Chapter 268: A Sudden Accident
The annihilation of the oil smuggling fleet of the Brotherhood of Steel by the Beninese military in the waters off Cotonou was published in a story of more than 200 words on Benin's humble and fast-paced government website.
The accompanying picture shows eight small oil smuggling ships of 3,500 tons being towed to the port of Cotonou in the early morning, and on the foredeck of one of the smuggling ships was piled up with two rows of bodies in body bags, and the number of people killed could be clearly counted; the deck and side of the ship were littered with bullet marks from machine gun fire and dried blood - it was not yet eight o'clock, and it was evident that Benin's media personnel were quite dedicated and uploaded the press release to the website in such a short time.
As a country with a population of only about 5 million, Benin's navy has a total of more than 600 people, and a few small slow-moving patrol ships are old and broken.
If a smuggling ship or a pirate ship is a little more advanced and powerful, it can easily throw off the patrol ships of the Benin Navy.
However, the oil smuggling fleet of the Brotherhood of Steel was even slower, and after being intercepted by the patrol ships of the Benin Navy, they could not escape, so they thought of forcing the Benin Navy back with firepower, and the end was doomed.
The report only said that the Beninese navy intercepted this armed smuggling fleet in the sea area 15 kilometers southwest of the port of Cotonou during the operation to crack down on piracy and smuggling at sea.
The Beninese navy is still ignorant of the origins of this gang of bandits, and it is speculated that the pirate forces that have recently been active in the southwest of the port of Cotonou will be handed over to the Beninese judiciary for a follow-up investigation, and it is clear that the Beninese military has no intention of getting involved in the political dispute with Kanem......
In the suite of the Lana Dere Hotel, Lu Jianchao sat on the sofa exhausted, and Lu Yan and Huang Hebin, who had not returned to Akwa for the time being, stared at the web page with each other, but they didn't expect the scene they didn't want to see still happen.
Baha Jidam personally led the oil smuggling fleet to Akwa, because they were all small ships of three or five hundred tons, they could only take advantage of the night to sail along the coastline, and they thought that the sea route of three or four hundred kilometers would be able to reach Akwa smoothly this morning - when they arrived at Akwa, they were led by people arranged by the Bonia family, and it didn't look like an accident would happen!
After Baja Jidam met the Beninese navy's patrol ship, he spoke to them on a satellite phone, from which they could clearly hear the sound of the cannon whistling, and then the communication was cut off.
They stayed up all night in Lu Jianchao's room, and they didn't sleep until now, even though they always had a bad premonition in their hearts, they didn't expect that the news they were waiting for was even worse than they expected.
"The Beninese Navy has only a few broken ships, and when it receives a distress signal in broad daylight, it does not dare to go to sea to rescue easily, so how can it happen that it happens to go out to sea late at night to patrol and intercept the oil convoy of the Jidam family? There must be someone who has provided accurate information to the Benin military!" Guo Jian cried out with a frown.
He accompanied Lu Yan to participate in the secret discussion of this cooperation, and knew that when Baha Jidam took the lead in formulating the smuggling plan for the fleet, he gave full consideration to the problems of the Benin navy, and thought that the waters of Benin would be the easiest to pass through, but he did not expect to plant a big heel there.
The greatest possibility is that the whereabouts of the smuggling fleet were completely controlled by the Beninese military from the moment it set off.
Huang Hebin turned his head and saw Lu Jianchao's brows locked deeper, and asked in a low voice, "Shall we go to the industrial park to avoid it first?"
Guo Jian was shocked
However, if the Jidam family suspected that someone had reported to the Beninese military, who would be the first to be suspected?
If Cao Mo's grandson released another rumor at this time that the Lu family advocated the introduction of Western Union Petroleum in the construction of Lake Conero Port to replace the capital contribution of the Gidam family, with the intention of cutting off the relationship with the Jidam family, which is becoming more and more unsuccessful, what would Rumisu Jidam and the ruthless fatalities of the Brotherhood of Steel Fist think in their hearts?
"Could it be that Cao Mo is secretly making trouble again?" Lu Yan turned around and asked with a gloomy look in his eyes.
"He's not a roundworm in our stomachs, it's impossible for him to know our plans, how can he know the exact departure date and route of the fleet? Don't be so panicked, we don't want such an accident to happen......" Lu Jianchao shook his head tiredly, not thinking that there was such a possibility.
"Even if it's not Cao Mo's ghost, but after he knows about this, he will definitely fall into the ground, and even if we report Cao Mo's relationship with Stari and the Buttaman family to the Jidam family at this time, there will be no credibility at all," Lu Yan treated others with himself, and he didn't think that Cao Mo would let them go in this matter, and said anxiously.
"Do you want to bring Liang Yuan from Western Union over to discuss?" Huang Hebin suggested.
In order to replace the Jeddham family from the construction of the Lake Conero port, they brought in Western Union Oil, and now the three parties have officially signed a cooperation agreement.
If Cao Mo falls into the well and informs the Jidam family, Western Union Petroleum will inevitably become the key target of suspicion of the Jidam family.
To a certain extent, they and Western Union Petroleum are already grasshoppers tied to a tree, and even by cooperating in oil smuggling, it is still Liang Yuan's idea to get closer to the Bonia family.
