The mutual aid club market is not difficult to find. You will know if you just grab a Gorky person and ask him. Therefore, everyone found this place very smoothly. When they arrived here, the parking lot was full of cars and there was no place to find it.

"You guys go down and have a walk first, we will meet at the gate in an hour!" said the colleague in charge of driving.

So everyone got off the car and started walking towards the place where the crowd gathered. At this time, it was the peak period for get off work and the time when the traffic flowed the most in the market. I could hear the noisy sounds inside from a distance. It was rare in such a lively place in the Soviet Union, and everyone felt very novel. So everyone discussed it and decided to take action separately.

Female investigator Anastasia walked into the noisy market alone, with a crowded crowd and a dazzling array of goods. If it weren't for the task of investigating the case, this would be a shopping paradise. Anastasia's eyes were too busy. Even in the largest department store in Moscow, there were not as many products as there were.

Anastasia walked forward with the crowded crowd. He noticed that although there were many people here, they were orderly. The people moving in both directions were separated by ropes connected in the middle, and people consciously walked along the road separated by ropes. Anastasia could be sure from this point alone that this market was not formed spontaneously, but that someone maintained the order in Zeli.

Anastasia walked to a stall selling perfume and stopped involuntarily. The woman could not resist the charm of perfume, even the woman who served in the KGB. Anastasia couldn't help but reach out, picked up a small bottle of perfume, and uncovered the bottle cap. A beautiful and timeless fragrance made Anastasia feel intoxicated. She couldn't help asking: "Boss, how do you sell this bottle of perfume?"

"500 rubles! Do you want to try it? Beautiful lady!" the stall owner came up and asked with a smile.

"It's so expensive, boss! Can't it be cheaper?" Anastasia asked bargainingly.

"The minimum is 480 rubles, and half a Kobe can't be cheaper. Girl, this is an authentic French product!" the boss persuaded.

Anastasia was holding the bottle of perfume in her hand, and he really didn't want to give up. But 480 rubles was almost as good as her monthly salary. But when she thought that this kind of perfume could only be bought abroad, Anastasia wanted to open it. It was hard to buy money. So Anastasia took out her wallet, pointed out 500 rubles and handed it to the stall owner.

The stall owner wrapped the perfume in exquisite colored paper and handed the change money and perfume to Anastasia. The stall owner made a lot of money and was naturally very happy. He greeted Anastasia diligently, looking forward to her buying something.

"Girl, do you have anything else to like? I can give you a little cheaper!" said the stall owner, greeting Anastasia.

"Forget it, boss! This bottle of perfume costs me a month's salary, and I can't afford anything else! By the way, boss, your market is so big! Can anyone who wants to do business come here?"

Anastasia asked pretending to chat, she wanted to get something out of the boss's mouth.

"How is that possible? Do you know how much it costs to rent a stall here a month? It's almost 4,000 rubles. If I hadn't joined the Mutual Aid Association early, I wouldn't have rented a seat for 4,000 rubles a month!" The boss complained with a slight show of flaunt.

"4,000 rubles! One month! Boss, you are so rich!" Anastasia said in a dumbfounded manner.

"There! Compared with those from the Gorky Brotherhood, I wouldn't be a business at all!" The boss shook his head and sighed with envy.

"Gorky Brotherhood? What does this mean?" Anastasia asked curiously.

"Well... girl, why are you asking this? You don't understand even if I told you!" The boss seemed to realize something and quickly stopped the topic.

"Boss, don't think too much. Actually, I have a sister who does this, but he can't compare with you! Now I can only collect some smuggled goods from the dock seafarers to sell them to others to make a difference, but you can also guess that this kind of business is too easy to do, which seafarers also have relatives and friends. My sister often can't get the goods, so the business is not big..." Anastasia made up a reason to win the sympathy of the boss. He even said that his sister was to treat her sick husband, which made the boss feel very unbearable. So the boss took the initiative to ease his guard and said:

"Girl, if your sister wants to do this, you can come to me. I'll go and tell her about the people from the Gorky Brotherhood. I got all my goods from them!"

"Gorky Brotherhood? What exactly do they do?" Anastasia continued.

"My goods are promoted from them, and so are most people in the market! Otherwise, I will help you with some next time when I go to purchase goods. But you can't sell them here, nor can you sell them in Gorky, you can't do anything else!" The stall owner sighed and replied.

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Half an hour later, the people from the investigation team returned to the gathering place one after another. Everyone got into the car, and the car quickly left the scope of the Gorky Automobile Manufacturing Factory, and everyone began to discuss what they saw and heard in the market.

"Boss, I found out that this market belongs to the Communist Youth League Mutual Aid Association of Gorky Automobile Manufacturing Factory, but the people who manage the market are a group of people called the Gorky Brotherhood. They basically monopolize the supply of goods in the market! Only some agricultural products are transported by farmers in the villages around Gorky. I think this Gorky Brothers should be the focus of our next investigation!" Anastasia reported to colleagues in the group.

"I agree with Anastasia, and I also noticed that many of the goods here come from Italy! Especially some food and textiles, these things have large sales and low profits, which are not as good as luxury goods such as perfumes. I think they must have some channel to smuggle such goods on a large scale from Italy! Since they can smuggle so much goods from abroad and for such a long time, do you think they have channels to circulate a large amount of funds to Italy!" another colleague added.

"What do you mean?" The team leader looked over meaningfully.

"Boss, I think this Gorky Brotherhood can definitely transport funds abroad conveniently, otherwise how could they do such a large-scale smuggling business? And according to the existing information, it seems that only Nikola has the ability to operate such a large-scale and long-term funding operation!"
Chapter completed!