Chapter 180 Raphael
Generally speaking, the more intelligent a person is, the less likely he is to keep secrets for too long when he is "caught" for interrogation.
Because precisely because they are smart, they know better how to weigh the pros and cons. When they are destined to find it difficult to escape without telling the truth, especially when faced with that kind of torture, "professionals" can more easily "know the current affairs and become heroes."
And someone who can commit a case like defrauding 500 million pounds is certainly 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 Group, as relayed by Nigel:
"This man is more difficult to deal with than most of the professional spies they have encountered."
However, it is normal to imagine. 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 truly keep secrets in the end. Therefore, they either simply kill themselves decisively at the beginning and miss the opportunity. When given such an opportunity, they would often put forward conditions in exchange for their own information, and would not really grit their teeth to fight.
After getting the other party's information, they also understood why this 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 these people 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 helped by God to keep.
Therefore, this wealth should not be inherited. Those wealthy people should donate all their wealth after their death and return it 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 "redistribution" of wealth. This behavior 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".
Those capitalists gained wealth because of their business operations, so they were inferior to the nobles in the degree of sin.
This is why in their first "London Star" fraud case of "restarting wealth", 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, all of whom are fanatical believers in this creed. Only those who can join can join through layers of screening, and they must completely follow this creed from the bottom of their hearts. 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 belong to the cult category, but someone like "Raphael" who claims to be a messenger of justice uses criminal means to achieve his goals. Purpose is not uncommon.
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 has hurt his family, so don't say anything. The archangel, even if Jesus comes, I have to let him drink Meng Po soup.
"Have you heard from the others?"
"Since escaping from London, these people have been temporarily separated in Romania. According to Ilzer, before the next operation, 'Raphael' will notify each other in a specific way..."
Speaking of which, Ilze is not the most central figure in Raphael. Now he is on his way to Africa - the Protector Military Service Company has started construction near the gold mine in Africa. A base where Ilze would temporarily "visit".
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 wait passively. The investigation and search for Rafael will continue in the future.
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In mid-June, after seeing the rapid development of the Freeview platform, ITV finally no longer chose to remain on the sidelines. Instead, it began negotiations with SEM Group and the BBC, the two major shareholders of Digital UK, hoping to invest in the company. .
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 Digital UK shareholders, they would work with SEM Group and the BBC to lobby OFCOM to change the terrestrial digital TV channels they required Digital UK to only broadcast for free. decision to add charging options.
This will encourage premium 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 Digital UK's valuation of 1 billion pounds is too high and is completely devoid of sincerity. They insist that they can give a maximum valuation of 500 million pounds..."
Hearing the words of Digital UK CEO Brad Price, Barron shook his head:
"Then let's continue talking. The Freeview platform is developing rapidly anyway, and they will realize this soon."
According to ITV, Digital UK 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 understood that Digital UK at this time was far from the company with an uncertain future when it was first established.
If nothing else, their Puma Electronics and related technical 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, Digital UK, as a platform intermediary, will make profits in minutes...
Therefore, they are still very insistent on the valuation of 1 billion pounds at this time.
As Barron said, let's talk about it first. As the company's scale increases, ITV is destined to become passive.
