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Supreme Golden Eyes - Chapter 462 Blatant Bribery

In order to speed up the development and utilization of mineral resources and strengthen management and coordination, the Mongolian government has set up a Geological and Mineral Resources Policy Coordination Bureau in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, which is mainly responsible for the formulation, supervision and implementation of policies and regulations for the development and utilization of mineral resources, as well as related coordination work. 【 | 】At the same time, the Ministry also has a government executive agency, the Minerals Administration, which is responsible for the specific organization and implementation of the exploration, development and utilization of Mongolia's mineral resources. The exploration and development licenses for mineral resources projects are issued by the Bureau.

In order to attract domestic and foreign funds to develop and utilize mineral resources as soon as possible, in 1997, the Mongolian National Great Khural passed the first "Mineral Resources Law", which was revised and improved.According to the law, Mongolian citizens, foreign citizens, and legal persons have the right to obtain exploration licenses, and have the right to transfer or mortgage all or part of the licenses to others.

Exploration licenses are valid for three years and can be extended twice for two years each.The area of ​​exploration sites that can be approved for each license is not less than 25 hectares and not more than 40 hectares.

Legal persons established and operating in accordance with the laws and regulations of Mongolia have the right to obtain a development license, and have the right to transfer or mortgage all or part of the license to others. The development license is valid for 60 years and can be extended for 40 years at a time.

A license can only be sold to one legal person. When multiple legal persons apply for the same license, it will be sold to the legal person who applied first in the order of the time of application. When the license holder transfers the license to others , must go to the Minerals Administration for formal transfer procedures.

Exploration licenses are charged per hectare of the exploration site, five cents for the first year, ten cents for the second and third years, one dollar for the fourth and fifth years of license holders, and one point for the sixth and seventh years After the applicant pays the fee for the first year of the exploration license, the geological and mine registration authority will issue a three-year exploration license within three working days.

Holders of a development license are charged per hectare of the mining area to which they are developing, five dollars a year for the first three years, seven and a half dollars a year for the fourth and fifth years, and ten dollars a year for the sixth year onwards.

In addition, the Mongolian government also has regulations on environmental protection for mineral resource developers. Developers must submit environmental impact assessments and environmental protection plans to the central state agency in charge of environmental issues and relevant provincial and county chief executives. Before the written approval of the environmental protection department, it is forbidden to start exploration and development activities, and the mining area must be restored to its original landform.

In order to ensure that the license holder fully fulfills its commitments in terms of environmental protection, the regulation also requires funds equivalent to 50.00% of the annual budget required to implement environmental protection measures as a deposit, which must be transferred to a special account before the project is implemented Inside.

Of course, these are just legal provisions written on paper. As for whether to implement them and to what extent, it is up to the officials of the relevant departments to decide. After all, laws always need people to implement them!

And as long as it is carried out by people, Ling Shaonan and his people can find a way to find loopholes, especially in Mongolia, they can even save the effort of finding loopholes, as long as there is money to open the way, what laws and regulations It can all be left behind and completely ignored!

Of course, these things cannot be done right from the start. Anyway, Lingtian Investment Group is a regular international investment company, so it should act in accordance with the law.Therefore, at the very beginning of the negotiations, Ling Shaonan's subordinates were in charge of the negotiations, and professionals who had deep research on the development of mineral resources in various countries immediately conducted tit-for-tat discussions on these conditions in Mongolia. Arguing over a problem.

As for the collection standards of various taxes and fees proposed by the Mongolian side, such as income tax, mineral resource development fee, land use fee, water resource use fee, and the recovery of the early exploration fee invested by the state, the experts of Lingtian Investment Group also have opinions. It is very big, and they all said that they are big customers. Such harsh conditions are really unacceptable. Compared with the international standards, Mongolia's standards are simply too outrageous. They are completely blocking their own investment channels. .

"We also have some preferential policies." The officials of the Ministry of Mines probably rarely come into contact with such a professional team. When dealing with the Canadians on the issue of the overall mining rights of the Boroo Gold Mine, the Russians came forward to help negotiate They did it without much effort.

