The Ambassador Page #7

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five million for different fees.

- On top of it, five million?

- Yes.

Let me just talk to him in Danish.

You are aware that you have to pay

an additional 5m CFA francs?

- How much is that?

- You agreed on 10m.

Besides that you agreed to pay

an additional 5m CFA francs -

- to help M. Gilbert pay taxes

and additional amounts.

That was supposed to be

included in the 10m.

- How much can we give him?

- I need to look into it.

- I can't answer that off hand.

- We have to close this now.

But it's perfectly mental

to add 5m out of the blue.

I've just been told that

if we'd gone to Zako yesterday -

- we would've got a 27 carat stone

worth 90m.

Me with 5m would give us

the chance of finding a big stone -

- so you should pay me that.

He's just talking bull now.

"We'll find rocks for 80m, blah, blah."

I feel like saying: "Shut your ass. If

you're so rich, pay for it yourself."

It's a load of bullshit, but he wants

10m now, or we don't have a deal.

Normally, if the deal is altered

to such an extent as this -

- you take your time to read and think

it through, before you sign.

I know we're in Africa,

and we have momentum -

- but I'm just saying

I wouldn't sign this if I were you.

But in the end we reached

an agreement -

- and it was time

for midway celebration.

He also kills his

German shepherd dog called Blondie.

But before he kills himself and his

wife, he orders a bottle of champagne.

Before committing suicide

with his wife, he ordered champagne.

That champagne is Moet Chandon. So

when you're drinking Moet Chandon -

- you're tasting what Hitler tasted

right before he killed himself. Cheers.

- That's good.

- Was it a good speech?

- Very good speech.

- Thank you, Paul.

Hitler has many funny stories.

Like when he removed the features of

ladies and made them into his pillow.

Ah, the pubic hairs?

Of women, he used for a pillow?

- Really?

- Yes.

- Hitler is funny.

- Yes, he is funny.

- He has many stories.

- We should finish the champagne.

- Let me serve you.

- The rest is for M. Gilbert.

I found one stone

that was worth 34 billions -

- and they stole it.

They stole it,

and the issue is at the tribunal.

- Who stole it?

- A company here. Sodiam.

- A company called Zodiac.

- Sodiam... Sodiam!

Sodiam and Catadiam belong to a

Lebanese called Hassan Al-Baqaash -

- who incidentally is registered

on the American list of terrorists.

For supporting Hamas.

Are Gilbert and Sodiam

still collaborating?

- Yes.

- Yes?

But he said, you know, they weren't...

I have the 10m CFA francs here

and some additional euros.

I'm meeting with the president

after this.

He's going to meet the president.

It's an opportunity to introduce you.

- Can I come with him?

- Can he come to the meeting?

- Who?

- Him.

No, it's for the deputies. With this

I can affect the diamond politics.

As a deputy, I can negotiate for him.

If you can mix business and politics,

wonderful things can happen.

I'm getting a diplomatic passport.

- So he will also be a diplomat?

- He's going to get it.

- It's hot.

- Yes, very hot.

- Are you also interested in... gold?

- Yes.

- He also has gold mines?

- He has plenty of gold also.

Even the consul...

M. Gilbert said he was pushing gold

to the Italian consul Giulliani -

- the most senior member

of the consular corps in Bangui.

Maria, can you ask him, when

I have the stones and the papers -

- does he know anybody

trustworthy here -

- who can look at the stones and the

papers to see if everything is okay?

- The value or the estimates...

- The Senegalese consul's brother.

All is fine.

I'm sending the future consul

of Liberia in Bangui over.

Treat him as you would me.

Thank you.

Thank you, Excellence.

Ciao, ciao.

... of the Cortzen Group

10m CFA francs -

- in accordance with the agreement

of preliminary development -

- signed November 21st, 2010.

- Now I'm officially a diamond man.

- Officially. So we can clap maybe?

M. Gilbert left the office in high

spirits with a bag full of my money.

I could not help asking myself if I'd

ever meet my business partner again.

- So, you gave him 15 million?

- Yes.

That's good.

That's really good.

He will be happy, yeah?

He's very happy now,

and I don't see him anymore.

- That's a bad idea?

- Marc is consul of...

Great Britain.

He had a mine. They are closing

the company. They're winding up.

They were working with

the government who was their partner.

75% they got in shares,

and 35% they gave the government.

They're winding up.

They lost their money.

- Everything?

- Yes.

CEO Mads Cortzen calling from

Central Africa for counselor Sherman.

- Yes. How are you doing?

- Quite well, thank you, sir. And you?

I'm good.

So, do you have any news -

- regarding my diplomatic position?

No.

Willem, there are two options.

Either you're playing me,

or they're playing you.

Then they're fooling me.

Willem, I'm running out of patience.

I've been throwing thousands

and thousands of dollars at you.

- Nothing has happened.

- Okay.

Just saying okay is not enough.

I need something more convincing.

What can I say? I'm here

in the middle of a place with people.

What do you want me to do?

Still no sight of M. Gilbert

and the diamonds he'd promised me.

Instead, Paul suddenly showed up

and told me -

- I had to sign the standard contract

from the Department of Mines.

The very reason why I made

my own contract with M. Gilbert.

If I sign that,

then I'm legally bound -

- to pay all M. Gilbert's expenses

for ever.

Did you read the contract?

- No, I don't understand it like that.

- You should read the contract.

Paul, how come... We've made

a contract now with the lawyer -

- with everybody, and now you tell us

we must sign the other contract?

If you present the contract

you have with M. Gilbert -

- they will arrest him and stop you.

- They will arrest him if they see it?

- Yes. It's not legal.

We will not sign anything

we have not understood fully.

I think that Maria

needs to understand -

- that the contract we've signed

with M. Gilbert has to be kept secret.

Because if the government finds out,

they'll probably also come after me.

- Seriously?

- Yes, because of the situation.

To add to the absurdity, I wasn't

even in possession of a copy of the -

- as I was now informed, highly

illegal and confidential contract -

- I had made with M. Gilbert.

So, Paul, can you tell him

I find it -

- very problematic and disturbing

that I don't have the contract?

I've prepared four copies.

One for the notary -

- one for M. Gilbert

and one for the archives.

I still don't... Isn't it possible

to say you'll have the contract today?

- He just needs to make a signature.

- I'll explain it to him again.

There is no problem.

Tell him that.

I've given M. Gilbert 10m CFA francs

and don't even have a signed contract.

For all I know, M. Gilbert could have

left the country now with my money.

You are right.

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