Soviet Godfather - v5 Chapter 227

Alexander Lebedev was a financial spy carefully planted by the KGB in the United Kingdom. He was extremely clever. At the age of 22, he had already studied for a PhD in the Economics Institute of the International Socialist System in Moscow, while Sergey was still in Leningore. Le University struggled for its undergraduate diploma. As an elite among young Soviet scholars, the KGB sent him to London, the heart of capitalism, to serve the country. Lebedev’s research topics were Western national debt and economic globalization. When he entered the City of London as a Russian Jew, he soon became famous in the British investment community, just a few years ago. The former Lebedev made a fortune by buying and selling high-risk bonds in Africa and South America, and successfully won the favor of the old European investment bank Rothschild Bank, and was incurred by his subordinates to become Rothschild’s investment in the European Treasury bond market. expert.

Alexander Lebedev was both a spy and one of the few Soviet experts who knew the Western financial markets. Such a talent will not be easily used by the KGB when there is no particularly important and urgent task. Once activated, the KGB has spent so many years on Lebedev in vain.

At this moment, Sergei Shah naturally cannot take care of so much. He must find enough investment for the Leningrad Special Economic Zone. Therefore, a talent who has extraordinary experience in the British financial circle and can stand alone must stand up. Following Selesha’s instructions and acting as the front-end puppet of Selesha’s plan, Lebedev was the most suitable in every respect.

When Lebedev received the order of the Muddy Waters Project from his own line, he resigned from the Rothschild Bank in accordance with the instructions of his superiors and set off for Switzerland. And there was a company called Muddy Waters Financial Institution registered there. Then he had a new superior liaison, and the first task assigned to him by the superior liaison was to investigate the debt situation of Seibu Group, Japan’s largest commercial real estate company.

Lebedev was very surprised when he heard this order. He thought he would be sent to Switzerland to join an international organization to act as the ears and eyes of the Soviet Union, but he did not expect his superiors to send him to Switzerland to study Japanese commercial real estate companies. What exactly is going on? Although Lebedev didn’t quite understand the intentions of his superiors, he still chose to execute it honestly. Although Jeff has just arrived in Switzerland, he is still very familiar with how to set up a financial research company. After all, this work is related to his original research on the economic conditions of various countries with a bunch of data in the Institute of Economics of the International Socialist System in Moscow. It’s much easier, and corporate bonds are much simpler than government bonds. Because there are too many uncontrollable factors of national debt, and many countries are very secretive about their own economic data, it is actually very difficult to analyze the security of some emerging market national debt, and corporate debt is studied because of financial supervision. It’s much easier, because there are a lot of public information to read.

Seibu Group, as the iconic commercial real estate company in Japan, its public information can not be more detailed. After all, it is a listed company and needs to provide its investors with real and strictly audited financial reports every quarter. . According to the financial report of the Seibu Group, this commercial real estate company with operations in Japan, Europe and the United States is building luxury hotels, golf courses, ski resorts and other luxury projects all over the world, and most of his funds come from Japanese bank loans. Its total liabilities have long surpassed existing assets, which is very dangerous under normal circumstances, but Japan’s strong real estate market and stock market have allowed the freak of Seibu Group to survive.

According to the financial report of the Seibu Group, their newly opened ski resort in Switzerland has already begun to make a profit in the first year. Lebedev drove alone to the resort that appeared in the Seibu Group’s financial report, but found that the actual situation here was not consistent with what Seibu Group described. There were almost no tourists in the ski resort in front of him, and there was nothing even here. Apart from the few cabins on the top of the mountain, there are no buildings in the holiday villa. There is no ski lift here. Obviously, the Seibu Group lied to its shareholders on the Swiss ski resort project.

Although this kind of thing can be distinguished at first glance, but Seibu Group’s investors are mainly in Japan, how many people will fly to Switzerland to see if Seibu’s ski resort is consistent with the description in the financial report? Lebedev quickly reported the incident to his superiors. Within a few days, he instructed him to find a way to stab the incident to the British financial media in the name of the Muddy Waters Research Company, and then continue to explore the Seibu Group. See if there is any similar fraud.

Lebedev didn’t understand why the KGB had to hold on to the financial situation of the Seibu Group, but he still seriously implemented the orders of his superiors. Lebedev quickly published his first report on the Seibu Group in a medium-sized newspaper in London through British acquaintances, and at the same time sent a similar report to the Japanese media~www.mtlnovel .com~ Lebedev feels that this report of his own is afraid that even a little splash will not be lifted. The total assets of the Seibu Group are so huge that this small ski resort project in Switzerland is even more than a boon. Not on. So after sending out this report, Lebedev took his staff to continue to review other projects of Seibu Group.

This financial analysis report was quickly published in the UK. As Lebedev estimated, he did not make any waves. It seems that no one cares about this matter at all. In Japan, this report was treated as a fake news attacking the Seibu Group by the “Yomiuri Shimbun” and was directly put into the waste paper by the editor of the newspaper. Hardly any Japanese would believe that the current Japanese business leaders, the most successful businessmen in Japan for thousands of years, would falsify their finances.

The Seibu Group’s stock hit a new high on the Tokyo Stock Exchange before the close on Friday. It seems that everything can confirm that this report is just a framed work, and the Swiss company called Muddy Waters Research Company is simply There is no value.

But when the Tokyo Stock Exchange closed on Monday afternoon, Lebedev’s research report that was thrown into the waste paper was picked up from the waste paper by the editor of the Yomiuri Shimbun and published on the first page. On the front page of the second day, it was reposted wildly by major Japanese media. For a while, almost all stock investors in Japan knew the name of Muddy Water. ()