Chapter 261: Blood Diamond

Although the download time is very short, Cheng Yu has already thought about it a lot.

He was mainly pondering the text of the pipeline.

What does it mean that although there is a layer of separation, but after all, the hands are still covered with blood.

At the beginning, seeing that the pipeline was very serious, Cheng Yu thought that Levendi's family was related to arms or X products, but since they were separated by one layer, it could not be these two things.

If it's pornography, or gambling, it's completely legal to operate in Europe, and there's no such thing as black money. On the contrary, casinos have always been one of the best channels for money laundering.

So what could it be?

Smuggle?

Although smuggling is also the target of various countries' key crackdowns, it harms the interests of a country more, and for ordinary people, in fact, the damage is not so great.

This is quite in line with the saying that there is a layer of separation, but in any case, it can't be said that the hands are covered with blood, right?

With great curiosity, Cheng Yu clicked on the document.

After only reading two lines, he finally understood why the pipeline would talk to him with such a serious attitude, and what kind of industry it was.

Diamond!

It turned out to be diamonds.

In the past, Cheng Yu didn't know much about diamonds, and even, as long as they were not engaged in this industry, including women who were eager for diamonds, they didn't actually understand how diamonds shone on their fingers.

This small one, the essence is actually graphite things, when worn on the hand, hanging around the neck, it is indeed brilliant, a few grams of diamonds, often a person can not earn a lifetime of the number.

The weight unit of a diamond is unique, called a carat, and one carat weighs only 0.2 grams.

In the market, depending on the color of the diamond and the cutting process, the price of a carat loose diamond ranges from thousands to tens of thousands of soft girls.

Moreover, diamonds and gold are different.

Gold is a general equivalent, that is, the price per gram of gold is fixed. Of course, the price of gold fluctuates according to the market, but no matter how it fluctuates, the unit price per gram is constant.

But that's not the case with diamonds.

The price of a diamond has a very large relationship with the size, color, cutting process, etc., and this relationship does not even have a stable price.

The market price of a one-carat loose diamond is mostly around 10,000 yuan, but the price of a 10,000-carat loose diamond may even be less than 1,000 yuan.

Diamonds that usually sell for more than 50 cents.

And a two-carat diamond is often about 100,000 yuan.

As for the three-carat and five-carat ones, it will be a sky-high price.

Five carats, only one gram weighs, this thing, I don't know how much more expensive than gold.

However, this is the market price of finished diamonds, and it does not mean that those who actually own diamonds can also make a fortune from it.

In this world, if a person is born in the Arab region, even if his family does not own any oil fields, as long as he is engaged in related industries, the standard of living is not too bad.

But this is not the case in Africa, where diamonds originate.

In Africa, except for a small part of the diamond veins that fall into the hands of certain countries, more often in the hands of some local armed forces or warlords.

And the reason why these warlords are able to compete with the regular army of their own government is because there are European and American consortia providing them with guns and ammunition and providing all the backup guarantees.

A pristine, unpolished diamond was carved out of a gravel stream by hundreds of African laborers forced to wash it out of a gravel stream by the guns of warlords.

These diamonds, after being obtained by the warlords, will be sold to European and American consortia at a very low price, and then polished, processed, cut, designed and other industrial means will be put on the counter.

I dare not say that every diamond carries a human life behind it, but there is no doubt that at least half of the 100 diamonds on the market are stained with the blood of African people.

The reason why these European and American conglomerates will support those rebel forces at any cost is precisely for this purpose.

Cheng Yu learned all this from a movie by Leonardo, and then, he checked a lot of information for this, so when he saw that the word diamond was written on the information, he almost instantly understood what Leondi's family did.

Obviously, the Levendi family was the conduit for rough diamonds from Africa to the consortia in Europe and the United States, or to jewelers.

They control certain African warlords, or at least maintain long-term relationships with them, and receive extremely low-priced diamonds from them — diamonds that may cost as little as one percent of the market price.

They then make a simple cut of the diamond and sell it to those jewelers to become a diamond in the market.

Jewelers and consortia will never admit that the diamonds in their hands come from illegal sources, and in Africa, almost all countries have extremely strict controls on the export of diamonds, and smuggling diamonds is even a capital offense in some countries.

Therefore, Levendi's family is naturally the middleman who turns these diamonds from black to white.

If it is really to be traced, although the diamonds in the hands of those jewelers may not be traced back to the source, it is not difficult to prove that they are illegal.

It can only be said that the developed countries in Europe and the United States are also turning a blind eye to all this.

However, on the surface, they still have to make a severe blow to a family like Levendi.

In any case, it is necessary to give an explanation to the people, because the diamonds handled by the Levendi family were directly laundered by the government with the tacit consent of the government after they entered the hands of the jewelers, but the money given by the jewelers to the Levendi family can only exist as black money.

Because of this, the Levendi family controls an extremely lucrative industry, and their profits even exceed dozens of times the original price of diamonds.

It is said in Capital that if there is 100 percent profit, capital will dare to risk hanging its head, and if there is 300 percent profit, capital will dare to trample on all the laws of the world.

And the profit of the Levendi family has undoubtedly exceeded one thousand.

Because of this, they really need a stable and healthy channel to help them launder these black money.

The loss of thirty percent is nothing to the Levendi family, which has billions of black money. On this planet, the fee for money laundering is even as high as more than 50%, which is not much higher than the value of counterfeit money.

Cheng Yu didn't read the document thoroughly, and after a general understanding, he deleted it casually.

In fact, when he learned what the Levendi family was doing, this information had lost its meaning.

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Seeing that after Cheng Yu glanced at his mobile phone, he was silent, and his face became extremely grim, Du Xiaoyu couldn't help but be a little curious and poked his head over.

She asked, "What's wrong with you? What is it that makes you so serious?"

Cheng Yu casually put the phone on the table and said, "Your curiosity is inevitably too heavy, does it have anything to do with you?"

Du Xiaoyu pursed her lips, but she had nothing to say, but she still saw that the person who sent a message to Cheng Yu on her mobile phone was the pipe. The reason is simple, the information of the pipeline is at the very top.

With a casual glance, Du Xiaoyu saw a few words in the paragraph of the pipeline.

She muttered in her heart: It's hard to check? What is so difficult to check? Cheng Yu is going out on vacation by himself, why does he have to check things?

With Du Xiaoyu's cleverness, she easily guessed that what Cheng Yu wanted to check was probably Lai Wendi.

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