Chapter 194 Placement Task
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Things had changed a little too quickly, and Seryozha was also a little worried about the uncontrolled development of the situation, so he decided to wait and see. Anyway, he was not the most important participant in the Georgian incident. The sky fell and Ligachev and Shevardnadze were on the back.
Now Ligachev was caught in the quagmire of Georgia, and he no longer had any energy to manage the affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Foreign Trade Bank. This is a rare opportunity for Seryozha, who can continue to improve the contents of the accounts of the Soviet Foreign Trade Bank during this period of time.
The accounts of the VTB Bank of the Soviet Union have been successfully concealed from the eyes and ears of the supervisory authorities. Now 600 billion of the funds stolen by Sergei from the Soviet state treasury can be legally explained, and the remaining 400 billion is only a matter of time. In addition, during this period of time, Foreign Trade Bank has cooperated more with foreign companies investing in the Soviet Union, so it is not difficult to fill in this account perfectly.
After a year of construction, the automobile production line jointly operated by Volkswagen and Gorky Automobile Group has finally been successfully put into production. In order to ensure that this project can be profitable as soon as possible, Sergesha introduced to the Soviet Union all the classic models of Volkswagen. The largest sales partner of the joint venture automobile factory in the Soviet Union was Berezovsky, an expert in mathematics and statistics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences who had followed Sergesha for many years. Berezovsky had long expressed his interest in this business. Serezovsky had worked for him for many years, and there was no suitable person to do this for a while, so he agreed with Berezovsky. Zovsky's request. So Berezovsky set up a company called the All-Soviet Automobile Union in Leningrad to operate car loans and sales.
Berezovsky's auto loan business involved some banking business. Before the banking sector was opened, Serezovsky agreed to Berezovsky's request to link this financial institution to the VTB Bank of the Soviet Union. Of course, Berezovsky handed over half of the company's shares to the Komsomol League led by Sergei as a thank-you gift, and Sergei readily accepted the gift without any scruples.
As for Khodorkovsky, another confidant of Seryozha, after seeing the auto loan finance company founded by Berezovsky, he also set up a financial company with similar business. Khodorkovsky's company specializes in providing loans to smuggling companies large and small in Moscow. Because he still has the identity of an official of the Communist Youth League, even though most of his clients have gang backgrounds, he can still deal with these troublesome guys.
Not long after Seryozha handed in the financial report of the VTB Bank of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev summoned him to the Kremlin to ask why the foreign exchange of the VTB Bank fell so quickly. Seryozha successfully muddled through with the excuses he had prepared long ago. He attributed the reason to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation's investment in the joint venture.
"General Secretary, over the past year, our Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation has introduced hundreds of companies, large and small, to invest in the Soviet Union. You know that according to our country's laws, we must guarantee more than half of the shares, but those foreigners have always followed the contract. To do business, we can only successfully obtain the advantage in shares if we make capital contributions that meet the requirements.
This consumes a lot of our funds. So our foreign trade bank's finances are beginning to be a little tight, and we are afraid that we will be powerless in the next phase of the workers' new city..." Xie Liaosha euphemistically mentioned the difficulties encountered by the foreign trade bank. He no longer wants to deal with the mess of the new city of workers Yes, with the depreciation of the ruble, the real income of Workers’ New Town is already negative if it is converted into US dollars. Besides, the real estate construction period is very long, and Seriousha will not handle similar projects again.
Gorbachev frowned when he heard what Seryozha said. He originally wanted Seryozha to build more housing projects like the New City for Workers to house the troops who had withdrawn from Afghanistan. But Seryozha refused in advance, on the grounds that the VTB Bank of the Soviet Union had no money, otherwise it would hurt the foreign joint venture project that currently seems to have great prospects.
Gorbachev leaned on the sofa and thought for a long time, finally he nodded and said to Seryozha: "Seryozha, if I return the Housing and Utilities and Social Development Bank to you, Do you think you can solve the housing problem for the withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan?"
Seryozha did not expect Gorbachev to come up with this idea, the Housing and Public Utilities and Social Development Bank, isn't that the first bank he founded, the National Housing Bank? When Seryozha handed over the workers' new city to the Moscow government, he also handed over the residential bank to the Central Bank of the Soviet Union. Now it has been lost and recovered. Gorbachev is really kind!
"General Secretary, what we lack now is funds, not a bank. Although I have been involved in the work of residential banks in the past, it has been handed over to the Central Bank for several years. I don’t understand.” Seryozha evaded it without thinking.
"If I agree that the Housing and Public Utilities and Social Development Bank can be operated by foreign capital? Do you have the confidence to take over?" Gorbachev asked again.
"Foreign capital..." Seryozha hurriedly swallowed the words he was about to blurt out. Does it need to be said that foreign capital can be allowed to participate in the operation of housing and public utilities and social development banks? Of course you have to agree.
"General Secretary, I can reluctantly accept this task, but I have to state in advance that the scale of the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan is too large. It is impossible for us to build houses for them according to the standards of the workers' new city. The most I can do is After the withdrawal officially begins next year, they will have a sheltered place to live."
"Seryozha, I know it's hard for you, but these people have just returned from the battlefield. If something goes wrong with our work, these people are factors of social instability. I don't force you to let them live in A new city for workers, but the minimum living conditions must be guaranteed,” Gorbachev finally demanded.
"Don't worry, General Secretary, I guarantee that they will all have a simple place to live. No matter how you say it, it's better than dormitories..." Sergey Sha promised.
Before leaving the Kremlin, Seryozha had plans. He didn't plan to build a house at all this time. He had already figured out a solution, so he would import some scrapped containers from abroad, and then slightly process them into the common board-built houses in the future market, which would cost a lot of money. Not much money.