There was a news some time ago that Malaysia decided to initiate a lawsuit against 17 executives of the US Goldman Sachs Group , accusing them of involvement in a corruption and money laundering case involving a Malaysian state-owned enterprise.
Malaysia’s own state-owned enterprise for corruption and money laundering, why would it sue a US company?
Because although Goldman Sachs is a well-known investment bank on Wall Street in the United States, it can be upset all over the world. Fortune 500 companies all like to consult Goldman Sachs for investment, mergers, and issuance of bonds.
, the most profitable business in the world, is often a bad thing about crimes.
Therefore, Goldman Sachs often does some illegal things in other countries, taking the opportunity to make huge profits. The multi-billion dollar money laundering case of Malaysian state-owned enterprises is behind the scenes of Goldman Sachs.
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The Wolf King behind "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Many of my friends may have seen a movie about Wall Street. The role played by Li Zi is called "The Wolf of Wall Street." The plot of
is adapted from based on real-life stories. It tells the legendary experience of Jordan Belfort, a Wall Street hero, and presents a real Wall Street full of drugs, desire, money laundering and gray income .
actor Leonardo DiCaprio (left)
and the real wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort (right)
Even Belfort himself, who was released from prison, was invited to this movie. A guest role as a lecturer at the end of the film.
However, in 2016, the American media stabbed fierce news:
"The Wolf of Wall Street", a movie about fraud and money laundering, was used for money laundering.
is like the gangster movies of the Hong Kong fire, many of which were filmed by gangsters. "The Wolf of Wall Street" was made real because the investors themselves are the "wolves of Wall Street."
The producer of "The Wolf of Wall Street" is called Riza .
This Riza is a good friend of Xiao Lizi, and also the stepson of , then Malaysian Prime Minister Najib, . He has a wide network of political and business contacts in Malaysia.
Picture: Riza and Little Plum's photo
Riza controls the Hollywood Red Rock Film Company , which is the gold master behind this movie.
Little plum performed well in this film, and launched an impact on Oscar for the fourth time.
But the day failed. This year's Oscar's Best Actor was picked by Matthew McConaughey of "Dallas Buyers Club", and Xiao Li once again accompany him to run the Oscar.
When Xiao Li was frustrated, Riza comforted him: is not just an Oscar statuette, brother, I will give you a whole one.
Riza quickly found a friend of his own wealthy Malaysian businessman Low Tezuo , and entrusted this rich second generation to "help the little plum realize his dream".
Picture: Riza (left one) and Low Tezuo (right one)
If money can make ghosts, Low Tezuo spent $600,000 in the black market and bought a small golden figure . The little golden man
was acquired by Marlon Brando in 1954. After being lost by Brando, he passed into the hands of black market merchants.
In 1954, Marlon Brando won the Oscar actor
Riza secretly gave the little golden man to Xiao Li, and Xiao Li accepted it halfway through.
On February 28, 2016, Xiao Lizi finally won the Little Golden Man who really belongs to him by virtue of his outstanding acting skills in "Wild Hunter".
However, in that year, the "good friends" who helped him back then were exposed to a huge money laundering case.
First of all, Riza was suspected of film money laundering and was investigated. Because of the involvement of American companies, the US government also intervened.
found out after investigation that Riza used his position to embezzle and embezzled the public funds of the Malaysian state-owned company "1MDB" up to 240 million US dollars!
These embezzled black money cannot be used directly. In order to launder the money, Riza and the businessman Low Tezuo teamed up to transfer the funds layer by layer. Among these money, has $100 million in stolen money to invest in the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street" .
Washing the stolen money overseas silently is a technical job. Riza alone cannot do it. He must find an expert. The expert
is the famous American financial giant- Goldman Sachs.
Corrupt officials led by Riza and his father, and Goldman Sachs joined forces to create a bureau:
In 2012, 1MDB hired Goldman Sachs to help issue bonds and announced that it would spend 3.5 billion US dollars to buy an energy company.
As a result, a lot of dollars were thrown out, and an "empty leather bag company" was bought back.
The money seems to have been spent, but in fact the company it bought has no business at all. The extra money goes to the hands of officials and Goldman Sachs.
During the gradual hollowing out of 1MDB’s money, Goldman Sachs used amazing accounting techniques to keep the company’s books normal, continue to acquire and issue bonds, and continue to earn high "service fees."
According to case file records, Goldman Sachs Southeast Asia chief Lesner often meets with Malaysian businessman Jho Low to discuss how to bribe Malaysian politicians and officials and pull them into the water.
