Chapter 135 Cooperation with the Investigation
Xiao Wu is now the proprietress of the Peace Investment Company, which has only a few dozen employees but manages tens of billions of dollars in investment funds.
Although this investment company also receives external capital injections, in fact, the proportion of external capital injections in this company is very low and almost negligible.
In addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars of capital injected by Zhong Yuan at the beginning, as well as the dividends of the shares of Daxia Mining owned by Zhong Yuan, the other source of funds is the cash in the hands of Zhong Yuan's women, and Xiaoqian's spare money is placed here to earn interest.
Over the years, the Peace Investment Company has really made a lot of money, especially when there was a war in country T, speculating on the stocks of the three major mines, which made their profits several times.
In terms of other investments, Youyan Company, which cooperates with the Xia family, is the most profitable one, and this company has now become a leader in this industry, and has even begun to expand foreign markets and obtain access qualifications in some countries.
Then there is the real estate project in cooperation with Jincheng Group, which has also made a lot of money.
The entertainment industry is a big part of their investment, and they don't make a lot of money, but the proportion of investment is the largest.
In the past, the focus was on the domestic entertainment industry in China, but later Xiaoqian went abroad and successfully opened up the international market, and the investment in the entertainment industry of the Peace Investment Company also opened up abroad.
There is a wholly-owned film and television company called "Longteng Pictures" under the Peace Investment Company, and its registered address is the United States.
In recent years, this company has really invested in some commercial blockbusters, not only the movies starring Xiaoqian are invested by this company, but they have also invested in more than a dozen commercial blockbusters, all of which are in cooperation with large film companies in the United States, and their investment in each one is more than 100 million US dollars.
Some of these investments have been earned, some have been lost, and in general, the profit is not very big, and it is not as good as the interest deposited in the bank, but Longteng Pictures is still happy to do it.
Their external voice is to expand the company's business in the international market and enhance the company's influence, but in fact, they have an important task, which is to launder money.
Film and television companies are the best money laundering tool.
When Zhong Yuan went to various countries to hang out, he didn't get away from other countries' banknotes, and those money were all disgraceful, and he needed a legal way to launder it, so that it could be used properly.
The biggest role of Longteng Pictures is to launder the banknotes left by Zhong Yuan into legitimate income.
No matter how prosperous and developed the film industry is, there will be many filmmakers who can't find investment, and even some big directors will not be able to raise funds because the investment required is too large and the market risk is too great.
Now such a tyrant company with a lot of money looking for investment has suddenly become a sweet spot in their eyes, and many filmmakers will come to them for investment with scripts every day.
This company is for money laundering, not for throwing money, they are not here to do charity for the film industry in the United States, and they will obviously lose money and they will not accept the work.
In order not to be fooled, they also invited some very professional people to do this audit in the United States.
The successive addition of local film talents in the United States has slowly turned this company into a company with Chinese as the main body and a company with Chinese people as the main body.
Many people in the United States have even forgotten that this is a film company founded by Chinese people, and regard it as a company with pure blood.
But some people in the United States will not forget who is the boss behind this film company.
A few years ago, there was a badly managed big film company in the United States that wanted to sell, this company is very large, ranking among the eight major film companies in the United States, and has a number of big IPs, but in recent years, it has lost money every year, and has gradually been squeezed out of the mainstream market of the United States, so there is a plan to sell it.
Although it is a loss-making company, their asking price is in the billions of dollars, which discourages many people who want to buy the company.
Longteng Pictures just wanted to expand its business in the United States and turn from a film investment company into a film production company, so the idea of acquiring this company was born.
Billions of dollars is not an unacceptable figure for the Peace Investment Corporation behind it.
With the acquisition of this company, they can distribute and produce their own movies in the United States, and they no longer need to be attached to other companies, get more profits, and can launder more money, which is of great benefit to them.
Negotiations with this company also took more than half a year, and finally reached a mutually acceptable price.
However, just as the acquisition negotiations were coming to an end, the United States government suddenly launched an investigation into the acquisition to assess whether the acquisition would affect the national security of the United States.
It is indeed a bit unbelievable that the acquisition of a film company can affect the national security of a country, but it is not difficult to understand that the import of some steel and aluminum products will affect the national security of the United States.
The intervention of the US government has given Xiao Wu a headache, for this acquisition, the funds have been withdrawn for most of the year, and some profitable investments have been abandoned, if the acquisition is stopped like this, the loss will be relatively large.
She is the person in charge of the Peace Investment Company, and this acquisition inevitably involves her, and the government of the United States even asked her to go to the United States to explain the intention of acquiring the film company.
Now she's just hesitant to go.
Of course she can not go, although the United States is the most powerful country on this planet, it does not have that much power to summon a citizen of another country to be questioned at will.
It's just that if she doesn't pass, this acquisition will not be able to proceed.
She really wanted to buy the studio.
Not only does it need money laundering, but Xiaoqian also needs such a company that can independently produce and distribute films if she wants to develop better abroad.
So Xiao Qian very much hopes that Xiao Wu can go to the United States to explain the intention of acquiring this film company to those American people.
"Explanation" is a very subtle word, in fact, I hope that Xiao Wu can ask those well-known lobbying firms to do something to make the acquisition go smoothly.
Xiao Wu hesitated for a long time, found some experts to evaluate whether the acquisition had a chance of success, and finally decided to go to the United States once.
If you don't succeed, you should take a trip there, and there is no big loss.
With this idea, Xiao Wu and her team boarded the plane to the United States.
After getting off the plane and staying at the hotel booked, the police from the United States knocked on the door and took out their documents to Xiao Wu: "Hello, ma'am, we have received a report that you have drugs here, this is a search warrant, please cooperate with our investigation." ”
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