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UPDATE: Check the comments, BKthunder admits to paying a fine for stealing from Japan Org.

Greetings Japan,
 
        I am sorry for how long it has taken to get this article out. My real life has been very busy and, between starting a new job, looking for an apartment, helping my mother close her business and helping all of us move out of my grandmother’s house, there just hasn’t been a lot of time for eSim.

        I apologize for the lack of pictures, but that’s just how I roll. I believe in content and I don’t believe in wasting my time looking up doge pictures and demotivational posters that aren’t funny or relevant. If this is a problem, I suggest you open a new tab, google image search ‘doge’ and, after every third paragraph, switch to that tab and look at some doge’s and then come back, continue reading and repeat as needed.
 
        I returned today to find I have been replaced as Minister of Finance. I have little problem with this, despite the lousy reasoning behind the decision to replace me and my vice-Minister. However, since he was the one managing the fort while I was otherwise occupied, I will let him address those points below. Much of this is some fairly complex financial wrangling. I’m going to go through it in detail, here, but I’ll include a tl;dr version at the bottom.
 
        What does concern me, however, is the appointment of BKthunder as my replacement. I find this troubling because, despite the appearance of inactivity, BKthunder was actually very active though the day. What’s troubling is that virtually every action he performed as Prime Minister were transactions made between the Japanese Org and his own private ”businesses”.
 
        This in itself isn’t incredibly incriminating, although it doesn’t take much consideration to realize the conflict of interest this presents. For the CP to set the price for goods he is purchasing for the country from himself is questionable, let alone for this arrangement to be the way all the goods are purchased for Japan. It is entirely possible that BK purchased everything, first as himself from other vendors on IRC, and then resold them to Japan Org for a very slight mark-up.
 
        I am not accusing him of doing any such thing, however the problem is that there’s no way of knowing if he did or not and, therefore, it would be improper for the President to behave in this way.
 
        If this were the only problem I saw in the time I was able to review the Org’s past transactions, I would probably just shut up and allow him the benefit of the doubt. But it wasn’t. Most of his transactions seemed to place a premium on the goods he was purchasing from himself, paying himself the high end of ‘fair market value’, and then frequently even purchasing those same goods back from the Org via the market. There was another fairly large and inexplicable tansaction which he has explained as a ‘trade’, where he took Iron from the Org in a 1:1 exchange for Diamonds.
 
        It should be noted that Iron is the highest demand raw material in the game and commands the highest value. This has always been the case and can be confirmed here . Market value, around the time this transaction was made, of Diamonds were .0051 gold per unit, while Iron was valued at .0053 gold per unit. If memory serves, he made the transactions, both sides, for .0056 gold per unit.
 
        He would also frequently use the Org to purchase JPY offers from his account at .0401, while anyone else wishing to buy Gold for JPY from the org would only get .038 and or less. He responded to say that this was his ‘privilege’ as the CP and that is what I find most troubling about all of this.
 
        It is the responsibility of the CP and the Minister of Finance to act as the hands of the citizens when dealing with Government money and properties; it is their responsibility to save a penny whenever possible and to use their position to leverage better prices. Instead of doing this, BK took every opportunity to steal nickels and dimes from the citizens of Japan to put into his own pocket. All of these transactions stretch the rules of eSim and are careful not to break them, entirely.
 
        When I approached our current President, Neferpitou, with this information he was less than interested and responded by saying he had a GO look at it and was told things were fine. That may be so and the GO may simply not have looked very hard, as the transaction history was a very complicated mess (and probably intentionally so). Never-the-less, I feel it was Neferpitou’s responsibility to take this seriously and to make it known to the Japanese public what their CP was doing with their tax money.
 
        Instead, we were removed from our office and replaced with the very person we were investigating.
 
        BKthunder is a very dangerous person to allow with access to the Org and has shown that he will, at every chance he has, use it to further his own interests ahead of the interests of Japan. BK responds to most of this criticism by yelling as loudly and as often as possible about PTO, which seems to be his natural response when threatened politically.
 
I find this a bit strange, coming from someone who, as I understand, is a Filipino but, setting that aside, we all know there are precious few legitimate Japanese IP’s who are Japanese citizens in e-Sim. That being the case, the only way we can know a Political Take Over is by whose interests they serve; the only correct answer is ‘Japan’ and if that is the case, it should matter not from where their IP originates.
 
You are free to draw whatever conclusions you like, about me. While I will be open to serving as a member of future Japanese administrations, I will not seek elected office in the future and so speculation about whose interests I serve are irrelevant.  However, I hope I have made clear whose interests BK has served up to this point and whose interests he is likely to serve in the future.
 
tl;dr version-
 
BKthunder as the CP, did the following
[ul]
[li]Bought everything from his personal account[/li]
[ol]
[li]May or may not have bought it from his own account on #strade at a lower price and sold it slightly higher to Japan Org[/li]
[li]Bought things from himself at higher prices than he could have purchased them for elsewhere.[/li]
[/ol]
[li]‘Traded’ 15,000 Diamonds (worth .0051 Gold each) he produced in his personal companies for 15,000 Iron (worth .0053 Gold each), for a net profit of 11 Gold.[/li]
[li]Sold the JPY from his transactions back to Japan Org for .0401 Gold per JPY, when anyone else only recieved .038[/li]
[li]Took advantage of his position for his own gain, at the expense of the Japanese Public[/li]
[li]Yelled ‘PTO!!!’ every time he was challenged about his activity or behavor as CP[/li]
[/ul]
 
This is not the way I want to be represented and this is not the kind of person who should have access to our finances.
 
I do not know why my Finance team was removed or why mrmariokartguy and Morbid Mushroom were nearly removed from their office earlier today. The message I received when I was sacked was
 

Hi. You haven't been online for 3 days and I don't trust you that much. You are no longer a MoF.

 
Of course, my deputy was online and handling the responsibilities of my department while I was busy looking for a place to live and starting a new job, so one can only wonder how my not being online was relevant (that’s what deputies are for lol). But, for some reason, someone who he knows has stolen (at least) 17 gold from Japan is more trustworthy than any of us, it seems.
 
        As I was absent during the time when my team was removed, I will let my colleague give the specifics of the matter. He’s been a close friend of mine for a long time and, though he no longer plays, he agreed to help me with this position and with auditing. He has real life experience as a bookkeeper and is currently training to be a Certified Public Accountant. Ladies and gentlemen, I will be publishing an article penned by the infamous Shylock an hour from now.
 
Love,
 



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