When the prime minister in front of him was flipping through the information handed to people by Li Feng, Li Feng thought of the shock he had when he saw this document before, which was an investigation of Chelsea and Chairman Bates.

Especially for Bates's investigation, after reading other people's information, Li Feng felt that he was too pure, too particular about doing business, looking at other people's business, Bates's rise of wealth is a history of predatory expansion of the rise of capital.

This information was obtained after a detailed investigation when investigating Bates and his person, and the last time Anshutz read it was the first issue of the information, this is already the second issue, but this information, Li Feng chose to collect it.

Li Feng knows very well that although the acquisition of the team is said to be as long as the owner of the team says it, when the real acquisition is made, if there is no consent from the government, such as the FA, etc., it will not be successful.

Originally, Li Feng was ready to give up temporarily, but after getting this information about Bates, Li Feng changed his doctrine and was ready to take Chelsea directly.

Finally, Li Feng also has plans for how to take down the old fox Bates, the most important of which is the need for government support, especially the FA.

However, it is almost impossible for me to get the support of the FA directly, so I can only hope for the support of the British government, which is why Li Feng took out this information to show Blair.

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Talking about this, I have to talk about the history of Bates's old fox, for Li Feng, the first impression of Bates was that Chelsea was later acquired by the oligarch from Russia-Abu, which made Bates famous overnight in the world, and naturally, Abu also became famous overnight.

In his previous life, many media reported on Bates's situation, saying that he was a shrewd businessman who bought Chelsea, which was about to go bankrupt, for 1 yuan, but sold it for a high price of 140 million US dollars and made a lot of money.

It wasn't until he read this information that Li Feng knew that for Bates, the means of selling Chelsea were too ordinary compared to the rise of his front half.

Ken Bates, a British businessman, is a man full of scandals and controversies. The Chelsea chairman is by no means the so-called 'English gentleman', he's more of an open-mouthed, fuck-filled bastard.

His fortune was to acquire some bankrupt companies, and then use the golden cicada to get out of the shell, by sacrificing the interests of banks and scattered minority shareholders, to complete the accumulation of wealth in a predatory way.

Bates's birth can be said to be miserable, since he was a child, his mother died early, his father left, he lived in the slum with his grandparents, and he didn't see his father until he was an adult.

After meeting his father, he went to school, dropped out of school, got a job, and then got lucky, married the daughter of an Irish squire, and spent his father-in-law's money. I have to say that this is still enviable, a gangster-like character married a squire's eldest lady.

With the support of his father-in-law's family, he was accompanied by famous cars and fancy clothes, which allowed him to enter the business world.

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After World War II, Bates set up a construction company that set up a construction company, and when his construction company went public in Manchester, he became the chairman of a local football club, Oldham.

His purpose is not to recreate the glory of the club, but to use the football club to expand his reputation and fame, and to make the stock price of the listed company under his name soar.

On the one hand, he used the aura of the president of the football club to expand his expansion in the real estate field through bank loans and other means, and on the other hand, although he did not have the financial resources to support the club, he blindly expanded the club and sprinted rapidly, making the club look like it was like that, and it looked like it was developing well.

Unfortunately, as the surrounding environment of the real estate industry deteriorated, both his real estate company and club did not develop well, and his ambition saw that his career was about to collapse and was riddled with debt, Bates turned his attention to the British Virgin Islands, one of the famous tax havens.

Before leaving the UK, Bates fled the UK by transferring what was left of his company's assets to the tax haven, leaving a mess for others to clean up. Tricked the bank and a group of shareholders of all sizes of the company.

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After tossing the British mainland, at this time, Bates is looking at this tax haven mecca and is ready to invest in it and make it a real estate project plan that the British and American upper class know about tax haven resorts.

Then, through coercion, inducement, and other means, the British government's Virgin Islands administrators finally agreed to his real estate project requirements and authorized him to carry out the project. It's a pity that some gangsters got the project, but Bates was really not a person who could get things done, and in the end it failed.

However, people are so good, long before the failure, they have already cashed out their assets and shares, and used all the money of the major shareholders and banks, and the result is that the money of the banks and shareholders has been cheated again.

Some people are cattle here, and it is clear that these things are illegal and illegal in business, but people are stunned and unharmed, and with the power of attorney from the British government to develop the Virgin Islands, they turned around and threatened the British government.

He even threatened that if he did not compensate him for his investment in the Virgin Islands, he would use various means to sabotage the construction of the local city government, and even affect the political orientation of the outlying island colonies.

In fact, the development of the Virgin Islands was financed by loans from the Bank of Balai, and in the end, the British government was not only responsible for the bank's loans, but also accompanied a sum of money to Bates, who once again succeeded in breaking out of his shell and became worth a large amount.

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In the 70s, after returning to the British mainland, he went to London, the political and economic center of the United Kingdom. At this time, Bates had a bad reputation in the business world, and although he was considered a rich man, it was a pity that no one wanted to do business with him at all.

But the restless Bates was not someone who gave up so easily, London had a bad local reputation, so look around, and at that time, with the help of Bates's speculative friends, he had his eye on Ireland.

He took advantage of Ireland's chaotic economy at that time to bribe the Central Bank of Ireland to obtain a banking license and open a bank. Bates took out loans at high interest rates and then used the money to start his own business, and the bank almost became a financing channel for his personal career development, and the results can be imagined.

Banking was so bad that after only a year the Central Bank of Ireland began investigating his banking problems and eventually took him to court, which could have cost Bates a prison sentence.

However, Bates's gangster and hooligan attributes broke out again, and all kinds of brutality, coercion and temptation were staged again, and even bit back, believing that if Ireland sanctions him, it will be a credibility crisis for Ireland's poor financial system, and Ireland's financial system will be completely destroyed.

I don't know what to think, but in the end, the Central Bank of Ireland took over Bates's banking mess, but Bates left Ireland in style and succeeded in breaking out of his shell again.

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In the 80s, another opportunity was presented to Bates, and that was Chelsea, who were on the verge of bankruptcy at the time, and finally Bates got Chelsea for only £1 and £600,000.

It's a pity that Chelsea at that time was in a bad situation, and even the stadium Stamford Bridge was gone, and it belonged to another real estate company, but how could Bates, who loves to toss, give up and hope to get back to Stamford Bridge through a lawsuit, which has been fought for more than 10 years.

Sometimes it's really a miracle of fate, at this time in the 8 and 90s, it was the recession period in the United Kingdom, and real estate naturally plummeted, and the real estate company to which the stadium belonged went bankrupt in the early 90s.

After a lawsuit that lasted for more than 10 years until the real estate company went bankrupt, Bates finally got what he wanted, and obtained the right to use the land in the stadium and the surrounding area at the price of cabbage through a bank auction.

After taking full ownership of the Chelsea team and the stadium, Bates thought about his real estate dream again, and then came the now hyped 'Chelsea Village' real estate project.

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In '92, Bates launched the 'Chelsea Village' real estate project that would make the whole Chelsea fans cheer: a series of high-end hotels, tours, nightclubs, bars, shopping malls and more around Stamford Bridge in London, with Chelsea Football Club as the center, to build a commercial football and sports empire.

Playing with such real estate projects, Bates has experience, whether it is the construction industry in Manchester City or the later Virgin Islands development plan, etc., Bates has played like this, and it has also made the use of golden cicadas out of the shell and end perfectly.

Therefore, Bates once again set up a real estate company called 'Chelsea Village', and then transferred all the property rights of Chelsea Club to the name of 'Chelsea Village Company' through the operation of an offshore company, and the debts of the club's operation are still the original corporate debts of the original Chelsea Club.

In other words, after such an operation, Chelsea Football Club's property was transferred, which is naturally illegal and illegal. Under UK law, you will be charged with a number of economic offences.

However, the shrewd Bates was prepared, first co-opting the Royal Bank of Scotland, Chelsea's largest creditor, and then obtaining a bank loan to finance the Chelsea Village project.

sacrificed the interests of many minority shareholders, co-opted major shareholders, and relied on the status of Chelsea FC chairman and FA executive committee member, facing the investigation of the economic department, all of which were directly rejected by the FA.

The FA's executive committee membership has a certain investigative immunity, which is one of the FA's powers, which is a good protection identity that is well used by Bates.

Another point is that when Bates started Chelsea Village, it was the beginning of the Premier League, and this operation of Bates was nominally a debt for ordinary fans to get rid of the club, so Bates was embraced by Chelsea fans.

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At this time, looking at Bates's operation about Chelsea, does it feel very familiar, in Li Feng's opinion, it is simply the same as what Bates did when he first set foot in the mall and in Manchester.

Isn't that what was done in Manchester Bates, on the one hand, it was a real estate company, and the other was the chairman of Oldham Club.

Using his position as chairman of Chelsea to expand his fame, the aim is to develop the so-called Chelsea Village real estate project. Similarly, after the start of the Premier League, Bates increased their investment, from Hoddle to Ruud Gullit, making Chelsea a second-tier team in the Premier League, able to maintain a top-six finish and even compete for a Champions League spot.

But in doing so, Bates invested almost nothing of his own money, almost all of it was money from banks and investors, or money earned by the club itself.

The history of the previous life has long been clear, and the Chelsea Village property project in Bates was a failed project, and in the end Chelsea Football Club was once again on the verge of bankruptcy.

Had it not been for Abu's full takeover, Chelsea would have been ruined again at the hands of Bates. Naturally, Bates himself left Chelsea with the capital offered by Abu in a very chic manner, allowing Bates to come out of his shell again and leave the field perfectly.

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In the many fraud-like business operations that Bates experienced, several of Bates's right-hand men and friends went to prison, but Bates, the boss behind the scenes, was safe and sound, and I have to say that this is a miracle.

Similarly, in Li Feng's view, it is only because of the strange excesses of Britain that such a situation will occur, and Bates has to be investigated several times, but because of the identity of the Bates FA Executive Committee, it is finally over, and it is really a strange FA and a strange British country.