Chapter 442: Clear Ownership
Shepard never had any idea of coveting others, after all, he could have other goals to pursue, not a man who had just been killed by his own men.
The main reason for him to find Jahira is to build Gacha's small treasury, as a big drug lord, Gacha's assets are also countless, comparable to Carlos Red, but many of these assets, he is not so easy to take.
The war on drugs, the war on drugs, is it really about drugs? That would be a big mistake, because if it was really about getting the war on drugs, then the CIA's target was not Pablo, but itself, the Drug Enforcement Administration and other departments, and even the military.
After all, during the Vietnam War, the U.S. military's drug abuse was common, and ordinary soldiers were fine, and the number of knocks was not much, and the average number of knocks was calculated in the thousands, but those elites who carried out sabotage missions behind enemy lines were stumbling to the death.
According to incomplete statistics, the U.S. *** team in Vietnam took a total of more than 200 million units of medicines, including things like *** and ***.
So, the trouble on the mind of the United States is not in Colombia, not in Mexico, but in New York, in Washington, D.C., so why start the war on drugs?
The root cause of the war on drugs is the outflow of dollars caused by the drug epidemic!
At its peak, the Medellín Group could earn 1.8 billion US dollars a day, that is to say, 180 million US dollars floated from China to abroad, which is nearly 60 billion a year, which is an astronomical amount, and you must know that the cost of the new nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Nimitz-class, which has been in service for 75 years, is also 10 billion.
In other words, the Medellín group alone can sweep away six nuclear-powered aircraft carriers from the United States every year.
Therefore, the reason why the Medellín group is targeted is because they are rich and too high-profile, of course, this does not exclude that some people are really willing to fight drugs because of their conscience and duty to make the world a better place, but for the high-level, the drug war is just a means.
Therefore, all parties involved in it are like gluttony, sharpening their teeth and starting this feast of spoils.
The size of the Shadow Company is a small shrimp in front of those real behemoths, and it is not even allowed, and it is not even qualified to be on the table, Carlos Red's assets, it seems that the Shadow Company has taken a lot, but the real big head is in the hands of the United States on the Colombian side, and Shepard can get a piece of meat in it, purely by standing in line.
Therefore, Gacha is the same, those assets that occupy the lion's share, including funds in the bank, bearer bonds, etc., etc., if he wants to monopolize these things, then the Shadow Company will immediately change from a green name to a red name, to put it mildly, Shepard wants to eat, then he has to wait for the people above to eat enough before he can eat leftovers.
In a way, it is really not possible for a military contractor to stand up and make money during this period, even if he has a gun and someone, he has to look at his face.
So, Shepard's goal was never those assets, his goal was the cash that had been hoarded.
Even in later generations, electronic payments in Latin America are not very developed, let alone now.
The amount of cash that the Medellín Group gets from selling drugs is terrifying, and what is even more terrifying is what to do with it.
The extravagant life of drug lords seems to cost a lot of money, but in fact, this luxurious life is the most efficient means, after all, no matter how good the house, no matter how delicious the food, the money spent is limited, not to mention Beverly Hills, even if they build a brand new Beverly by themselves, the money spent is still not more than the money they make.
Therefore, in order to launder this money as much as possible, the drug lords have tried all means to buy banks, invest, start companies, and even invest in welfare, providing free water, electricity, new houses, schools, roads, and parks to the people, but the money is still not spent.
In order to deal with the funds, even drug dealers began to dig pits and buy warehouses to hoard cash, and the amount of this money is so large that the people who bury the money do not know how much they have buried, so it is even more foolish to want to track the quantity.
Shepard wants this money, because it is too chaotic, so the officials are too lazy to track it down, because the assets they directly confiscated from drug dealers alone are already astronomical, and those numbers are larger than the country
GDP is high.
There were not many Gacha's men who did this kind of work, and there were such people among the few men who were captured in the manor, and after Hannibal made a surprise interrogation, he immediately sent people to several places where the other party confided.
It is a sparsely populated place, either an abandoned warehouse or an uninhabited wasteland, but the wealth buried in it is innumerable.
A group of PCs dug up nearly 10 million cash in the swamp, but because of improper storage, most of the cash has been soaked to a pulp, but the remaining ones are intact, and there are millions.
And Gacha's other henchmen naturally know more, so catch them and collect as many benefits as possible before Gacha's death is reported, which is Shepard's top priority at the moment.
After her daughter was threatened, Jahira immediately chose to cooperate with the Shadow Company, after all, she didn't have a choice, she didn't dare to gamble, bet on Shepard's conscience, after all, everyone knows that mercenaries have no credibility at all, and profit-seeking hyenas will even bite their employers, and no matter how fanciful the Shadow Company is, it is still a mercenary, so their conscience is in a state of uncertainty.
Jahira called Gacha's henchman, his personal lawyer Yago, who also entered hibernation after Gacha entered a state of escape, of course, this dormant is also relatively speaking, if his boss reverses the situation and the king returns, then he naturally does not have to lie dormant anymore, but if the boss is cool, then they can run away quickly, and they can also roll up a large amount of money when they leave.
As long as you escape overseas and change your face, you can live comfortably for the rest of your life.
But now, forced by the boss's ***, these henchmen are still honestly waiting for the call, and Yago, as a more loyal member, did not hesitate to agree to the other party's request to meet after receiving Jahira's call.
He didn't even ask why, but answered the time and place that Jahira had proposed.
"Well done, Lady Jahira!"
"I just hope you don't bother my daughter again, she's innocent!"
"Of course, don't worry, your daughter is safe, as long as you cooperate, we will not embarrass any collaborators!"
Shepard nodded, then said.