“ Goldman Sachs’ corporate culture encourages employees to do everything possible to achieve business goals, and to bypass local laws when necessary. ” Leissner once described to CNN after his arrest.
In the entire case, 1MDB was emptied billions of dollars, Goldman Sachs made $2z6 billion in service fees, and officials swallowed the assets of the state-owned enterprise.
They are like the masters who settle accounts and the shrewd landlords, sitting at the table in suits and leather shoes, discussing how to divide up the people.
However, after all, the paper cannot keep the fire. As the hole gets bigger and bigger, the 1MDB Group is finally unable to pay its debts and is on the verge of bankruptcy, and the officials involved have fallen.
Because in this matter, Goldman Sachs is an indispensable important helper.
Therefore, in addition to recovering the stolen money from corrupt officials, the Malaysian government also filed a lawsuit against Goldman Sachs in the US court, demanding that Goldman Sachs vomit $600 million in ill-gotten wealth.
Goldman Sachs insisted that he was "innocent" at first, but finally apologized to the Malaysian people under the pressure of public opinion, and launched the head of Southeast Asia Lesna as a scapegoat, saying that these bad things are his own.It has nothing to do with Goldman Sachs.
The U.S. court finally gave a light judgment, like " fined 3 glasses of ":
Lesner's personal assets of 43.7 million US dollars were recovered and confiscated. As for the US$600 million earned by Goldman Sachs, the court held that this It is "legal money", has no following.
Malaysia is not reconciled. It has been in a lawsuit with Goldman Sachs for several years, but it may be difficult to return the 600 million US dollars.
In the middle is Goldman Sachs Southeast Asia President Lesner
. After the case was exposed, Xiao Li also fell unlucky, because Xiao Li not only collected the little golden man bought on the black market, but also a pair of zzzz3 real Still life with cow bones.
These are all stolen goods bought with black money. After
Xiaolizi was investigated, he obediently cooperated and handed in the stolen goods involved in the case.
Little plum was pitted by a friend and got on the boat for some reason.
In this major transnational money laundering case, the former prime minister of Malaysia and his stepson, Australian supermodels, Hollywood stars, the Saudi royal family, and many wealthy businessmen are all involved, and the total amount involved is 4.5 billion . Compared with the black money they made with Goldman Sachs, Xiao Lizi's money is not even a dime.
Moreover, Goldman Sachs, the core of this case, is not the first time to do such a thing.
If people like Riza go to the United States and can be the wolf of Wall Street, , like Goldman Sachs, is a well-deserved "wolf king"!
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Goldman Sachs: Financial Pirates Behind the European Debt Crisis
On April 29, 2010, the US "Huffington Post" published such an interesting onion news:
11 were hired by Goldman Sachs in the US court. of.
The pirates confessed that the nature of their work is simple, that is, attacked ships that Goldman Sachs had shorted ahead of time, creating negative news and bad news to profit from it. The
pirates believe that their work at is essentially the same as that of bankers at Goldman Sachs, but they don’t wear suits and ties like bankers. The Goldman Sachs (Goldman Sachs) in the picture
is obviously
from P, and the prosecutor said that after the pirates confessed this fact, the situation in this case became complicated.
According to the legal definition, the identities of these pirates are bankers, and their actions can be understood as financial operations, which makes it difficult to convict them.
Although this "onion news" is just a joke, but the irony is a bloody fact:
Goldman Sachs bankers are like pirates, they can arrogantly harvest other countries in the international community the property of.
The European Union was slaughtered once by Goldman Sachs.
In October 2009, Greece elected their new prime minister, Papandreou.
He was going to have a big fight. However, less than a month after taking office, Pampadriou couldn't laugh.
because he found that Greece is not far from bankruptcy.
In 2009, the Greek government's fiscal deficit And public debt accounted for the proportion of GDP is expected to reach 12.7% and 113% .
In other words, if all Greeks do not eat or drink for a year, they will not be able to repay the debt that the Greek government borrowed.
The previous Greek prime ministers were able to get along because they were all making false accounts.
Pampadriou must feel pain in his head. How can
avoid debt crisis?
Pampadriou thought of a genius trick-continue to borrow without the money!
I owe 500,000 and can't pay it back, so I ask the creditor to borrow another 1 million, can I repay the debt?
So, the Greek finance minister ran to the EU finance ministers meeting and cried poorly, begging the finance ministers of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and other fraternal countries, hoping that the European brothers could help Greece.
The European Union was speechless at that time. When did Greece owe such a debt?
The EU auditors stationed in Greece to check the accounts, and they quickly checked the debts of Greece- was related to Goldman Sachs.
time is set back to 1999, and Greece plans to add a slice of the euro to the division.
However, the EU does not mean that you can add it if you want. In order to control fiscal risks, the EU has two rigid indicators for the debt of the euro area member states:
1, budget deficit cannot exceed 3% of GDP ;
2, debt ratio is lower than the gross domestic product (GDP) 60%;
embarrassingly, these two indicators can not reach Greece.
Just when Greece was very anxious about this, a Goldman Sachs executive named Laudia appeared in front of the Greeks.
Laudia is a British citizen and a top student who graduated from Oxford University, but her parents are from Greece and belong to Greeks, , so Laudia has always had a good relationship with Greek government officials.
Antigone Laudiadis
When Laudia learned from the Ministry of Finance officials that Greece wanted to join the Eurozone, she realized that her chance was coming:
, if she could pack Greece in. The Eurozone can make a lot of money from it. Goldman Sachs couldn't be better at packing Greece's book numbers on things like
.
So Laudia took out the three-inch tongue that was trained in the Oxford Debate, and convinced the Greek government officials : We at Goldman Sachs can help you solve the problem of joining the European Union!
The officials of the Greek Ministry of Finance were tempted when they heard: Goldman Sachs' plan can not only relieve the pressure on Greece's fiscal deficit, but also make the government's financial report look better. Why not?
If you compare Greece to a company, then Goldman Sachs’ plan is to help Greece " financial fraud ", find a way to temporarily transfer debts, and lend money to Greece on the curve to make the company’s profitability data look better, so as to meet the " listing standard "", "IPO" successfully joined the ranks of Eurozone countries.
Greek politicians don’t know that this is to quench their thirst by drinking poison, but the temptation to succeed is too great-you won’t worry about voting if you succeed, you can sit in the position of minister or prime minister for a longer time, and get more benefits for yourself .
As for whether the country will live or die ten or twenty years later, Who cares? The two parties hit it off and Goldman Sachs provided the Greek government with a complete set of services:
In 1998, the Greek government’s fiscal deficit accounted for 4.1% of GDP, while Goldman Sachs reported only 2.5%; in 1999, the deficit accounted for 3.4%. The report is only 1.8%. In this single transaction of
, Goldman Sachs made a $300 million commission.
Not long after, Laudia was promoted to a partner of Goldman Sachs because of this business and became the co-head of the Goldman Sachs European Investment Banking team.
After Greece entered the euro zone, it did not think about how to develop the economy and make up for the financial holes. Instead, all kinds of drifts:
government frantically distributes welfare to please the people, ordinary people can get high even if they don’t go to work and stay at home. The amount of unemployment benefits is more than the money earned from part-time work.
The treatment of government personnel is also very good. The proportion of public employees in the Greek bureaucracy is five times that of the United Kingdom. These people can receive 14 months of salary a year and can take one month of paid vacation each year. In addition to their salary,
can enjoy an additional bonus of up to 1,300 euros per month. The bonus is for using computers, speaking foreign languages, being able to go to work on time, and so on.
If this goes on, the financial hole is of course getting bigger and bigger.
After each government came to power, they found it was a mess, but in order to preserve their ruling status and votes, they could only bite the bullet and go on. Welfare not only cannot be cut, but must continue to increase, a vicious circle.
Therefore, Greece's industry and agriculture are shrinking more and more severely. More than 70% of GDP depends on tourism and the shipping industry. The
government is also becoming more debt-ridden year by year.
In 2008, the global financial tsunami made Greece's economy relying on tourism and shipping simply unable to survive.
Originally, if Greece did not join the Eurozone, it could also ease the predicament through currency devaluation. But after boarding the EU ship, he lost the ability to adjust the exchange rate and could only tie a piece with the EU.
Greece began to beg the EU to borrow money, especially the relatively rich Germany and France.
The Germans hate the Greeks who like to relax and hate to work, and are very resistant to helping Greece: Why do we have to pay the uncles with the money we have earned?
German Chancellor Merkel initially opposed the Greek finance minister’s begging for money.
However, in fact, is not only Greece, but also Italy, Spain and other countries have had similar operations with Goldman Sachs , using loopholes in the euro system to quietly borrow money from the European Union and whitewash financial reports.
And these countries are just as economically poor as Greece. The crisis of 2008 made all these long-standing bubbles burst.
A " European swine fever " originating in Greece has swept across the European continent. People gave these countries a vivid name "PIGS":
Portugal (PORTUGAL), Italy (ITALY), Greece (GREECE), Spain (SPAIN).
