Chapter 009: Cunning Rabbit
The sun is shining brightly in San Francisco, but it is late at night in Shenzhen.
The sudden ring of the phone woke the short, round-faced young man who had just fallen asleep up again and he picked up the phone:
"Hey, what happened?"
"Boss, San Francisco has lost the target, and the other side has already noticed us."
Du Jianxin's face was gloomy: "Waste!"
"Boss..." The person on the other end of the phone quickly explained the whole thing.
After hearing the explanation, Du Jianxin's face became even gloomier. If he had just lost her by accident, he wouldn't be so angry.
After calming down, he hung up the phone. After thinking for a while , he became more and more afraid of Li Qingye. He then picked up the satellite phone on the bedside table and dialed a special number.
Two minutes later.
"Hello, Du?"
"Thomas, it's me."
The person on the other end of the phone asked in surprise, "It's still late at night there, right? What happened?"
Du Xinjian smiled and said, "I have a little thing to trouble you, my friend."
"Haha, a small matter? Tell me about it."
"I have a friend who is missing in North America. I would like to ask your family to find him."
"Looking for someone? OK, send me his information and I'll give you a reply within half a month."
"Thank you my friend."
…
North America, Seattle, America.
On a private beach, a middle-aged man in shorts was lying on the beach, basking in the sun, and casually threw the satellite phone to the housekeeper.
Half an hour later, the butler walked aside with a file, and the middle-aged man waved his hand to let the two bikini girls leave.
"Sir, the person Du is looking for is called Li Qingye, the son of the former chairman of the Xinxin Group. He disappeared immediately after arriving in San Francisco yesterday." The butler said concisely.
The middle-aged man raised his sunglasses, took the file and flipped through it.
"So that's it." The middle-aged man suddenly realized, and then handed the file to the butler, and then ordered: "Have someone check this Li."
"clear."
…
at the same time.
Cape Town International Airport, South Africa.
After a private plane landed, Li Qingye, carrying only a shoulder bag, quickly found UBS's branch in Cape Town.
Two new bearer accounts were opened, and the funds in the previous bearer accounts were divided into two batches and transferred into the two new accounts.
Then we came to the area of Cape Town that specializes in financial services.
In a company specializing in agency business.
"Mr. Andrew, please." A curly-haired man poured him a cup of coffee.
Li Qingye took a sip of coffee and said, "Manager Kate, I heard that you are the most professional agent in Cape Town. If I want to obtain South African citizenship, I wonder what procedures are required."
"Oh? That depends on the situation."
"This is a deposit of 100,000 US dollars. How long will it take to get it?" Li Qingye threw the check on the table.
"One month, just one month." Kate's eyes sparkled.
"Too slow." He casually threw out another check for $100,000.
Gulu! Kate said quickly: "One week."
"Within two days, this is my request. If you can do it, it's US$500,000. Otherwise, I will find someone else." Li Qingye put five handwritten papers in Kate's hand.
Hearing the $500,000 reward, Kate no longer cared about anything else and quickly replied, "No problem, I can get it done for you within two days."
"Are you sure? Take a look at my requirements first!"
Kate, who had calmed down a little at this time, also understood that this money was not easy to earn, but as a Boer, he needed money very much and he could sell everything for money.
Pick up the five pieces of paper and look through them one by one.
Li Qingye would naturally not become a citizen casually, because naturalization through conventional channels would easily leave information traces.
Therefore, an unusual path must be taken.
This re-identified person is a Malaysian Chinese named Zhang Jie Ke, 35 years old. He once failed in investment in South Africa and later married a local tribal woman. He became a South African citizen three years ago. His wife passed away unexpectedly this year.
"This..." Kate looked at Li Qingye deeply. It was obvious that there was definitely something wrong with the person who handled this kind of identity.
But then he gave up the idea of finding out the truth . He thought, jokingly, if there was no problem with the other party's identity, he would not have spent half a million US dollars to ask him to handle it. As a professional agent, Kate naturally understood one thing, that is, don't ask about the customer's privacy.
"Yes, you can get your ID tomorrow."
"OK, let's clean up the mess." Li Qingye took another sip of coffee. "By the way, if you don't want to get into trouble, you'd better wash these two checks. I think it should be easy for Manager Kate!"
Kate took a look at the two checks and found that they were bearer checks from UBS, but then he realized that UBS's bearer account was basically transparent to certain forces.
"Thank you for reminding."
"Tomorrow at noon, Room 35 at the Black Rose Restaurant."
"OK."
After Li Qingye left, Kate acted quickly. Since the identity information had already been set up, he did not need to write it himself. He only needed to find a friend in the household registration department and insert Zhang Jack's information into it.
If it were any other country, it might be very difficult to do so, but South Africa at this time was no longer the South Africa of the Boers.
The BRICS are not just a name for nothing.
This is also the reason why Li Qingye chose this place.
Chaos creates opportunities.
Soon, with the help of Kate's friends, a Zhang Jack who became a South African citizen three years ago and his reasonable identity information were quietly generated.
At noon the next day, Li Qingye did not break his promise. After obtaining the identity file, he paid the remaining US$300,000 to the other party.
After obtaining a new identity, he did not stay in South Africa, but flew to Hong Kong.
After arriving in Hong Kong, he found several professional agents in Hong Kong to launder the funds in the anonymous account and then inject them into the name of the offshore company.
In order to conceal the matter, he asked his agents to spread the scope of money laundering to the entire Commonwealth countries. After all, it was only more than 100 million US dollars. Although the consequences of doing so made Li Qingye pay a lot of money, the security was improved.
At this time, the assets under Zhang Jie Ke's name had nothing to do with Li Qingye, and the two had no intersection at all.
In South Africa, another person bought a plane ticket to Madagascar in the name of Li Qingye.
June 8th.
Seattle.
"Sir, we have found the whereabouts of that person."
Thomas Morgan flicked his cigar and said, "Huh..."
The housekeeper reported: "According to the information from the immigration department, he has no record of leaving North America, but there is no information on the domestic public information network about this person going to Maple Leaf."
"Finally, our people re-sorted out some special channel information and found that on the day this person arrived in San Francisco, he went to a local UBS branch and withdrew funds from an unnamed account. The account had $180 million in funds."
Thomas Morgan's eyes flashed, and he said with a smile: "180 million? It seems that this kid is really a trouble!"
"He planned to immigrate to Finland through his relationship with UBS, and then took a private plane to South Africa. However, when I checked the UBS account information, I found that he spent millions of dollars in Cape Town. Then three days later, the unregistered account under his name began to have unusual expenditures. Until four days ago, the funds in the account had disappeared."
Thomas Morgan took a puff of his cigar and said, "Very smart. It seems that he knew that UBS might leak information and transferred all the funds in advance."
The butler continued, "Since the funds are scattered among various countries throughout the Commonwealth, it is too difficult to find out where the money went. Should we continue the investigation?"
"No need, just tell Du that the other party was last seen in South Africa." Thomas Morgan waved his hand.
Although his family could use their connections in Great Britain to thoroughly investigate underground money laundering channels throughout the Commonwealth, the problem was that the cost of doing so was too high.
Moreover, doing so does not guarantee that Li Qingye will be found. If the other party uses traditional paper money or gold exchange methods to launder money and does not go through international settlement channels, they can avoid investigation.
In addition, Thomas saw that Li Qingye's anti-reconnaissance ability was very strong. When the gain and effort were disproportionate, he would not do such a thankless task.
Du Jianxin in Pengcheng also felt very troubled after receiving the email.
After all, his family's influence is in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and other places are out of reach. Plus, he can't search openly, so he had to give up the idea of looking for Li Qingye.
