If this was an African city, it probably wouldn't be criticized so much, but as a European capital city, it's visibly more chaotic than some African cities...
But they did not have time to think about it. As the scheduled time arrived, they received news from surveillance personnel near the other party's residence - confirming that Soslan Tijiyev was still there.
"Set off!"
Following the instructions of the special operations team leader, the arrest operation began.
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"Your Highness, we have captured Soslan Tijiyev, the main culprit of the London Star, who goes by the alias William Abagnale. We have taken him out of Albania and are preparing to transport him to the Munger base in Kolo."
The Munger Base mentioned by Nigel Inkster is the new military base belonging to the Protector Military Company that was built near the gold mine after they acquired the gold mine in Africa.
Kolo is a country located in West Africa. Since its independence in 1960, it has experienced several coups. At this time, their government forces only control the southern part of Kolo, occupying about three-fifths of the entire Kolo area.
There are large and small opposition armed groups scattered in the north of Kolo. Munger, where the Protector Military Company is located, is currently the sphere of influence of one of the opposition armed groups called the Kolo Liberation Front, which is one of the three largest opposition armed groups in the north.
The three "Raphael" members previously captured by the special operations team have been sent to the Munger base for interrogation and detained there.
Soslan Digiyev, who was captured this time, would naturally be sent there.
After all, as the base of the Protector Military Company, with Barron's investment and the start of gold production, it is constantly being improved. It currently has more than 200 elite armed forces and more than 100 soldiers recruited and trained locally. It can be said that it is heavily guarded and very safe.
Barron was still very much looking forward to the capture of Soslan. After all, the three "Raphael" members they had captured before were not considered the core members of this organization.
As the main culprit of "London Star", Soslan has been confirmed to be one of the three most core members of "Raphael". As long as we pry his mouth open, we can get more information about "Raphael".
"However, Your Highness, our special operations team captured Soslan at the same time as he captured him. We also captured another woman at his residence. She should also be an important person, but her identity has not yet been confirmed..."
"woman?"
Barron was very surprised to hear Nigel's words. As far as they knew, "Raphael" had no female members, so what was the identity of this female "important figure" who was captured together?
"Yes, she was also left behind and taken to the Munger Base..."
"Confirm her identity as soon as possible!"
"We will, Your Highness."
As for the other people in the Albanian residence besides Soslan and the woman, it goes without saying that for the sake of confidentiality, they need to remain silent forever.
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"The valuation of NetEase has now exceeded $60. According to this trend, if we eventually sell all 4.3 million shares of NetEase, the funds we will obtain will far exceed our previous estimates..."
After returning to London and taking a short rest, Barron went to DS Capital at Devonshire Financial Center.
According to Daisy, they initially held 4.3 million shares of NetEase stock, and have now sold more than 3 million shares.
As the revenue of NetEase Games and SMS business was further disclosed, especially the profit calculation method of their SMS business was different from that of the other two Chinese portal websites, Sohu and Zhalang, the share price of NetEase Games rose further...
Since 2002, China's three major portals have successively announced profits and maintained double-digit growth every quarter. Even under the premise that the Nasdaq has rebounded by 30% to 40% overall, the growth of the three major portals is still not significant.
Each period of growth has caused the market to reassess the commercial value and future prospects of the three major portals, and this growth has stimulated market confidence exponentially.
The stock price of Wangyi.com has far outperformed the other two portal websites, especially in the recent period. The main reason is:
Currently, SMS is the most important profit-making business among the three major portals, accounting for more than 60% of their revenue.
According to the calculation method of Zhalang and Sohu, if a text message costs 0.5 yuan, Zhalang and Sohu will both count it as income, while the share given to China Mobile will be counted as cost.
However, according to NetEase Cloud Music's accounting method, they only recorded the actual 30 cents they received as income.
With the current revenue scale of SMS, the cost of SMS accounts for 20% to 30% of the total cost of Zhalang and Sohu, which is not a small number.
So judging from the financial statements, NetEase Cloud Music's revenue scale is smaller than that of Zhalang and Sohu, but its profit scale is not low.
In addition, NetEase's cost control in other aspects is also lower than that of Zhalang and Sohu - although NetEase has always been inferior to the first two in content construction, NetEase's cost investment is also relatively small. Looking at the size of the staff alone, NetEase may have more than 100 fewer people than Zhalang and Sohu.
To sum up, NetEase, a company with good cost control and strong profitability, naturally surpassed Zhalang and Sohu in terms of stock price.
Therefore, even though DS Capital has sold more than 3 million shares of NetEase stock in the secondary market during this period, because the market enthusiasm has been aroused at this time and the buying is very enthusiastic, the valuation of NetEase has not only not fallen, but continued to rise.
Next, they expect to complete the sale of all NetEase shares within a week - of course, those that they first purchased in the secondary market. Later, NetEase issued approximately 310,000 new shares to DS Capital at a price of US$16.12, which have a 12-month lock-up period.
DS Capital will hold these shares as long-term investments.
And later, when they have sufficient funds, they will also consider increasing their holdings after the share price of NetEase Games falls.
According to Daisy's estimate, after they have sold all 4.3 million shares of NetEase stock, they will be able to recover nearly US$250 million in funds.
In this way, it only needs to raise about $300 million from Goldman Sachs to complete the acquisition of Google shares and complete the exercise of the purchase rights of 7.4 million Google shares owned by AOL, and finally hold about 7.7% of Google's shares.
And this portion of Google's stock will be worth $2 billion less than a year later, on the day of Google's IPO!
Because in the original time and space, Google's IPO stock issue price was $85, and the closing price on the day of listing was over $100 - after completing the acquisition and purchasing Google stock, they will own about 20 million shares of Google common stock.
In addition, Baron also went to the newly established Athena fund department to inquire about the preparation progress of this quantitative trading fund.
The experts and talents of Athena Fund, whom he hired from New York at high salaries, had already arrived in London before him and had started to set up the fund on another floor of Devonshire Financial Center.
Currently, Eamon Frankfurter, who once worked in the quantitative fund department of Bridgewater, is the head of the Athena Fund. He is responsible for organizing all members to build their digital models for quantitative trading.
At the same time, the floor where they are now will have half a floor of space, where DS Capital will invest 20 million pounds and cooperate with Cambridge University to set up a supercomputer dedicated to quantitative trading, named Athena 1.