These four countries that are deeply in debt crisis are also called " Europe pig four countries ".
More importantly, Goldman Sachs also signed a “Credit Default Swap Agreement (CDS) "" can be understood as a " gambling agreement ". The content of the
agreement is very simple. If the Greek debt defaults on , the European bank will pay Goldman Sachs billions of dollars. If Greece does not If the contract is breached, Goldman Sachs must pay monthly insurance premiums to European banks.
German Bank signed a CDS of 1 billion euros with Goldman Sachs. If Greece’s debt chain collapses, Germany will have no good fruit.
The EU wants to save Greece. It doesn’t work.
Goldman Sachs’s move to help Greece enter the EU is like putting a Trojan horse into the EU.
Goldman Sachs knows that Greece is a time bomb and something will happen sooner or later, so it signed the right gambling agreement ahead of time and shorted Greece.
z1 If the EU cannot save Greece, Goldman Sachs can guarantee income from droughts and floods.The more serious the debt crisis in Europe, the higher Goldman Sachs' profits.
Prime Minister Padri made a speech on December 11, 2009, that he tried to stabilize the Greek people. A vow to declare: "The government will repair the Greek economy, fight corruption, and make the economy more stable! "
As a result, as soon as he finished his speech on the front foot, Goldman Sachs came to dismantle the stage on the back foot. Goldman Sachs manipulated its partner South Africa Standard Bank to publish a sensational short Greece report , saying that Greece is not saved, and it will immediately withdraw from the euro zone. In the financial market, confidence is more important than gold. The short selling report of
quickly caused market panic, and the three major US rating agencies also followed suit and downgraded the sovereign credit ratings of Greece and other European countries.
Goldman Sachs holds the "gambling agreement" , Suddenly broke through 200 points all the way to the sky, earning a lot of money.
Germany and France are as disgusting as eating flies, riding a tiger.
They calculated that if Greece defaults or exits the euro zone, it will bring to the European financial system. A heavy blow, the cost is much higher than borrowing money from Greece.
couldn't help it. The EU gritted its teeth and borrowed money from Greece, filling in the hole in Greece’s debt of more than 300 billion euros.
It was only when the EU reflected on the crisis afterwards. I found that the shadow of Goldman Sachs is everywhere in this crisis:
helped Greece get through the euro zone by Goldman Sachs partner Laudia;
Greece's global debt director Christopher was once Laudia's colleague at Goldman Sachs;
Italian Prime Minister and EU Rotating President Prodi also worked at Goldman Sachs;
Italian Finance Ministry Director-General Draghi was a former Goldman Sachs;
Italy and Greece’s financial fraud, currency swaps, and later gambling agreements, There are all employees or former employees of Goldman Sachs who participated. Although Goldman Sachs may not be the initiator, it undoubtedly played a role in fueling the flames.
In this world, there is no better business than the national financial crisis of other countries.
The Rolling Stones "The magazine once described Goldman Sachs like this: " Goldman Sachs is a big blood-sucking squid wrapped around a person's face and ruthlessly inserts a straw into anything that smells like money. "
We mentioned before the " big short " in the 2008 global financial tsunami. Those mortgage securities and financial derivatives that are dozens of times higher than the global GDP were also the first to come out of Wall Street investment banks such as Goldman Sachs.
z6 After concocting the crisis in one hand, they againBefore the crisis, shorted the financial derivatives it sold, but did not tell its investors the risks.
After 2008, some US congressmen proposed to restrict these Wall Street banks and not allow them to enjoy excessive privileges, but there are very few supporters of this proposal.
In 2016, the US Department of Justice and Goldman Sachs reached a settlement, fined 5 billion US dollars, as a punishment for Goldman Sachs defrauding investors in the 2008 financial tsunami , but not a large banker was sentenced to prison.
After Trump came to power, he has been pushing for a bill to loosen Wall Street banks. The government has less and less supervision, and the rope around bankers' necks has become looser.
The reason is also very simple: Trump’s initial team also has many people from Goldman Sachs, including the treasurer, chief economic adviser, strategic director, etc. .
In the revolving door of the White House, Goldman Sachs is always indispensable.
Those who steal the hook are punishable, and those who steal the country are princes.
The pirates put themselves in gorgeous suits, stylishly dressed, no longer holding knives and guns, and no longer blatantly killing and setting fire.
But in fact, in the financial market, they are still doing pirates, killing people, arson and looting. The only difference between
is:
pirates and the UN escort formation can manage, but no one can manage bankers.
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