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750 000 $ From the Air!
This story happened several years ago, when the computer market
in Russia was booming. Large scale computer deliveries from the West
have just started and the Russian importers were not jet able to cover
the growing demand. The companies which were able to sign direct contracts
with the Western computer exporters were earning unbelievably high profits
and the Russian Computer Klondike was attracting more and more newcomers.
The trading company «Silicon Dream»
was one of them.
The company was active, financially stable and
able to invest big money into a new interesting project. Soon after
the decision to put money in computer business was made, the «Silicon Dream»
has got a request from a buyer in Siberia to deliver a big amount of computers
to Novosibirsk. The Siberian
company «Compuserv Ltd.» was ready
to pay a very high price but insisted on an urgent delivery.
Soon after that the «Silicon Dream» received a proposal from a German importer
«Otto Berg GMBH» to buy several thousands
computers for an extremely low price.
Both proposals seemed more than promising and in a short time two contracts
- one with «Otto Berg GMBH» and another with «Compuserv Ltd.» have been
signed. According to the contract «Otto Berg GMBH» has promised to deliver
several thousands of computers to the «Silicon Dream» in 30 days. If
they don’t fulfill the contract conditions they were obliged to pay penalties
equal to 50% of the total contract value. The contract with the
Siberian company «Compuserv Ltd.» was signed on the similar conditions,
but this time the 50% penalties must have been
paid by the «Silicon Dream» if they don’t deliver computers to Siberia
in time. Both contracts were 100% legal, but the owners
of the «Silicon Dream» did not new only one «little» thing:
both the German company «Otto Berg GMBH» and Siberian «Compuserv Ltd.»
were established and controlled by one and the same group of people well
known in St.Petersburg as «Maltsev’s organized criminal group».
What happened next is easy to guess. One month has passed, «Otto
Berg GMBH» officially apologized and paid all the penalties to the «Silicon
Dream». Then representatives of «Compuserv Ltd.» appeared in St.Petersburg
and used all possible methods to get money from the «Silicon dream».
Finally all the penalties have been paid to them. The
difference between what the «Silicon Dream» has got from «Otto Berg GMBH»
and what they were obliged to pay to «Compuserv Ltd.» has amounted to
750 000 $.
Thus the «Maltsev’s criminal group» has got
nearly 1 million dollars «from the air».
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