Pretending to Be an Untouchable Crime Boss

A day after, Dani was sitting in the Hinsber bank, already bored out of his mind, but he needed to be there to talk with the director.

He was nothing like a high profile customer and dressed nothing like a gangster accountant, more like a man who came to complain about high bank fees. He was in a colorful shirt and shorts, leaning back in the chair, staring at the ceiling where a big fan was spinning.

"Mr. Jose?" A woman stepped forward, dressed in a black dress.

"Yeah, that's me." He said, standing up.

"Please, come with me." She said, turning around and heading upstairs to one of the offices.

Dani followed her, and when he stepped into the director's office, the director was already waiting for him. But he seemed stressed out just seeing him there.

"I said no more money, and you want to deposit another 200 million? Are you out of your mind?" He asked him.

"Whoa, don't shout at me." Dani raised his hand while glancing at the woman, who was still with them. "And I'm your customer, why would you shout in front of your assistant? You're just showing him a stereotypical boss attitude." He said, smiling.

"I don't give a fuck if God himself was here. If more money comes into my bank, it's going to get investigated." He shouted again, slamming his head on his desk, while his assistant just turned and left the office.

Dani crossed his legs as he sat down. "Why are you crying about that?" He looked at him. "You have billionaire's money, even companies that didn't pay taxes and shit, and you're really crying about a little money, Fredrick?"

He breathed heavily, trying not to shout at him, like he was meditating mid-conversation.

"Dani, those people, even if they stole money or committed fraud, they still have legitimate businesses. They can hide behind it, but you're just bringing in cash." He pointed at him. "Straight fucking cash. Without any proper documents, you don't even have the fucking mind to at least make a fake one. No, you just come in and throw the cash at me."

Dani leaned forward. "Hey, you take a cut from it, so don't fucking point at me ever again. Second, it's under the real estate company and the marketing one, so why are you worrying about little details?"

Frederick didn't know what to do anymore, he just sat down, putting his hands together and breathing once again, trying to control the anger, to be the calm director he always was.

"Don't meditate right now." Dani mocked him.

"All the fucking money you've been bringing me since the beginning is under three companies. A real estate one, a marketing one, and a little on the forestry."

"Yeah, and?"

"How the hell does a real estate company, that doesn't even list houses, make billions in income in just two years? But not only that... a marketing company?!" He stood up again. "A fucking marketing company holding hundreds of millions?" He laughed. "The forestry makes sense because it only has a couple of millions, but the other two are just fucking hotspots for the IRS and the other fuckers!"

Dani thought about it. It was true,he couldn't really argue with that.

"We have a lot of people with us, so don't worry about that. How many times have I told you?" Dani said as he shifted in the chair.

Frederick closed his eyes then put his hand on the table, leaning forward. "Dani, this bank is international, you know what that means. Not just worrying about our government, but others too." He said, never leaving Dani's eyes. "If they find it out, they're going to ask around, and it'll become an international shitstorm. And if that happens, no matter if you have people in the government, they'll be pressured to do something. That's my problem. I wouldn't even give a fuck about it if it was just a national bank." He turned around looking out of the window.

"I get you okay, so tell me how much time we have?"

Frederick turned around, seeing his expression and realizing this would be a serious talk with no bullshit, so he sat back down, getting some documents out.

"Two months. That's the longest I can accept money, but after that, we'll have a bank audit, and they'll look at everything, the documentation, the transfers, all of it." He sat back down. "We're not a private bank, so they can even look at our customers and how much they bring in, to make sure it's not illegal."

Dani tilted his head, thinking about all the things he could do or they could do together.

"What if we move all the money to a different bank, and when they're finished, we move it back?"

"Too many people up there." He pointed up. "I'm just a director here, and I can't hide everything forever. This fucking money transfer took me four days to settle with them and still it still not an official one."

"They pretend like it's their money." Dani laughed.

"Yeah, so you need to find a good private bank that has restrictions on government insight, or do it offshore." He looked at the document. "There's a bank in Santos, an offshore one, low tax and no government insight. The only thing is you need to move the money there."

Dani shook his head. "We need the cash, and we need it to be untraceable, and a bank here is the best option for us."

"I get it, but still, now it's a terrible situation. The real estate company, all the earnings are in cash, and so on the other one. Not even a single document on who buys what and where."

"What about the Yensai bank? We just move the money there." He asked.

Frederick shook his head. "It's private, but not really that powerful, it can hold safely maybe 50 million but no more." He tapped his finger on the desk then looked up at Dani. "If I had to name a bank in this country, I'd say Ceaser, but they're picky."

"Picky?" Dani asked, confused.

"Yeah, they even declined billionaires, and they don't give a fuck if you threatened them. They have connections in the underworld, even launder money, but their fees are very high.The best thing is that they only have a few customers."

Dani leaned back. "Interesting. How do they operate the laundering?"

"They hide everything and do everything in the shadows, but I know they have different companies and connections to offshore banks. They even launder the stolen government funds."

"What?" Dani was surprised by it. He'd never heard of it, and it was actually the bank they needed. "How do you know that?"

Frederick laughed. "I hear whispers, and I'm a bank director, so yeah. I think you should try that bank, and if that doesn't work, go offshore. Because I can't keep up, I'm sorry."

"It's alright, but be happy I'm the one doing these things." He laughed.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, if my boss were here, you'd either be dead or begging for your life." Dani said, smiling into his face.

"Somehow, I thought so…"

Dani laughed as he stood up. "So where is the money, show it to me."

Frederick escorted Dani to the basement, where all the safes and deposits were, and he stood before one of them. He scanned his fingerprint and his eye, and the vault door started cracking open.

"Like in sci-fi movies. I didn't even know the eye scanner worked."

"Yeah, they work. So if somebody comes in robbing, they gotta take my eyes out." Frederick laughed as the vault door opened completely.

As he stepped in, he unlocked another door, and before them were piles of cash everywhere, and some gold bars were lying on the side.

"That is what's going to be transferred." He looked at his watch. "Two hours, we already packed it up as you can see." He pointed at it.

"Yeah, good job." Dani said as his hand touched it. It was packed and wrapped with some foil and had a tag on it: "20 million to Yensai."

"What's the security detail going to be?" Dani turned toward him.

"Not much, an armored truck and six guards in it."

"Only?" Dani asked, because it sounded like nothing.

"Yeah, this transfer moves like a ghost, no official documents or anything, so the truck is basically empty on paper." He looked back at the money. "But don't worry, we packed some paint bombs in there. "

"What, good news if somebody steals it, right? The paint bomb explodes. There's no insurance on it, right?" Dani looked at him. "You said it's not on official papers."

"Yeah… then you just lost 20 million. But don't worry, nothing is going to happen." He tapped Dani's shoulder as he stepped out of the vault.

"I hope, because that would mean you and I are dead." Dani laughed. "To be cautious some guys will come to escort it."

"No problem for me, but just to let you know..." He turned back, facing Dani. "...in my 23 years of running this bank, not a single robbery has ever happened." Frederick smiled, clearly proud of himself.

But in a few hours, he's going to lose his 23 year streak...