Chapter 1076: Secret Account

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At the beginning, it was because of the cooperation with Jiang Luo. Fan Wuxian once helped them do some financial management business, and with several major stock market turmoil, they made a lot of profits, and at this time, Jiang Luo's security department's overseas investment was estimated to be more than 2 billion US dollars, and this amount of money that was free from government supervision has become very important.

Over the years, the domestic security services have invested a lot of money overseas, especially in the channels for obtaining some sensitive information, which requires a lot of money, so the role of this money is very important, whether it is to buy informants or bribe foreigners in some sensitive departments, it is inseparable from money.

Jiang Luo is still very grateful for Fan Wuxi's strong support, so Fan Wuxian can get the news of many problems in the first time, and sometimes even knows about it earlier than the top leaders.

This time, because of the 911 incident, the Americans have already begun to follow up and investigate some secret accounts overseas, especially those secret accounts that have ties or dealings with bin Laden, and they must be cleared up. So as not to cause misunderstanding among the Americans, or even be deliberately struck by them.

After all, many accounts are shady, and Jiang Luo doesn't want to lose all the little money he has accumulated by relying on Fan Wuzhi because of the Americans doing this, and he will be so distressed that he vomits blood.

Osama bin Laden had a vast worldwide terrorist network, and his allies spanned the West, the Middle East, and Africa. These countries include Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan. Pakistan, Bosnia, Croatia, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Philippines, Tajikistan, Kashmir, Kenya, United States, etc.

As a result of the 911 incident, the spread of the germs of international terrorism throughout the world has aroused widespread concern and concern among governments and the international community. For a time, the study of terrorism became a popular subject. A number of research institutions came into being, and a number of academic works and papers came out one after another. Many experts have discussed the root causes and characteristics of terrorism from different perspectives such as political science, law, military science, sociology, behavior, and psychology, and have offered suggestions for solving the problem of terrorism.

Governments threatened by international terrorism are increasingly making tackling terrorism an important task. In many countries, the newly ruling political parties and leaders have made the solution of terrorism their goal of governance, and terrorism has become a serious problem that governments are determined to eliminate.

Thanks to the efforts of various governments, special forces have been established to terrify terrorists, and a number of laws and policies to combat terrorists have been implemented, all of which have effectively curbed the indefinite rise of terrorism.

At the same time, many countries in the world have begun to seek international cooperation, convened a series of international conferences, formulated a series of bilateral and multilateral agreements, and promulgated a number of international conventions against terrorism. The intelligence and anti-terrorist departments of various countries have worked closely together and coordinated their operations, and a huge net of encirclement and suppression of international terrorism has been spread around the world. International cooperation against terrorism is being strengthened in an effort to form a strong anti-terrorist alliance worldwide.

While stepping up the investigation of bin Laden's terrorist networks around the world, the US government has taken a two-pronged approach to encircle and intercept the bank accounts of ** and cut off the lifeline of terrorists.

In addition to believing that bin Laden was the financier behind the 911 terrorist attacks, U.S. officials also suspect that bin Laden provided money and shelter to the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center building in New York. and was also a patron of a plan to assassinate former President Clinton.

Therefore, after the 911 incident, one of the main measures taken by the United States was to cut off the financial channels of American companies by prohibiting them from doing business with bin Laden's enterprises and freezing their bank accounts, so as to curb terrorist activities.

The United States believes that bin Laden bought weapons and trained terrorists. Sheltering his organization and launching various attacks, it can be said that every step requires a lot of money. Although bin Laden has a large legacy and the assistance of certain institutions and supporters, it is not enough money to sustain his terrorist activities in the long term, and bin Laden's real source of living money is his businesses and factories around the world.

For bin Laden, making money in business and engaging in terrorist activities are one and the same. Saudi officials estimate that bin Laden has at least 70 to 80 companies that could be used to cover up his terrorist activities.

Sultan was bin Laden's earliest base for doing business, and US government documents say that after bin Laden arrived in Sudan 10 years ago, he invested $50 million to set up a bank, and the import and export company and investment company he opened almost monopolized the export of large agricultural products such as rubber, grain, sunflower seeds, and sesame seeds produced locally.

In the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, bin Laden opened a fishing company under which terrorists had repeatedly come to Nairobi to negotiate business, in effect to probe the security of the United States Embassy.

In the United States, there are many legitimate Islamic charitable organizations that complain that their reputations have been unfairly tarnished by extremist actions. And US official sources said. Some of their money ended up in bin Laden's hands, some of it was known in advance, some of it was unintentional.

In order to cut off the funding of bin Laden's terrorists, the CIA's Anti-Terrorism Center in the suburbs of Virginia set up a ** unit to track bin Laden's financial activities and piece together a network of his terrorist money.

U.S. intelligence officials said bin Laden scattered his vast sums of cash into secret accounts in banks around the world, and some of the money was invested in European securities markets for profit.

Armed with these information, the CIA's Anti-Terrorism Center in the suburbs of Virginia set up a special unit to focus on tracking bin Laden's financial activities and trying to get hold of the sources of his terrorist finances.

The spy officers prioritized the determination of bin Laden's bank account. According to the intelligence provided by these agents, the US authorities have officially frozen all funds believed to be bin Laden in the United States.

The U.S. side also used electronic technology to intercept information on bank operations, and launched an electronic warfare against bin Laden's property. Through various means, they discovered some of bin Laden's secret accounts, and then used electronic technology to delete the accounts or change their balance of payments, so that bin Laden's money in foreign bank accounts no longer existed.

It is understood that the CIA, the FBI, the NSA and the Treasury Department are working on this work, and they are also liaising with similar agencies around the world to investigate bin Laden's assets.

