New York, Brooklyn, the streets are eerily quiet in the middle of the night.
A couple of loose-weared, hip-hop young Hispanics sneakily gathered along the street to a semi-basement nightclub.
The nightclub was filled with smoke, and the girls were squirming with their heads and squirming to the loud music.
The newcomers greeted their acquaintances warmly, then walked across the dance floor to the staff passage at the back, and after a series of searches and checks, they were able to enter a hidden room.
Everyone took the initiative to take out handfuls of loose money from their pockets and put them on the table, and soon someone began to count them.
"Why are there so many twenty-dollar bills?"
asked an accountant-looking man dissatisfied.
A young man was startled, but he replied fluently: "The guys who took the goods just grabbed a convenience store, I think it's probably because of that."
"Boy, remember to change change next time," said the man who had been sitting on the sofa and smoking.
"I'm sorry Mr.
Gomez, I'll pay attention next time," the young man said respectfully, bowing his head.
"All right, go get the money, Santiago," said the old accountant with a wave of his hand.
Santiago walked over to another table, and soon someone handed him a bag of chips that were his salary for the month.
Santiago didn't show any displeasure, he thanked him and left.
Santiago walked briskly towards the intersection, he looked back at the figure behind him from time to time, and the pace under his feet became faster and faster, and at this moment he just wanted to leave here as fast as he could.
He turned a corner at the intersection, took a few steps forward, came to a car parked on the side of the road, pulled the door and sat in as fast as he could, and the car quickly left the place.
"You got it," asked a man sitting next to him in the car.
"Got it," Santiago handed over a bag of chips to the other party.
"D, these drug dealers are so cunning that they actually use casino chips as a salary," the man sitting next to Santiago took out a handful of chips from his pocket and said angrily.
"What do we do next?"
asked Santiago to the others.
"Then go and find out where these things come from," someone replied.
This scene is not an isolated case, and in recent times, DEA agents active in East Coast states have found that their D-Pins in their jurisdiction have suddenly begun to pay their salaries with casino chips.
As a result, the DEA is increasingly confused about the flow of funds from D-trafficking organizations.
These chips presumably came from Atlantic City, which is a city that allows the gaming industry to exist.
In order to facilitate transactions, the local gambling association has established a uniform stacking standard for all casinos in the city.
In Atlantic City, chips are exactly the same as money.
You can use it to pay for hotels, bars, tips for service staff, and even for prostitution.
No one knows where the money comes from, the casino is not obligated to ask, and gamblers are not willing to say it.
This makes these DEA agents how to track down Lately, the drug dealers have been rushing to Atlantic City in droves, and all they have to do is enter the casino, play a few bars at one of the tables, and then exchange all the chips for cash.
If they are caught, as long as they bite the money and earn it themselves, then the police do not have any evidence to accuse them.
As for the casinos, if you want to sue the casino, you have to prove that the casino knew that the source of the money was illegal, and this is simply an impossible task, and is there a safer way to launder money in the world, all of which makes New Jersey DEA agents feel helpless.
And the roots of all this come from the cooperation between Yuri and the Medellín Group.
Now on the East Coast, especially in New Jersey and New York, Atlantic City chips are beginning to circulate in underground trading on the periphery of the Medellín group.
Another effect of this is the increasing number of customers coming to Atlantic City's casinos.
Yuri and Ivankov didn't continue to trouble the Irish casinos, he wasn't stupid enough to go to all the casinos in Atlantic City and let all the pressure from the police be transferred to him, instead, he had to support those former competitors to attract firepower.
The presence of those Irish casinos can confuse the police, and anyway, the chips cannot be traced back to which casino, but the Irish casinos that are in better business are more eye-catching.
Yuri's casino is still far from being profitable on the books, in fact, Yuri is making a lot of money behind the scenes, everything has just begun, Yuri wants to develop cautiously and steadily, so he is not in a hurry, and he does not plan to continue to expand in the betting market in Atlantic City, now the layout in Atlantic City is very reasonable, Yuri plans to wait for a while to go to Las Vegas to see if there are any casinos for sale there.
During this time, Ivankov recruited a number of Soviets from Brighton who fled from Afghanistan to the United States.
As the Soviet Red Army's fighting in Afghanistan became more difficult, more and more Soviet soldiers were captured and defected voluntarily by the S-station forces during this time, and the trend of defection intensified among some Turkmen and Uzbek forces, which forced domestic decision-makers to mobilize troops from Russia and Ukraine to participate in the war.
Ivankov's Asian face attracted many defectors and stowaways from the Soviet Union in Central Asia, who came to this strange land through hardships and dangers, and most needed a job to earn a living, plus they had all been on the battlefield, and they were simply the most valuable talents in Ivankov's eyes.
After the last time they were hunted by the Irish, both Yuri and Ivankov understood the importance of having force in their hands.
In the multi-ethnic country of the United States, all minority gangs rely on their fellow villagers to grow.
Yuri and Ivankov have been on the road for so many years, and it is simply familiar with forming a violent organization that obeys their orders, coupled with the fact that the personnel recruited are all veterans who have participated in the battle, and their own combat qualities are very high, coupled with sufficient personnel sources and funds, Ivankov and Yuri believe that as long as time passes, their organization will definitely gain a foothold in New York and New Jersey. t1706231537: