Things were changing a little too quickly, and Seryosha was a little worried about the uncontrolled development of the situation, so he decided to wait and see.
Anyway, he was not the most important player in the Georgian incident, and the sky fell on Ligachev and Shevardnadze.
Now Ligachev is stumped up by the quagmire of Georgia, and he no longer has any energy to take care of the affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Foreign Trade Bank.
This was a rare opportunity for Seryosha to continue to improve the contents of the accounts of the USSR Foreign Trade Bank during this time.
The accounts of the VTB have been successfully concealed from the eyes and ears of the regulatory authorities, and now Seryosha has already stolen 600 billion of the funds from the Soviet treasury to legally explain its whereabouts, and the remaining 400 billion is only a matter of time.
In addition, during this period of time, the Foreign Trade Bank cooperated a lot with foreign companies that invested in the Soviet Union, so it was not difficult to fill in this account perfectly.
After a year of construction, the automobile production line cooperated by Volkswagen and Gorky Automobile Group was finally put into production.
In order to ensure that the project could be profitable as soon as possible, Seryosha introduced to the Soviet Union all the classic models of Volkswagen.
The largest sales partner of the joint venture automobile plant in the USSR was Berezovsky, a mathematician and statistician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, who had been following Seryosha for many years.
Berezovsky had long expressed interest in the business, and Seryoshynen had worked for him for many years, and there was no suitable person to do it for a while, so he agreed to Berezovsky's request.
So Berezovsky founded a company in Leningrad called the All-Union Automobile Union, which operated car lending and sales.
Berezovsky's car loan business involved some banking operations, and Seryosha agreed to Berezovsky's request to attach this financial institution to VTBM.
Of course, Berezovsky gave half of the company's shares to the Komsomol led by Seryosha as a thank-you gift, and Seryosha accepted the gift without any scruples.
As for Seryosha's other confidant, Khodorkovsky, after seeing the car loan finance company set up by Berezovsky, he also set up a financial company with similar business.
Khodorkovsky's company specializes in providing loans to smuggling companies large and small in Moscow.
Because he is also a Communist Youth League official, although most of his clients have gangster backgrounds, he can still deal with these troublesome guys Not long after Seryosha handed over the VTB's financial reports, Gorbachev summoned him to the Kremlin and asked why VTB's foreign exchange had fallen so quickly.
Seryosha successfully fooled through with the pretext that had been prepared long ago.
He blamed the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation on its investment in the joint venture.
"General Secretary, over the past year, our Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation has introduced hundreds of large and small companies to invest in the Soviet Union, as you know, according to China's laws, we must guarantee more than half of the shares, but those foreigners have always acted in accordance with the contract, and we can only successfully obtain the advantage in shares by making capital contributions that meet the regulations, which consumes a lot of our funds.
Therefore, the finances of our Foreign Trade Bank are starting to be a little nervous, and we are afraid that we will be powerless in the next issue of the Workers' New Town," Seryosha euphemistically mentioned the difficulties encountered by the Foreign Trade Bank.
He no longer wants to be in the mess of the new city of the craftsmen, and in the case of the depreciation of the ruble, the real income of the new city of workers is already negative if converted into dollars.
Moreover, the construction period of real estate is very long, and Seryosha will not handle similar projects again.
When Gorbachev heard Seryosha's words, he couldn't help frowning.
He would have wanted Seryosha to build more housing projects like the Workers' New Town to house the troops who had withdrawn from Afghanistan.
But Seryosha refused in advance, on the grounds that VTB had no money, otherwise it would hurt the foreign joint venture project, which now seemed to be very promising.
Gorbachev leaned back on the sofa and thought for a long time, and finally he nodded and said to Seryosha: "Seryosha, if I return the Housing and Utilities and Social Development Bank to you, do you think you can solve the housing problem for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan?"
Seryosha didn't expect Gorbachev to come up with this idea, the Housing and Utilities and Social Development Bank, isn't that the first bank he founded, the National Housing Bank, when Seryosha handed over the workers' new city to the Moscow government, he also handed over the housing bank to the Central Bank of the Soviet Union, and now he has regained it, Gorbachev is really embarrassed "General Secretary, what we lack now is funds, not a bank, although I have been involved in the work of the Housing Bank in the past, but after all, it has been handed over to the Central Bank for several years, and I do not know much about the financial situation of the Housing and Utilities and Social Development Bank."
Seryosha shirked it without even thinking about it.
"If I agree that the Housing and Utilities and Social Development Bank can be run by foreign capital, do you have the confidence to take over?"
Gorbachev asked at this time.
"Foreign capital" Seryosha hurriedly blurted out the words and swallowed them back.
It is needless to say that foreign capital can be involved in the operation of the Housing and Utilities and Social Development Bank.
"General Secretary, I can reluctantly accept this task, but I want to state one thing in advance, the scale of the withdrawal from Afghanistan is too large, we cannot build housing for them according to the standards of the workers' new city, the most I can do is that after the withdrawal officially begins next year, they will have a shelter from the wind and rain."
"Seryosha, I know it's hard for you, but these people have just returned from the battlefield, in case something goes wrong in our work, these people are a factor of social instability, I don't want you to let them all live in the workers' new city, but the minimum living conditions must be guaranteed," Gorbachev finally demanded.
"Don't worry, General Secretary, I guarantee that they will all be able to have a simple place to live.
No matter how you say it, it's better than a group dormitory," Seryosha assured.
Before leaving the Kremlin, Seryosha had a plan.
He didn't plan to build a house at all this time, he had already figured out a solution, that is, to import some scrapped containers from abroad, and then process them a little and transform them into the common board houses in the future, which would not cost much at all. t1706231537: