Chapter 180 Raphael
Generally speaking, the more intelligent a person is, the less likely he is to keep secrets for too long when being "captured" for interrogation.
Because it is precisely because of being smart that I know better how to weigh the pros and cons. When it is destined to be difficult to escape without telling the truth, especially the "professionals" who face that kind of torture, it is easier to "know the current affairs and become heroes" ".
And someone who can commit a case of defrauding 500 million pounds is definitely not a fool.
If you have a high IQ and a strong will...then why don't you become 007 with such a talent?
However, what surprised Barron was that this person named "Ilze" turned out to be really tough. Even after the special operations team took turns to "show off his skills", he finally relied on some drug methods to finally pry Opened his mouth...
In the words of the leader of the special operations team as reported by Nigel:
“This man is more difficult than most of the professional spies they have encountered. "
But it is normal to imagine that the more professional a spy is, the more he understands that professionals have a wealth of means in terms of torture to extract confessions. Almost no one can really keep secrets, so either the initial Sometimes, they simply end up acting decisively. If they miss such an opportunity, they will often put forward conditions in exchange for their information, and will not really grit their teeth and fight.
After getting the other party’s information, they also understood why Ilze was so tough-talking.
It turns out that this group of people that Barron and the others have been calling the "London Star Gang" actually belong to an extremist organization. This organization is very interesting. They are all fanatical believers in the so-called "Wealth Restart" creed.
The meaning of the so-called "wealth restart" is that they have a theory, that is, they believe that all the wealth in the world is given by God and does not belong to individuals, and everyone's wealth is Help God with safekeeping.
Therefore, this wealth should not be inherited. Those wealthy people should donate all their wealth after death and return to society to "restart" their wealth.
The reality is that many wealthy people do not do this, but continue to pass on their wealth to their descendants. This behavior disrupts the flow of wealth. "Redistribution" is the main cause of many injustices in the world.
What they have to do is to help God and complete the "restart of wealth."
In their theory, all those who possess wealth and pass it on to future generations are "sinners", and the "crimes" possessed by these sinners vary in degree.
The wealth of those nobles comes from the earlier "gift of power", so they are the highest level "sinners".
As for those capitalists, they gained wealth because of their business operations, so they are inferior to the nobles in the degree of sin.
This is why in their first "London Star" fraud case of "Wealth Restart", most of the targets chose aristocrats.
They do not consider themselves a so-called "criminal gang", but a "savior" who saves and distributes wealth. Their "organization" currently has more than ten core members who are all of this kind Fanatic believers in the creed can only join after passing through layers of screening. They must follow this creed completely from the heart. These people call themselves "Raphael".
Raphael means healer or physician in Hebrew. In the Bible, he is an angel who practices healing among the seven angels around God. He heals not only people’s bodies, but also people’s beliefs.
Hearing this, although it was slightly different from what Barron originally expected, it was not too surprising.
After all, there are all kinds of weird so-called "sects" in the world, most of which fall into the category of cults, but someone like "Raphael" who claims to be a messenger of justice, It is not uncommon for criminals to use criminal means to achieve their goals.
If he were an ordinary person, maybe he would really appreciate the purpose of "Raphael", but now his identity is exactly that of a noble, and the other party also hurt his own Family, let’s not talk about the archangels. Even if Jesus comes, I have to let him drink Meng Po soup.
"Have you heard from the others?" "Since escaping London, the men have been temporarily separated in Romania, and according to Ilze, before the next operation, between 'Raphael' Will be notified in a specific way..."
In this way, Ilze is not the most central figure in Raphael. Now he is on his way to Africa - the financial facility of Protector Military Service Company in Africa. A base has been built near the mine, and Ilzer will be a "guest" there temporarily.
However, although the specific locations of other members have not been obtained from Ilze for the time being, at least Barron has obtained more information about Raphael and some members. They will not just After waiting so passively, the investigation and search for Raphael will continue.
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In mid-June, after seeing the rapid development of the Freeview platform, ITV finally no longer chose to continue to watch, but began to cooperate with SEM Group and the BBC, the two major Digital UK players. Shareholders negotiate and hope to join the company by buying shares.
So far, the number of users connected to the Freeview platform has approached 3 million, which far exceeds initial expectations.
Of course, compared with the number of users of BSkyB TV station, which has exceeded 6 million at this time, the Freeview platform still has a long way to go, and its number of users is less than half of BSkyB.
What you need to know is that the users of BSkyB are all paying users, which is more valuable than the free users of the Freeview platform!
However, at this time, ITV also promised that if they could join the ranks of DigitalUK shareholders, they would work with SEM Group and the BBC to lobby OFCOM to change the only terrestrial digital TV channels they required DigitalUK to acquire. The decision to be able to broadcast for free, with the option of adding a fee.
This will encourage paid channels owned by the BBC and ITV to join the Freeview platform and increase the number of programs on this platform.
"ITV still believes that DigitalUK's valuation of 1 billion pounds is too high and is completely devoid of sincerity. They insist that they can give a valuation of 500 million pounds at most..."
Hearing the announcement from DigitalUK CEO Barron shook his head at Rad Price's words:
"Then let's continue talking. Anyway, the Freeview platform is developing rapidly, and they will realize this soon."
In ITV’s view, DigitalUK has only been established for just over half a year, less than a year, and its valuation of 1 billion pounds is really unacceptable.
Although the number of users of the Freeview platform is about to exceed 3 million, while BSkyB only has more than 6 million users, the valuation of Sky TV exceeds 10 billion pounds...
But in the end, Freeview is just a platform, and its users are all free users, and so far it is far from being profitable for the company.
But both Barron and Brad Price understand that DigitalUK at this time is far from the company with an uncertain future when it was first established.
If nothing else, their Puma electronics and related technology departments have developed rapidly and have planned for a new generation of digital set-top boxes.
With the increase in the number of users, once some paid channels can be successfully opened, DigitalUK, as a platform intermediary, will make profits in minutes...
So for 1 billion at this time They are still very insistent on the valuation of pounds.
As Barron said, let's talk about it first. As the company's scale increases, ITV is destined to become passive.
(End of this chapter)