All of this makes perfect sense. This deal serves 2 purposes
1 It will serve as a sweetner possibly paving the way for the MSI takeover which could still happen.
2 If MSI dont get it they will have succeeded in showing off their 2 prized assets that they are already resigned to loosing on perhaps the best stage of all, increasing their market value.
The 2 mysterious investors in Corinthians are widely to believed to be none other than Boris Berezovsky who gave money to fix up the stadium and Badri Patarkatsishvili, Berezovsky who is a mortal enemy of Abromovich who he belives fucked him in a big deal out of billions for a company he was forced to sell to Roman, he´s still trying to sue him I believe in the british courts. This is why Corinthians will never sell to chelsea
Theres not really any need to read the stuff below as whats above is more or less a summary, but feel free, sorry couldnt provide links as this came to me as an e-mail
Badri Patarkatsishvili, owner of the Georgian champions Dinamo Tbilisi, is the wealthiest man in Georgia and is bankrolling his country´s bid for the 2014 winter Olympics. Speaking exclusively to The Observer, Badri has revealed his links to Corinthians, the Brazilian club whose holding company have shown an interest in West Ham. When asked directly if he was behind a move for the London club, he refused to comment on or deny involvement.
When MSI head Kia Joorabchian met the West Ham chairman Terence Brown in May to discuss a £70m takeover of the club with a further £200m promised for investment, Berezovsky was reported to be involved.
Last week Badri seemed to concede as much when he said: ´We have invested in a wonderful football club in Brazil, Corinthians. We have invested in the Brazil team with Boris Berezovsky.´
He added: ´I have a couple of [football] investments that I am reluctant to mention - they are in the process of being finalised. I think money has a wonderful habit of flowing where it feels comfortable. I invest in these football clubs with friends.´ When pressed if one of them was West Ham, Lord Bell of the London PR consultancy, Bell Pottinger, called The Observer on Friday to say that he represented both Berezovsky and Badri and that neither is an investor directly in MSI.
´They´ve put investment in the stadium. Both have been approached by MSI to invest both in Corinthians and potentially West Ham - not that any bid has yet been made or put together. But neither has participated.
he declined to comment.
Berezovsky was the mentor of Abramovich before he accused the Chelsea owner in 2000 of acting for the Russian president Vladimir Putin and forcing him and Badri to sell their shares in Sibneft, the Russian aluminium company, and a TV station to Abramovich for a reduced price of $1 billion. He and Badri were placed on the international wanted list in 2003 by the Russian government and Berezovsky, who has lived in London since 2000, was granted political shelter in the capital last September.
Badri is wanted in Moscow for fraud and embezzlement, and rarely leaves Tbilisi, while Berezovsky and Abramovich have fallen out.
Oligarch Boris Berezovsky determined to sue his former business partner, Roman Abramovich
Russian oligarch in disgrace, Boris Berezovsky, continues setting claims against his fatherland. The oligarch stated recently that his former partners had robbed him according to the instructions from the Kremlin administration.
Boris Berezovsky said in an interview with the Vedomosti newspaper that he was going to file a lawsuit against well-known oligarch Roman Abramovich at one of London courts during this summer. "Abramovich made me sell assets in Russia at low prices," Berezovsky said. According to the exiled oligarch, Berezovsky sold 50 percent of Russia´s oil company Sibneft in 2000-2003 for $1.3 billion and 49 percent of Russia´s central TV channel, ORT, for $150-170 million. Furthermore, in 2003-2004 Berezovsky sold 25 percent of shares of the Russian aluminium giant, Rusal, for $500 million. "I was told in all of those occasions that they would take the shares away from me, if I was not going to sell them," Boris Berezovsky said. As soon as the oligarch is through with calculating the financial damage, he will sue Roman Abramovich seeking multi-billion-dollar compensations.
"According to my preliminary estimates, Abramovich owes me a half of the current cost of Sibneft assets, which he owns nowadays (about $4.5 billion). I was forced to sell 25 percent of Rusal shares for $500 million, although Abramovich sold the same shareholding for $1.8 billion," Boris Berezovsky said.
Berezovksky does not exclude that President Putin may act a defendant on the case as well, in addition to Chelsea club owner, Roman Abramovich.
Specialists say, however, that the disgraced Russian oligarch did not lose anything. Berezovsky was paid the market value of Sibneft´s shares in 2000: the shares of the oil company were evaluated at the total of $1.5 billion five years ago.
The most interesting aspect in the story is absolutely different, though. Berezovsky´s current intentions stir up dark moments of his previous activities in the post-Soviet Russia.
Sibneft, a Russian oil giant, was originally a state-run enterprise. The company was formed on 24 August 1995: it became the last oil jewel of the Kremlin. Boris Berezovsky established control over the company with the help of pawn auctions, the legitimacy of which has been called into question nowadays. The oligarch´s bid for the company was evaluated at only $100 million, although the enterprise received a six-billion-dollar profit last year. When the oligarch sold 50 percent of Sibneft´s shares for $1.3 billion, he struck an extremely profitable transaction: 1,000 percent of income in only five years.
The criminal case against Boris Berezovsky in Russia is based on fraud charges in connection with the theft of 2,033 cars from the Russian car giant, AvtoVAZ. Russia´s largest car-making enterprise was experiencing an economic crisis in the beginning of the 1990s and accumulated huge debts to regional budgets. The enterprise was offered to pay the debts with its ready-made products. About 30,000 brand new Russian cars were sold through Berezovsky´s firms. The funds were partially transferred to offshore zones. The budget of the Samara region of Russia, where AvtoVAZ is based, suffered the damage, the cost of which was equal to 2,033 cars.
According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, the money, which was received from the transaction, was spent on elite class real estate and media assets.
Latest statements from the disgraced oligarch are based on the public opinion in Europe, which supposedly takes his side in his disputes with Russia. According to Berezovsky, the West is turning its back on the Russian administration. However, the British justice may turn its back on Boris Berezovsky himself, if they look into the matter of the oligarch´s shady financial activities in Russia.
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