The problems encountered by Taihua and the Guidamu family on the south shore of Lake Conero go beyond the slow progress of project construction. At the end of November, the Draculamo Port Group officially proposed to divest from the Lake Conero project.
This was like a slap on the head of Lu Yan and others who were preparing to do something big on the south shore of Lake Cornero.
As the most important supporting project of the Taihua Industrial Park and Refinery, the Conero Lake Port went to great lengths to separate the administrative jurisdiction from the Lonta area and use it as the Draculamo Port at the beginning of its construction.
Ancillary port construction is underway.
The port is located in the southwest corner of Conai Lake. There is a natural stone promontory that separates Conai Lake from the outer waters of the Gulf of Guinea. Outside the stone promontory is a natural deep-water harbor. Two 50,000-ton multi-purpose terminals are planned to be built.
, a crude oil terminal; multiple small-tonnage terminals are planned to be built inside Shijia to meet the different needs of enterprises in the industrial park.
In addition to the crude oil terminal, the fuel oil depot and crude oil storage built in conjunction with the refinery are all planned and constructed within the port area.
Even though Cao Mo and the others had already seen through the actions carried out by Taihua and the Lu family on the south bank of Lake Cornero, their fundamental purpose was to digest the crude oil smuggled by the Steel Fist Brotherhood from Rivers State through the refinery they built.
Whitewash, but it is impossible for Taihua and the Jidam family to start building a small crude oil terminal with a capacity of 3,000 to 5,000 tons on the south shore of Lake Cornero, which would only be responsible for berthing small and medium-sized tankers used for smuggling crude oil.
To put it bluntly, no matter how corrupt Kanem's bureaucracy is, it does not completely lose the ability to supervise local governments, not to mention that crude oil involves the only core of Kanem's economic lifeline.
The Taihua and Jidam families also need to incorporate illegally mined crude oil into a series of seemingly formal and legal industrial chains of crude oil procurement, transportation, refining, and refined oil sales to make huge profits.
For this reason, the investment company controlled by the Lu family deliberately registered a series of shell companies in Draculamo engaged in crude oil, refined oil trading, and technical services, in order to make everything appear to be in compliance with Kanem's legal procedures.
In order to obtain a special license for crude oil refining from the Kanem National Oil Company (similar to the Ministry of Petroleum and Mines), the Port of Conero Lake was designed and built according to normal specifications, with a total investment of US$12,000.
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Initially, Draculamo Port Group took the lead in investing US$25 million, and investment companies controlled by the Jidam family and the Lu family each invested US$12 million to form Conero Lake Port Co., Ltd., and then through Conero Lake Port
Co., Ltd., borrowed US$70 million in construction funds from the major consortiums of Dracula Mo until the first phase of the port terminal project was completed.
At present, not only is the Draculamo Port Group proposing to withdraw the US$25 million it has invested, but such a big change has suddenly occurred. Several financial consortiums that had previously borrowed funds will not only interrupt their investment in the Conero Lake Port Co., Ltd.
For the company's follow-up loans, they have also proposed to recover the funds that have been loaned out in advance.
Whether Taihua or the Jidam family, according to the agreement, they can refuse the divestment of Draculamo Port Group, but the two sides will engage in judicial proceedings, and the construction of the entire Taihua Industrial Park, casino hotels, and port terminals will be indefinite.
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"What exactly went wrong? Have you investigated clearly?"
After Lu Jianchao learned the news, he rushed to Dracula Moor in early December and hurriedly drove from the airport to the sea view villa No. 1 outside the Lana Del Rey Beach Casino. Without taking a breath, he rushed Lu Yan and Huang Hebin
, Yao Haiming, Zhou Han and others called over to inquire about the situation.
"..." Huang Hebin shook his head in embarrassment.
The superficial cause of the whole incident was that the senior executive who was initially recruited by the Guidamu family within the Draculamo Port Group and was responsible for promoting the Draculamo Port Group's participation in the investment and construction of the Conero Lake Port from the beginning to the end, in October
Later in the year, he was suspected of
A corruption case was opened for investigation by the Kanem federal judicial department.
After this incident, not only the Kanem Federal Judiciary Department, but also within the Draculamore Port Group will inevitably review the business in charge of this high-level executive and the various decisions made during his tenure.
Of course, they have also tried to buy out the management of the Draculamo Port Group and recruit new supporters to ensure that the construction of the Port of Conero Lake is not affected.
However, none of their efforts had the desired effect.
After the collapse of their relationship within the Draculamore Port Group, in less than half a month, the Draculamore Port Group directly made the decision to divest. There must be something fishy behind this.
It's a pity that they haven't figured out what's going on behind the scenes yet.
"You haven't figured out what exactly happened. What are you doing here to eat?" Lu Jianchao asked rudely.
Huang Hebin sat there calmly.
"Perhaps those bastards from Dongsheng are up to something?" Yao Haiming said speculatively.
"..." Huang Hebin shook his head. Although he now dislikes people like Cao Mo and Yang Deshan, although Lu Jianchao urgently needs a clearer answer from them, he will not give up rational judgment just to deal with Lu Jianchao or his personal emotions.
, looked up at Lu Jianchao and said, "Although they have such a motive, it is currently unclear that they have the ability to directly influence the Draculamore Port Group to make such a decision..."
Dongsheng's West African branch, or Cao Mo, Yang Deshan and others, through Ochosan and the Rupert family and Oppenheimer family who are currently fighting with them, can gain influence within the Draculamore Group.
It is not unimaginable to contact and win over one or two high-level officials with the intention of using these two high-level officials to obstruct the construction of the Conero Lake Port.
