Chapter 498

When the prime minister in front of him was reading the information handed to others by Li Feng, Li Feng thought of his shock after seeing this document. This is an investigation data about Chelsea and chairman Bates.

Especially for Bates' investigation, after reading other people's data, Li Feng feels that he is too pure and fastidious in doing business. Looking at other people's business, Bates's rise in wealth is a predatory expansion history of the rise of capital.

This information was obtained after a detailed investigation during the investigation of Bates. Last time Ann Schutz looked at the first issue, which is the second issue, but Li Feng chose to collect this information.

Li Feng is very clear that the acquisition of the team, although it is said that as long as the team owner says, it can not succeed without the consent of the government, such as the FA, etc.

Originally, Li Feng was ready to give up temporarily, but after getting the information from Bates, Li Feng changed his doctrine and was ready to win Chelsea directly. If he could win Chelsea and achieve his vision, it would be far beyond his goal of this trip. Li Feng is really looking forward to it.

Finally, Li Feng also has plans on how to win Bates, an old fox. The most important point is that he needs the support of the government, especially the FA.

However, it is almost impossible for him who is not familiar with his life to directly get the support of the FA. He can only hope for the support of the British government. This is the reason why Li Feng took out this information to Blair.

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At this point, I have to talk about the history of Bates, an old fox. For Li Feng, the first impression of Bates was that he was later acquired by Roman Abramovich, an oligarch from Russia, which made Bates famous all over the world overnight. Naturally, Roman Abramovich also became famous overnight.

In previous lives, many media reported on Bates, saying that he was a smart businessman. At the beginning, he bought Chelsea in bankruptcy for 1 yuan, but sold it at a high price of 140 million US dollars and made a lot of money.

Until reading this information, Li Feng didn't know that for Bates, the means of selling Chelsea is too ordinary compared with the rise of his front body.

Ken Bates, a British businessman, is a man full of scandals and disputes. The Chelsea president is by no means the so-called "English gentleman". He is more like an outspoken and rich bastard.

He made his fortune by acquiring some bankrupt enterprises, and then used the golden cicada to get out of the shell to complete the accumulation of wealth by sacrificing the interests of banks and scattered minority shareholders.

Bates was born miserable. His mother died early and his father left. He lived in the slum with his grandparents and didn't see his father until he was an adult. Because he lived in the slum without the training of his parents, he naturally became a typical gangster, strong as a cow and rude.

After seeing his father, he went to school, dropped out of school and got a job with his help. Later, he was lucky and married the daughter of an Irish squire, spending his father-in-law's money. I have to say, this is still enviable. A little gangster married a squire's eldest lady.

With the support of his father-in-law's family, famous cars and Chinese clothes accompanied him, allowing him to enter the business world.

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Bates has a point of view. After World War II, he aimed at the real estate industry and established a construction company. When its construction company went public in Manchester, it became the chairman of a local football club, Oldham.

His purpose is not to reproduce the glory of the club, but to use the football club to expand his reputation and reputation and make the share prices of his listed companies soar.

On the one hand, he used the aura of the chairman of the football club to expand his expansion in the real estate field through bank loans and other means; On the other hand, although there is no financial support for the club, its blind expansion of the club and rapid sprint make the club look like that and look like it is developing well.

Unfortunately, people are not as good as heaven. With the deterioration of the surrounding environment of the real estate industry, the development of both his real estate company and club is not smooth. Seeing that his career is about to collapse and debt ridden, Bates turned his eyes to the British Virgin Islands, one of the famous tax havens outside the British mainland.

Before leaving the UK, Bates transferred all his company's property to this tax haven, fled the UK, and then left a mess for others to clean up. The bank and a group of large and small shareholders of the company.

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After tossing about the British mainland, Bates took a fancy to this tax haven and was ready to invest here and build it into a real estate project plan known by the upper class in Britain and the United States.

Then, through coercion, inducement and other means, the Virgin Islands managers of the British government finally agreed to his real estate project requirements and authorized him to carry out the project. Unfortunately, some gangsters got the project, but Bates was really not a person who could do things, and finally failed.

However, people are such a cow. Long before the failure, they have cashed out their assets and shares, using all the money of major shareholders and banks. As a result, they once again pit the money of banks and shareholders.

Some people think that cattle are cattle here. It is clear that Bates is an illegal and illegal behavior in business. But people are safe and sound, and they go back to threaten the British government with the power of attorney of the British government for the development of Virgin Islands.

He even threatened that if he did not compensate for his investment in the Virgin Islands, he would take various means to destroy the construction of the local municipal government and even affect the political orientation of the outlying islands. Finally, in order to avoid the scandal, the British government compensated Bates a lot of money before taking back the power of attorney.

In fact, all the funds invested in the development of Virgin Islands were loans from Barclays Bank. Finally, the British government was not only responsible for the bank's loans, but also accompanied a fund to Bates. Bates was successful again and his value rose sharply.

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In the 1970s, after returning to Britain, I went to London, the political and economic center and hometown of Britain. At this time, Bates had a bad reputation in the business world. Although he was a rich man, it was a pity that no one was willing to do business with him.

But Bates, who can toss people and be restless, is not such an easy person to give up. London has a bad reputation. Look around. At that time, with the help of Bates's speculative friends, he fell in love with Ireland.

Taking advantage of Ireland's chaotic economic order at that time, he bribed the Central Bank of Ireland to obtain a banking license and successfully opened the bank. Bates absorbed loans at high interest rates, and then took the money to carry out his own business. The bank has almost become a financing channel for his personal career development. The result is conceivable.

The banking business was bad. Only a year later, the Central Bank of Ireland began to investigate his banking problems and finally took him to court. Bates could have been imprisoned.

However, Bates's gangster and rogue attributes erupted again, and various means of arrogance, brutality, coercion and inducement were staged again, even biting back. He believed that if Ireland sanctioned him, it would be a credibility crisis for Ireland's poor financial system, which would lead to the complete collapse of Ireland's financial system.

I don't know how to think. Finally, the Central Bank of Ireland took over Bates's banking mess, but Bates left Ireland smartly and successfully again.

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In the 1980s, another opportunity was put in front of Bates, that was Chelsea. At that time, Chelsea was on the verge of bankruptcy. Finally, Bates got Chelsea at the cost of ￡ 1 and ￡ 600000.

Unfortunately, due to the bad situation of Chelsea at that time, even the Stamford Bridge Stadium was gone. It belonged to another real estate company. However, how could Bates, who loved to toss people, give up and hope to return to Stamford Bridge Stadium through a lawsuit, which lasted more than 10 years.

Sometimes it's really the magic of fate. At this time in the 1980s and 1990s, it was in the period of economic recession in Britain. The real estate naturally plummeted, and the real estate company to which the stadium belongs went bankrupt in the early 1990s.

A lawsuit of more than 10 years dragged on until the real estate company went bankrupt. Bates finally got his wish. Through bank auction, he got the land use right of the stadium and the surrounding area at the price of cabbage.

After fully owning the Chelsea team and the ownership of the stadium, Bates thought of his real estate dream again, and then came the real estate project of "Chelsea village", which is now hot.

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In 1992, Bates launched the "Chelsea village" real estate project that made the whole Chelsea fans rejoice: build a series of high-end hotels, tours, nightclubs, bars, shopping centers, etc. around the Stamford Bridge Stadium in London, and build a commercial football and sports Kingdom centered on Chelsea club.

Bates has experience in such real estate projects. Whether it is the construction industry in Manchester city at first or the Virgin Islands development plan later, Bates plays this way, and makes the use of the golden scheme come to an end.

Therefore, Bates once again resorted to the old routine. First, he established a real estate company called "Chelsea village", and then through the operation of the offshore company, he transferred the property rights of Chelsea club to the name of "Chelsea village company", while the debts of the club were still in the original company of the original Chelsea club.

In other words, after such an operation, the property of Chelsea club was transferred, which is naturally illegal and illegal. Under British law, he will be charged with a number of economic charges,

However, the shrewd Bates has long been prepared. He first attracted the original Chelsea's largest creditor - Royal Bank of Scotland, and then got a bank loan to become the start-up capital of the Chelsea village project.

Sacrificing the interests of many minority shareholders, attracting major shareholders, and being directly rejected by the FA in the face of the investigation of the economic department with the identity of the president of Chelsea club and the Executive Committee of the FA.

The identity of the Executive Committee of the FA has certain investigation immunity, which is one of the authority of the FA. It is a good way to protect the identity and be well used by Bates.

Another point is that when Bates started the Chelsea village, it was at the beginning of the Premier League. For ordinary fans, Bates nominally let the club get rid of its debt. Therefore, Bates was loved by Chelsea fans.

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At this time, looking at Bates's operation on Chelsea, do you feel very familiar with it? In Li Feng's opinion, it is almost the same as Bates's first business trip in Manchester.

That's what Bates did in Manchester. On the one hand, it was a real estate company. On the other hand, it was the Alder Ham club president.

Using the identity of Chelsea president to expand his reputation, the purpose is to develop the so-called Chelsea Village real estate project. Similarly, after the beginning of the Premier League, Bates increased investment from Hoddle to Gullit, making Chelsea a strong team in the second gear in the Premier League, maintaining in the top six and even competing for the Champions League.

But in this operation, Bates hardly invested any of his own money, almost all of which was the money of banks and investors, or the money made by Chelsea club itself.

The history of previous lives has long been clear. Bates's Chelsea Village real estate project is a failed project. Finally, Chelsea club is on the verge of bankruptcy again.

But for Abramovich's complete acquisition, Chelsea would be ruined again in Bates's hands. Naturally, Bates himself left Chelsea with Abramovich's capital, which made Bates leave again.

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Among the many similar fraudulent business operations that Bates experienced, several of Bates's right-hand assistants and friends went to prison. On the contrary, Bates, the big man behind the scenes, was safe and sound. It has to be said that this is a miracle.

Similarly, in Li Feng's view, such a situation only occurs due to the excessive of Britain. Bates has to be investigated several times, but it is really a wonderful FA and a wonderful British country because of Bates's identity as the Executive Committee of the FA.