"Duke, the FBI suddenly launched an investigation into our overseas fund companies, so far, they have frozen all the operating funds of our three investment fund companies in the United States, and at the same time, our investment fund companies in Bermuda, the Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands have also received written notices from the local government asking for assistance in the investigation, although our funds have not been frozen yet, but they are now closely monitored by local regulators in terms of transactions and fund operations."

That morning, Duke had just gotten up, and Cai Siqiang hurriedly came to the door.

"According to the report of our U.S. investment fund staff, this happened yesterday at 4 p.m. New York time, when the FBI seized three of our U.S. investment funds on suspicion of insider trading. And took away the top management of the fund company on the spot. Cai Siqiang said the matter briefly in one breath, if it wasn't for a major problem, Cai Siqiang would not generally harass Duke, let alone come to the door so early.

Duke looked at the time on his watch, it is now 8 o'clock in the morning Beijing time, that is to say, according to the time difference, this incident has just happened for a few hours, because these investment fund companies are not SAL direct investment settings, but through European or Hong Kong holding companies as the main body, and then through Bermuda, the Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands and other offshore companies to invest and set up, after such a few relationships to report back, can be fed back to SAL headquarters in a few hours, this efficiency is already very high.

"Is there anything our team of lawyers can do right now? Has it affected our joint venture investment company with the Lao Li family? Duke asked calmly, although this incident came quite suddenly and severely, the FBI launched an investigation against Duke's secret investment fund companies without warning, and almost wiped out Duke's existing secret investment funds of nearly $20 billion at once, but if the investment and finance companies cooperated by SAL and Lao Li's family were not affected, the matter could still be controlled.

Because after the last time they joined hands with the Lao Li family to speculate on the energy crisis, Duke and his family have transferred most of their funds to the investment and finance company that is a joint venture with the Lao Li family, and at the same time, in order to diversify risks, they have also transferred some funds to countries with stricter financial protection, such as Luxembourg and Switzerland, which have divided Duke's overseas financial assets into several large pieces. In addition, in order to build the Twin Islands project, some of Duke's overseas fund funds were also transferred.

So this time it was only one piece of it that was controlled by the Americans, so Duke was still calm.

"Before I arrived, I had ordered the European and Hong Kong subsidiaries to immediately assemble a core team of lawyers to deal with the situation, and since these companies are nominally not related to SAL, it is not convenient for us to use SAL's legal resources to do this at this time." Cai Siqiang replied. "The joint venture financial group we established with Lao Li's family has not received any bad news now."

In fact, these fund companies are Duke and Cai Siqiang's back-hand resources left overseas, in addition to Duke and Cai Siqiang, Zhao Jianwu, Dong Feng and others, SAL's other management is not clear, generally not very used, only with large investment opportunities will be active, since its inception although the harvest is quite rich, but the number of operations is actually extremely limited, in total it is in the Apple backdoor incident, the fossil energy crash caused by the lotus pile and the recent Google satellite picture UFO forgery incident was operated.

In addition, the main body of the company has been set up several times, it can be said that the concealment is very strong, and the domestic national security departments may not be clear, Cai Siqiang does not know why the FBI actually dug up all these companies.

If Qin Tairan heard this, he would not be so strange, in fact, as a global hegemon, the energy of the United States is far from being comparable to that of China now, and the domestic intelligence security system may be able to barely compete with the CIA and the FBI, but overseas, the two are not above the same level at all.

This is not just a matter of the size of the resources invested by both sides, but the transcendent hegemony of the Americans in the international status, so that their intelligence agencies can be unimpeded in most countries and regions in the world, and they can find local regimes to ask for cooperation, so there is no secret for them at all, not to mention that these areas where Duke set up their investments are still vassals under their control.

Therefore, Qin Tairan knew that except for a very few big countries in the world, if the CIA and the FBI were determined to do something, there was almost nothing they could not do.

Duke and their establishment of overseas secret investment companies, for the national security system, it is more difficult to obtain all the information of these offshore companies overseas, after all, China, which does not have an overseas military base, is now the same international influence.

But for the CIA, a giant intelligence agency, they can obtain information about all the newly established offshore companies in these offshore companies almost at any time, and then through the huge channels of the CIA intelligence agency, it is not very difficult to figure out which companies are Duke's secret companies.