However, the problem is that the management of Draculamore Port Group not only unanimously made the decision to divest, but the outside world has not been able to find out the details of their decision at all. This seems to be obstructed by a stronger force behind the scenes.
"Maybe there is no specific and clear person behind it who is deliberately targeting us..." Zhou Han said hesitantly.
"How do you say this?" Lu Jianchao asked.
"I have to say there is a reason. I think Starlee of the Tubman family twice foiled the Guidam family's murder plan in mid-July, which had a very big impact. After that, the gang power of Draculamore also...
Merchants, companies, and even political rivals of the Gheddam family have taken various countermeasures against the Ghiddam family and the Steel Fist Brotherhood, either openly or covertly. We have done a lot for us within the Draculamore Port Group.
The Elon involved in this matter, if the Jidam family had not lost power, I believe he would not have been easily investigated by the Federal Ministry of Justice." Zhou Han frowned slightly and said, "I was wondering if this matter could be purely criminal.
It's 'the wall is pushed down by everyone' - the top management of the Draculamore Port Group wanted to cut ties with the prosperous and declining Jidamu family, so they unanimously decided to withdraw from the construction of the Conero Lake Port to avoid being involved in more troubles in the future.
Uncontrolled and passive?"
"Hebin, do you think Manager Zhou's analysis makes sense?" Lu Jianchao asked Huang Hebin.
"..." Huang Hebin nodded bitterly.
It's not that he hasn't considered this issue, but Taihua is too deeply tied to the Jidam family.
He once thought that as long as they moved quickly enough on the south shore of Lake Cornero, the Jidam family would be able to get out of their temporary predicament quickly. In the past three or four months, he deliberately ignored this point when reporting to Lu Jianchao.
Even if something like this happened at this time, it would be difficult for him to face this problem head-on.
They have successively invested close to 100 million U.S. dollars in Canem, mainly concentrated on the south shore of Lake Cornero. Many projects are still under construction. It is impossible for them to interrupt subsequent investments before they come to fruition.
, the Jidam family’s wall fell at this time
The decline of public opinion is becoming more and more obvious, but what choice can they make?
Can they cut off from the Guidam family?
Lu Jianchao's gloomy eyes slowly swept across the crowd, and he realized at this time that it was not that Huang Hebin and the others had not thought of this, but that the topic was too sensitive, and Zhou Han was the only one to directly raise it at this time.
"Haiming, close the door." Lu Jianchao motioned to Yao Haiming to close the living room door to prevent the cook and bodyguard from overhearing their conversation and leaking it out.
"Now if you have any ideas, feel free to speak out." Lu Jianchao said, holding his forehead with his hand.
"..." Zhou Han glanced at Huang Hebin, Yao Haiming, Lu Yan and Guo Jian, who had been regarded as a confidant by Lu Yan during this period, and said, "I am not familiar with the refining industry, but during this period of time, we are preparing for the grinding station.
Many things can be considered very clear - no matter how many shares Cao Mo holds in the Felician and Sika family building materials companies, one thing is very clear. Ibogu Cement Factory and Cornero Cement Factory give
They brought very huge profits, which can even be said to be beyond imagination. They initially built the first hydropower station on the upper reaches of the Ibogu River to support the Ibogu Cement Factory, and then quickly built more hydropower stations, and finally Konai
Luo Energy. I don’t care about anything else. I personally think that Taihua will build a grinding station on the south shore of Lake Cornero and transport clinker directly from Spain to produce finished cement. The cost is not much higher than smuggling cement from Benin and other places. I don’t understand it.
, why must we risk severe crackdowns from Kanem Customs by mixing in smuggled cement?”
Since Zhou Han raised this topic first, and since her mother invested in a cement clinker factory in Spain and planned to supply cement clinker to the grinding plant on the south shore of Lake Cornero, she was in a position to explain the matter more thoroughly.
There is no need for her to explain the other meanings more clearly, I believe everyone can understand what they are.
Lu Yan, Yao Haiming, Huang Hebin and even Guo Jian were deeply touched after hearing Zhou Han's words.
During this time, they formally planned the construction of the grinding station. Although the construction of the grinding station had just begun, they had a clear understanding of the production environment and costs involved in finished cement, and found that the Cornero Cement Plant was already producing and selling finished products.
Cement, the profit is higher than smuggling cement.
They couldn't help but reflect on their original intention to build a grinding station:
If you can get enough profits if it's legal, why do you still engage in smuggling? Is it to satisfy the twisted pleasure in your heart?
The same principle applies from the grinding station to the refinery.
Although all the licensing procedures for the refinery and crude oil terminal were completed with the assistance of the Jidam family, now that all the joints in the legal procedures have been cleared, subsequent investment and construction no longer need to rely on Jidam.
After the refinery, crude oil terminals, oil depots and other facilities are built, they will purchase crude oil from regular channels, refine and sell refined products, and they will make huge profits. Why do they still have to cooperate with the Jidam family?
"Hebin, what do you think?" Lu Jianchao asked Huang Hebin.
"I think what Zhou Han said makes sense. The Jidamu family is not as strong as imagined. If we continue to cooperate with the Jidamu family, not only will there be no more benefits, but we may become the target of public criticism in Kanem.
, it is better to make a decision early." Lu Yan couldn't hold his breath and interrupted.
"That's what I say, but a centipede will never freeze until death!" Huang Hebin said worriedly.
The Jidam family is not an ordinary collaborator. Not to mention that Rumisu Jidam was elected as the new deputy governor of Ogun State and has at least three and a half years of term. The Steel Fist Brotherhood is currently only being squeezed in its territory.
, not really hit hard.
In the early stage, they used the energy of the Jidam family to go through all the legal procedures. But now if they want to get rid of the Jidam family, they have to consider whether they can bear the backlash from the Jidam family...