Chapter 42 Turtle with one wooden leg - 4

According to Sokrates and Setiniaz (who agree on this point in their respective accounts), the man responsible for this operation was named Prosser (not necessarily his real name).Setiniaz believed that Prosser was the head of an "operations unit" that complemented Jethro's investigative team.Setiniaz firmly believes that such an organization exists.This would explain the fact that there are very, very few junior and middle trustees who attempt to enrich themselves by taking advantage of their position. The stockbroker's name was Marcio.In early May 1969, Prosser hooked up with this man and bought him off (for lack of other words).He was an investment advisor to João Gómez Dolivera for fifteen years.Jethro's investigations proved that he had cooperated with a firm in New York, a firm in London, and a brokerage house in Zurich to speculate in international financial markets.

This investigation was as accurate as an X-ray, and it also gave a perspective on Gómez Dolivela's property status.His main income comes from his activities as a middleman in the buying and selling of diamonds.He also owns some inherited real estate, an "executive" in the Laranjeiras area of ​​Rio de Janeiro, a country house near the Tijuca forest, and a 350-hectare tea plantation in the state of São Paulo; Two large apartments (already rented out) in a new building facing Copacabana beach.These are properties officially in his own name.In addition, there are nearly one million US dollars in a secret account in a certain bank in Nassau, and there are two small buildings in the United States, which are borrowed in the name of a company in the Bahamas.

The first stage is to lay out the bait.The stockbroker Massilo found and told Gomez that according to the confidential information he had just received, he knew that there would be a huge speculative wave in the stock market. "I'm referring to the 'International Electric' stock. You must have heard of that company. I sent you my usual background. It's in good shape and well run. It's a sure-fire stock. I My sources tell me that this stock is going to be a public takeover target soon. So it's bullish. I'm going to buy it myself. I'm giving you this credible news to get you a vote. This is a short-term Action, three months..."

Gomez took his idea, and was delighted.Although the public bid acquisition that Massio said did not materialize, however, due to the continuous buying of several large conglomerates, the stock, which was not very popular, has also been strong in the past few weeks. The second stage is to swallow the bait and take the bait. "Listen to me," Macio said, following Prosser's remote control instructions, "you've made nearly a hundred and fifty thousand dollars, you can stop here. If I were you, I don't want to stop. I'm doing it myself again." ...my sources in New York, London, Zurich can assure me that the momentum is not over, the market continues to be bullish, and the syndicates are not done yet. I believe it's time for a big fight. Will you hear My opinion? You can make two million or even three million dollars in six months. Yes, six months. The only condition is that you agree to buy a large amount of International Electric stock in six months, And pay on time."

"What's the risk?" "The risks are the same as normal," explains Massio. "The big deal is to increase the margin. However, since this will not happen until near the end, you can believe me that there is no danger at present. I have already explained to you what the margin is. For example, you issue An advance order to buy $10 million worth of stock, and you'll have to pay a stockbroker a margin in order for him to accept your order. Since you're the one buying, I might be able to accommodate you as long as you pay Ten percent of the actual amount of the deal. So you only have to put up $1 million. After six months, you have the right to buy $10 million in shares, and by then, the shares have risen to 100 million in value. 12 million or 13 million, or even 14 million U.S. dollars. After six months, as long as you go through some document conversion procedures, you can buy the stocks you bought on the same day for 12 million or 14 million U.S. dollars. Sell ​​it for 13 million or 14 million dollars. You can use the proceeds to pay off the purchase bill. One in and one out, you will make two million, three million or even four million dollars. Millions of dollars. It's very simple."

"But what about the margin increase?" "There's always the possibility," Massio's tone reassures Gomez. "Theoretically yes. If the market fluctuates and the risk exceeds your margin within six weeks, then the stockbroker will ask you to adjust. But, frankly, Joao, I think This situation cannot happen. This kind of opportunity comes only once in twenty years. I know the man Nessim Shahze well. It is he who, together with the American Vandenberg and our compatriot Socrates, is ready to instigate He is a Lebanese, a first-class financial expert, who can allocate five or six billion US dollars, and all the chiefs of the oil-producing countries are his backing. It is up to you to intervene or not, anyway. For once, I'm going all out."

"I don't have a million dollars." "That's too bad. You know, I staked everything I have. I even mortgaged my house in Niteroi. Why don't you do that? You have that tea plantation ...and your two apartments. I haven't counted your secret savings, you must have some. Time is of the essence, Joao. Don't you want a bank to finance you? One day sooner or later There is a big gap. Those who are quicker get first, and those who are late are left." The bank that took the mortgage was based in São Paulo.Representing the bank in this process was one of the city's largest law firms (founded by the late Emerson Coelho).

At Massilo's instigation, Gómez Dolivera placed an order for $1.06 million with a New York stock brokerage firm apparently unrelated to Reb Klimrod. The third stage takes place in a completely different field.David Setiniaz and Jorge Socrates could not say how much Wang played here, if at all he did.The Brazilian Socrates (despite being a Brazilian) tends to think that he was the one who showed magic (but can't produce any evidence). "For more than a decade, many ethnographers, experts in various disciplines, and religious leaders have been drawing the attention of all walks of life to what the Indian Conservation Service is doing. Prior to this, the government had heard no protests. Anyway, this It is a fait accompli and the authorities in Brasilia are working on organizing a commission of inquiry, the results of which will eventually lead to the dissolution of SPI and its replacement by FUHAI (National Society for the Protection of Indians).

There was also a fait accompli: Among the lower-ranking officials, a hundred were dismissed and interrogated, and hundreds more were demoted or transferred elsewhere. Joao Gómez Dolivera resigned without waiting for SPI to be disbanded.He felt the need to hold a press conference to justify his resignation.He said at the reception: "My surname has always been respected, and the family I belong to has a great reputation in the history of this country. Now, this surname has been sullied. I am indignant, outraged, and ashamed. My reputation has even been honored." Unknowingly stained by some despicable deeds, of which I know nothing. If I had known, I would have taken immediate measures..."

At the time, Setiniaz was back in New York.That summer, he received several translations and photocopies of the clippings, with no enclosing letters.The content of the newspaper clippings is the high-sounding, "outraged" words of Gómez Dolivera.Setiniaz remembers being taken aback: All indications were that Gomez would make it through with dignity. The stage for the fourth stage is in London.The Central Sales Organization (CSO), the trade arm of De Beers Minerals, held a rough diamond sample sale in London.When it comes to the circulation of rough diamonds, CSO controls 70 percent of the world market.The rough diamonds they sell come mainly from South Africa, the Soviet Union and Central Africa.At that time, the organization's annual turnover was more than $200 million.The sales ceremony is immutable and solemn.Clients come from all over the world, the number is very small, and they are all selected by the CSO, otherwise they will not be allowed to enter, and the reputation of these clients must be absolutely clean.They were arranged to sit in front of a turntable, and the rough diamonds shown to them were assembled in batches, each batch valued at between $100,000 and $200,000.Haggling is not an option, you can only choose which batch you want.For every customer, I hope to buy at least one batch.

Gómez Dolivera is also one of these clients. The files were sent to six different places, each time delivered by an anonymous courier.Each dossier bears the familiar words of Seteniaz: "Top Secret. Deliver to recipient in person." The contents of the dossiers are exactly the same: three photos, from Klimrod to Seteniaz Selected from those photos I have seen, the other three are photos of the leader of the treasure hunters with Gomez Dolivera.Photocopies of documents show that the treasure hunter had been working for Gomez for fourteen years, that the two inoculating doctors had been paid by him, and that he had personally sent them to the A flight to La Paz; the tickets were issued by Belen's agency and credited to Gomez, the treasure hunter who was permanently employed as an overseer of a plantation in the state of São Paulo, although there was no one there. met him, and his salary is very high, which is equivalent to twelve thousand dollars a year, and this Gomez Dolivera has also flown over the scene of the massacre twice in a small plane, Asking his aides numerous questions about what he called this "operation" ("attached the testimony of the pilot received by a judge in Belem"), Gomez Dolivera and a Swiss-based European There was a correspondence between the companies, and the Brazilian, writing four days after the massacre, said, “The way has been cleared.” The fifth stage is the initial deposit increase.This increase in the amount of $250,000 must be delivered immediately to the brokerage house in New York.Gomez Dolivera was already extremely embarrassed after being coldly expelled by the CSO from the Diamond Client Club, whose members had been carefully selected. Now he was hit by fate again, which inevitably produced a feeling of doomsday.It took Macilo a lot of talk to persuade him to sell off his first ancestral estate cheaply within a few hours in order to make up the money. The first margin increase was on November 14, 1969.The second time (ten percent, or one hundred thousand dollars) was on the 24th of the same month.The third time was Christmas Eve; the fourth time (again twenty-five percent) was January 19, 1970.Massio said, "Joao, you're either going to pay up or declare bankruptcy and lose everything you've invested so far. You must have been negligent somewhere, otherwise how would those brokers in New York know you had real estate in America I'm not much better than you anyway. If my uncle in Manaus hadn't promised to help me, I'd be broke. But I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. We'll get through this. The Nai Sim Shah is a real devil; he's trying to drive down the market price so he can buy it all later. We'll just hang in there and we'll make it..." Hearing this, Gomez put his savings in the Bahamian bank All put forward to pay the security deposit for these increased income. At the same time, a financial institution in Hong Kong, represented by Han, sold all the shares of the International Electric Company it held.A European consortium headed by the Frenchman Soubis did the same.Then some Mexicans with large stock holdings followed suit, and they were rounded up by a man named Francisco Santana... "Joao, we have to wait. Look, this American conglomerate is buying, it's the Vandenberg consortium. It's buying at a low price, but it's buying. That means they have faith in International Electric as well. It's just a matter of time now..." On January 30th, the fifth notice of margin increase came, this time it was 30%. Phase Six The press stepped in.The newspaper relished juxtaposing Gómez Dolivela's high-sounding resignation statement when he left SPI and the "reporter's findings" on the same page.News agencies around the world reported the incident.Almost without exception, Brazilian newspapers published documents identical to those received by De Beers and its trade agencies. The seventh stage is assisted by international law.As a result of various factors, the Indians rescued from the butcher knife were all cared for by a charity in the United States, presided over by a former Harvard University professor named George Talas.Despite the medical treatment and medication given to these unfortunates, a large number of them succumbed to their injuries.The few medical planes that rescued them not only sent them to other parts of Brazil, but also to other countries, especially the United States.The deaths of those Indians outside Brazil are the culmination of brutal abuses on Brazilian soil that make Gómez Dolivera guilty of "crimes against humanity" under international law.While awaiting trial, his passport was revoked. In fact, this is not necessary.He became as notorious as Menger overnight.Today even a taxi driver would refuse a ride to such a man, even if he could afford the fare. The eighth, and final, stage particularly horrified Setienaz, because he found the practice so ruthless and vicious. Andrade, who had lent all the money to his uncle for the ill-fated venture, was penniless himself.Gómez Dolivera was staying with his nephew at the time.In April 1970, the first Indian Indians appeared in front of his house.There were only about twenty of them; they didn't move at all, just stood there, keeping absolute silence.These Indians stood there in shifts, day and night, to ensure that nothing was lost in this incredible standing guard. Then their number began to increase slowly, and soon reached a hundred.Twice the police intervened to keep them there, and the crowd obediently let the police lock them up.However, as soon as they left, another group of Indians came to replace them.Gomez tried to shake off the landers, each time without success.In the end, he hid in a village south of Curitiba, nearly a thousand kilometers from Rio de Janeiro, and the Indians followed closely, and the various expenses required were obviously no problem for them. In the end, Gómez Dolivera shot himself in the mouth, killing himself.That's when the Indians retreated.