The Most Intriguing People in Business

“Debts and lies are generally mixed together”

Luxury World

“For the greater part of the trade we did much more than practice a large-scale deception through double-traders; by means of the double-trader system we actively ran and control the Russian business markets system…”
Norio Sasaki, [ The Double-Trader System in the Business; Yal University Press; 2009, New Haven and London]

Once upon a time, in 2008 a Holy Man entered JETRO – Japan External Trading Organization.
He had a lot of great plans and was sure that the nice future was waiting for him among Japanese Trading Houses and Shadowed Elite Businessmen Society.

But there was a question – How to become as popular as ‘to be or not to be’ expression?
It was easy only from the first glance.
In real life no one was interested in one more manufacturer of luxury bags and precious testicles.
At the same time Holy Man needed glory and fate not less then Salvador Dali.

So, he decided to do the same: popularity becomes through some scandal. It is always better if intentional scandal is growing bigger and running huger worldwide…

The Holy Man founded another Man with help of JETRO. While searching the internet he noticed Tiny Man- some simple human being who was fighting with Toshiba Corporation and Mitsubishi Group. That was the man he ever wanted.

The internet and Newspapers were full of different stories about Tiny Man. He was struggling in Tokyo and Singapore, Washington and Brussels, Moscow and Tashkent, Sankt-Petersburg and Odessa, in Google and Yahoo, through newspapers, Singapore Police and other respectable resources.
“That man could be compared only with Brother Che”, – decided Holy Man and issued to Tiny Struggler small message. Holy Man was not sure that Tiny Struggler would notice him, so he decided to send his message not as short SMS through some mobile luxury phone, but as a invitation through JETRO official.

The Holy Man needed sales. As soon as it could be possible. So, he requested Mr. Tiny Struggler to check the local Russian market.

He promised a lot, which was not necessary to be really executed in the future. The main target was to get contact: that is how the Tiny Struggler was captured. The Holy Man found interesting detail – Tiny Struggler was fond of Salvador Dali Arts in his poor childhood.
The best representation for him was ‘to hint’ on some contact with Salvador Dali.

Tiny Struggler explained to Holy Man that it could better to begin invasion into Russia after official registration oh Holy Man’s brand, trademark, organization, etc.

Stupid Tiny Struggler could not understand with his empty attic, that these official aspects of life were not the real target of the Holy Man.
He just wanted to sell his precious bags, elite socks, velvet handkerchiefs, necklaces (as new and brand).
Holy Man promised to sign some contract with Tiny Struggler and even sent one sample of the contract to him. No one knows now why that contract sample was for Poland, but anyway – it was better then nothing.

The way of God Father’s business seemed colored with diamond stars in Russia:
No need to Trade Mark registration;
No need to have Certificates of Compliances;
No need to register company;
No need to invest anything officially;
No need to pay taxes;
No need to have License;
No need to have Sanitary inspection of products made from unknown skin;
No need to converse foreign currency into rubles and vice versa;
And a lot of other “No Needs” which must be executed in ‘normal’ countries with ‘normal business’.

The best executer of above mentioned ‘moves’ was Tiny Struggler. The fame of Tiny Struggler became even more day after day: he was already fighting with Media Markt Saturn, Auchan and SONY !

What else was needed? – Nothing!
Fool rushes in where angels fear to tread.
Just some promises of future happiness and full pockets of money for the fool of circumstances.

But even a Fools bolt may sometimes hit the mark – Russian Customs did not allowed Holy Man to import luxury purses into Russian territory… A light purse makes a heavy heart – Holy Man ‘forgot’ that Russian Customs officers are thinking very slowly without heavy purses… So, while they were requesting various documents: certificate of origing, of compliance, of conformity, of sanitary inspection, etc… (waiting for some bribes) – some Italy gangstaz have stolen purses nevertheless they contained no money at all.

The Holy Man disappeared from the horizons of Tiny Struggler. The reason was cheap: Holy Man could not pay for job, because his real intentions were to find some slaves in Russia who will work for some sly of dry Italian pizza from backyards of famous Italian canteens.

BUT: the Story just began…