Switzerland, in an antique building on the shore of Lake Zurich, an international trading company called Romanov was quietly established here, and in Zurich, an international financial city where every inch of land is valuable, there are UBS, Credit Suisse, and many private banks.
Many financial institutions have a history of nearly 100 years, and among them, Romanov is obviously an inconspicuous little character, but this little character has not been very disciplined recently, and actually uses double the market price of salaries, and high commissions higher than the industry average to dig experienced traders, especially wheat spot traders, so that all trading companies hate this inconspicuous small character who has just been established.
This company is Karim's new commodities trading company, which is why it chose a place like Switzerland.
That's because it's a permanently neutral country, so you can trade freely and undisturbed.
Karim has just acquired Saskatchewan Wheat Associates, Canada's largest integrated grain and oil company, which controls most of the wheat acquisition, storage, processing, and distribution processes in Saskatchewan, Canada's largest wheat growing region.
At the same time, Seryosha set up a similar trading company in Moscow, and the Romanov company was the most critical node in it.
Seryosha's ultimate goal was to sell Canadian wheat to the Soviet Union, but this business, which was very ordinary after a dozen years, now seems like a fantasy.
First of all, Canada and the Soviet Union were divided into different camps between the East and the West, and there were few international trade agreements between them.
According to the current rules of international trade, Canada and the Soviet Union simply did not have the means to conduct such a large-scale legal grain trade, and even if they could, it would be operated by the Soviet Union's state-owned foreign trade bank, and it would not be Seryosha's turn at all.
As for the foreign trade rights promised by Ryzhkov, it was clear to both men that the scope of their operations was limited to the Warsaw Pact countries, or non-aligned countries such as Yugoslavia, or neutral countries such as Switzerland, and other countries such as India.
As for the United States, even if you want to trade with others, they may not agree.
However, after a series of political problems in Poland, the trade barrier between the East and the West seems to have loosened slightly.
As the Solidarity movement grew stronger in Poland, the United States, as well as many countries in Western Europe, began to bet on them.
Seryosha once represented a donation to Solidarity from an unknown source.
The change in attitude in the Western camp gave Seryosha an opportunity to ship wheat to Poland without being hindered by the Canadian government.
Of course, this is not without risk, and the Polish government may confiscate the flour as smuggled goods.
But if there is Solidarity as an internal response, then everything is not a problem.
Now that the first shipment of flour from Canada is at sea, the negotiations between Yakov and Solidarity are gradually coming to an end.
Yakov's proposed plan, Solidarity, was unlikely to be rejected at all, because the shortage economy in Poland was getting worse, and both the government and the unions were fighting for more people's hearts, after all, whoever could provide bread would follow the people.
Therefore, this batch of flour has more power than guns.
The final destination of Canadian flour was the Polish port of Gdansk on the Baltic coast, which was once a German city and was formerly known as Danzig.
Before World War II, it was a free city taken over by the League of Nations, but now it is the most turbulent city of the Polish workers' movement, the stronghold of Solidarity, and the second largest political storm in Poland after Warsaw.
The flour was nominally sold by the Saskatchewan Wheat Joint Venture to the Romanoff Trading Company.
At the same time, a shipment of cotton was to be delivered to the port of Gdansk from Uzbekistan in the Soviet Union, which was legally exported to Poland by Seryosha's Moscow trading company.
Both shipments will be stored in the port's bonded zone, awaiting the next step of the Romanov trading company.
As a Swiss company, the Romanov trading company simply does not have to comply with the trade ban issued by NATO countries.
Two different commodities would be bartered in Poland without the exchange of dollars, with the Moscow Trading Company getting the flour it needed and the Romanov Trading Company taking the cotton.
In the process, Solidarity is responsible for the safety of the goods, and they receive a portion of the flour in return.
The process was entirely a game played by the companies controlled by Seryosha, and all the members involved in the deal were able to get what they wanted.
Seryosha did not need to use a penny of foreign exchange in the Soviet Union, nor did he need to advance his savings abroad to finance the transaction.
The only money flows between the United States and Switzerland are under Swiss law, neither the Soviet Union nor the United States can trace detailed transaction records, and Switzerland is not prohibited from trading with the Soviet Union.
In the process, Seryosha offered cotton, oil, or whatever.
Seryosha's domestic clients who need to launder money can also get involved through various channels, such as bearer bonds issued by the National Housing Bank.
This kind of thing is more subtle than cash, and it also has interest.
Seryosha didn't come up with this elaborate plan alone, and Karim played a very big role in it.
During this time, she wandered between the nobility and the top wealthy class in Western Europe, and she also learned some business matters, and obtained some knowledge of domestic and foreign trade transactions from Sobchak's mouth with Seryosha's side, and finally determined this complex and huge plan.
The Moscow Trading Company was set up in such a hurry that Seryosha sent his secretary Nastya to preside over the preparations and follow-up of the company, while another of his generals, Gorman, was sent to the National Housing Development Company to take charge of the construction of the project.
Now Seryosha's black business is even more hidden, and unless the United States and the Soviet Union jointly investigate, and Switzerland changes its own banking law, no one wants to hold the handle on Seryosha's hands.
Seryosha can finally hand over the work to his subordinates easily and reassuringly, and he finally has the energy to think about what he is more interested in, that is, to explore more Soviet black technology to Western countries, and use the country's huge scientific research strength to grab greater wealth. t1706231537: