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Chapter 250 The Biggest Winner of the World Cup

Lu Yunxiang was as excited as a child and felt even more excited than if he had won 10 million euros.

Zhang Wei didn't feel excited at all. After all, he already knew the result of the game.

Zhang Wei bet 80 euros in each of the 1 bookmakers in Germany, which adds up to 13 euros. Based on the odds of 1040 to 960, that means a prize of million euros. After deducting the costs, the net profit was million euros, which is barely equivalent to million RMB after rounding off.

Looking at the excited Lu Yunxiang in front of him, Zhang Wei couldn't help but sigh. A small goal, this is indeed a lot, and ordinary people can't spend it all in their lifetime. But for Lu Yunxiang, a rich second generation, maybe he can't even reach the starting point of his life.

However, for Zhang Wei, with these 10 million euros, at least he doesn't have to worry about the campus network not being able to survive.

At the same time, bookmakers have also begun to calculate their profits.

As the final, it was obviously the most watched game, and the bookmakers also received the most bets. There were bets on winning or losing, bets on scores, bets on goals, and various bets after handicap. In addition to the previous bets on winning, after this game, the bookmakers had a lot of data to calculate.

Regarding the guessing of winning the championship, the bookmakers will definitely make a profit.

In the early and middle stages of the World Cup, there were favorites to win the championship such as Brazil and England, and many people bet on the favorite teams to win.

By the time several favorites were eliminated and it was already the semi-final stage, the odds of Italy winning the championship were only 1 to 4.33. On the eve of the final, the odds of Italy winning the championship became 1 to 1.72.

The real big payouts come from those who bet on Italy to win the championship at odds of 1 to 10 or more.

For example, for Zhang Wei's 1 euros, according to the odds of 13 to 65, the bookmaker has to pay a bonus of euros.

This large bonus payment was quickly reported to the gaming company executives.

"When the score was 1-13, he bought 65 euros for Italy to win, and we had to pay him euros! I remember that this bet was reported to me and I agreed to it."

When he approved this large bet, he thought, which Italian team's stupid fans were spending 50,000 euros at one time to bet on the team to win the championship? This was simply giving away money!
But he didn't expect that this stupid fan actually won the bet, and 65 euros turned into euros in a second. This made him look like a clown!
Thinking of this, the executive felt a little bad.

However, the bonus should still be paid. Such a large betting company will not lose its reputation for a mere 65 euros.

After signing his name on the approval form, the executive remembered something else.

"Give orders immediately. When the lucky winner of 65 euros comes to claim the prize, ask him to cooperate with us in taking a few photos. It's not easy for someone to win so much money, and we want to use it for advertising." said the executive.

For bookmakers, the best publicity is to tell the public that someone has won the jackpot.

So every now and then, there will be news about someone somewhere winning a prize worth hundreds of millions of yuan, or clearing out a prize pool worth hundreds of millions of yuan. Regardless of whether this is true or not, this kind of advertising effect is definitely there.

Some people always think, what if what is said in the news is true? What if I am the lucky one?

Now the bookmaker is going to pay Zhang Wei a bonus of 65 euros. Since the money has been spent, shouldn't he take this opportunity to maximize his profits?

If the winners are invited to star in a commercial, the bookmakers will feel more balanced.

Ordinary people buy football lottery tickets with a few euros of bets, which is equivalent to giving rewards to online writers. Those who bet hundreds of euros at a time can be classified as professional gamblers.

A bet of 65 euros and a prize of euros are definitely worth advertising compared to those bets of a few euros.

The subordinate said, "Sir, for things like taking photos for publicity, we should ask for the other party's consent. If the other party disagrees, we can't force them!"

The executive frowned and thought for a while, then said, "I remember when the betting station reported to me, they mentioned that this lucky guy was a foreign tourist. Since he is a foreign tourist, he should not have a dedicated accountant in Germany.

Now that he has won so much money, he will definitely need accounting services, whether it is filing taxes or remitting the funds abroad. Tell him that if he is willing to cooperate with us and do some simple publicity, we can provide him with accounting services for free. "

What gaming companies lack the least is accounting talent, and taxation and cross-border capital flows are their specialties.

……

Zhang Wei took the lottery ticket to the betting company to claim the prize. The betting station certainly could not handle such a large prize claim, so he had to go to the betting company.

After handing the 65 euro check to Zhang Wei, the staff of the gaming company asked, "Mr. Zhang, we have an unwelcome request. We hope you can cooperate with us to take a few photos. We will use them for the company's promotional activities."

"Well..." Zhang Wei was a little hesitant. After all, Zhang Wei still had some concerns about appearing in public to receive the award.

The staff member immediately said: "Mr. Zhang, if you are willing to cooperate with our company's publicity, we can provide you with free accounting services."

"Free accounting services? What are they?" Zhang Wei asked immediately.

"Including tax services and services related to cross-border capital flow. Of course, if you want to invest in Germany, we can also provide relevant consultation." The other party said with a smile.

Zhang Wei took a deep breath. This condition was really tempting.

