Chapter 34 Sharpening the Knife

During this period, Yuri and Ivankov tried their best to move the funds in their hands to support Mikhail in Tokyo. However, because Yuri and Ivankov's businesses are in the hotel industry and gaming industry that require huge cash flow. So they can't come up with much money in a hurry.

Yuri and Ivankov also cannot obtain financing from financial institutions such as banks. Because whether it is a hotel chain, a casino or a betting shop, the accounts are inextricably linked to the gang. These accounts must never be seen by people in the bank. So Yuri turned his idea to Colombian drug dealers.

Yuri didn't dare to embezzle money from Escobar or the Orejuela brothers without saying a word. He must say hello in advance. Relatively speaking, Escobar trusted Yuri and the others more, and Escobar did not shirk the loan, but when he knew that Yuri wanted to borrow as much as 15 billion US dollars, Escobar could no longer calm down.

"Yuri, what do you want so much money for?" Escobar asked in surprise.

"This is Mr. Nicholas' order, and we just obeyed it! But Mr. Nicholas said that the money is not in vain, and the annual interest is 20%!" Yuri replied on the phone.

Escobar was in hesitation. Nicola’s people knew more about how much money he had than himself. Moreover, not long ago, Escobar proposed to the government to repay Colombia’s foreign debts. At that time, Escobar The amount proposed by Val is between 100 and 140 billion. It is clear to Nicolas whether Escobar can come up with the money.

"Yuri, you are embarrassing me!" Escobar said in a bad tone.

"My friend, if you are worried, I can mortgage my hotels and casinos to you. We will borrow the money for half a year, and we will return the principal with interest!" Yuri continued.

As soon as he heard that Uriken took out his property as collateral, Escobar was much more relieved. Escobar knew that Yuri was the behind-the-scenes owner of the Ibis hotel chain. The chain of low-cost hotels under Ibis spread all over large and medium-sized cities in Western Europe and North America. Most importantly, most of these hotels were owned by him. Coupled with the assets of the casino, 15 billion is definitely not a loss.

Escobar considered that all the arms in his hands now come from Nicholas, and he is now relying on organizing his own armed forces to fight against the government. Even if he did offend Nicholas, he couldn't choose such a time, so he reluctantly agreed.

With the 15 billion US dollars in Escobar's hands, the remaining Cali Group will not be so difficult. Yuri used the same method to mortgage part of the assets in the United States, and raised another five billion US dollars from the Cali Group.

Yuri sent the money to Mikhail again through the Columbia Bank. Now Mikhail has 60 billion US dollars in funds.

It was not only Yuri who raised funds for Mikhail, but also Yakov in Italy. But they are also gangsters, and the Italians are not as rich and powerful as the Colombians.

Yakov does not have any property of his own, and the only company is the Mediterranean Trading Company affiliated to the Soviet government. So Yakov couldn't rely on mortgages to borrow money like Yuri, he could only do apportionment. It's a pity that Yakov's method can't make these stingy Italians take out real money. Yakov worked hard for a long time and got hundreds of millions of dollars.

As the date approached, Eva and Karim also successively raised some funds and sent them to Japan. The sum of the bits and pieces together was less than 60 billion US dollars. Although it is a huge sum of money. But Mikhail's opponents in Japan are veteran chaebols like Mitsui, Mitsubishi, and Sumitomo. Only this little money is definitely not enough.

Seryozha has secretly started to embezzle foreign exchange from the Foreign Trade Bank. Although it is said to embezzle the country's money. But Seryozha thought he was doing the right thing.

This time, Seryozha will not only enrich his own wealth, but also obtain more foreign exchange for the Foreign Trade Bank. At the very least, he must repay the part of the foreign debt owed to West Germany from the Brezhnev era. That money was originally owed for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. We must know that before the war in Afghanistan, the relationship between the Soviet Union, Western Europe and the United States continued to ease. The Soviets originally hoped to use this Olympic Games to let the world know a new Soviet Union. The Olympics borrowed almost ten billion dollars from West Germany, but with the outbreak of the war in Afghanistan in the last days of 1979, the Soviets' money was in vain.

This foreign debt of West Germany has been overdue for several years, and it is pressed on the heads of the Soviet people with interest. The price of natural gas delivered to West Germany by the Soviet Union's Su-European Natural Gas Project is now much lower than that of France and the United Kingdom, largely because the interest on this debt is at play.

Although the treasury of the country that Gorbachev took over is still relatively abundant, foreign exchange earnings have begun to decline. The competitiveness of the Soviet Union's industrial products in the world continued to decline, and the Eastern European countries continued to experience turmoil and economic difficulties, unable to provide the Soviet Union with a place to dump goods. The future situation will only get worse.

Seryozha soon set up an office for the Foreign Trade Bank in the City of London, headed by Seryozha's heartfelt Nastya. Seryozha arranged for her to leave Moscow for London to handle preliminary work. The City of London has deregulated the financial industry because of the British government's hunger for capital. Therefore, Seryozha's funds can flow into the account of the London branch of the Soviet Foreign Trade Bank without any scruples.

Not long after Nastya came to London, he took the initiative to visit those old friends of Seryozha in England. These etiquette matters are only for the VTB Bank to gain a firm foothold in the financial city. Because of Seryozha's relationship, the British Bankers' Union accepted the VTB Bank, a bank from the other side of the Iron Curtain. Many British government officials still remember Gorbachev's visit last year. Gorbachev left an enlightened impression on the British government. Now Gorbachev is the general secretary. The cooperation between the United States and the United States has become increasingly close. With the failure of the coal miners' strike, British society has finally returned to an orderly state.

However, when British friends were still fascinated by Seryozha’s representative Nastya, a signed article by Seryozha was published in a magazine, which surprised the British financial circle.

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