"Duke, the FBI suddenly launched an investigation into our overseas fund companies. So far, they have frozen all operating funds from the three investment fund companies we have opened in the United States. At the same time, our investment fund companies in Bermuda, Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands have also received written notices from the local government to ask for assistance in the investigation. Although our funds have not been frozen yet, they have now been closely monitored by local regulators in terms of transactions and fund operations."

That morning, just as Duke got up, Cai Siqiang hurried to come to the door.

"According to the report of our investment fund staff in the United States, this happened at 4 pm yesterday in New York time. The FBI seized three of our US investment funds under the name of suspected insider trading and took away senior management of the fund company on the spot." Cai Siqiang finished the matter briefly. If it weren't for major problems, Cai Siqiang would not have harassed Duke, and would not have come to him so early.

Duke looked at the time on his watch. It was 8 am Beijing time. That is to say, according to the time difference, this incident had just happened for a few hours. Since these investment fund companies were not directly invested in SAL, but were mainly invested and established through holding companies in Europe or Hong Kong, and then invested and established through offshore companies such as Bermuda, Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands. After several relationships, they were reported back and could be fed back to the SAL headquarters in a few hours. This efficiency was already very high.

"Is there any solution for our lawyer team now? Has it affected our joint venture investment company with the old Li family?" Duke asked calmly. Although the incident came very suddenly and severely, the FBI launched an investigation into these secret investment funds under Duke without warning, almost instantly capturing all of Duke's existing secret investment funds of nearly US$20 billion. However, if the investment and financial companies jointly with the old Li family were not affected, the matter could still be controlled.

Because after joining hands with the old Li family to conduct energy crisis speculation last time, Duke and others have transferred most of their funds to investment financial companies jointly with the old Li family. In order to diversify risks, they have also transferred some funds to countries with strict financial protection such as Luxembourg, Europe, and Switzerland, which has divided Duke's overseas financial assets into several large pieces. In addition, in order to build the Gemini Island project, Duke's overseas fund funds have also been transferred out.

So this time, only one of them was controlled by the Americans, so Duke was still calm.

"Before I came, I ordered the subsidiaries in Europe and Hong Kong to immediately convene a core lawyer team to respond. Since these companies have no nominal relationship with SAL, it is not convenient for us to use SAL's legal resources to do this." Cai Siqiang replied. "We have not received any bad news from the joint venture financial group established with the old Li family."

In fact, these fund companies are the back-end resources left by Duke and Cai Siqiang overseas. Except for Duke, Cai Siqiang, Zhao Jianwu, Dong Feng and others, other SAL management teams are not clear about it. They are generally not very useful and will only be active if they have large investment opportunities. Although they have gained a lot since their establishment, the number of operations is actually extremely limited. In total, they are operated in the Apple backdoor incident, the fossil energy plummeting caused by the Lotus Drop, and the Google satellite image UFO forgery incident not long ago.

In addition, the company's main body has been several times set up, so it can be said that it is very concealed. The domestic national security department may not be clear about it. Cai Siqiang didn't know why the FBI actually dug out all these companies.

If Qin Tairan heard this, he wouldn't be so strange. In fact, as the global hegemony, the energy of the United States is far from comparable to China today. The national security system may be able to barely compete with the CIA and the FBI, but overseas, the two are completely above the same level.

This is not just a matter of the size of resource investment between the two sides, but the Americans' detachment in international status, which allows their intelligence agencies to be open to most countries and regions around the world and can find local governments to seek cooperation. So there is no secret for them, let alone the areas where Duke and others set up investments to be vassals under their control.

So Qin Tairan knew that except for a few big countries in the world, if the CIA and the FBI were determined to do one thing, there would be almost nothing they could not do.

Duke and others set up overseas secret investment companies. For the national security system, it is difficult to obtain information about all these offshore companies overseas. After all, China's current international influence, which does not have an overseas military base, is just that.

However, for the CIA's giant intelligence agency, it is not difficult to obtain information about all newly established offshore companies in these offshore companies at almost any time, and then follow the clues through the huge channels of the CIA's intelligence agency.

Duke didn't know that this incident was actually planned by Snyder of the CIA, but he used the FBI's hands to force Duke out in this way. Although Snyder knew that it was almost impossible to let Duke, the big boss behind the scenes, Snyder, who was familiar with human weaknesses, felt that this would inevitably greatly affect Duke's work schedule. In Snyder's view, such a huge amount of funds had problems, and Dr. Duke could not completely ignore it.

As long as Dr. Duke is distracted by this matter, Snyder thinks it is enough, because in addition to this matter, he has another backup plan waiting for Duke.

"Have we needed a lot of money recently? Has the funds from the Universe Search Center been withdrawn?" Duke did not think so far. He saw that there was a conspiracy hidden here. He was just worried that the funds of the Gemini Island project would be affected to a certain extent. After all, it was a huge project that cost tens of billions of dollars. Although he had decided to mainly use the money earned by these secret funds overseas to do it, Duke did not ask how much money it would be spent to return.

If most of these idle funds cannot be withdrawn from these idle funds, it is necessary to get such a large amount of funds from SAL to carry out this project at once, which will have a relatively large impact on SAL's cash flow.

"This is not a big problem," said Cai Siqiang. "When the project was launched, your investment estimate was amazing. We used various channels to return most of the funds to the accounts of domestic and Hong Kong subsidiaries. Now it seems like God's help." Speaking of this, Cai Siqiang's anxious expression was much less, because he found that although the frozen funds were still a huge number, for SAL, this part of the funds were originally operated as backup resources, and these funds were not available at all.

All of their industrial companies now have strong production and sales, and their cash flow is extremely abundant, so after all, these funds are just a spare tire that cannot be used on the SAL big chessboard.

"Duke, have you guessed that you have this disaster in front of you for a long time, so you launched the Gemini Island project with huge investment?" After Cai Siqiang calmed down, his mind became much more flexible. Now he even doubted the motivation of Duke's Space Exploration Center project, because from a time perspective, this matter was too coincidental.

Duke was stunned. He was not mentally prepared for Cai Siqiang's wonderful idea, and this idea was too imaginary. "What do you think? You think I am a god." Duke said with a laugh and cry. "Since it doesn't affect our affairs, then slowly waste it with the FBI. It's just a waste of lawyer fees. In addition to the source of these funds, these funds were exposed later. We didn't do any illegal operations at the beginning. I want to see how the FBI is preparing to end?"

"If there is no reasonable reason, we don't mind creating a new record and making huge claims to the US government." After a pause, Duke suddenly changed the topic and said, "Don't Americans like to sue? We are going to fight an amazing lawsuit with the US government. Caicai, you are going to find some good players in this area. I want everyone to know that seizing any assets under our SAL will cost a huge price."

In Kerry's knowledge base, Duke also copied all the current laws in the United States. Just now Duke came back from this strange incident. Duke asked Kerry to search and sort out the legal aspects of this matter, and found that if the FBI could not come up with a reasonable reason to explain the seizure, according to US laws, the fund company could actually initiate civil lawsuits for compensation.

This is an important power granted by US law to citizens or corporate entities in order to limit the abuse of government public power.

According to Kerry's search results, if the FBI cannot reason to freeze these investment funds under Duke, these fund companies under Duke can file a lawsuit to demand compensation for civil torts by the government. According to the painful American laws and cases, McDonald's was punished for more than $2 million in damages for an old lady burned by a cup of hot coffee, which means that if punitive damages are required, the total amount of compensation can be as high as hundreds of times the actual loss.

According to the three US investment fund companies that the FBI has now seized, the frozen funds are more than 3 billion US dollars, and these three fund companies have made hundreds of millions of dollars in profits in the Google crisis short-selling campaign that just ended.

In other words, if the FBI's operation ends in a bad way, Duke's fund companies can ask the US government to provide civil compensation. According to the US Code, in this case, fund companies can apply for a series of claims such as compensation, punitive damages and litigation expenses.

Using the past profit records of the three fund companies as the basis for claiming compensation, if high punitive damages are applied for, this number will be a huge astronomical figure. According to the relevant cases retrieved by Kerry, the punitive damages reach more than 500 times the compensatory damages, which means that in theory, these companies under Duke can file a claim lawsuit of up to tens of billions of dollars!
Chapter completed!