Given the particularity of gaming companies' business, their accountants must be the most professional in terms of taxation and cross-border funds, and everyone understands this.

And Zhang Wei really needs this kind of service.

It is common practice in many countries to provide tax benefits to foreign consumers. For example, there are special duty-free shops for foreigners to shop at; there are tax refund windows at exit ports where foreign citizens can directly get tax refunds with their shopping receipts; and in some places, if you show your passport when you check out, the consumption tax will be waived.

The calculations of the gaming industry in this regard are even more complicated. The essence of gaming is gambling, but no country wants its citizens to be deeply involved in gambling, but also hopes that the gaming industry will bring benefits to the country.

Therefore, the best situation is to only make money from foreigners. Foreigners come to the country to gamble, and reap a lot of money, bringing benefits to the country, and if the country's citizens dare to participate in gambling, they will be punished by criminal law.

Therefore, in order to attract foreigners to play gambling, many countries have given the green light to foreigners to participate in their own gambling games. In particular, tax policies will definitely have many areas where tax reductions or exemptions can be made.

In this regard, Germany has its own policies, the European Union has its own policies, and there are temporary policies during the World Cup, which makes the calculations quite complicated.

If Zhang Wei only made tens of thousands of euros, he probably wouldn't need to find an accountant. Even if you pay taxes on this small amount of money, it won't cost much, and the international anti-money laundering organizations won't bother to pay attention to you.

But Zhang Wei wanted to take away tens of millions of euros, so he really needed to find an accountant to handle it. He had to use all kinds of legal tax deduction methods.

In this regard, ordinary accountants are far inferior to accountants of gaming companies. Gambling companies have to operate billions of funds every year, so they are familiar with this.

More importantly, each of the 16 gambling companies in Germany has a state government as its backer. As a federal country, each state also has its own laws. It is more reliable to find a local accountant.

65 euros is a lot of money for ordinary people, but it is just a drop in the bucket for accountants at bookmakers.

Thinking of this, Zhang Wei nodded, and then continued: "I can cooperate with you to take pictures. But I hope you can protect my privacy as much as possible."

"Mr. Zhang, don't worry. We will keep your name, age, nationality, etc. confidential. We will only say that you are a tourist from Asia."

Lu Yunxiang whispered, "Brother, I think you absolutely need to protect your privacy."

"Why?" Zhang Wei asked.

"There are people named Zhang Wei everywhere in China. Even if the winner is reported as Zhang Wei, people still don't know who you are."

……

Zhang Wei went to the second gaming company to claim his prize, and the result was the same. The other party hoped that Zhang Wei could leave a few photos to cooperate with the gaming company's publicity. The gaming company could also provide Zhang Wei with accounting services.

So Zhang Wei took a huge check sample and took a photo with the executives of Boai Company.

The next few gaming companies also had the same request, and Zhang Wei did not refuse. After all, it was just a photo shoot, and it would not cost him a cent, and he could also get the services of an accountant for free. There were always news reports saying that when foreigners win the lottery, they always show their faces, while Chinese people wear masks. Then the public intellectuals said that the security in foreign countries is good, and they are not afraid of being kidnapped by bad guys if they show their faces to receive the prize!

In the era when self-media is rampant, if someone says that public security in foreign countries is good, I guess not many people would believe such nonsense.

If you search online, you will find a lot of news reports about foreigners being robbed, kidnapped, or even killed after winning the lottery. It has become commonplace.

Foreigners dare to show their faces when they win the lottery, mainly because the gaming companies give them benefits, such as providing accounting services, which is very attractive.

Especially in some countries with complicated tax systems, ordinary people simply don’t understand how to pay taxes without an accountant.

For example, in the United States, the federal government has its own taxes, and the states have their own taxes. The federal government and the states also have their own tax deduction details. There is a scene in "The Shawshank Redemption" where a prison guard buys himself a holster, which can be claimed as a tax deduction. How can ordinary people know so much?

The United States is a country where even drug dealers have to declare and pay taxes. It is better to offend kidnappers than to offend the tax bureau.

So many people are willing to risk being kidnapped and show their faces in order to get some of the benefits offered by the bookmakers.

Zhang Wei is not afraid of showing his face. In a few days, Zhang Wei will return to China. By then, he will have defeated the criminals. It is impossible for him to go to China to kidnap people for ransom!

……

Although the World Cup is over, the promotion of various betting companies has just begun.

Many bookmakers have released financial reports, announcing that they received huge amounts of betting funds during this World Cup, a huge increase compared to the previous World Cup.

In short, it is to tell the Germans that Germany's gambling industry is thriving and developing vigorously. The new season of the Bundesliga, the German Second Division and the German Third Division is coming soon, so everyone should come and buy lottery tickets!
It's like those news stories about scratch tickets being sold out, telling you that scratch tickets are selling like hot cakes, so go buy them! But then you go to the lottery store and see that all kinds of scratch tickets are available, in whole books.

In addition to saying that the bookmakers have good sales data, there are of course also promotional articles about lottery players winning big prizes.

At the Lower Saxony State Lottery, Director Hoffman was holding a Berlin newspaper, which had an entire page filled with news published by the Berlin Lottery.

"Lucky fan made a great prediction, betting on Italy to win the championship at odds of 1 to 13!"

Under this title is a photo of Zhang Wei holding a check for 65 euros.

"Does the Berlin bookmaker have nothing to report? Why are they reprinting news from our Lower Saxony?" Hoffman snorted coldly. He thought the news was reprinted from him.

Looking at the content more carefully, it was written that a tourist from Asia bought 1 euros of betting on Italy to win at a Berlin bookmaker. The ratio at that time was exactly 13 to 65, so the tourist won a huge bonus of euros.

Hoffman was immediately furious!
"How can you do this! It's fine that you reposted the news from me, but you also used your name to promote it. This is fake news and an infringement of copyright! Shameless! I will sue you!"

Hoffman thought it was a Berlin bookmaker that stole his news for publicity.

This is like your company spent 65 euros to hire a celebrity to endorse its product, but then its next-door competitor directly used the celebrity endorsement picture, photoshopped its own product onto it, and used it for promotion as well. This is intolerable!
The sixteen German bookmakers usually compete fiercely with each other and often resort to shady tactics, but this kind of infringing publicity clearly crosses the line.

"Call someone from the legal department over here." Hoffman gave an order, then patiently continued reading the newspaper.

The next thing he looked at was a Bremen newspaper and saw this headline.

"The fan had a keen eye and successfully predicted that the Italian team would win the championship, winning a prize of 65 euros"

"What's going on? Why are you reposting our report again?"

Looking at the picture accompanying the news again, it was still Zhang Wei, but this time, it was a middle-aged man who was handing a check to Zhang Wei.

Hoffman knew this middle-aged man, who was an executive of the Bremen bookmaker.

Continuing to read the content, it said that Zhang Wei placed a bet of 80 euros on Italy to win the championship at the Bremen bookmaker, and eventually won a prize of euros.

"Scammers! You scammers! It's bad enough that you infringed on someone's rights, but you even photoshopped a photo of a check being issued! You're more shameless than the people of Berlin! I'm going to sue you!"

Hoffman angrily rolled up the newspaper and threw it away.

The next newspaper was from Hesse. Before Hoffman had time to read it carefully, he just took a quick glance and saw Zhang Wei's photo.

"Why is it him again!" Hoffman exclaimed.

This time the title is "Fans bet on Italy to win the championship, earning 65 euros"

At this time, Hoffman was already a little numb. He felt that he was being targeted and that the whole of Germany was bullying him!

"I have already lost 65 euros. It's pitiful enough. You can't just pick on me and fleece me!"

Hoffman started reading newspapers from other states. Saxony, Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamburg, and even Bavaria all had the same report, all about Zhang Wei betting 65 euros on Italy to win the championship, and then winning euros in prize money.

At this time, Hoffman finally felt something was wrong.

It would be fine if gambling companies in other states were shameless enough to engage in infringing publicity, but gambling companies in Bavaria would never do that!
The Bavarian gambling company is affiliated to the German federal government and has a larger background than the other fifteen gambling companies. There is no need for them to resort to such despicable means!
A bold guess came to Hoffman's mind.

"Does that mean this guy went to 65 bookmakers in Germany and placed bets of euros on each? Then each bookmaker would have to pay him euros in bonuses."

Thinking of this, Hoffman immediately picked up the calculator, multiplied 65 by 16, and got the number 1040.

"1040 million euros! Oh my god, Italy won the championship and this guy made 1040 million euros!"

Hoffman stayed there until someone from the legal department knocked on the door, and then he came to his senses.

"Mr. Hoffman, do you want to talk to me about something?" the person from the legal department asked.

"I originally had a few legal issues that I wanted to consult, but now, I need to confirm a few things first. Once I'm sure, I'll come to you!"

Hoffmann sent the legal department away and called a senior executive at a Berlin bookmaker.

As expected, Zhang Wei did place a bet at Berlin Bookmaker, also betting 50,000 euros on Italy to win the championship. Therefore, the Berlin Bookmaker's promotion was not an infringement.

Next, Hoffman called fourteen other bookmakers and finally confirmed his guess.

After hanging up the phone, Hoffman felt that his heart could not calm down for a long time.

"He bet a total of 65 euros, and it was clear that he deliberately split the bets among bookmakers. It was well within the ability of one bookmaker to bear the euro bonus.

Moreover, all these bets were placed at the highest odds in Italy. They didn’t place bets at 1:10 or 1:12, but waited until 1:13 to place bets! Isn’t the timing too accurate?

The most appropriate time to strike, this is definitely a premeditated operation. I thought this was a brainless fan, but I didn't expect this was a gambling god!"

The next second, a bold plan emerged from Hoffman's mind.

"A prize of 65 euros is not as impressive as 1040 million euros! Since it's all for advertising, why not go big!"

The following news appeared in German newspapers:
"The biggest winner of the World Cup, a fan won a huge bonus of 1040 million euros!"

The whole of Germany was shocked!

(End of this chapter)