But this time the Russians stood by and watched, obviously in the middleman's position, and it was not suitable for them to make any speeches. The scope of their abilities, and even facing the aggressive and unyielding attitude of Lingtian Investment Group professionals, these officials instinctively developed a kind of fear.

In fact, there are indeed many so-called preferential policies in Mongolia. For example, the machinery and equipment required for the exploration and development of mineral resources are exempt from import duties, and the export of their products is exempt from value-added tax and export duties. For projects with an investment of more than 200 million US dollars within the first five years, in order to ensure that taxation and other aspects during the development and operation period will not be affected by policy changes, they may be required to sign a stable operation contract with the Minister of Finance, and income tax will be exempted within three to five years after signing .

With the approval of the Mongolian government, post fees charged to foreign technical and management personnel can also be exempted.According to the "Law on Exporting, Importing Labor Services and Experts" currently implemented in Mongolia, enterprises that employ foreign technical or managerial personnel must pay the Mongolian labor department a post fee that is twice the Mongolian legal minimum wage for each foreign technical and managerial personnel. , about [-] yuan per person, this money can be saved.

However, these are ordinary minerals. For gold mines, the Mongolian side is still very strict, and the taxes and fees are high, and they are not willing to cut prices.

"Our investment amount is very large!" In the afternoon, seeing that they hadn't reached a conclusion after talking for a whole day, Ling Shaonan became a little impatient, interrupted the two parties who were arguing, and emphasized emphatically.

Others don't know how big the interests of Lingtian Investment Group are, but he knows it very well. There is no need to argue about the matter in front of him. It is still very beneficial to give them a little sweetness, and it is time to come Time to throw money.

So, after attracting the attention of the officials of the Mongolian Ministry of Mines, Ling Shaonan smiled slightly, and continued: "Our initial investment is about one billion U.S. dollars. If the policy is favorable, we will continue to add more!"

"Boom!" Upon hearing this number, the officials of the Ministry of Mines immediately turned green. In the past few years, the total investment of foreigners in Mongolia was less than 30 million U.S. dollars. One billion dollars must be invested in advance!Although Ling Shaonan said when he first arrived in Mongolia that his investment amount was between two and three billion U.S. dollars, few people took it seriously at the time and thought he was just talking. After all, in international negotiations, people who create gimmicks to increase their bargaining Things are not uncommon, and they didn't really expect Lingtian Investment Group to have such a big investment.

But it's different now, it's a formal occasion for negotiation, since Ling Shaonan said so, it was proposed as a formal condition, as long as the cooperation is negotiated, the achievement is a certainty!

One billion dollars, what kind of concept is this?Mongolia has a total population of only 200 million, and one billion US dollars, which is equivalent to an average of 10 US dollars per person!The total value of gdp for all Mongolians in one year is only so much!And it should be noted that gdp refers to the sum of the value of all products and services produced in a period, not the net profit. For example, if a person earns 18 yuan in a year If he saves [-] yuan, he can save [-] yuan, but his personal GDP is [-] yuan!

According to this, it will take several years for all Mongolians to earn the billion dollars invested by Lingtian Investment Group!Do you think these officials are not excited?

How much land does such a large investment need to delineate?The minds of the officials of the Ministry of Mines suddenly became active, secretly thinking about how much extra income they could get from this business.

A day of negotiations ended in the absence of Mongolian officials. Before leaving, Ling Shaonan sent invitations to a dinner party to his negotiating opponents.

And the facts also proved that although they were red-faced at the negotiating table, these people still gave Ling Shaonan a lot of face. When it was time for dinner, there were about 20 Mongolian officials in total. When we arrived, there were several important members of the Great Khural Presidium.

There was nothing special about the meal, but the super big red envelope Ling Shaonan handed out after the meal made the officials feel what it means to be rich and powerful. Twenty or so people received a total of 2000 million US dollars in commercial bribes.

This is a very straightforward bribe, all in cash!

Today's Mongolian government is extremely corrupt, even more corrupt than Russia at the most chaotic time, and investors rarely get the land and licenses they want without bribing them.As far as Ling Shaonan is concerned, he is not afraid of them taking money, but he is afraid that they will not take money and use other people's money to eliminate disasters for others. As long as they take my money, he has to do things for him obediently.Therefore, he didn't feel bad about spending the money.

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