Green spent a whole month in South Africa risking being wanted, during which time truckloads of large quantities were transported through the Suez Canal to the port of Cape Town, South Africa.
And in exchange for it was a lot of gold.
Glencore had not previously dealt with gold.
As one of the world's most important reserve assets, the gold market has always been firmly in the hands of the Rothschilds.
However, just like when Macridge fought against the Seven Sisters of Oil, Green still used spot trading to start intervening in the market.
Seryosha's foreign exchange business made many Komsomol cadres make a fortune, but this way of moving ants is too inefficient and far from satisfying Seryosha.
Now that everything is easier with gold, Seryosha soon ordered the Bank of Foreign Trade to use foreign exchange reserves to buy Glencore's spot gold, and in today's global economic environment, due to the sluggish US economy, the dollar does not seem to be the best way to store value, but gold is more secure.
Therefore, Seryosha's decision is actually beneficial to both the Foreign Trade Bank and the Gorky Brotherhood, and Seryosha wants to reserve more US dollars in cash as soon as possible to reserve ammunition for the upcoming Japanese operation.
As a result, after Green's return to Switzerland, truckloads of oil destined for South Africa were converted into gold and shipped back to the Soviet Union, and the corresponding foreign trade bank dollar reserves began to flow to Seryosha's shell companies abroad.
Because of Valentin's sudden rise, Seryosha had to lay out the domestic layout for the Colombian arms business.
Relying on air and extensive land transport is too much to lose, and as the conflict between Escobar and the Colombian government intensifies, the Medellín group needs more and more orders for weapons.
For this reason, Seryosha decided to send some reliable members of the Gorky Brotherhood to the Far East under the name of the Komsomol Youth Scientific and Cultural Center to open a trading company dedicated to the export of arms.
The location was set in Vladivostok, where the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Red Navy was located.
In the future, the arms that Valentin obtained from Afghanistan only need to be safely transported to the union republics in Central Asia, and then transported to Vladivostok with the help of the Trans-Siberian Railway.
MSD will provide the necessary cover for these shipments.
After the tragic battle for La Modero prison, the Colombian Ministry of Justice listed Escobar and his Medellín group as an illegal organization to focus on, focused on dealing with the Medellín group, and agreed to the Americans' extradition request.
When the news reached Medellín, the Medellín City Hall openly defied the orders of the Colombian government, not only declaring the Colombian Ministry of Justice's trial illegal, but also allowing Escobar to be elected to the Medellín City Council.
At the behest of money, even the domestic media in Colombia sided with the Medellín group, and the television repeatedly showed the footage of the downed Colombian government helicopter gunship using machine guns to strafe the prisoners in the prison before it was shot down.
Escobar's methods were not limited to this, because among the rescued prisoners were not only drug dealers, but also militants from various left-center-right factions in Colombia, and Escobar took the opportunity to contact the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FAC), once the Colombian military organization and the largest armed force in Colombia, and the Colombian People's Liberation Army, which is the second largest pro-Cuban far-left faction in the country.
These left-wing guerrillas are constantly fighting against government forces and right-wing paramilitaries in Colombia, and they are naturally very strong in combat.
And the FARC has now broken away from Colombian leadership and has become an independent armed faction that relies on hostage-taking and drug smuggling to finance it.
Over the years, the power has become more and more powerful, not only with the largest number of personnel, but also with the best equipment in Colombia.
Not only can Escobar provide financial support for both, but more importantly, Escobar has a well-established sales channel in North America.
The Medellín group, which had only been a gang until now, had to follow the same path of military confrontation as these guerrillas in order to survive.
When Valentin received a new order from Escobar, he realized that his existing supply channels could no longer meet the needs of his business.
Because Escobar not only had to arm himself with a standing force of about 2,000 men, but also helped the FARC and the Colombian People's Liberation Army to procure arms.
In addition to the standing 74 assault rifles, S Dragunov sniper rifles, Tokarev 33 pistols, and conventional weapons, there were also small quantities of helicopter gunships, armored vehicles and tanks.
Valentin himself could not bear this huge order, so he pretended to be a reporter and did everything possible to contact the leaders of the Soviet army stationed in the Kandahar area.
First, he almost gained the trust of the other party, and then lured the leaders of the garrison to resell the logistics and combat materials of the Soviet army.
When he grabbed the handle of these people, he immediately revealed his KGB identity.
These leaders were frightened on the spot by Valentin, who threatened to say that he had been photographed by the KGB to investigate the problem, and threatened to bring them back to China for interrogation by the KGB.
These people immediately knelt down and wept bitterly and begged for mercy from Valentin, whose notoriety made it impossible for them to refuse any of Valentin's demands.
Valentin first threatened these people, then lured, and finally pretended to be helpless and proposed either to make some money together in the distance of the emperor from above, or to report their behavior to the KGB.
Under a series of countermeasures against Valengin's carrots and sticks, these people finally gave in.
The local arsenal in Kandahar finally became Valentin's private warehouse, at first it was 74 and r, and the garrison leaders reapplied to their superiors for new equipment under the pretext that the previous batch of guns was unqualified and the failure rate was high, and when these brand-new weapons were only airlifted to Kandahar the next day, they were transported back to the Soviet mainland.
Soon the brand-new equipment was shipped to Vladivostok as Afghan textiles for export to Colombia. t1706231537: