Chapter 231: Glencore
Karim was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect the other party to be so direct. Mark Ritchie www.biquge.info a legendary trader in spot oil trading and is being wanted by the U.S. government, has come to join his own little-known trading company, which has only been established for more than a year.
"Is Mr. Ritchie joking?" Karim replied with a smile.
"Actually, I'm serious!" Mark Ritchie said solemnly.
"With all due respect, you are now wanted by the U.S. government, and I'm afraid it's not convenient for us to let you join our company!" Karim couldn't figure out what the other party wanted to do, this guy would dare to do anything for the sake of profit, and in order to prevent him from having any schemes, Karim instinctively wanted to refuse.
"With all due respect, you're probably not the real owner of this company! Why not ask the boss behind you! Maybe he'll be interested in me! Mark Ritchie continued.
"Why don't you do it yourself, I've heard that your own company has been operating in Switzerland for many years!" Unprovoked by Ritchie's words, Karim continued to spy on Mark Ritchie's true intentions.
"I'm the FBI's most wanted person now, all of my business is monitored by the U.S. government, and I'm interested in your non-ferrous metals business, and I'm curious where you got so much high-quality and cheap aluminum! I hope that I will be able to open up new markets outside of the oil market, and my joining will bring more customers to you and your company, a bigger market! Mark Ritchie said as he pitched himself to Karim.
"No kidding, we also have a business in the United States, and if I hire you, who knows if it will cause government trouble?" Karim still refused.
"That's why I'm here to talk to you about it! Rest assured, only you and me, and the people behind you, know about it! ”
Mark Ritchie assured Karim.
"You're not sure you want a job, are you?" Karim decided not to go around in circles, he wanted to know what Mark Ritchie was trying to do.
"You're smart, what I want is a platform where you can show your skills directly! With the company I am currently running, there is still a long way to go to develop into what I envisioned, I am not young anymore, and I don't want to waste the rest of my life on the road of the previous decades in the business again! Mark Ritchie looked at Karim and said frankly.
Karim thought for a moment, then said, "Please give us a few minutes, we need to discuss!" With that, he left his seat, opened the door, and motioned to his attachés to take care of the gentleman inside. Karim then went to his office and dialed Seryosha's phone.
"My dear! What's the matter? Seryosha asked softly on the phone.
"Seryosha, there's a great guy who wants to join our company!" Karim quickly cut to the chase and said.
"Awesome guys? How powerful? Seryosha asked with some curiosity.
"Mark Ritchie is the spot trader who was recently wanted by the U.S. government! If you are familiar with the oil spot market, you will know that it was he who single-handedly built this market and grabbed meat from the mouths of the big oil companies! Such a guy wants to join our company, and I'm afraid he has other plans! Karim voiced her concerns.
"I know this guy, he's really good, but you're going to tell us if we need such a guy into our company!" Seryosha asked, asking Karim for advice.
"Now that we have more and more resource products to handle, it has eaten up a lot of our cash flow, and I'm not sure if I'm coping with this!" Karim spoke out about her predicament.
"Then let him join us, give him the phone, and I'll talk to him personally!" Seryosha said immediately.
Karim returned to the room where he had been, knocked on the door, then pushed it open and walked inside. With a wave of his hand, all the employees in the room walked out. He then handed the phone to Mark Ritchie and said, "Our boss wants to talk to you!" ”
Karim placed the satellite phone on the table and walked out of the room, leaving Mark Ritchie alone. He picked up the phone on the table, put it to his ear and said cautiously, "Hello, I'm Mark Richie, what do you call me?" ”
"You can call me Nikolai! I heard you want to join my company? Seryosha replied with a voice changer.
"Yes, Mr. Nikolai! Do you have any advice? Mark Ritchie asked.
"I believe in your abilities, you are welcome to join us, and if you do a good job, I can even hand over the entire Romanov to you to take care of!" Seryosha replied. Seryosha agreed to Mark Rich's request without hesitation, mainly because he had seen a lot of news about this man when he was in the United States, and it is said that during the 1979 oil crisis, Mark Richie flew to Iran alone to meet Khomeini, and it was rumored that he could get a phone call from Iran's oil minister at any time, and at its peak his tanker had already handled more than a dozen buyers when it was still at sea. Because of this, this person will be sent to court by the FBI and CIA and become one of the top ten wanted criminals in the US government. Now Mark Ritchie never wants to go back to the United States in his life.
"May I ask? Why did you trust me so easily, we never met! Seryosha's pleasure made Mark Ritchie feel uneasy, and he couldn't help but ask.
"Because we're the same kind of people!" Seryosha replied.
Hearing this, Mark Ritchie was a little surprised. But he forced himself not to pay attention to these details for now, and to get down to business first. So Mark Ritchie asked softly: "Mr. Nikolai, with all due respect, does the Romanov company belong to the Soviet government?" ”
"I can tell you unequivocally, no! But we did business with the Soviet government. Seryosha didn't mind telling Mark Ritchie that his goods came from the Soviet Union, because Switzerland was a neutral country and doing business with the Soviet Union was not against the rules of the Swiss government.
The reason why Mark Ritchie asks this is because Romanoff's electrolytic aluminum is so cheap, and the supply is so large, there are not many people to think of. However, Mark Richie wanted to make a suggestion to Seryosha, so he said: "Mr. Nikolai, I think why we should use the name of the Tsarist family to make people misunderstood, since our company does not belong to the Soviet government, I think you should change it to a name that is not so strongly suggested!" ”
"Mark, what do you suggest?" Seryosha understood what the other party meant, and such an obvious hint was indeed not conducive to the company's expansion in Western countries.
"Glencore, what do you think of the name?" Mark Ritchie gave the name he had used to start his new company.