Chapter 145: Pressure on Billiton
"We have no reason to sit idly by and watch this kind of unfair business competition in Australia, and the malicious competition with Billiton will damage the reputation of our Eagle House in the world, so I mention that the most severe sanctions against them will be issued in London, and they must give a reasonable explanation for this matter!"
At the Eagle Country meeting, almost all the members listened carefully to Hughes's speech, and no one would ignore the speech of this important conservative figure at the meeting, especially he was targeting the top 20 mining giants in the world's top 500, which in itself represents an abnormal signal, that is, the conflict between the giants and the government that occupy half of the Eagle Kingdom's mining and energy resources.
As soon as Hughes's words fell, several other nobles who had been effectively communicated in advance got up at the same time, walked to the center of the meeting, and each expressed his views and dissatisfaction with the Billiton Mining Company, and this perception was due to Hughes's lobbying in one day and the secret stake in Western Australian Mining.
Without this part of the shares, they will not open their mouths to support, and without the big man Hughes in the bridge, they will not open their mouths lightly, after all, Billiton in the Eagle Congress, also has many supporters, they have tens of billions of assets in the Eagle Country, but in this world, there are only eternal interests, and no matter how large the scale of Billiton, it is still just a company after all.
And Hughes, as a nobleman of the Lord's Council, and they have a firm grasp of this world, which is destined to be an unfair showdown at the beginning.
"no~ I don't agree with the choice to conduct an antitrust investigation of a Fortune 500 company on the premise of only these preliminary reports, which will affect the economy of the Eagle Nation,"
Sure enough, after Hughes spoke and submitted a piece of evidence that had been prepared long ago, Laborer member of the Labour Party immediately opened his mouth to retort, after all, as a member who has a close relationship with Billiton, he must defend Billiton at this moment, otherwise if the Eagle Congress passes the antitrust investigation, his annual extra income will be greatly reduced, and he will not even be able to keep this identity.
"Mr. Michester, I would like to remind you that you are now speaking to a noble nobleman of the House of Lords, and in the face of sufficient evidence, do you want to choose to deceive your own integrity and blindly excuse a company like Billiton?"
Michester is elected to come up∴dǐng∴diǎn∴小∴ says,.☆.$os_(); The members of the House of Commons, but unfortunately the nobles of the House of Lords are for life, and they enjoy a wide range of privileges in the Eagle Country, and they do not need to care about the influence of Billiton, and Hughes's attitude is very resolute, if they can follow the antitrust investigation, many of them will benefit from it.
So before Hughes could speak, Robert, another member of the House of Lords, immediately opened his mouth to accuse Michester of tendentious speech.
"As we all know, they are not suspected of anti-monopoly operation, this is just an ordinary business competition, and I personally believe that what happened in Australia should be solved by Australians, not our Eagle Country."
Michester tried to stir up this matter in the Eagle Congress as much as possible, but unfortunately no one listened to his words at all, fortunately, he was not the only representative of Billiton in the Eagle Congress, so more councillors began to speak out under the guise of justice, but Hughes had already united some of the nobles in the House of Lords, and soon, the sound of quarrels turned the council into a vegetable market.
Whether it is the workers on the Michester side, or the nobles of the House of Lords, as well as the conservative members of the ruling house, and the members of the House of Lords, all participated, and it seemed that a great debate was about to arise because of this.
"Bang~Bang~Bang~"
The situation was so chaotic that the Lord, Desu, had to come out to maintain order, and he slammed the justice hammer in his hand hard before loudly announcing,
"Be quiet, gentlemen, it will be the Lord's place, and if you disagree with the subject, you can plead your case, but now be quiet! Those in favour of an investigation against Billiton are invited to vote. ”
His words quickly quieted down the members, after all, the authority of the great nobles is still very popular in the Eagle Country, but when they heard this, Michester and the others suddenly changed their faces, and they even wanted to disturb the venue for a while, because according to the law of the Eagle Country, as long as there are 3 people in the upper house meeting at the same time, and 30 people agree, then it can get tongguò.
Unless there are enough people to fiercely oppose it, otherwise, even if it is a Fortune 500 company, it will have to retreat in front of the Eagle Country, and who will be responsible for the huge losses caused by this?
And now that Disu had obviously fallen to Hughes's side, after the words fell, he raised one of his hands high, and waved it deliberately, looking at a mine worth hundreds of billions of yuan, five thousandths of a net income share, he must also raise this hand.
Even if he sees that he has an annual income of at least 30 million lovely eagle pounds, he must raise this hand, as for the threat of Billiton? The hereditary baron said that those are not problems, and the forces behind him are enough to settle this qiē, not to mention that he just took this opportunity to knock and beat and bill it by the way, and let them know that the Eagle Country is not theirs! It's your own people!
"We agree~!"
With the unanimous raising of hands of Baron Diser and Baron Hughes, more and more members also raised their hands and took a cursory look, thirty? There are more than three hundred.
"Now I announce that the investigation into illegal and dangerous antitrust practices conducted overseas by Billiton is officially signed in the Eagle Congress, and they must submit a complaint and correct their mistakes within three days, otherwise they will face antitrust sanctions from the Eagle State!"
Baron Disu picked up the justice hammer in his hand and struck it hard, which means that an antitrust investigation led by the Eagle Congress against Billiton has officially taken effect, and unlike the previous appeal period of several months or even years, this time there is only three days left for Billiton.
Three days can be a normal person to collect some less important information, but for a company, nothing is enough, they can even watch the Eagle people launch sanctions against them, if they don't want to bear the sky-high fines and follow-up sanctions, the only thing they can do is to give in.
Subsequently, the Eagle Congress formally submitted the above content to the Australian Government through the Guò Overseas Sanctions and Coordination Bill, and put pressure on the Australian Government to take necessary measures to stop the behavior of Billiton.
At the same time, the Securities and Exchange Commission of the House of Commons and the Commercial Committee on Antitrust Investigations announced that they would launch an investigation into Billiton.
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