The Minister of Defense's advice to President Quartas was to find a way to give Escobar some hope first, so that he would automatically cut off the left-wing guerrillas.
As long as the Colombian drug cartels do not assist the left-wing guerrillas in raising funds through the sale of cocaine, the government forces will be able to withstand this menacing onslaught from the left-wing guerrillas.
In fact, he is the one who is under the greatest pressure in the cabinet now, and he will do his best to suppress the guerrilla attack and prevent Colombia from becoming a second Cuba.
But President Cuartas trusted the Americans too much and completely ignored the actual situation in Colombia.
At a time when coca has become a de facto staple cash crop in Colombia, the mere illusion that administrative means will make those below the poverty line abandon their dependence on the cocaine industry, and even that the Americans can help Colombia revive its declining economy.
Now it seems that Colombians will get nothing but a fragmented and volatile country.
Juan was a sensible man, but he did not want to follow Pinochet's dictatorial path.
Juan is convinced that Colombia's problems can only be solved by the Colombians themselves.
Seryosha's right-hand men, Ivankov and Yuri, temporarily withdrew from the United States and took refuge in Switzerland.
But Seryosha did not intend to give up his many years of business in the United States, he wanted to return to the United States in another way.
Now that Seryosha has been in business for many years, the Gorky Brotherhood is no longer just a gangster, it is more like a financial platform for the underworld, dealing with illegal funds from the Americas and Europe.
Seryosha's business is more akin to a multinational financial institution, a multinational financial institution that specializes in serving gangsters.
Seryosha's power is already in place, both for the Colombian drug cartels, which earn up to $30 billion a year, and for the mafia groups engaged in smuggling and drug trade on the Mediterranean coast.
Their money is no longer as clean as a few casinos and the big hotel chain industry can handle.
Seryosha needs to find a more efficient, safer and more covert means of money laundering to rebuild the Gorky Brotherhood, the world's largest money laundering group.
Seryosha focused his attention on investment banking, knowing that this was the most appropriate means for the Gorky Brotherhood to operate, in terms of efficiency and security.
For example, if money is laundered through the gambling industry, a large number of head accounts need to be involved, because casinos cannot always let a gambler win, and they must be averaged to the head accounts to be not easy to be detected.
The acquisition of shares through overseas offshore companies is completely different.
Objectively speaking, if it cannot be proved that the investment bank knew the true identity of the parties to the transaction during the acquisition, then the investment bank does not have to bear any legal liability.
And to prove that an investment bank knew that a deal was money laundering would have to break down the judicial and trade barriers of these offshore financial centers, even those as powerful as the United States would not be able to do.
If all this is realized, money laundering will become a very simple matter, Seryosha only needs to set up a foreign trade company in Colombia in the name of Escobar's relatives, and then let his subordinates deposit his funds into the overseas investment account opened by the Colombian bank for this company, and then Seryosha will open another bearer stock investment company in Panama to control the foreign trade company in Colombia, and the funds can enter Panama freely and safely.
Then Seryosha used exactly the same method to set up the same bearer stock investment company in the Netherlands Antilles, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and even the Virgin Islands, Liechtenstein and other places.
Because they are bearer stock investment companies, even the insiders of these offshore financial centers do not know who the shareholders are.
Moreover, these offshore centers have strict banking protection laws and judicial secrecy between them, and the tax rate is particularly low, even negligible, and the Cayman Islands only needs to pay $300 per year to open a company.
Prior to this, Seryosha had not tried to transfer funds in this way, and the huge foreign exchange reserves of the USSR Foreign Trade Bank were transferred to Japan in a short period of time in this way.
With the current size and branches of the Bank of Colombia, the conditions are ripe for the free transfer of funds between Japan, the countries of Eastern and Western Europe, as well as Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Canada in the Americas.
Seryosha felt that it was time to take this step.
However, Seryosha's financial career currently has a fatal shortcoming, that is, he does not have a fund manager who can manage trillions of dollars in assets.
Such talents are scarce not only in the Gorky Brotherhood, but also on Wall Street, the City of London, and the central banks of various countries.
Because when the capital reaches the trillion level, any small changes in the financial market will be magnified.
To take the simplest example, if you do nothing and sleep in a bank account, then in a few years, you will find that the value of that money has shrunk considerably, all because of inflation and economic development, even if you are rich, if you do nothing, your money will become less and less valuable.
Seryosha has decided that Mikhail will be the first head of the Bank of Colombia, but the specific business Mikhail will still be entrusted to someone more professional than him.
So Seryosha wanted to recruit Colombian banks around the world as asset managers.
Seryosha is doing this through a formal high-end headhunting channel, and according to the list given by the human resources company hired by the Bank of Colombia, Seryosha will decide who will be in charge of the trillions of funds in the Bank of Colombia.
There are only a lot of candidates on the list, but Seryosha, a well-known fund manager who has already set up his own business, is not sure that he will be able to ask someone to come back.
However, in this list, Seryosha saw a professional fund manager who was already well-known in the industry, Bilgros of Pacific Investment Management.
Seryosha asked Mikhail to inquire about the size of the Pacific investment management company, and Mikhail moved quickly, telling Seryosha that the investment management company now manages about two billion yuan in assets, mainly engaged in bond investment.
Although Bill Gross is the pillar of the company, he is only a senior partner and does not have many shares in the company.
Seryosha immediately said to Mikhail: "Take this company and make Bill Gross the president of the debt business of Bank of Colombia at all costs" "Seryosha, what's so special about this Bill Gross, it's not at the top of our list of recommendations."
Seryosha did not answer, but he had already recognized Bill Gross, because this man was so famous in the future that he was called the "Debt King". t1706231537: