Chapter 123 Hidden Wealth

"Every place has its own rules of the game. When the rules of a place are unfavorable to me, I can be eliminated at any time.

But life is different from a game; reality is far more cruel.

If you lose a game, you can just start over, but if you fail in the game of life, the price is the destruction of your family.

The rules of the game are unfavorable to me, and I don't have the power to change this status quo. After all, this world has never been a fair one.

But that doesn't stop me from doing everything in my power to possess the ability to flip the table.

If I lose, my end will certainly be miserable, but no one else should expect to have it easy either.

So as long as I have the ability to flip the table and dare to do so at a critical moment, those people won't dare to go too far with me."

It wasn't just the upper class of America that was this cruel; it was the same everywhere.

The Rockefeller Family and the DuPont Family used to have a fairly good relationship, but when interests were at stake, the Rockefeller Family could still stab the DuPont Family in the back.

Similarly, out of self-interest, aren't the younger generations of these two families currently partners in business?

Right now, with huge profits to share, Wang Xiuyuan naturally has an intimate relationship with these families. However, when it comes to a conflict of interests, these families will turn their backs on Wang Xiuyuan at any moment. This is reality.

How could Wang Xiuyuan not prepare a backup plan?

The cruel reality of high society left Tom and Jerry shaken. Although Wang Xiuyuan didn't provide specific details, judging by his actions, it certainly had nothing to do with peaceful times.

Tom took a deep drag of his cigar and accidentally inhaled some smoke into his lungs, immediately breaking out into a violent fit of coughing.

Wang Xiuyuan pointed to the coffee in front of Tom and said, "Take a sip of coffee to calm down; it might make you feel a bit better.

Don't think too much, Tom. This mess is still very far away from you."

Wang Xiuyuan's words were truly heartfelt.

In any socially stable country, those who have steady jobs, incomes above the local average, a house, a car, savings, and no debt...

They are the ones living the happiest lives.

The pressure in their lives isn't that great, and the risks and crises they face are minimal.

They don't have to struggle for survival like the poor, nor do they need to face mountain-like pressure every day like the wealthy.

Although their days might seem a bit ordinary and dull, as long as they know how to be content, these people are the ultimate winners in life.

After Tom left, Wang Xiuyuan turned to Jerry: "How is the plan design coming along?"

"It's already done, Boss. This matter isn't complicated."

Jerry pulled a thick stack of documents from his bag and placed them in front of Wang Xiuyuan.

"I have established 120 companies across twelve tax havens, including the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Bahamas, Seychelles, Jersey, Isle of Man, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Nauru, and Panama.

Most of these places are offshore financial centers that do not levy any direct taxes (personal income tax, corporate income tax, property tax), have no foreign exchange controls, and offer high confidentiality for registered companies.

Through layers of nesting across multiple companies in these twelve tax havens, your funds will be moved between the accounts of these 120 companies. Even if the CIA comes looking, they won't find where your money is hidden.

They might have the ability to pierce through the shareholder information of one or two shell companies, but they will never be able to pierce through ten or twenty layers.

So Boss, you can rest assured."

Jerry was truly Jerry, as clever as that world-famous mouse.

Wang Xiuyuan still had great trust in Jerry's words. The state machinery was indeed powerful, but no matter how powerful, their capabilities were limited, and there would always be places beyond their reach.

Zhao Changpeng was just a businessman, but after he hid nearly a hundred billion dollars in assets, the American CIA, FBI, multiple multinational banks, and dozens of intelligence departments joined forces and still couldn't find where his money was hidden.

In the end, they could only drop all pretenses and label Zhao Changpeng a terrorist, using his life to threaten him into surrendering his property.

No matter how formidable these departments were, it was only within their own sphere of influence. Once outside that sphere, they would be lucky if their full power could achieve even thirty percent of its effect.

And this was exactly the effect Wang Xiuyuan wanted.

What he needed to do now was prepare several more baskets and then disperse and hide his wealth.

The money earned from trading gold futures was on the surface; there was no need to hide it, and it wouldn't be easy to hide anyway.

It was mostly too energy-consuming and easily attracted attention.

The money he truly wanted to hide was the black money he had previously extorted from the Chinese Gangs. Aside from his Bodyguards, no one knew Wang Xiuyuan had so much money.

Wang Xiuyuan would deposit that cash into anonymous accounts at a Swiss Bank, and then cycle it through bank accounts in the twelve tax havens, making the money semi-legal.

Finally, he would disperse the funds into various national stock markets to invest in stocks. After several rounds of buying and selling, this money would become perfectly legitimate legal assets.

As long as Wang Xiuyuan didn't use these offshore shell companies to hold shares in companies about to be listed on the US stock market, there would be no need to disclose shareholder information.

Stock markets in various countries stipulate that companies and individuals holding more than five percent of a listed company's shares must issue an announcement. But if Wang Xiuyuan held more than five percent in total through multiple offshore companies, who would know?

In other words, as long as Wang Xiuyuan didn't use financing or leverage when investing, it would be impossible for any country to find out that the actual owner of these shell companies was Wang Xiuyuan.

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Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the most important financial center in the world.

As a representative city for Swiss banking, Zurich is home to many top financial institutions such as UBS, the UBS Group, and Zurich Financial Services.

The headquarters of more than 120 banks are located here, more than half of which are foreign banks.

Switzerland is a mountainous country, lacking almost all resources, including food.

Therefore, historically, Switzerland was dirt poor. For a long time, Swiss citizens could only go abroad to serve as mercenaries, fighting and shedding blood for others to earn money to support their families.

Because Switzerland was very poor, lacked enough land to grow food, and had a fierce and capable populace...

Switzerland was recognized as a permanently neutral country in 1815.

To survive, this poor country made many attempts and eventually confirmed the financial industry as the nation's economic lifeblood.

At that time, taxes in countries around the world were ridiculously high. To snatch a piece of the pie from powerful nations like Britain, France, and Germany, Switzerland adopted high-level confidentiality measures for funds deposited in its banks.

In plain terms, it helped those wealthy people evade taxes.

Through a series of coincidences, the two World Wars broke out one after another, and as a permanently neutral country, Switzerland's financial industry grew and expanded rapidly.