Chapter 608 (1/2)

General Ji and Lai Changxing want to find themselves to help them launder money. This week Hao can understand.

The so-called ”black money” is money that can not be seen. Its source must be illegal, such as drug trafficking, arms trafficking, smuggling, fraud, robbery, corruption, including money obtained from tax evasion. Money laundering is to legalize these illegal gains through a series of transactions and transformations. The most important thing is to cover up the true source and put on a legal cover.

For criminal groups, it is very important to make them enjoy these illegal gains openly and legally, and make their criminal power expand through reinvestment.

In fact, there are more underground funds circulating in various countries all over the world than the circulating funds in financial markets, that is, hot money. Due to the importance of money laundering to criminal groups, money laundering groups are becoming more and more refined and professional, and become ”bankers” in the underground world, providing money laundering services for various criminal groups.

Whether he was a financial staff in Huangshi group in his previous life or has become a mysterious force in the financial market in this life, Zhou Hao knows clearly that money laundering is very easy, especially through transnational financial institutions, as long as he is familiar with the law and has sufficient professional skills in financial operation. Through the increasingly close international economic and trade relations, those black money can easily be turned into legitimate income.

The larger and more famous financial institutions are, the easier it will be to complete the money laundering procedures.

However, unless the criminal groups with huge power and financial resources, such as those international Mafia, drug lords and terrorist organizations, will launder money through professional financial institutions, or simply set up financial institutions specialized in money laundering. Just like those drug lords in South America, they set up their own banks, which not only launder money for their own drug cartels, but also provide services for other criminal groups.

As for those ”scattered” criminals who do not form a group, they usually use casinos to launder money for themselves. Therefore, gambling cities like Macao and Las Vegas are actually money laundering places. This is why corrupt officials in China like to run to Macao and Las Vegas.

Although Zhou Hao's ”Star River Investment Company” is unknown in the financial circles, in fact, ”Star River Investment Company” has become the most powerful private investment institution in Asia. After continuous expansion, the number of regular employees of ”Xinghe” has exceeded 200, and none of them is mediocre, all of them can be called financial elites.

These people were recruited from all over the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, India, Israel and even Japan. Each of them had unique financial talents. Under the leadership of song Jiahao and willias, the two most capable traders, they became the cog of maintaining the operation of ”star River”. They didn't know the strength of ”Star River” at first. It was just because of the rich salary offered by Zhou Hao. After joining ”Star River”, they realized that it was no less powerful than quantum fund and Tiger Fund.

The talents in the ”Star River” come from all over the world, but the pure Chinese people only account for a small number. These Chinese financial professionals are all from Shanghai and Shenzhen, two domestic financial centers, or high-end talents in Hong Kong. Although subjectively, Zhou Hao doesn't like Americans and Japanese, he also has to admit that the biggest characteristic of these talents with typical Western ideas is that they can work faithfully for their employers as long as they have enough high salary. What kind of national defense is not comparable to their own work among people with strong democratic ideas.

Just like Zhou Hao's financial activities in the Japanese stock market before, the Japanese in the company were not uncomfortable at all. They would not be merciful in the operation. Instead, they were extremely active in order to improve their bonus.

Moreover, since these people entered the ”Star River”, they will be immediately monitored by the intelligence agencies of the ”first army”. In view of the role of ”Star River” in the Indonesian turmoil, the No.1 chief executive and Premier Zhu have already seen the importance of ”Star River”. In addition, with the relationship between Zhao Rixin and the government, the state attaches great importance to the integrity of ”Star River” and explains that the ”first army” should be closely protected ”Star River”.