Chapter 416: The State of Nauru (1)
The beautiful youth, the simple college life, and the friendship of fighting side by side for the NCAA championship will not fade away because of separation, but will be strengthened by reunion after a long absence.
At this moment, Usilis was pleasantly surprised and immediately stepped forward to give his teammates a big bear hug.
Scotty seemed to have something to do.
With Usi's permission, the bodyguards let him go, and Scotty's entourage of two obese elderly men walked in.
"Ussi, this is my adoptive father, Mr. René-Harris, President of the State of Nauru!" Montas took the initiative to introduce.
"Ussi, this is my father, Mr. Ludwig Scotty, President of the Bank of Nauru!" Scotty introduced with a grin, his voice focused on the word "bank".
Usilis had no interest in "president", but when he heard the word "bank", he suddenly figured something out and laughed.
Prior to this, due to the incident of "Xiaoqian was suddenly kidnapped by the Luches family", Ussi and Immelt reached a secret agreement on the "$15 billion gambling" incident.
Now, Usi has won six gold medals at the Sydney Olympics, completing the "impossible gamble", according to the agreement, Usi can get 21% of the share, of which 20% belongs to Usi's share, and the other 1% is in the name of Xiaoqian's shock, insisting to come over; After all, Usi and Immelt have a close cooperative relationship on many projects of OD Fund and OM Fund, so everything is naturally easy to discuss!
Since Ussi knows about this gamble, he naturally wants that share, otherwise he will be scattered.
Yesterday afternoon, Ussey received a text message from Gimelt saying that he wanted to give himself a little surprise. And today's "gamble - the president of the Bank of Nauru - teammate Scotty", these three seemingly unrelated words are connected together, and it is really a surprise and a magical fate!
Switch topics.
Usyris laughed, and the crowd laughed along.
Scotty took out a MessagePAD (Apple's handheld computer launched in '93, the world's first PAD product), and said with a smile: "Usy, this PAD will automatically destroy after 15 minutes of powering on!" I'm waiting for you! ”
Usilis nodded, and asked Lauren Murphy to take the guests to a vacant villa, and after washing and changing, he opened the PAD and entered his fingerprints as prompted, but a document automatically popped up on the screen, titled "Nauru's Financial Analysis and Asset List".
The Republic of Nauru, located in the Micronesian Islands of the Pacific Ocean, near the equator, is one of the small countries surrounding Australia; With a land area of only 22 square kilometers, it is the smallest island country in the world, the smallest republic, and the least populous country (about 8,000 people), and the country with the world's largest phosphate (mineralized guano and natural phosphate fertilizer) reserves, the world's most obese country, the world's laziest ethnic group, the world's first diabetes incidence, and the extreme social welfare, which can also rank first in the world, which is absolutely stunning!
Since Nauru redeemed control of phosphate in 1970 and changed its name to Nauru Phosphate Company, it has entered the "era of local tyrants" and "era of big pot rice"; In 1991, its per capita national income was $22,500, making it the richest man in the Southern Taiping region and one of the richest countries in the world. Tax-free throughout the country, providing free housing, electricity, telephone, free medical care, free domestic and international telephone services, including Internet services, etc.; Food, meat, fish, fresh water and other daily necessities are all imported, bought at a high price, and sold at a low price.
What is communism?!
Nauruans can tell you with great pride!
Of course, once the most lucrative phosphate is mined, the crisis of government bankruptcy will surely erupt!
In the 21st century, Nauru's state-owned assets, except for the Nauru Bank, all other industries (including: phosphate export, aviation, tourism, transportation, import, tax, insurance, telecommunications, real estate, agriculture, fishery, tobacco, wine, automobile, industry, customs, health, education, etc.) are all money-losing goods, and they are frequently deceived by other countries in overseas real estate investments, and they lose a lot of money.
It is not an exaggeration to describe the people of Nauru, "local tyrants", "many people with stupid money", "short-sighted", "no financial mind", "a group of lazy big fat people", "a group of stupid pigs".
In 89, the Nauru government began to run a fiscal deficit, gritted its teeth, imitated Switzerland, and implemented a "bank secrecy system"; All you need is a phone call plus $25,000, plus a little handling fee, and the Nauruans can take care of everything else; they can open a "shell bank" in the local area, which can be opened at any time and cancelled at any time, and the financial list is absolutely confidential, and can be destroyed immediately, so that the other country can not be checked, and the transfer and exchange are linked to the major banks in North America and Asia, which is absolutely convenient and fast.
As a result, during the 90s, Nauru's banking system became the largest "tax haven", "black market bank" and "money laundering center" in the South Pacific.
The self-proclaimed smart Nauruans have figured out a way to make money, opening their own "Nauruan House Project", taking in special smugglers (mainly Asian corrupt officials who have absconded with money), selling passports at high prices, and then enrolling you in Australia to enjoy Nauruan benefits, including exemptions from birth, old age, sickness, death, food, clothing, housing and transportation, etc., super one-stop service.
What do you mean by weird?!
Nauruans deserve it!
In June 2000, the Group of Seven (France, the United States, Germany, Japan, Britain, Italy, Canada, Russia, 7+1 system) Anti-Money Laundering Institutions Financial Working Group blacklisted Nauru.
The poor corrupt officials in Asia can only find another way to make a living, because the large amount of money cannot be transferred, and without money, no one will give you political protection; When the money on hand is spent, it will be the day when he will be extradited back to China for trial, cough cough!
In the 30 years since Nauru's founding, the largest creditor has been the United States General Electric Company (GE), whose business includes: providing loans to redeem phosphate industries, building a transpacific cable and telecommunications industry, leasing satellites, national defense protection, railroad leases, purchasing aircraft, leasing various industrial equipment, and so on.
At present, the Nauruans have paid off most of the debt, leaving a debt of $460 million, the balance of the instalment, which will be paid in two years, with the first phase to be repaid by 10/1/02 at the latest, and the second phase to be repaid by 10/01/04 at the latest.
Avoiding the Christmas holidays, GE has done its best! (To be continued.) )