Duke didn't know that this incident was actually planned by Snyder of the CIA, but he borrowed the hands of the FBI and prepared to force Duke out in this way, although Snyder knew that it was almost impossible to let Duke, the big boss behind the scenes, come forward, but Snyder, who was familiar with human weaknesses, felt that this would inevitably greatly affect Duke's work schedule.

As long as he could distract Dr. Duke from this, Snyder felt that it would be enough, because he had other backhands waiting for Duke besides this.

"Are there any places where we need to spend a lot of money lately? Has the Universe Search Center's funds been withdrawn back? Duke didn't think so far-reaching, he saw what conspiracy was hidden here, he was just worried that the funds for the Twin Islands project would be affected to a certain extent, after all, it was a huge project that would cost tens of billions of dollars, although he had decided to use the money earned by these secret funds overseas, but how much money was poured back, Duke didn't ask.

If most of these idle funds cannot be withdrawn, such a large amount of money needs to be taken from SAL to carry out this project at once, which will still have a relatively large impact on SAL's cash flow.

"It's not a big problem," said Cai Siqiang, "when the project started, your investment estimate was amazing, and we repatriated most of the funds to the accounts of our domestic and Hong Kong subsidiaries through various channels, and now it seems to be a real help." Speaking of this, Cai Siqiang's anxious look was much less, because he found that although the frozen funds were still a huge number, for SAL, this part of the funds was originally operated as a backup resource, and these funds were not needed at all.

Their current industrial companies are all high-quality industries with booming production and sales and unusually abundant cash flow, so in the final analysis, these funds are just a spare tire that cannot be used on the big chessboard of SAL.

"Duke, did you anticipate the catastrophe in front of you, so you started your hugely invested Twin Islands project?" After Cai Siqiang calmed down, his mind suddenly became much more flexible, and now he even had some doubts about Duke's motives for the Space Exploration Center project, because from the perspective of time, this matter was too coincidental.

Duke was stunned, he was not prepared for Cai Siqiang's whimsy, and this idea was too wild. "What do you think, you treat me as a god" Duke said with a smile, "Since it doesn't affect our affairs, let's slowly spend it with the FBI, it's nothing more than a waste of attorney fees, these funds are not only from a mysterious source, but they will only expose a few of us later, and we haven't done any illegal operations, I want to see how the FBI is going to end?" ”

"We wouldn't mind setting a new record if there wasn't a valid reason for it. Huge claims against the U.S. government. After a pause, Duke suddenly changed the subject and said, "Aren't Americans like to fight lawsuits, we are ready to fight a lawsuit with the US government with amazing targets, Caicai, you are going to look for some good people to fight this lawsuit, I want everyone to know that there is a huge price to pay for seizing any assets under our SAL." ”

In Kerry's knowledge base, Duke also copied all the laws in force in the United States, and just now Duke recovered from this strange incident, Duke asked Kerry to do a legal search for this matter, and found that if the FBI could not provide a reasonable reason to explain the seizure, according to the laws of the United States, the fund company could actually initiate a civil lawsuit for compensation.

This is an important power given to citizens or corporate entities by U.S. law in order to limit the abuse of public power by the government.

According to the results of Kerry's search, if the FBI cannot come up with a reasonable reason to freeze Duke's investment fund companies, Duke's fund companies can file a lawsuit for government tort damages, according to the painful laws and cases in the United States, McDonald's was awarded punitive damages of more than $2 million for burning an old lady with a cup of hot coffee, that is to say, if punitive damages are requested, the entire amount of compensation can be as high as hundreds of times the actual loss.

According to the three investment fund companies in the United States that the FBI has now directly seized, there are more than 3 billion US dollars in frozen funds, and these three fund companies have made hundreds of millions of dollars in profits in the short-selling activities of the just-concluded Google crisis.

In other words, if the FBI's operation ends in a decisive end, Duke's fund companies can demand civil damages from the U.S. government, and according to the U.S. Code, in this case, the fund companies can apply for a series of claims such as compensatory damages, punitive damages, and litigation costs.

Based on the past profit records of the three fund companies, if you apply for high punitive damages, this number will be a huge astronomical amount, according to the relevant cases retrieved by Kerry, the punitive damages have reached more than 500 times the compensatory damages, which means that theoretically, these companies under Duke can file a claim lawsuit with a target of tens of billions of dollars!