Lu Jianchao nodded.
In any case, it was better to invite Liang Yuan over to discuss countermeasures than for them to sit in the hotel and wait for the Jidam family's further reaction.
Huang Hebin took out his mobile phone and dialed Liang Yuan's contact number, and heard a noisy noise similar to a telephone coming from the mobile phone, and there was no indication that he could not get through; he tried to contact Liang Yuan's satellite phone, but he still could not be contacted.
"I'm going to the Queen Victoria Hotel in person?" Huang Hebin had a bad premonition and said with a gloomy face.
Guo Jian sat there in horror, looking at Lu Jianchao, Lu Yan and the others with very ugly faces, of course he could imagine what the worst situation would be.
If Liang Yuan felt that he couldn't explain it to the Gidam family if he stayed in Draculamore, and he would have escaped from the hotel in the first place, then they were really in the crotch of their yellow mud pants, and they were not or.
"Which country will we fly to on the fastest flight out of Draculamo?" Lu Jianchao suddenly sat up straight and asked......
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"Lu Jianchao, they slipped away?"
It was too hard last night, Cao Mo slept until nine o'clock and didn't wake up, eating breakfast in the room with Stari, through the floor-to-ceiling windows, admiring the blue ocean in the distance, Du Ganjie came over and told him that Lu Jianchao and Lu Yan had slipped away.
"They left the Lana Dere Resort at eight o'clock and rushed to Draculamo airport to board a flight to Segalea," Duganj said.
"Lu Jianchao is not such an unbearable person - not to mention that the Lu family and Taihua have invested 1.3 billion yuan on the south shore of Conero Lake, it is impossible to run away so easily!" Cao Mo frowned and smacked his lips.
The news came as a bit of a surprise to him.
Sierra Leone also belongs to the Economic Community of West African States, and Lu Jianchao and his family have Kanem's visa, and they can directly board the plane to Saegalone and then apply for a visa on arrival - I heard that Lu Jianchao and his party boarded the flight to Saegalone directly, and the only thing Cao Mo could think of was that these grandsons wanted to leave Draculamo and flee back to China as soon as possible.
He had not released the rumors that the Lu family was doing everything possible to cut off the Jidam family, and even if he had obtained evidence from Zhou Han that the Jidam family was involved in crude oil smuggling (which was the most severe smuggling crime cracked down on by the Kanem federal government), he only arranged for someone to start the investigation from a few overseas accounts.
The main reason is that the fangs of the Jidam family have not all been broken and the blood has not been exhausted, Cao Mo wants to stabilize the Lu family and Liang Yuan first, and then stabilize the Jidam family through them, so as not to force the Jidam family into a murderous trapped beast all of a sudden.
Now Du Ganjie walked into the room and said Lu Jianchao and they ran away?
"You immediately arrange to go to the Queen Victoria Hotel to see if Liang Yuan is still there!" Cao Mo said with a little thought.
"I've arranged for someone to rush over and there will be a response soon. Duganj said.
Cao Mo ignored Zhou Han's suspicious look sitting on the side, Liang Yuan's trip in Draculamo was under their control, but because Liang Yuan was very vigilant, he didn't arrange for anyone to keep an eye on him.
Cao Mo secretly felt that this might be a mistake, and he might overestimate Liang Yuan.
The people who went to the Queen Victoria Hotel soon sent back feedback that Liang Yuan had left the Queen Victoria Hotel at about half past seven o'clock, and he was missing, and the only thing that was certain was that Liang Yuan did not leave Draculamo by plane, but he was not hiding in Draculamo, or he left through other channels, it is not clear.
"What a fool, I shouldn't look down on him," Cao Mo glanced at Zhou Han and sighed, "I thought that the person you fell in love with couldn't be too bad, but I didn't expect him to sneak away before Lu Jianchao and them, it's really disappointing!"
"What are you playing to deceive me?" Zhou Han didn't believe that Liang Yuan would escape, but looking at Cao Mo and Stari's expressions, he couldn't see any flaws, and he couldn't help but feel weak.
Cao Mo didn't care whether Zhou Han believed it or not, Liang Yuan and Lu Jianchao would run away, which he didn't expect in advance, and things might get very tricky.
He immediately dialed Shen Ji's phone no matter what time it was in China, and asked Du Ganjie to tell Abacha, Oqiaosan and Yang Deshan the latest news, let them digest it first, and then hold a conference call.
When Cao Mo and Stari held a conference call, Zhou Han didn't have a chance to listen, but she was with Xiao Jun and Du Ganjie, and new news kept coming to them from Draculamo, which made her mind confused.
Around noon, not only were a large number of gangs besieging the Chinese staff dormitories in the Taihua Industrial Park, but there were many rumors against Chinese businessmen in the streets and alleys of Draculamo, accusing Chinese businessmen of smuggling a large amount of goods into Kanem, causing huge losses to the local textile and other industries, and seizing the wealth and jobs that should belong to the people of Kanem.
After talking to Shen Ji, Abacha, Ojosan, and Yang Deshan, Cao Mo decided to pull Brahm and rush back to Kanem.
At this time, Zhou Han couldn't help but ask Cao Mo to borrow a laptop, open a secret bank account that only she and Liang Yuan knew, and saw that the funds in the account were empty, and there was no fraction left.