212: Chapter 212 expresses dissatisfaction with the sanctions.

While Li Yi was resting in Pengcheng, he suddenly received a call from Mannila. Thinking that Mannila had found a new client, he quickly answered the phone.

Mannila's anxious voice came through, "General Manager Li, have you seen the news? Something big has happened."

Li Yi asked in confusion, "Something big? What happened?"

Mannila said urgently, "The USA has publicly released news that they are going to sanction you and your companies, freeze your bank accounts, and prohibit all countries from conducting arms trading with you."

Upon hearing this, Li Yi was initially worried, but then he realized that it was just freezing bank accounts, and his Chaos Company and Green Lotus Company probably didn't have much money left anyway.

As for prohibiting all countries from conducting arms trading with him, that was even more ridiculous. Arms trading simply could not be prohibited, as it was not monitored by the USA.

Li Yi said dismissively, "Let the USA sanction us if they want. They can't control us selling various weapons and equipment anyway; we can still sell them as before."

Mannila complained, "But I was also sanctioned. I just checked, and the bank account I was using can no longer be used."

Li Yi said, "You don't just have one bank account, do you? Worst case, just switch to another bank account."

Mannila sighed softly and said, "It seems I can only use someone else's bank account for transfers, it's just a bit troublesome. Do you still intend to continue selling weapons and equipment?"

Li Yi replied, "Of course we will. As long as there are customers in need, the weapons and equipment we sell are unlimited."

Li Yi didn't care about the USA's sanctions. Even if Chaos Company and Green Lotus Company could no longer be used, hadn't he just established three new offshore companies? He believed the USA wouldn't find out about the information on these three companies he controlled so quickly.

At worst, when conducting arms trading with other countries in the future, he wouldn't use companies to sign the arms trading contracts; he would just use aliases, as long as both parties agreed. Then he would just let the USA sanction a person who didn't exist.

Upon hearing this, Mannila said, "Just continue selling arms. I am currently promoting in Latin America, and I've already made some progress; it's very likely we will reach a deal."

Li Yi said, "Let me know once there is a result, and I will head to Latin America to conduct negotiations."

Currently, arms trading was mainly concentrated in countries in the Persian Gulf, as well as Russia, Serbia, and Pakistan; the volume of arms procurement in other regions was still too low. Mannila being able to find new clients was good news for Li Yi.

Seeing that Li Yi was completely indifferent to the USA's sanctions, Mannila felt relieved. He had been worried that Li Yi might cancel arms sales after being sanctioned. Now it seemed he could continue looking for clients in Latin America.

As for the USA sanctioning him, Mannila didn't care at all. After all, he didn't just have the identity of Mannila; he could just switch to another nationality. As long as he didn't go to the USA, the USA wouldn't easily notice anything amiss, and he would remain very safe.

After Li Yi hung up on Mannila, he quickly checked the news. The USA had indeed released news sanctioning Chaos Company, Green Lotus Company, and him, among others. The scope of the sanctions looked quite broad. It not only included financial aspects but also the procurement of various components.

However, Li Yi didn't manufacture arms at all; everything was purchased from the Multiverse Arms Trading System, so he wasn't afraid of the USA restricting the procurement of various components. As for restrictions in the financial sector, that didn't affect Li Yi at all. After all, he paid using mineral resources, and most payments didn't go through banks.

After reading it, Li Yi checked his Swiss Bank and Hengfeng Bank accounts and indeed found that they had been frozen and could not be used. He checked the account balances, and they totaled only $2,351.02.

The amount was very small. Although Li Yi felt a bit of pain over the loss of these funds, he didn't care too much. It was only a few thousand dollars; compared to the trillions of dollars in the Multiverse Arms Trading System, it was nothing. Li Yi wouldn't get a headache over such petty cash.

However, since Swiss Bank and Hengfeng Bank had surrendered to the USA so quickly and frozen his bank account funds, it seemed he shouldn't deal with these two banks in the future. Because no one knew when their money would no longer be their own.

Li Yi looked at the banks where his three newly established companies held accounts: DBS Bank, ANZ Bank, and Kunlun Mountain Bank. Except for Kunlun Mountain Bank, the other two banks were not very safe.

DBS Bank was managed by Singapore, and ANZ Bank was managed by Australia; both were influenced and controlled by the USA and would obey the USA's orders at any time. When that happened, it was highly likely he would be added to the sanctions list, resulting in his bank accounts being frozen.

Li Yi decided that even if he used Xuanyuan Company and Shennong Company in the future, he wouldn't let any funds enter the DBS Bank and ANZ Bank accounts. If he really needed to use these two bank accounts, he would transfer the funds away immediately to avoid losing money in vain if too much time passed.

Li Yi also saw the list of people who were sanctioned along with him. Besides Mannila, there were Lieutenant Colonel Haidari and others, all brokers who had helped Li Yi find clients and whom Li Yi had paid intermediary fees. As for whether they suffered any losses, Li Yi didn't care.

After all, as brokers in arms trading, they should have long considered the possibility of such a situation occurring. Moreover, after they received the intermediary fees paid by Li Yi, they would have needed to launder these fees before they could use them, so there shouldn't have been any losses.

After the USA released the latest sanctions list, it attracted a lot of attention. But after everyone finished reading the sanctions list, they discovered that not a single company or person was familiar to them, which immediately piqued their interest.

However, many people searched for a while but couldn't find any effective information at all. After all, information on offshore companies was basically not public; unless an insider disclosed it, no one could find relevant information.

This left those who wanted to dig for the truth without any way to do so. They just felt that these two companies seemed to have been established by people from China, but there was no evidence to support this.

When a reporter asked, a spokesperson for China directly denied that this sanctions list had anything to do with China, stating that it was a list fabricated by the USA to frame China. They protested against the USA's baseless accusations, stating that China would not sell various weapons and equipment without authorization.

Since no one admitted to being sanctioned, after the news lost its heat, it eventually fizzled out. Li Yi wouldn't pay any attention to the USA's sanctions, nor would he admit that he had been sanctioned. However, Li Yi was still dissatisfied with the USA publicly releasing the sanctions list.