ATTN.:
Once again, I thank you for your response to my last email message, and I hope that this one meets you in good health.
For purposes of clarification, this proposal is to you in an individual capacity. So if the proposal is at variance with the scope of your company's business, you can be more adaptable as a person for the purpose.
After reading your last correspondence, I look forward with cautious optimism that this transaction will be a good foundation for a long-lasting relationship between us that will blossom for our eternal and mutual good. So in light of these comments, let me briefly tell you about myself and the safeguards I want to be associated with this endeavor.
About Myself:
I was born into a large family during the apartheid government. My father was a miner, while my mother was a petty trader. My father passed away when I was 8 years old, and it was a struggle for my mother to cater for six children alone, a struggle that hampered my prospects of higher education. I ended up schooling and working from an early age, and ultimately joined the civil service. I have worked at the Pretoria Development Council for over 2 decades and have been head of the Program Management Department for 5 years in our Pretoria North West office. I am married and have 2 children, one 34 years and the other 32 years. I was born on the 11th of January, 1956 and I have been married for 35 years which sometimes seems to me like yesterday.
I am not a wealthy individual due to the economic prospects here, where there was harsh marginalization. So I have worked and worked all my life with little or nothing to show for it hence I want to take this advantage before I retire next year. I have a very lovely family whom I want to be able to afford a good life just as I intend to live in the US for some years when I retire. So I will never do anything to get me or you into any trouble. This is a little about myself but can tell you more if you ask specific details. If we come to an agreement on this proposed partnership, I will give details to a local associate and he will inform me precisely when the documents will be ready and once documents are ready, then it will be time to conclude our business and make the transfer.
The role required of you is not as difficult as you may be apprehensive of. It is something we can go over as partners and friends. But my plan is that after the funds have been transferred to your custody, I shall travel to meet with you in Country, prior to starting any investments.
About The Transaction:
Just to give you a brief form of introduction, the funds involved are Twenty Five Million United States Dollars. The civil servants involved are all members of the committee in charge of awarding construction contracts in Pretoria to foreign businesses, and they determine the financial value of projects as well as the project components based on information presented to the Municipal government. So over time they actually did inflate and assign the real cost of a particular project. Usually, disbursement of project funds to foreign based interests are done instalmentally, except when certain provisions of the project require otherwise. So in this particular case, the declared cost of the project was US$ 380,000,000:00, while actual execution cost to the contractor was US$355,000,000:00. The original company that handled the project, has been paid off, to the tune of the exact cost of the job executed. So it is the excess, amounting to US$25,000,000:00 that we intend to appropriate as our own private business, using you as the foreign based beneficiary.
Please take note that there is no categorical illegality here, as the project consultancy component of the contract was actually performed by my colleagues. Our constraint is just due to the fact that the authorities prefer to exploit civil servants and professionals, whereas if the same job was executed by a foreigner, they will pay significantly higher. Meanwhile, the politicians have their own way of personal enrichment that we cannot do anything about. Our collective and disciplined commitment to our own futures has therefore been the motivation for this deal, hence the need to present someone else (a foreigner) to receive the compensation on our behalf. That is the only way to beat the limiting regulation against us.
It is already officially stated that an overseas based company delivered consultancy service for the project, and if it is agreed between you and us that we can engage you for our purpose, you will be presented as having played the consultancy role, for which the sum of US$25,000,000:00 is due to you. The responsibility for the preliminary paperwork and related matters will be ours, and it will take us between 8 to 12 days to accomplish, before final disbursement of funds to you.
Between my colleagues and I, we have agreed that at the completion of the exercise, your remuneration will be 20% of the total funds transferred. I hope this is acceptable to you, as I personally know this to be a generous offer.
The method of disbursement to you would definitely be through offshore accounts, which you can retain for a while. This eliminates the fear that your bank or your country will be alerted for money-laundering or any form of impropriety as you expressed in your mail.
However, prior to initiating the actual procedures, it is important that we sign a Memorandum Of Understanding (M. O. U.) between us, which will be a document that will regulate our relationship with each other, particularly after the funds have been transferred into your custody. The document will acknowledge you as our Funds Manager by virtue of your maintaining temporary custody of the funds on our behalf, for investment in your country. The provisions of the M.O.U will indicate that it is for your service that 20% of the funds are coming to you as remuneration. By that arrangement, only 20% of the total funds shall be subject to local taxes in your country. But between us, the burden of payment of that tax shall be redistributed among us in proportion to the percentage pattern of sharing the funds. Please kindly furnish me with the details viz: your full name, your current address, occupation, direct whatsapp number, marital status, photograph or passport to notify you . This information will help us in drafting an M.O.U agreement that will guide us in this transaction.
Please read through carefully. If the terms are acceptable to you, we may sign it, and get the project started, as it is something we intend to complete within a defined time frame, given the nature of the country in which we live.
I am happy we are doing this together and I look forward to the success of our business. I believe in destiny and this has brought both of us together for the purpose of sharing business together.
Regards,
Parcia
