to national security. Under the circumstances, she was allowed to leave the United States temporarily to assist congressional investigators to go to Somalia to find out the truth of the matter. WwΔW. "ksnhuge" ge. Within 24 hours after the Federal Supreme Court announced this decision, Zoe and the officials of the investigation team had already boarded the special plane to Mogadishu.
From the moment the Federal Supreme Court announced the resolution, Boris knew that something was wrong. Boris immediately left the United States on a commercial plane of Columbia Bank before the departure of the congressional investigation team, and went to Turkey to meet the leader of the local mafia.
Why did Boris go to the Turks, because the tribal armed organizations in Somalia have business dealings with the Turkish mafia. Turkish gangs have unique development advantages. They are located at the junction of the Eurasian continent, and they are Sunni Muslims. Therefore, the Turkish mafia has business contacts with many surrounding countries. Whether it is heroin smuggled from Iran and Afghanistan, ivory and wild animal products shipped from Africa, or electrical vehicles of unknown origin exported from Europe to these countries, they all have to be operated by the Turkish mafia. It can be said that the Turkish mafia is the biggest beneficiary of illegal trade in Asia, Africa and Europe.
However, although the Turkish Mafia has taken advantage of the location, it has not made much money. This is related to the particularity of the drug trade. In the drug trade, the closer to the consumer side the gangs get more profits. The Medellin Group and the Italian Mafia are the best examples.
The Turkish Mafia is now only a big regional gang, while Seryozha's Gorky Brotherhood is worldwide. Seryozha took a fancy to the potential of Turkish gangs in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Islamic world, so he tied them to the giant ship of grain trade. However, the Turkish mafia wants to trade millions of tons of grain, and they don’t have enough. Capital, even this start-up capital was lent to them by Seryozha.
For more than a year, the grain trade has brought a lot of profits to the Turkish mafia, but it has made the Turkish mafia fall into the debt trap carefully arranged by Sergei. The largest buyer of grain trade is the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Soviet Union, and the largest seller is actually Glencore, which stands behind the American Farmers Association. Both ends of this business are in the hands of Sergey, and these organizations and companies in the middle are just dispensable small players in Sergey's grain trade chain. The Turkish mafia only sees this year's profits, but forgets that Seryozha is still their big creditor. The Turks are just a cover-up for Seriosha at the mouth of the Black Sea, and they have gradually become inseparable from the financial support of the Gorky Brotherhood without knowing it.
The loan from the Gorky Brotherhood allowed the Turkish Mafia to expand the scale of their business in a short period of time. They have already tasted the wonderful feeling that the loan brought them, and at the same time they are relieved to hand over their income to the Gorky Brotherhood to take care of it.
It might seem that the two are mutually beneficial, but simply changing the numbers in the Swiss bank accounts of the Turkish mafia is enough for Seryozha to get them to do anything, including attacking the United Nations relief organization in Somalia.
Boris discussed this matter with Sergey on the plane. Sergey has already asked his KGB comrades about the current situation in Somalia, so he has a fairly mature idea in his mind. According to the introduction of the KGB, Somalia was originally one of the hardcore allies of the Soviet Union, but the two countries completely fell out during the Ogaden War between Somalia and Ethiopia almost ten years ago. The Soviet Union turned to support Ethiopia's defeat of the Somali army. Ethiopia and Somalia were the hardest hit by the two-year East African famine. Ethiopia is a landlocked country, while Somalia holds the mouth of the Horn of Africa. Therefore, most charitable organizations hoard supplies in Somalia and transport them from here to Ethiopia, the core area of the Great Famine.
This is where the problem lies. The relationship between Somalia and Ethiopia is not very good. Countless Somalis were killed or injured in the Ogaden War, but the Somalis have to watch these international organizations send food and relief supplies to themselves from their own land. enemy. From the perspective of international organizations, it seems normal to see this matter. Ethiopia is more severely affected, and the situation in Somalia is much better than Ethiopia. But the view of the Somalis is that we are still starving to death every day, but we watch the food fly to the eyes of the Ethiopians.
The United Nations Relief Agency and the charities gathered in Mogadishu focused on saving the great cause of Ethiopians, ignoring the feelings of Somalis. What they don't realize is that in the eyes of the Somali people, this kind of behavior is called enemy patronage. Boris asked Ketley to send several Arabic-speaking men to Mogadishu as staff of the charity organization. These people came with a fund prepared by the Gorky Brotherhood. While the U.S. congressional delegation was still conducting preliminary investigations on Mediterranean Shipping in Italy, these members of the Turkish Mafia spoke Arabic and had already bought some local tribal elders in Somalia.
There are not many things these Turks need to do to help Boris. They only need to spread some news around Mogadishu and they can get paid one million dollars. Although the specific statements of these news are different, they generally have only one meaning, that is, the United States sent investigators to Mogadishu to investigate Somalis' embezzlement of Ethiopian food aid.
As long as you go out and say a few words, you can get a lot of money. The Turks work extra hard on these things, and the local tribal elders get a lot of benefits. Rumors soon began to slowly spread.
At the same time as the special plane of the US investigation team left Naples, a luxurious business jet also took off at the Siran Airport in Naples. Rubik and his men, who hadn't been on a mission for a long time, were checking guns and equipment. But the clothes they are wearing today are a bit different. The military camouflage makes them look like real soldiers, and the blue berets on their heads make people feel a little respectful.