As for the industries in Colo, Barron specially registered an offshore company called West Africa Industrial Holding Co., Ltd., which holds shares in the Protector Military Services Company and West Africa Mining.
In Northern Ireland, Protector Security Company is held by DS Holdings with a 60% stake and Protector Military Services with a 40% stake. It appears to be a cooperative company between the two parties.
Speaking of the Protector Military Services Company, they have already contacted Jammeh Bongo at the Munger base. Under the temptation of holding power, although he knew that he would actually be just a puppet of the Protector Military Company, Jammeh Bongo agreed to cooperate with them without hesitation.
After all, power struggles have always been cruel. After the death of Sheikh Hassan, the only two people with more prestige in the Kolo Liberation Front were Sheikh Hassan's adjutant Sasu Biya and him. But the problem was that Sasu Biya had always been in the army and had more advantages than him.
But the problem is that Jammeh knows Sassou Biya very well. He is not very broad-minded, and the two had conflicts over some financial issues before. It is easy to imagine that if he comes to power, he will not have a good ending.
Then, by cooperating with the Protector Military Company, at least on the surface, he can have power, and according to the other party, it is very likely that he will become the president of Colo after the coup succeeds.
On the other hand, it is also for Jammeh to protect himself. He now has a family and children, and he cannot help but consider these.
So what happened next was a natural progression. Under the arrangement of the Protector Military Company, Sassou Biya died from a "stray bullet" in a conflict with the Free Kolo Alliance, and with their support, Jammeh quickly took control of the army and became the new leader of the Kolo Liberation Front.
As mentioned before, when the soldiers of the Kolo Liberation Front withdrew from the front line in the central area to the grassland area, they came into conflict with the other two anti-government armed groups over property when they passed through their territories. This also resulted in the reduction of the Kolo Liberation Front soldiers, which originally had more than 1,200 people, to only more than 1,000 people after returning to the grassland area.
Sasu Biya was among these soldiers at the time. He had always held a grudge, and during that conflict, the section he was in was ambushed, and he fled in a very embarrassing manner.
And now that Sheikh Hassan, the leader of the Kolo Liberation Front, is dead, he will certainly want to seize control of the military in order to compete for the position of leader.
Therefore, taking advantage of this incident, he led his men to fight the Free Kolo Alliance first - in his opinion, the Free Kolo Alliance needed to deal with government forces in the south, and there were not many troops left behind. He took this opportunity to win a victory in the name of "revenge", so that he could consolidate his prestige in the Kolo Liberation Front, thereby controlling the military power and taking the position of leader.
He had planned well, but he had not anticipated the "stray bullet"...
After Sassou Biya's death, the Kolo Liberation Front retreated with superior forces but no one to command it.
Their total military strength once again fell below 1,000 people.
At this time, Jammeh Bongo, who had the support of the Munger base, successfully seized power in the Kolo Liberation Front and became the leader of this armed force.
After becoming the leader of the Kolo Liberation Front, Jammeh appointed Markel Paulson, the head of the Munger base, as the military adviser of the Kolo Liberation Front to take over the military power of the armed force.
Next, Markel Paulson quickly reorganized the remaining Kolo Liberation Front soldiers, eliminating the old, weak, sick and disabled, leaving only more than 800 strong and healthy men.
Then, 300 local black soldiers originally employed at the Munger base were also added to the Kolo Liberation Front, and most of them occupied the positions of grassroots officers in this military force.
Among these 300 black soldiers, Haftar, who performed the best and had certain military qualities, was appointed as the brigade commander of this force - well, according to Markel Paulson's plan, these soldiers of the Kolo Liberation Front can only form a brigade, no more.
Of course, such an action would certainly affect some officers of the Kolo Liberation Front, especially some of them who were once close confidants of Sheikh Hassan and Sassou Biya.
However, these black guys were not very cunning and did not have any idea of sleeping on straw and tasting gall, so they started to make trouble immediately.
So after "friendly negotiations", these troublemakers were quickly cleared out.
By this time, the Protectorate had complete control over the armed forces of the KLF, and Jammeh Bongo became the nominal leader of the KLF.
Next, according to the plan, they began to split into two groups.
Among them, Markel Paulson helped Haftar to start reorganizing and training soldiers.
On the other side, 100 elite soldiers selected from the Munger base and the 300 black soldiers they hired before, plus 10 special operations team members - now, the Protector Military Company's most elite special operations team has expanded to 10 people - began to rehearse a "coup".
Based on the information they obtained, including a map of the capital, Loti, and a floor plan of the Presidential Palace, they began conducting targeted exercises.
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After Pioneer Sports acquired 75% of SLEC's shares, Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan Chase, which held the remaining 25%, finally became unable to sit still.
After condemning Bernie and Pioneer Sports for their "unethical" sneak attack, they finally recognized the reality and sat down to negotiate with them about how to deal with the 25% of SLEC shares...
Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan Chase claimed that in 2000, Bernie sold 75% of SLEC's shares to Germany's Kirch Group for US$1.6 billion, so if they wanted to buy their 25% stake, they should have to pay at least £350 million, based on the price of more than £1 billion at the time.
Bernie ignored them completely. He thought, you want to make money from the exchange rate difference? At that time, the exchange rate of pound to dollar was 1.5, and now it is almost 1.8.
Besides, he only sold 25% of his shares for 200 million pounds, so how could he give the Americans more?
Anyway, the maximum he can pay is 200 million to buy your shares. Of course, you don't have to sell them. Then keep them and we'll see if you can make money from them…
You know, Pioneer Sports now controls 75% of SLEC's shares. They are in control of the company and have countless ways to transfer the profits that should have belonged to SLEC.
If it were anyone else, they might not do anything too embarrassing due to their reputation, but if it were Bernie Ecclestone, it would be hard to say.
Besides, as creditors of the Kirch Group after its bankruptcy, the two American banks received a very low price for the shares. Therefore, after some entanglement, they finally agreed to sell their SLEC shares for 200 million pounds.
In this way, Pioneer Sports has finally completely taken over SLEC, which has the 100-year operating rights of the F1 event.
After completing the transaction, they changed the name of SLEC to Formula One Croup, or F1 Group for short.
After all, the original name of SLEC was Slavica Ecclestone Corp., where Slavica was the name of Bernie Ecclestone's wife. After being acquired by Pioneer Sports, this company name was no longer suitable.
Of course, merits should be rewarded. According to the private agreement between Barron and Bernie Ecclestone, after he helped Pioneer Sports complete the acquisition of SLEC, in addition to receiving 200 million pounds to purchase his 25% stake, he would also receive 10% of the shares of the acquired company.
Therefore, in addition to serving as the CEO of the F1 Group, Bernie will also obtain a 10% stake in the company. Otherwise, he would not have been so straightforward in selling his shares to Pioneer Sports at a "low price" of US$200 million.