Although the download time was short, Cheng Yu had already thought a lot in his mind.
He was mainly thinking about the passage about pipelines.
What does it mean that even though we are separated by a layer, our hands are still stained with blood after all?
At first, seeing that the pipeline was serious, Cheng Yu thought Levendi's family was related to arms or drugs, but since they were separated by one layer, it couldn't be these two things.
If it is pornography or gambling, it can be operated in a legal way in Europe, and there is no such thing as black money. On the contrary, casinos have always been one of the best channels for laundering black money.
What could that be?
smuggling?
Although smuggling is also a key target of various countries, it damages the interests of a country more. For ordinary people, the damage is not that great.
This is quite consistent with the statement that there is a layer of separation, but in any case, it cannot be said that the hands are stained with blood, right?
With great curiosity, Cheng Yu clicked on the file.
After reading only two lines, he finally understood why the pipeline talked to him in such a serious manner and what kind of industry this was.
diamond!
It turned out to be a diamond.
In the past, Cheng Yu didn't know much about diamonds. In fact, as long as they were not engaged in this industry, including women who were obsessed with diamonds, they actually didn't understand how diamonds sparkled on their fingers.
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These small things, which are essentially graphite, are really dazzling when worn on the hand or hung around the neck. A diamond weighing several grams is often an amount that a person cannot earn in his lifetime.
The weight unit of diamonds is very unique, called carat, and one carat only weighs 0.2 grams.
In the market, the price of a one-carat loose diamond ranges from thousands to tens of thousands of dollars, depending on the diamond's color and cutting process.
Moreover, diamonds are different from gold.
Gold is a general equivalent, that is to say, the price per gram of gold is fixed. Of course, the price of gold will fluctuate according to the market, but no matter how it fluctuates, its unit price per gram is constant.
But that's not the case with diamonds.
The price of diamonds has a great relationship with size, fineness, cutting process, etc. This relationship does not even have a stable price.
The market price of a one-carat loose diamond is usually about 10,000 yuan, but the price of a ten-carat loose diamond, that is, 0.1-carat, may even be less than a thousand yuan.
Usually the diamonds that can be sold for a high price are above 50 cents.
A two-carat diamond usually costs about 100,000 yuan.
As for the three-carat and five-carat ones, that would be a sky-high price.
Five carats only weighs one gram. This thing is infinitely more expensive than gold.
But this is the market price of finished diamonds, which does not mean that those who actually own diamonds can make a lot of money from it.
In this world, if a person is born in the Arab region, even if his family does not own any oil fields, as long as he is engaged in related industries, his living standard will not be too bad.
But in the birthplace of diamonds - mainly Africa, this is not the case.
In Africa, only a small part of the diamond mines are in the hands of certain countries, and a larger part is actually in the hands of some local armed forces or warlords.
The reason why these warlords are able to compete with the regular armies of their own governments is because European and American consortiums provide them with guns and ammunition and all back-up support.
A raw, unpolished diamond was washed out of a gravel stream by hundreds of African laborers under the gun of warlords.
After these diamonds are obtained by warlords, they will be sold to European and American consortiums at very low prices, and then put on the counter after being polished, processed, cut, designed and other industrial methods.
I dare not say that there is human life behind every diamond, but there is no doubt that at least half of the hundred diamonds on the market are stained with the blood of African people.
The reason why these European and American consortiums support the anti-government armed forces at all costs is precisely for this purpose.
Cheng Yu learned all of this from one of Leonardo's movies, and then he searched a lot of information for this purpose. Therefore, when he saw the word "diamond" written on the information, he almost instantly
Then you understand what Levendi's family does.
Obviously, the Levendi family is the channel through which rough diamonds from Africa reach European and American consortiums or jewelers.
They control certain African warlords, or at least maintain long-term cooperative relationships with certain African warlords, and obtain extremely low-priced diamonds from them - the price of these diamonds may be only one percent of the market price.
Then, they simply cut the diamonds and sell them to jewelers, thereby becoming diamonds circulating in the market.
Jewelers and syndicates will never admit that the diamonds in their hands come from illegal sources. In Africa, almost all countries have extremely strict controls on the export of diamonds. Smuggling diamonds is even a death penalty in some countries.
Therefore, Levendi's family is naturally the middleman who turns these diamonds from black to white.
If we really want to trace the diamonds in the hands of jewelers, although it may not be possible to trace them to their source, it is actually not difficult to prove that they are illegal.
It can only be said that developed countries in Europe and the United States are turning a blind eye to all this.
However, on the surface, they still have to deal with a family like Levendi severely.
No matter what, the public must be given an explanation. Therefore, after the diamonds handled by the Levendi family entered the hands of jewelers, they were laundered directly by the government's acquiescence. However, the money given to the Levendi family by the jewelers
, it can only exist as black money.
It is precisely because of this that the Levendi family controls an extremely profitable industry. Their profits even exceed the original price of diamonds by dozens of times.
It is said in Das Kapital that if there is a 100% profit, capital will dare to risk hanging; if there is a 300% profit, capital will dare to trample all laws in the world.
The Levendi family's profits have undoubtedly exceeded one thousand percent.
Because of this, they really need a stable and healthy channel to help them launder the black money.
A 30% loss is nothing to the Levendi family, which controls billions of black money. On this planet, the handling fees for money laundering are as high as more than 50%, which is not much higher than the value of counterfeit currency.
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Cheng Yu didn't read the document thoroughly. After briefly understanding it, he deleted it.
In fact, when he learned what the Levendi family was doing, this information had lost its meaning.
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Seeing that Cheng Yu became extremely silent after taking a look at his cell phone, and his face turned into a very serious look, Du Xiaoyu couldn't help but be curious and looked over.
She asked: "What's wrong with you? What information made you so serious?"
Cheng Yu casually put his phone on the table and said, "Your curiosity is a little too strong. Does it have anything to do with you?"
Du Xiaoyu pouted, but had nothing to say, but she still saw that the person who sent the message to Cheng Yu on the phone was Guan Lu. The reason was simple, Guan Lu's information was at the top.
With a casual glance, Du Xiaoyu saw a few words in the passage about Guan Lu.
She muttered in her heart: Is it difficult to check? What is difficult to check? Cheng Yu is going on vacation by himself, why does he still need to check things?
With Du Xiaoyu's intelligence, she easily guessed that the person Cheng Yu wanted to investigate was probably Levendi.