It is also said that to gain insight into a terrorist group, one has to follow an old precept and follow the money, just as the IRS does when it investigates tax evaders.

By following bin Laden's financial activities in recent times, U.S. intelligence agencies have begun to gradually unmask this elusive figure.

"The three holes of the cunning rabbit, ** is not so easy to deal with-" Jiang Luo said to Fan Wuxi.

While Western countries were busy seizing and freezing bin Laden's assets like digging an ant's nest, bin Laden said that they should check it, and that he still had at least three or more independent financial alternative systems in operation.

After 911, in order to cut off bin Laden's supply lines economically. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) worked with Western countries to investigate and financial institutions to track down the circulation of bin Laden's funds and investigate his secret accounts in offshore banks. This has become a second battleground against bin Laden.

But many experts believe that bin Laden has dispersed his money in the securities or fund markets, so it may not make much sense to track down his secret accounts. A US official also admitted a few days ago that bin Laden's organization is more wealthy and tenacious than imagined. His gang was able to reorganize quickly after the network was cracked. Although his bank account was blocked, he was able to make a lot of money from his business and funding.

bin Laden scattered his money across hundreds of banks, companies and charities in 50 countries around the world. In order to evade tracing and prevent assets from being frozen by Western countries, bin Laden has also been using underground money banks active in Central Asia.

In order to rapidly increase the financial strength of the terrorist group, bin Laden has diversified his investments in recent years, investing whatever he can make money. Allegedly, for every can of soda sold in the world, bin Laden's wealth increases a little. Many beverages today contain water-soluble gum arabic to prevent particulate precipitation. Most of this substance is made by a Sudanese company in which bin Laden is a major shareholder. He may have earned tens of millions of dollars from it.

Bin Laden owned several companies in Saudi Arabia and Western countries, in a wide range of industries, including construction, oil, manufacturing, and gemstones. The United States counterterrorism official said the United States was convinced that the border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay was the site of terrorist activity. They obtain money through smuggling and other activities to finance terrorist activities.

The West has described bin Laden as the chief executive and chairman of a terrorist group. He used his wealth to connect with terrorist organizations around the world, providing funding to terrorist organizations in many countries in Asia, Europe and Africa, and establishing terrorist military training camps in dozens of countries, providing a steady stream of reserve troops for global terrorist activities.

Due to its deep pockets, the bin Laden group was generous in the purchase of advanced weapons. U.S. intelligence discovered that bin Laden had been seeking to buy nuclear weapons since eight years ago. At first, bin Laden wanted to buy Russian nuclear warheads on the black market, but without success.

Experts point out that bin Laden has been committed to buying highly enriched uranium, an essential element for the manufacture of nuclear weapons. Although he may not be able to develop nuclear weapons for the time being, it cannot be ruled out that he will be able to do so one day. Osama bin Laden's aides had met with former senior officials of a certain country to discuss the purchase of highly enriched uranium for $1.5 million. They also negotiated with Chechen guerrillas to try to exchange $30 million and two tons of opium for 20 nuclear warheads, which they then planned to convert into small suitcase nuclear weapons.

"At present, there are at least four or five thousand people in the first organization, and in his arsenal all over Afghanistan, from mortars, rockets, tanks to advanced Stinger surface-to-air missiles, bin Laden's military strength is comparable to that of a small country, and all of this is paved with bin Laden's money." Jiang Luo said to Fan Wuxi, "After the 9/11 incident, the FBI immediately launched an investigation. The results are displayed. The terrorists did not spend much on this incident, only half a million dollars. The FBI immediately launched an investigation into bin Laden's economic networks and financial channels around the world, and worked with investigators and financial institutions in many Western countries to seize and freeze bin Laden's various accounts. ”

In fact, at this time, the finance ministers of the seven major industrial countries had agreed by teleconference to cooperate in the handling of funds provided to terrorist groups and to jointly freeze the relevant assets. Subsequently, Sweden, Australia, Switzerland, Lebanon, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Hong Kong, China and other countries and regions also expressed their willingness to cooperate with the United States' action to seize bin Laden's assets.

To date, financial institutions in the United States and other countries have frozen approximately $100 million in assets of suspected terrorists whose bank accounts do not directly belong to ** or terrorist organizations under it.

But bin Laden's approach to assets and wealth is far more complex and in-depth than one might think. Since bin Laden has dispersed his funds in the securities or fund markets, and there are countless industries of various types under the name of holding and indirect holding companies, to eliminate bin Laden's economic nest is tantamount to digging out an ant's nest with complex tunnels connected and intricately interconnected.

Some people have suggested that the U.S. government is looking for hackers to track down and seal bin Laden's account. The idea is good, but if hackers are allowed to gain access to the computer systems of banks and some financial organizations, it will lead to a series of legal disputes and troubles.

Just as the United States and other countries were trying to cut off bin Laden's economic lifeline, bin Laden said unhurriedly that even if the United States froze the assets of all organizations associated with him, it would not affect the jihad they would wag.

He told a Pakistani newspaper that they have three different separate financial systems, run by jihadist-loving people, not hundreds, but thousands.

"The most important thing now is to properly transfer the funds in our secret accounts." Jiang Luo said to Fan Wuxi.

Fan Wuxian nodded, and he was also thinking about this problem in his heart, but what he was thinking about was more about how to make these accounts more legitimate, after all, the Americans did not have much courage to seize the secret accounts belonging to the Chinese intelligence department at this time, after all, these are all semi-public secrets, who doesn't have some secret accounts in other countries?

As long as it is not related to a terrorist organization like **, it is estimated that it is not a big problem, and if the Americans want to use the topic to play, they must first consider whether they can eat each other.

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