For Seryosha, the caviar smuggling case has nothing to do with him, and what is even worse is the news that follows: General Secretary Andropov sent an investigation team to Uzbekistan to investigate the chaos of cotton subsidy funds, what Mikhail did in Uzbekistan, Seryosha knows very well, and once something happens, it will be a real disaster.
Mikhail has always used the name of Nikolai to solicit business in Uzbekistan through anonymous letters.
He also transplanted the mutual aid society to Uzbekistan to collect head accounts.
Now the information on the head account has been completely destroyed in the fire of Gorky.
The only problem was that Mikhail had used his connections for the cotton business of the Moscow Trading Company, and Seryosha feared that something would go wrong here.
He didn't want to stay in Volgograd for a moment, he wanted to go back to Moscow, ask Mikhail about the matter in Uzbekistan, and find out if there was a handle to stay there.
The staff of the Seryoshato Hotel left a message for Yakov and left early.
He came to the train station and bought the nearest train ticket back to Moscow.
Along the way, Seryosha repeatedly read newspaper reports about the Uzbek cotton case.
He kept thinking about vulnerabilities that might be noticed.
With something in mind that the journey was particularly long, Seryosha returned to Moscow worried.
He asked the driver to come to the railway station to pick him up, and as soon as he sat in the car, the Altai phone in the car rang, and Seryosha picked up the microphone and listened, and the call was actually from Churbanov.
"Oh God forbid, I finally found you, I thought something was wrong with you," Chubanov said with relief.
"I read the newspaper and know what's going on, everything is okay with you," Seryosha asked in a deliberately vague voice, he didn't want the driver to hear anything, but he knew that Chubanov understood what he said.
"I'm sorry, Secretary Ulyanov, I may have to pull over, I need to smoke a cigarette to refresh myself" Seryosha's driver understood what he had to do, and Seryosha nodded appreciatively.
Seryosha's driver quickly stopped the car, and he stood on the side of the road and lit a cigarette.
Seryosha was very fond of smart people, and he left himself alone in the car and continued to talk to Chulbanov.
"Tell me what's going on now," Seryosha asked impatiently.
"Our people have not had an accident yet, and the people who have had an accident are all border guards in the southern Black Sea region.
About a third of the senior commanders were taken away by the KGB men, and Andropov is really here this time," Chubanov said cautiously.
"Can you guarantee that the people of the border guards can keep their mouths shut" Seryosha asked uneasily, after all, his affairs are semi-public in the small circle of border guards under Chulbanov, and several people know what Seryosha does, when they made a fortune together, they naturally said hello, hello, hello, everyone, but once something happens, I don't know who is reliable and who is unreliable.
"I'm not sure, I'm not sure what will happen to these people in the hands of the KGB, but I still have some connections within the KGB, Seryosha is a top priority, I want you to be prepared first, if something happens to any of these people, you have to find a way to deal with it," Chubanov said fiercely, he didn't really want to do anything to his cronies, but when it was a last resort, he could only do so.
"From now on, don't use the public communication system, I'll send you and your men a satellite phone, and then we'll use him to contact you and tell them that if something happens to me, I can get him abroad, and if you dare to confess that you shouldn't say it, I'll kill his whole family," Seryosha said to Chulbanov in a stern tone.
Seryosha put down the phone and immediately found the driver, and the car took Seryosha to Petrov's father, he called both Hassan and Mikhail, and when everyone arrived.
Seryosha said to Mikhail: "Mikhail, do you know about the people sent to Uzbekistan to investigate the cotton case, now you have a good memory of who you have mainly contacted in Uzbekistan in the past six months, and whether anyone knows about our affairs?"
"Seryosha, I have always been very careful in Uzbekistan, and during that time I recruited clients with anonymous letters, and no one knew about us," Mikhail said with certainty.
Seryosha nodded, he believed in Mikhail's prudence.
Over the years, Mikhail was the most reassuring of all the people, and Seryosha entrusted Mikhail with many important things.
However, this did not completely reassure Seryosha, Uzbekistan is one of the most important markets for Seryosha, and Seryosha must know about the actions of Andropov's investigation team in Uzbekistan.
So he turned to Hassan and asked, "Hassan, do you know what we do?"
"I can't say boss, you can just tell me, as long as I can do it," Hassan said with little confidence.
"Hassan, I want you to go to Tashkent and keep an eye on the investigation team sent down for me.
What they have done, who they have seen, the more detailed the better," Seryosha commanded.
"Boss, this is easy to do, when will I go?"
asked Hassan.
"Leave tomorrow morning, I'll give you a call, there are some things you can't investigate, you can call this number.
Remember not to say anything on a regular phone, be sure to use a satellite phone," Seryosha said, handing over a number and a satellite phone to Hassan.
This number was given to him by Chubanov and was the phone number of one of the heads of the Central Asian branch of the KGB.
Hassan accepted the assignment and left, leaving only Petrov, Seryosha and Mikhail in the room.
Seryosha said the other two: "I promised Chubanov that his people would come to us if something happened to them, and we were obliged to send those who had problems abroad.
But if the KGB is one step ahead of us, we have to find a way to get rid of him, and now the oil thing has not yet exploded, but the Uzbek cotton case is a big trouble, I thought about it for a while, our accounts are all in Switzerland, the Soviet government can't find out there, as long as the money goes into the Swiss bank, it is safe.
But we are not in a position to send people to do it at home, we have to recruit some people from abroad to help us out of trouble when necessary."
"What about those Italians, they owe us a lot of favors over the years, and I don't think they will refuse, and even if something happens, the government will not go too far in the light of the fact that the other party is Italian," Daddy Petrov suggested.
"Dad, I think so too" Seryosha looked at Mikhail after speaking, and Mikhail nodded in agreement. t1706231537: