Chapter 699: The Great Progress of Lin's Investment in Russia
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What Lin Cheng asked Zhao Hu to do, of course, was to do arms trade, after all, arms trade is the most profitable business in the world, and Lin Cheng, as the actual richest man in the world, has no reason not to get involved.
After explaining to Zhao Hu, Zhao Hu left Lin Cheng's side and disappeared.
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On December 1, Lin Cheng returned to Moscow, and three days later held a high-level ball at Lublev's villa, attended by Russian dignitaries and officials from the Chinese embassy.
After the dance began, Lin Cheng, as the host of the ball, was in the secret room with Khodorkovsky to discuss cooperation in the arms trade.
It can be seen that Khodorkovsky attaches great importance to the business of arms trade, and after learning that Lin Cheng finally made up his mind to partner with him in the arms business, he was happy like a fool of more than 100 pounds, and he couldn't stop laughing.
Khodorkovsky should indeed be happy, because after Lin Cheng agreed to do the arms trade with him, he was determined to change the tragic fate of Khodorkovsky's previous life, and reminded Khodorkovsky to flee abroad before the emperor was about to deal with him in 2003, so that he could avoid prison in later generations.
Of course, this is not that Lin Cheng sympathizes with Khodorkovsky, but that he doesn't want Khodorkovsky to confess himself and implicate himself after being arrested in his cell.
Khodorkovsky was very interested in this cooperation, and opened all the weapons in the Izmash Arsenal to Lin Cheng and let him trade them.
The two muttered in the secret room for more than ten minutes, and after finalizing some details of their cooperation, they appeared in the ball hall together.
Whether it is Lin Cheng or Khodorkovsky, they are both super rich people with both appearance and wealth, and their appearance naturally attracted the attention of countless noble ladies and girls, and soon a group of people surrounded the two.
As highly sought after as Lin Cheng and Khodorkovsky as Milkina, as soon as the song "Opera 2" produced by Lin Cheng for her was published, Milgina immediately became the hottest rookie singer in Russia.
Last month, Mirgina was even invited by President Yeltsin to sing a song in the Kremlin, and the effect was the same as that of Vitas in her previous life, and was enthusiastically sought after by all over Russia, from high-ranking officials and nobles to peddlers and pawns.
"Hey, what are you talking about, you're so happy. Seeing a group of men surrounding Milkina, Lin Cheng was of course a little surprised, and took Milgina into his arms as soon as he could, smiling while declaring his sovereignty.
Seeing the beautiful Milgina being held in the arms of a rude young man, the young talents around Milgina were still a little angry at first, but when they saw the faces of the people who came, everyone calmed down at once, and instead left Milgina with a flattering smile on their faces, and greeted Lin Cheng warmly.
Lin Cheng was very unhappy in his heart, it seems that these so-called young talents are too weak, why can't they be like the second generation of those high-minded and arrogant second-generation people who are above the top and arrogant in the urban rebirth Shuangwen, but they are holding back a lot of strength to pretend to be a slap in the face!
In fact, Lin Cheng underestimated his influence too much, now that Russia's economy is in trouble, those who have rubles are not necessarily uncles, only those who have a large amount of foreign exchange are real uncles!
During Lin Cheng's absence from Moscow, Lin has made great progress in all kinds of investments, and Lin Bank has been stationed in Moscow and St. Petersburg, opening 30 and 25 branches in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the two largest cities in Russia, respectively, for corporate and personal loans and foreign exchange business.
Lewanjia Supermarket also opened 38 and 26 large supermarket chains in Moscow and St. Petersburg respectively, and the performance is not enough to describe even the word hot.
In addition, Lin not only took a stake in Yukos, one of Russia's largest oil companies, but even the Siberian Oil Company, controlled by Abramovich, did not escape Lin Cheng's clutches.
Lin spent a huge amount of $1.2 billion to control 30 percent of the shares of the Siberian company. Of course, in order to complete this deal, Lin will also send 5 million tons of supplies to Abramovich's enterprises every month.
Like investing in Yukos, Lin Cheng's investment in Siberian Oil Company also has the idea of making short-term investments.
If nothing else, Siberian Oil will be acquired by Gazprom in 2005.
At that time, Gazprom spent a huge amount of $13.2 billion to acquire 72% of the shares of Siberian Oil Company, and if there is no accident, Lin Cheng's 30% stake will also be sold to Gazprom, and Lin Cheng will receive $5.5 billion at that time.
At first glance, Lin Cheng only made a net profit of $4.3 billion in this business, and with seven years of inflation, this business can only be said to be numb.
However, this is not the case, and during these seven years, Siberian Oil Company, which has maintained close ties with the federal government, has performed very well, paying more than $1 billion in dividends to shareholders every year.
In 2004 and 2005, before being acquired by the natural gas industry group, in order to empty the company's account funds, it also paid dividends of 2.4 billion and 3.2 billion US dollars to shareholders in these two years.
Lin Cheng expects to make a net profit of $4 billion just by eating dividends from this investment, and with the sale of 30% of the shares, the profit is as high as more than $8 billion, which is a very considerable return.
As for Lin Cheng's cooperation with Friedman, another Russian oligarch, it is the only long-term investment between Lin Cheng and the Russian financial oligarchs, Lin Cheng proposed that Hualong Petroleum Company and Friedman's Tyumen Oil Company jointly invest 3 billion US dollars to establish an oil joint venture.
At this time, the Lin family, like a gluttonous beast, wielded a dollar stick while opening his bloody mouth, constantly destroying the Russian market, such a wild investment behavior certainly attracted the attention of the Russian government.
Fortunately, Lin only invests, does not control, and the corporate legal person is still Russian, which has not broken the bottom line of the Russian government, so the two sides are not only at peace, but the government is quite welcoming to Lin's investment, and even the Chinese embassy has followed suit, and the relationship between the two countries has become closer.
There are even congressmen who proposed to President Yeliqin to award Lin Cheng the medal of "Honorary Citizen of Russia".
In the period of financial crisis, a big financier like Lin Cheng is undoubtedly the most popular, especially when Russian credit has just gone bankrupt and a large number of investors have fled, Lin Cheng is simply loved by everyone like the God of Wealth, and Milgina's popularity is not worth mentioning compared to Lin Cheng.