Chapter 232: Fraud Gang (1)

Mark Ritchie was the first businessman to come to Seryosha on his own initiative, and he was well-educated and had an excellent business resume. More importantly www.biquge.info this person will not be able to return to the United States or countries with which the United States has an extradition agreement in his lifetime. Seryosha was not afraid of any tricks he played.

In a sign of his sincerity, Seryosha bought Mark Ritchie's small company for $100 million in cash and replaced Romanov with Glencore. Mark Ritchie and his partner Green and his team will take over Glencore's oil business, while Seryosha will also select some smart and reliable people from the old members of the Gorky gang to go to Switzerland and join Glencore to learn Mark Rich's trading methods and build his own team of traders. Seryosha has been engaged in the underground financial industry all these years, and the people in his hands more or less know some knowledge in this area, Seryosha does not expect all these people to be called excellent traders, even if there are only one or two successful ones, it can be regarded as Seryosha's hard work has not been in vain.

In the last month of 1983, Yota Communications shocked the industry with the release of a complete set of networking solutions for the TCP/IP protocol that it had developed at the beginning of the year. People are amazed by Yota's strong R&D efficiency and keen business sense. This complete solution introduced new concepts such as gateways, bridges, routing, etc., and the experimental network that gave this solution was once again settled in the city of Cambridge. The scheme has already connected the networks of Massachusetts colleges and universities, such as Harvard, MIT, and Boston University, and students at these schools are beginning to experience a new way of communicating at the border.

AT&T's tour of Yota's experimental network quickly recognized the value of it, and they realized that it would be another profit growth point for the company after mobile technology. Therefore, they expressed their willingness to cooperate with Yota Communications, and hoped to purchase Yota Communication's networking solutions exclusively in the United States, just like the last mobile solution. It also hopes to acquire Yota Communications to become a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T.

Eva politely rejected AT&T's suggestion, not to mention how much Seryosha valued the company's future development, and the fact that he had been involved in money laundering activities in the past had already decided that Yota Communications was not for sale. Not to mention acquisitions, it is impossible to even invite people to buy shares, or even go public. From the first day of Yota's communication, it was already destined that it would always be a private company, which could only rely on Seryosha's own funds to grow and grow, and even went to the bank to take out a loan carefully to avoid being discovered. This is also the reason why Yota Communication has not set up its own production line and manufacturing base, but relies on others to produce products by OEM.

Not only Yota Communications, but also Seryosha's grain company in Canada, Yuri's casino business, Monsanto, and Glencore, which has just changed its name, are all facing the same problem. None of them could disclose their finances and could only develop with their own funds, so Seryosha could not estimate how much assets the entire Gorky Brotherhood had.

In addition, in terms of the operating conditions of these businesses in hand, the new Monsanto is still in a state of loss, and the loss is not a small amount, the research and development of genetically modified crops is still in its infancy, and the most optimistic situation will not be harvested until five or six years later, during which Seryosha needs to continue to invest funds. The situation of Yota Communications is much better, and a large amount of money from the hands of telecom operators has brought considerable profits, but Seryosha knows that the competition in this industry is more cruel, and only continuous innovation can maintain the leading position of Yota Communications in the industry, so Yota Communication's profits will be invested in the research and development of second-generation mobile communication solutions and large-scale network solutions.

As for the rest of Seryosha's business, it was so-so, Glencore was still very small, and the grain trade was a project required by the Soviet government, and the profits were not huge, and Yuri's casino was so-so. After all, the speed of profits obtained by operating is not the same as the profits obtained by the company's listing. And the real profit point of these businesses is not the main business, but the money laundering activities hidden behind the scenes.

In normal business activities, if a financial institution gets 100 yuan from a customer, it will inevitably pay a certain profit to the customer, and the customer will eventually get 100+ from the financial institution with interest. In Seryosha's money laundering activities, it is the opposite, taking 100 yuan from the customer, and being able to pay the customer 85 yuan is already a conscience price. The part that is consumed, in addition to the necessary losses (such as taxes, transaction costs, etc.), the rest is Seryosha's profit.

And this part is the main source of income for Seryosha's group. The account was now in the hands of Mikhail, who had selected a number of talented members from among the former members of the Gorky gang to study finance in the adult courses offered by the Plekhanov State School of Economics. They would be responsible for counting the Brotherhood's accurate income, which Seryosha would eventually redistribute. In the final analysis, the Gorky Brotherhood was a gang and not a business, and it was pure nonsense to talk about equity, and Seryosha simply left the necessary liquidity for himself and divided the rest of the money equally among his brothers. Although Yakov is currently the one who makes the most money for the Brotherhood, Seryosha's brothers in life and death understand a truth, that is, a person's price cannot be measured by how much money he makes, otherwise how can Mikhail's contribution to Uzbekistan go alone at the beginning, and how can Boris almost die at the hands of Popov.

Since Andropov's anti-corruption campaign intensified, Seryosha has completely stopped money laundering in the country and moved it abroad. The Italian Mafia Group and the Colombian Medellín Group have become Seryosha's two largest customers at the moment. And Seryosha's money laundering methods have also begun to be more subtle and technological. However, since the domestic market in the Soviet Union was vacant, it was natural that there were foreign forces that wanted to fill this vacancy. In Seryosha's stronghold of Gorky, a group of people pretending to be Nikolai's subordinates began to solicit business to send funds overseas, Boris did not care about these guys, but he obviously overestimated the professional ethics of these guys, and the clients who worked with them soon found that not a cent of their money was transferred to their relatives abroad, but was cheated out by these guys. A gang of fraudsters who have sprung out of nowhere are ruining the credibility of the Gorky Brotherhood.