Fatal Strike: Mercenary Road of Gunfire Ranger
Chapter 162: Mr. Poincaré’s Expectation

Chapter 162: Chapter 162: Mr. Poincaré’s Expectation

Mountain Eagle frowned as he said, "To be honest, those who need to launder huge sums of cash are mostly drug dealers, fraudsters, and the like. I’m not keen on dealing with these people.

It’s not that I am too fastidious to disdain their money for being dirty, but rather I believe that working with such people will invite endless trouble.

I even worry that I won’t be able to resist getting rid of them..."

Mr. Poincaré chuckled and shook his head, "You are underestimating the money laundering industry...

Mountain Eagle, people usually think of black money as dirty money earned by gangsters and drug dealers through crime, but in reality, black money refers to all money whose origins cannot be explained.

That money can’t just sit in a shell company’s bank account forever. It can’t all be used up in simple consumption, and because of the registrants, shell companies carry extremely high legal risks, so those people need to find a place for that money...

A place where the origins can be legitimized, and potentially even generate investment returns.

Your planned gas station alliance, trading companies, and even your Sunset Mountain villa are all very good projects.

You are completely different from Blood Fox and his crowd; if you’re willing, you actually have the ability to assetize those things, and you could even continue to look around Kamui for scarce resources like Sunset Mountain, and develop and operate them with that black money.

That would also benefit the local development, because black money is willing to invest and isn’t afraid of losses!

As long as it’s possible to transfer that money out of shell company accounts legally and into personal accounts, those people are willing to pay a hefty price."

Mountain Eagle was beginning to grasp what Mr. Poincaré was saying...

Actually, it wasn’t any extraordinary method; similar practices are very prevalent in Central North America, particularly in Mexico and Belize...

The tourist hotspots in these places are a world apart from the national conditions of the two countries.

A massive amount of drug trafficking funds and money of unclear origins have turned certain tourist areas into the height of luxury.

The massive flow of funds and the demand for money laundering have caused the local real estate, tourism, and service industries to keep rising in price, even leading to regional inflation.

Yet the luxury of these places, along with their scarce scenic resources, still attract hordes of tourists.

Belize, an obscure country with a high murder rate, has top-tier real estate prices that can be compared to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen—what does that say?

They don’t have school districts or CBDs there; what they have is a legal system so lax it’s practically non-existent, along with landscape and all the service resources you can imagine.

This is a typical economic miracle created by black money!

To some extent, black money is more willing to invest in regional infrastructure and has a stronger desire to consume than clean money.

According to Mr. Poincaré, Mountain Eagle should head a multi-business group, using Kamui’s geographical advantages to attract dormant black money from shell company accounts with various projects and then transfer it into personal accounts through dividends from the projects.

However, this has a prerequisite: Mountain Eagle himself needs to have a comparable scale, or at least not too different.

What they call ’investment’ is just a pretense; they won’t wait for you to slowly make money with that money but want to get paid back quickly or just have you hold it for them, and then supply those people’s consumption through the company’s name.

For instance, Mr. A believes in investing one million in your project; Mountain Eagle needs to have at least five hundred thousand in financial reserves, to immediately wire the money to the specified account, and then digest the one million through his projects.

The latter is actually an underground money shop, what the chip leaders in a certain gambling city in Asia do.

For some VIP customers who find it inconvenient to take money out of the country, they transfer money to you, and then when they go to the United States or any other country, you have to prepare funds for their consumption.

So, you see some oddities where people who logically shouldn’t have money have an endless supply of it abroad!

Black money that requires so much maneuvering is definitely not as simple as one million; entering this line of work without sufficient capital is easy to lose money and may even face huge legal risks.

Using black money to develop Kamui’s tourism industry, you would be a prestigious figure locally.

But the truth is, if you want to grow the money laundering business, you need to create a hot potato-style money laundering cycle that allows the money to circulate legally.

This would generate an enormous economic bubble, and if any issues arise during the hot potato process, the bubble created by the black money would burst, inflicting a lethal blow to Kamui’s local industry.

Last year, the money laundering industry in Cyprus collapsed, the National Bank faced severe bank runs, leading to a Desolate period, and their national bank even changed ownership.

The new major shareholders of their National Bank are an oligarch from Russia and a former senior official of the Federal Reserve.

These representatives of the black money from the two countries got trapped by the financial collapse in Cyprus through a debt-for-equity swap.

This deadly joke wasn’t even touched by the always bold media.

Blood Fox has always emphasized that those who control the money are the ones who hold the power in the Underworld.

Mr. Poincaré might not be among the top echelon in the underground finance circles, but as an accountant, he had seen how others manipulate money.

This is the true entry to the Underworld; all negotiations, struggles, fights, and battles should revolve around money."

The closer you get to money, the closer you get to power!

