Becoming a Russian Oligarch After Rebirth
Chapter 303 Calm Before the Storm_1

Chapter 303: Chapter 303 Calm Before the Storm_1

In Russia in 2001, the chaos in the financial market was beyond most people’s imagination.

During those years, an untold amount of capital within Russia had been privately transferred abroad through various channels.

In his "past life", Wang Ye had even unwittingly participated in this kind of "money laundering"...

At that time, a senior student found them, the freshmen, claiming to have found a "nice job" for everyone. All you needed was to take your passport, go to one of those small bank branches that you could find anywhere on the street, fill out a simple form, and you could receive a reward of fifty U.S. dollars!

Such a sweet deal naturally won everyone’s warm welcome!

For a while, Wang Ye had run around doing this tens of times, earning several hundred U.S. dollars, and bought himself a new computer...

He didn’t know what he was doing at the time, but everyone found out later that the banks were using the names of these foreign students studying abroad to transfer funds abroad, aka "money laundering"!

This was so commonplace at the time that no one paid any attention to it.

So Milna was confident that she could transfer the money out at the fastest speed.

If the foreign investment went smoothly, then that capital could take a whole roundabout and come back under the name of "foreign investment".

Or perhaps it just wouldn’t come back at all, depending on what Wang Ye planned to do at the time...

......

After discussing the business, Milna got busy right away.

Wang Ye and Kaja, on the other hand, went back to the apartment together.

Wang Ye was staying with Kaja that night because he still had some things to explain to her.

After they got home and washed up, they "got busy", completely relaxing both physically and mentally...

Wang Ye lit a post-coitus cigarette, took a deep, contented puff, and blew out a circle of smoke.

Kaja also took the cigarette box, lit one, and shared it with him.

Perhaps because they were "infected" by him, nowadays, the people around Wang Ye all liked to smoke Black Russian. However, the girls like Angelina and Kaja smoked the "Rainbow" series of Black Russian.

The packaging is similar to Black Russian, just a different color. The cigarettes inside come in seven colors, so everybody calls it "Rainbow".

"How much money is left in my personal account now?" Wang Ye suddenly asked.

He wasn’t too sensitive about money, so he wasn’t very clear about how much money he had now.

It would be difficult to calculate exactly how much Wang Ye’s assets are now, and he couldn’t be bothered to calculate it.

But, he only had two personal accounts.

One is the "Salary Card", which could be considered Wang Ye’s secret stash!

The source of funds came from his several positions, including "President of New Sun Group", "President of Polar Bear Investment Company", "Director of Xiao Ying Group", "Special Assistant to the President of Yukos Group". All salaries were transferred to this card.

Don’t underestimate this salary card, it probably had a lot of money in it.

Because all of Wang Ye’s positions were quite high, the salaries were all from one million to even two or three million U.S. dollars per year.

With all kinds of subsidies and the like, he could make around six to seven million U.S. dollars a year!

And this didn’t even include dividends!

If the dividends were added, it could very well reach tens of millions.

Kaja was in charge of this card. If there were any major personal expenses, Wang Ye would directly arrange it with Kaja.

The other is the "Spare Change Card", which Wang Ye used daily. There wasn’t much money in it, and the source was mostly from the dividends received from the Qingyun Study Abroad Service Company and Huaxing Communications Company.

It’s probably down to four or five hundred thousand U.S. dollars now...

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"It’s a little more than 2.4 million U.S. dollars at the moment." Kaja answered without hesitation.

Wang Ye nodded his head, it was alright, he hadn’t expected that there would be so much money in his personal stash.

He then instructed her, "In a few days, you go to Crimea. Buy a large flat in both Simferopol and Yalta, with good locations. Ideally, they would be newly built and well decorated."

"What do you mean by large flat?" Kaja asked in confusion.

Wang Ye laughed incredulously, in these years people indeed did not have a concept of what a large flat is, at least not in Russia.

He then explained, "It’s a type of luxury mid-to-high-rise residence, at least over 200 square meters, preferably with one unit per floor or at most two units per floor..."

But midway through his explanation, Wang Ye shook his head. "Forget it, I guess there wouldn’t be such a building in Crimea. You just buy it according to the standard of a mansion, 1 million U.S. dollars per unit. You should be able to buy any property you want in Crimea."

Indeed, in this era, even the prices of luxury houses in Moscow were only four or five thousand U.S. dollars per square meter. A million U.S. dollars here could even buy a standard large mansion, excluding mansions...

Compared to Moscow, Simferopol and Yalta were practically rural!

Although he’d never paid attention to the real estate market there, he didn’t think it would go over a thousand U.S. dollars per square meter.

With a budget of a million U.S. dollars a property, he could potentially buy a thousand square meters of housing!

So, the budget is given generously enough...

He planned to buy these two properties for Angelina to live in when she went back home. It would also be convenient for him to stay there when he often visited in the future.

Of course, if Natalia wanted to live there, there would be no problem.

When these two houses were purchased, if they were bought according to the budget, it would most likely empty out Wang Ye’s little secret stash.

But he didn’t mind, because in less than a month, the five hundred million U.S. dollars borrowed from Uncle Khodorkovsky would bring him at least three to five hundred million in returns!

By that time, his finances would really loosen up.

And for these two properties, he would buy them all under Angelina’s name.

It might be considered a small gift from Wang Ye to her. Wang Ye had originally planned on giving a house to Angelina in Moscow, but now that she needed to return to the Crimea Peninsula, he’d just buy a house for her there.

Also, he had still kept his relationship with Nalan Yaqi from Angelina, and Wang Ye felt a bit guilty about it.

Without "compensating" for Angelina, he would feel uncomfortable...

...

In the following few days, everything seemed calm on the surface, and everyone went about their business as usual.

Milna had already sprung into action, and the five hundred million U.S. dollars quietly moved into the U.S. Securities Market. Furthermore, according to Wang Ye’s instructions, they were quietly shorting the stock market index.

In 2001, the United States was in full swing and unrivaled!

The undisputed strongest country in the world!

The Financial Market was also swarming with funds from all over the world. The size of the Financial Market was so large that it was unimaginable, so when Wang Ye threw in the five hundred million U.S. dollars, it didn’t make a splash, and no one paid attention.

Instead, because everyone was optimistic about the economic situation in the United States, everyone was bullish on the market, and almost no one dared to short the stock market index.

But no one would have thought that in a few days, a shocking incident would occur worldwide!

And after this incident, the U.S. stock market would fall like an avalanche...