Chapter 51
In the bitter cold wind, a private jet is taking off from the runway.
A few hours later, when the private jet finally landed, it was already fifteen minutes behind schedule.
The cockpit door opened, and the pilot stepped into the cabin and glanced at his passengers.
It was a beautiful woman in her early twenties, with brown hair scattered over her shoulders, her skin crystal white, and her inky eyes shining brightly. Before the plane took off from Switzerland, the girl had changed into plain clothes.
"Can the phone still be called, Kevin?" she asked the pilot.
"I'm afraid not, Aurora, the wind and snow are too distracting. It seems that we arrived fifteen minutes later than scheduled. The pilot said.
The man waiting outside the gangway saw her get off the plane and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Team leader!"
"We'll talk about that later. Roland didn't look back, but walked forward, his coffee-colored hair fluttering in the air as he walked.
In recent times, they have traveled to many places - a large amount of money of unknown origin has poured into the Parisian financial circles, and many banks have been trapped in as much as 2.5 trillion yuan.
Traders believe that this market has an invisible "hand" market law. However, the members of the ETT1 investigation, who were engaged in anti-money laundering during this time, knew that it was precisely because of the recent influx of huge amounts of unidentified funds that caused a violent shock.
For them, the most terrifying thing today is not gangsters, transnational crimes or terrorism, but new types of criminal networks and organizations that have sprung up in the past two decades.
In Lyon, France, at the junction of the sparkling RhΓ΄ne and Seine rivers, the modern architecture of the International City rises in the depths of the turquoise clouds. On the lawn, a pool surrounds the center and stands a silver cube.
Interpol headquarters, the majestic modern building is in the strongest sunlight in the afternoon, and the glass curtain reflects a strong light.
A line of people dressed in formal suits and uniforms walked through a passage that was tighter than airport security and entered the elevator passage from the lobby.
ETT1 and Interpol's high-level meeting - A silver-haired man standing in front of a floor-to-ceiling glass window greeted everyone briefly.
He sighed, "The world is worrying. β
Glancing at the report in his hand, he said, "The one we are facing is gradually becoming more strange and complex......
Crime has increased around the world, and in recent years, crime rates have risen, and with a budget of only 23 million a year, Interpol has to effectively control crime, which is nothing compared to the enormous challenges of recent years.
For his part, the Director-General, in his 25 years at the helm of Interpol, has witnessed a change in Europe from a situation in which drugs are virtually non-existent, to what is now frankly a drug epidemic.
The most frightening thing is the new network of criminal syndicates, which not only tired the law enforcement agencies, but since their appearance, the traditional family gangs have begun to decline, the famous five families have become insignificant, and the Sicilian mafia operating model is no longer in vogue.
It is precisely because of the face of problems such as these that a special investigative body has emerged at international conferences, where elites from various countries work together to combat entrenched criminal networks, and ETT1 is its subordinate body.
The latest report in their hands shows that the shadow economy propped up by the transnational mafia, accounting for about 15%-20% of the global GDP, is more threatening than terrorist organizations, and the global black money has slowly accumulated to as high as one trillion US dollars, and is increasing by 100 billion every year.
In order to deal with the growing tide of terrorism, mafia, economic crime, and corruption, this is not the first time that ETT1 and Interpol have cooperated.
Las Vegas is a city that seems to be nothing but the viewer - when visitors arrive in Las Vegas, they are dazzled by the variety of ornately decorated hotels along the way
In the eyes of many newspaper commentators, Las Vegas is one of the most extreme and ironic settlements for Americans: mercenary, timely, gangsters, call girls, and bizarre.
Lasvegas has all the air of a bustling big city, with countless shopping malls, garden hotels, saunas, bars, upscale clubs...... It can be used for tourism and shopping, entertainment and leisure, holding and participating in exhibitions, vacations and recuperations, and it is a dream paradise suitable for all ages.
Night-time glamour, drunken pornography, striptease shows, circus shows, gambling and prostitution (legal in Lasvegas) make it a particularly exciting and fun city.
The name "Stardust" or "Caesar's Palace" is quite specific, but after entering, this illusory sense of not having any geographical recognizability or credibility makes people feel that no matter what happens there, it has nothing to do with the "real" world.
Almost everybody says that there is no concept of "time" in Las Vegas, that there is no day, no night, no past, and no future - no one has done it more thoroughly than in a casino, where people who enter it will not be able to logically discern where they are.
When the three of them entered the casino, they couldn't see the endless array of slot machines, roulette, and some gambling facilities whose names they didn't know.
She looked at Ronald beside her, and wondered if the middle-aged man was going to go back to his old job? Ronald took out a stack of cash from his wallet and handed it to the waiter next to him to redeem the chips.