Even if you are a nobody now, it’s important to understand what you are doing, know where your goal lies, rather than simply accepting others’ employment to earn that pitiable life-selling money.

Mr. Poincaré looked at Mountain Eagle, lost in thought, and gazing at the distant sea, he smiled and said, "I’m just offering you a piece of advice, not insisting you to follow it completely. In the end, how things are done is up to you.

You are the most clear-headed young man I’ve seen in the past decade. You have precious qualities that people like Blood Fox do not possess!

Because of the initial ’Blood Oath,’ whether Arctic Fox can sustain itself or not is not about the current quality of Arctic Fox soldiers. What’s more crucial is to lead them off the current path; otherwise, the Arctic Fox that keeps losing men will sooner or later completely drag down Blood Fox."

Interrupted in his thoughts, Mountain Eagle sighed deeply and said, "Why does everyone think that I should shoulder the problem of Arctic Fox?"

Mr. Poincaré sighed as well and replied, "Because none of us can find a way out, yet the Arctic Fox and the Blood Oath are where the life’s worth of those old folks like Blood Fox resides!

Giving up means they deny their entire lives!

When you get to our age, you’ll understand what it means to have a career that you can devote your life’s value to."

Mr. Poincaré then looked at the sea with an expectant gaze and lightly said, "Pull Arctic Fox back from the international mercenary market, let them fight for a cause...

Whether it’s money laundering or establishing a Shadow Fleet to profit through international shipping, Kamui is a great base choice.

Regardless of the outcome, it’s much better than letting them fight simply for money.

At least by working for you, they die for a cause, not just for money!"

Mountain Eagle realized that Mr. Poincaré was much more radical than Blood Fox and the others...

Blood Fox and the others just wanted to maintain their pension, but Mr. Poincaré was directly asking Mountain Eagle to recruit Arctic Fox to fight for a fixed cause.

Whether it’s for money laundering or smuggling, there’s a demand for force, and once Arctic Fox turns back, their capability will dominate these types of industry battles in an overwhelming and dimension-reducing manner.

Just like the Zeta in Mexico, a gang made up of terribly ferocious ex-special forces, they not only exhausted the Mexican government but also drove several major drug trafficking organizations crazy.

After listening, Mountain Eagle nodded slightly and said, "Give me some time. I’ll look for an opportunity to try. I believe if I employ Arctic Fox, they will give me a discount..."

Mr. Poincaré shook his head and said, "No, they won’t ask you for money!

Because once you decide to take over their pension, once you take over the ’Blood Oath’ that puts all other mercenary groups in the world to shame, you’ll control the true core of Arctic Fox. That is where Arctic Fox’s real fighting power lies."

Mountain Eagle’s attitude was also changing...

From being resolutely refusing at first, he gradually developed an attitude of wait and see, and now, he began to plan for some level of experimentation.

Honestly, he was also curious about the world’s first Mercenary Group and the people inside it; he wanted to know what kind of experts could sustain the ’world’s number one’ fighting force!

Looking at the composed Mr. Poincaré, Mountain Eagle hesitated for a moment and then asked, "Can I ask a question?"

Mr. Poincaré smiled and said, "You want to ask why Blood Fox, despite facing enormous risks, doesn’t want to seek help from Arctic Fox..."

As he spoke, Mr. Poincaré looked at the nodding Mountain Eagle and continued with a smile, "Because back then, Arctic Fox did some big things in Moscow, provoking those they shouldn’t have provoked.

Later, in order to calm Russia’s anger, Blood Fox reached an agreement with some people from Russia Security Department, which was that Arctic Fox would never go to Moscow for missions.

Nevertheless, even without this condition, that proud old man Blood Fox wouldn’t ask Arctic Fox for help..."

Mountain Eagle listened and shook his head with a sense of helplessness, saying, "Alright, I understand.

I’ll book a flight tonight. With a Thailand passport, I can enter and exit Russia visa-free, which is very convenient.

It’s been several days without a phone call; I wonder how those two old men are doing?"

Mr. Poincaré looked at Mountain Eagle with a curious expression and asked, "Have you finished with your business in Pattaya and Bangkok?"

Mountain Eagle shook his head and said, "My part is finished. Now it’s up to others how they wrap things up.

Actually, I’ve always been worried about those terrorists. Their presence ensures MI6 and CIA’s focus is always on Kamui. I don’t want to operate under their noses; avoiding them seems like a good choice for me!

The only downside is that by leaving now, the situation that has just started to unfold in Kamui will be stalled."

Mr. Poincaré responded laughingly, "You mean those smugglers, don’t you?

Don’t worry, it’s they who get anxious when smuggling routes are blocked. Keeping them closed for longer will only highlight your value.

The issue with Blood Fox won’t take too long to resolve. Something big is happening in Russia, and that Snowden is an excellent countermove...

Helping him get political asylum is actually not that difficult!"

"What happened in Russia?"