Chapter 302: Ticket Kidnapping (2)
I didn't fall asleep on the way back to Los Angeles from Hawaii.
Han Chudong's mind was full of thinking about his father's abduction, and there were too few clues at hand, so he only found some enemies who had interests with him, and wrote their names on paper.
For example, last month, an electrical appliance seller who came to his company to make a lot of noise and wanted to jump off a building after going bankrupt seemed to have some mental problems and handed it over to the police for handling.
For example, the K who was found by Han Chudong to collect black materials and sent them to the prosecutor's office, Kevin Roosevelt, is more suspicious.
There is also the car dealer who came to the door for help, and in the end he didn't even see the car dealer, Han Chudong didn't help, which may make the other party hold a grudge because of this.
Trapped in the plane, there is time to slowly reminisce.
As one name after another was written, he realized that he already had so many "enemies", which he only knew, and he should not know more.
Similar to other super-rich people, Han Chudong's accumulation of wealth inevitably touched the interests of many people.
began to regret that he didn't give Han a shot and invited a few bodyguards.
In fact, Han Chudong mentioned it, but he sneered and said that he didn't look at where he worked, Han Chudong felt that it made sense, thinking that the least risky person in his family was the director of the Los Angeles Secret Service, but he didn't expect that it was really because of this negligence that he caused today's trouble.
Slightly embarrassed, he thought that he really couldn't laugh at others, and when Paul Getty Jr.'s grandson, Paul Getty III, Jr., was kidnapped, he didn't see any jokes.
Feng Shui takes turns, and after a similar tragedy appeared in his family, Han Chudong finally couldn't laugh......
Mention of bearer bonds.
Nowadays, almost everyone in Europe and the United States knows about this thing, in fact, before 1970, only bearer bonds appeared among all kinds of bonds, and only after that, bearer bonds appeared.
This is because the amount of bonds issued is so large, millions of people buy bonds every year, but because computers are not yet widely available, the cost of capitation registration is too high, and it can only be issued publicly in an anonymous form.
After 1970, with the maturity of computer technology, the cost of unified registration was reduced, and finally registered bonds appeared.
A bearer bond is a piece of paper that the person who buys the bond keeps for himself, because it is not registered in the name of an individual or a company, and whoever carries it can exchange real money for real money in a specific place.
The lower part of this piece of paper will be torn into strips, like those small advertisements seen in newspapers, every quarter or half a year, when you take it to the exchange, you can tear off a strip and exchange it for money.
With such a good thing, the kidnappers would be stupid to ask for gold and banknotes that are difficult to transport, not to mention that banknotes are easy to mark.
According to the amount on the ransom letter, even if it is 20 million US dollars, it can be easily put into an ordinary document bag after being exchanged for bearer bonds, even if it is stuffed in clothes, it will not be detected, so it is often used for money laundering and asset transfer, and the Federal Reserve is gradually abolishing the issuance of bearer bonds, and there are still a large number of them in the market.
Before getting on the plane, Han Chudong had asked Assistant Arthur to help prepare, the idle funds in the account of Mason United Group were sufficient, and it should not be too troublesome, for the sake of his father's personal safety, he naturally would not feel sorry for money at such a moment.
I just couldn't figure out why it was 20 million dollars, not 30 million dollars or more, and vaguely guessed that maybe it was because Paul Getty Sr. slammed the door that taught the kidnappers a vivid lesson.
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After more than six hours of flight, the plane finally landed at LA International Airport.
During this period, Mochizuki Kiko didn't sleep, she couldn't help, seeing that Han Chudong was always in a daze, she couldn't help but start worrying about him, and said at this moment: "Your father will be fine, Mason." ”
"Well, I'll do whatever the kidnappers say, it's a big deal to lose a little money. Security really has to be strengthened, and even you have to have bodyguards with you, and we have so much contact that even the newspapers have pictures of you, maybe someone will be eyeing you on any day. ”
"I—who's going to tie me up?"
"How do I know, but I may kidnap you to ask me for money, compared to a little security overhead, in case I am really kidnapped like my son, the loss will be great, you are not allowed to refuse. ”
Han Chudong didn't have the heart to chat now, he just wanted to quickly rescue Han Yi, who liked to take advantage of small advantages and was occasionally a bit of a jerk.
Mochizuki Kiko didn't block him intimately, thinking that it would not be too late to talk about this kind of thing later.
As soon as the plane stopped on the tarmac, he couldn't care about being polite, Han Chudong immediately asked the flight attendant to open the cabin door, and soon saw Assistant Arthur who drove over to pick them up.
asked the bodyguard to drive Arthur's assistant's car back, Han Chudong and Arthur sat in the same car, and when there were no outsiders around, he couldn't wait to ask: "How is it, did the kidnappers call and say when they will release my dad?"
Shaking his head, Assistant Arthur told him, "I haven't received a call yet, at least not until I go out." Mr. Babe Robinson, president of Bank of America's Los Angeles branch, is helping to draw bearer bonds from headquarters and will record the numbers so that an investigation can be launched later. And Mr. Elton Sr., who helped communicate with your father's boss and is working with the FBI to launch a secret investigation, fearing that someone is spying on your home, and everything is going on in secret. ”
"Thank you. ”
Han Chudong's face couldn't hide his sorrow, and he wondered: "I should have a holiday today, right, why did my dad have nothing to do, do you know where he was tied up?"
"I don't know, your mother said that she had a conflict with him recently, and she hasn't spoken for several days, and the last time I saw him was about twenty-three hours ago, and I drove out alone, and then there was no whereabouts, and the police haven't found his car yet. ”
Han Chudong is very clear about the quarrel between his parents, and the main reason is that he is in a panic, Han Yishu was drunk for two days before Thanksgiving, which made his wife, Han Chudong's mother, very unhappy.
“...... I asked them to come with me on a vacation to Hawaii, and if they had agreed to come with me, they wouldn't have been. Han Chudong had a headache, and then added: "I must make sure that my father is fine, otherwise I won't give a penny, since you are worried about my money, you said that it shouldn't have been torn up now, right?"
Assistant Arthur didn't dare to speculate, and reassured: "Paul Getty III Jr. has not returned safely after five months after being robbed in Rome, and if the old Getty had not been too careful, and would not have had one of his ears cut off by the kidnappers, I don't think there would be any problems with personal safety, at least until the kidnappers get the money, after all, they need your father to exchange wealth." ”
"Well, I think about it, but I'm afraid that something will go wrong after I get the money, and I have no advantage in this matter, and it would be too dangerous to put all my hopes on the conscience of the kidnappers. ”
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