Chapter 211: Expert at Wrongdoings
Since Maurice Singleton was going to pay, Yusuf Zuck didn’t mind waiting another day, and so he stayed an additional day.
However, when Maurice Singleton found Yusuf Zuck the next day and provided the financial settlement list, Yusuf Zuck was a bit stunned.
Juarez is one of the five major powers in Mexico, with extensive territory, various business interests, and engaging mainly in arms and drug trade, so its foundation is very solid.
On Juarez’s books, there were a total of over thirty billion Mexican pesos.
The peso is the currency of Mexico, and one US dollar can be exchanged for forty-five pesos, which means that over forty billion pesos would convert to six or seven hundred million US dollars.
A gang having six or seven hundred million dollars in savings, not even including assets such as territories and fixed properties, was astonishing.
"I had the finance department do a preliminary calculation, and based on your forty percent silent partnership, that’s two hundred and forty million US dollars. This figure is very large, and since there isn’t a branch of the Bank of China in Mexico, we can only transfer through our Central Bank here to your account at the Bank of China back home. Also, we will wire the money under the guise of investment, otherwise the International Monetary Fund will suspect money laundering!"
"I’m not familiar with this kind of thing, just transfer it to me. However, I don’t have a Bank of China account yet. I’ll set one up now. Um, you have Citibank here, right? Help me withdraw the money from my checks as well and transfer it all together."
"No problem, we are very meticulous with our money laundering," Maurice Singleton nodded. Their organization’s financial resources were illicit, so naturally they had their own money laundering channels. Once the money was transferred to Yusuf Zuck’s account in the mainland, it would then belong to him personally, available for withdrawal at any time.
Yusuf Zuck didn’t understand how to launder money, nor did he know what money laundering really was, but he knew he had struck it rich this time. With his previous four hundred million US dollars plus the new two hundred and forty million, that amounted to over six hundred million US dollars. When converted to renminbi, that was almost thirty billion, nearly forty billion renminbi.