The blonde young man turned his head sideways and said, "Alice, come here." β
Standing in front of a slot machine, he said, "Put the chips in from here...... Take this ...... again" to teach Su Xiaoqi how to operate, Su Xiaoqi didn't seem to understand when he heard it, and stuffed the chips brought by the waiter into the slot machine according to his instructions, and the screen immediately began to scroll, and the rows of bananas and apples on the screen rolled over and shook dazzlingly.
Before she could see clearly, dozens of chips burst out of the machine. Someone who had been watching her operate with a chuckle seemed a little surprised: "Doubled." β
"What?" she stared at the bunch of bananas, not blinking, for fear that something would happen.
"You used a thousand dollars in chips, and now it's two thousand dollars"
"Really?" she looked incredulous, as if she didn't quite believe she could make it.
"Come on, let's play something else. The young man told her, "In the 38-panel red and black roulette, the dealer's draw rate is 5.26%, and there are 52.6 chances of losing every 100 spins of the wheel, which is four times faster than the dice roll, but the profit of winning is relatively very considerable." β
He instructed her to operate on the side, and in less than ten minutes, Su Xiaoqi watched as those chips doubled like a trick, from a small pile to a large pile, too... It's incredible, isn't it? It's so exciting!
In less than two hours, the chips were stacked frantically in front of the two, and Su Xiaoqi had never used such a fast speed to make money in his life. This feeling is like a roller coaster, and you will reach the peak of your life in an instant.
If you can find the inevitable by chance, you are the god of the casino.
And money is your slave.
Theoretically, it would be quite difficult for humans to do this, but once there is a loophole in a mechanism, it is not difficult for Egbert and others to find it and exploit it.
Next to the roulette wheel where the two of them were, I don't know when it was full of people on the inside and outside of the three layers.
People stared at the man and woman, dumbfounded. The men in suits hidden in all corners kept in touch with each other on the walkie-talkie, and their eyes flickered towards them.
The young man suddenly raised his head and said to Su Xiaoqi, "Alice, you ask Mr. Ronald to take you to play cards for a while, and I will meet someone." β
As he spoke, Fermi and others suddenly appeared beside him, and then, he turned around and walked in the direction of an elevator in the casino.
In the center of the room, in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, sat a tall man, about thirty years old, perhaps older, with short black hair and light blue eyes.
"You may be seated, Mr. Egbert. He said calmly, his voice low and deep. "I didn't expect you to show up in this way as a joke. β
"I thought that if the gentleman had any different opinion on Lansky's approach, he would come to me to discuss it. β
In fact, from the time Egbert began to win, the casino executives began to pay attention to him, and began to think that the boy who didn't know whether to live or die dared to run to Lansky's casino to play tricks, and when he inquired, he learned that it was actually the one from the Roshill family who was used to hiding behind the scenes on Wall Street, so he had to be cautious.
In the 60s, Lansky and the Jewish gang he founded owned 17 casinos and 11 mafia casinos in Las Vegas, and the Lansky family had a share of all the income of the mafia, but the crackdown from the government and the police fell on the back of the mafia.
Lansky, the "Seven Group", invested in the establishment of Las Vegas, a casino city, while manipulating the mafia.
The Roshill family, as well as the Lansky family, who control the casino, have no conflict in the scope of their business.
Egbert's eyes swept over lightly, "I just found out that my uncle has some business dealings with you. He leaned back, crossed his legs, and smiled incomprehensibly with an unfathomable meaning, "You know, I've just taken over most of the family's affairs lately. β
On the twenty-seventh floor, in the dim light of the room, a figure walked up to the huge floor-to-ceiling window and opened the silver-gray curtains.
The young brown-haired woman opened the silver-white laptop she was carrying, and when she connected to the Internet, the ETT1 system appeared, which could be directly connected to the Interpol intelligence system.
Over the years, according to information provided by Interpol, since the nineties, the economic crisis has provided an opportunity to launder money, and the black money around the world has slowly accumulated and has spread to the whole world.
In front of the silver-white laptop, the coffee-haired woman clasped her hands and propped her chin into deep thought.
The Netherlands, with a population of only 15 million, has more than 60 billion illegal activities a year, of which 20 to 30 billion are drug trafficking alone, and a large amount of illegal funds have been actively seeking to be bleached.
When they count the number of crimes around the world, they know one thing very clearly: over the past two decades, there has been an increase in crime around the world. There is a large amount of illegal money like this that has been circulating on the West Coast of the United States and Las Vegas for a long time.
A large amount of money of unknown origin poured into the financial circles of Paris, and many banks were trapped, which must have nothing to do with these non-financial funds, and ETT1 investigators went to various places to find out the real culprits.
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