Chapter 75 [4669562 Dollars]

SBCS, the full name of Singapore Business Advisory Services Company, in addition to daily accounting services, tax returns, annual declarations, immigration services, housing, education, investment business services.

What Fu Chen values more is the underground money laundering service. No matter how dark the money is, it will eventually be laundered, and of course you need to pay a lot of commissions.

He had no need for money laundering and no experience in black market gold trading, and this was the first time he had contacted SBCS. This consulting company was introduced to him by someone, and he remembered it when he mentioned it occasionally half a year ago. It's not easy at the moment, but it's not ignorant either.

He knew in his mind, first, prepare a few bank accounts, and then start the follow-up.

British-owned Standard Chartered Bank has a strong presence in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, but does not have any presence in China.

Fu Chen chose it as the opening bank, in fact, he valued its British capital, that is, its European and American background. Compared with the less developed banking industry in developing countries, the banking industry in Europe and the United States has a very mature development system, and more importantly, it has a high degree of secrecy, and it is a private bank.

Don't think that Swiss banks are blowing up when you hear about banks, in fact, many banks are quite good, such as HSBC and Citigroup, private property is sacrosanct, which is also the creed that the banking industry abides by.

Not all banks have the same horrific secrecy as the UBS Group. But in fact, many banks are not low in secrecy, at least in private banks, as are Standard Chartered, HSBC and Citi. This tradition of secrecy is being lost after the introduction of the US government's FATCA program.

But for non-Americans, the secrecy of private banks can be ensured, which is useful for Fu Chen, who has eight tons of gold in his hands, and he is not an American.

Of course, this does not mean that banks can be ignored for money laundering, most central banks have anti-money laundering offices and tax settlement centers, and private banks are under their supervision, among which the most famous Swiss banks, even if they have the tools of the Swiss bank secrecy law, must also comply with the anti-money laundering rules that have been issued by the FATF.

Fu Chen registered multiple bank accounts just to diversify the transfer risk, and Standard Chartered Bank is not the first, nor will it be the last.

In less than two hours, he registered a number of bank accounts, of course, in the identity of Fu Chen, a Chinese man, and he also knew that as long as the gold transaction was over, hundreds of millions of dollars would be remitted into the account, and the bank trading center would naturally notice this large amount of remittance.

But there is no way, as long as it does not alarm the authorities, the central bank and the anti-money laundering department of the tax police do not start the anti-money laundering procedures, these are not problems. The most important thing is that the central banks in Europe and the United States are all private banks, and the anti-money laundering investigation also takes time, and the time difference is enough for Fu Chen to have a room to maneuver.

It may sound a bit contradictory, but it is precisely because of these contradictions that Fu Chen chose Standard Chartered and HSBC in the United Kingdom, Citigroup and Morgan in the United States, Paris in France and Western Pacific in Australia.

He was prepared, packed up, and headed straight to SBCS.

Passing by the Marina Bay Bridge, the taxi finally stopped at the entrance of the Royal Hotel, on the 41st floor, where SBCS is located. Entering the building and taking the elevator upstairs, Fu Chen arrived and said Colette's name to the front desk, and then met this Mr. Colette, one should be a mixture of British and Malay, after seeing Fu Chen, Mr. Colette also said a sentence in Chinese: "Neihou!" ”

In this ugly Cantonese, Fu Chen squeezed out a smile at him and said in English, "Hello, Mr. Colette." ”

Colette first led him into a reception room, waited for the two parties to sit down, and a cup of coffee was served, before he got straight to the point and asked in fluent English, "Mr. Li, how can I help you?" SBCS is the most professional and we will do our best to meet any of your needs. ”

"I'm going to sell some gold and exchange it for dollars on the regular route." Fu Chen said directly, lifting the suitcase under the table as he spoke, placing it flat on the table, and opening it under Colette's surprised gaze, revealing the pieces of gold inside.

It's golden, it's conspicuous, and no one can ignore its charm.

Colette smiled knowingly, many consultants who came to SBCS have made such a request, and it can be said that they are familiar with driving. As an elite talent serving these unknown origins, of course he heard Fu Chen's words, but he didn't explicitly say that it was money laundering.

The gold in this suitcase, at least a hundred kilograms, Colette estimated at a glance how much weight it was, looking at the gold, it was hard for him to imagine that the young Chinese man in front of him, who was not amazing, would have such a great strength to easily lift it, and even more unexpectedly, this Chinese man would take out so much gold casually.

Skimming over the many complicated thoughts in his heart, Colette looked at the gold and replied in a professional manner: "Yes." Regardless of whether there is a gold file or not, we at SBCS can take this order. ”

Fu Chen nodded and didn't say anything more.

Seeing this, Colette made a phone call, and within a few minutes of the end of the call, a person walked into the reception room, a gold appraiser, who took some firm instruments and began to make accurate calculations of the gold fineness content.

The wait was relatively long, Fu Chen watched the appraiser do the test around the gold, and Colette remained very silent very professionally.

According to the appraiser, the gold is a gold bar pressed in 1939, weighing about 500g, with the mark of the Daiwa Bank of Japan on it. Therefore, preliminary observation shows that gold has a real origin, and the possibility of counterfeiting is relatively small. This is the first impression, and the rest is the most important.

Nearly 20 minutes later, the 10 randomly selected gold bars were examined, and the appraiser finally said: "Mr. Li's batch of gold is 999 Fine, that is, 24K gold, with a gold content of more than 99.9%. ”

When the appraiser said this, Colette was relieved, and Fu Chen was also relieved, and the two began to talk about the rest of the matter, and the appraiser began to calculate the total amount of gold.

After a while, the total weight of gold was finally calculated, 99.1654kg.

Turning his head to look at this batch of gold, Colette looked directly at Fu Chen and said directly: "SBCS is a professional consulting service provider, and it will not deliberately lower the price. Therefore, we calculate directly from the real-time price average of the gold trading market in Port Nurem for that day, according to the calculation, the current average gold price is 1334.9400 XAUUSD. ”

"So, this batch of gold of yours is worth $4,669,562.119." In the end, Colette gave the answer.

One hundred kilograms is more than four million dollars, then eight tons is eighty hundred kilograms, that is 320 million dollars, very good, Fu Chen is very satisfied.

"How much can I get?" After the calculation, he asked again. Since it is black market gold, it is naturally impossible to calculate it as just now, the discount is absolute, according to his previous understanding, nearly 100kg of gold is whitewashed, and 15% of the handling fee will be deducted, I don't know how much it is now.

Colette shook her head, didn't answer that, and talked about the whole thing.

"We at SBCS are responsible for selling this batch of black market gold, and after all the funds are withdrawn, they will be laundered into your bank account in batches according to the plan. Make sure no AML organization notices you, rest assured that we are professional. ”

"Well, how much do I have to pay?" Fu Chen nodded in understanding, and then asked.

"You would have to pay a 15% fee, but you're a new customer and your first one is a big deal. Therefore, we at SBCS have decided to give you a discount of 2 percentage points, which is 13%. Finally, you'll need to pay $607043. Colette replied.

That is to say, Fu Chen can only get four million US dollars, which is not a good discount, but it is definitely not bad, so he thought about it and nodded in agreement.

"Yes, I hope to receive the balance as soon as possible."

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