Chapter 519 Event Fermentation

Just in February, Murdoch publicly stated:

"Every newspaper is conducting strict inspections on its own operations. Using private investigators to obtain illegal information is definitely not the custom of this industry, at least not in Britain."

After this, Andy Carlson, the editor-in-chief of the News of the World, resigned.

Barron knew that this was obviously their abandoned pawn, and in the subsequent series of related lawsuits, they would definitely spend money to reach settlements to avoid lawsuits.

But obviously, it is impossible for him to allow such a thing to happen - after all, if this is the case, it will probably be the same as in the previous life. This series of things will not be exposed again until a few years later, which is not in Barron's interests. .

Just because the purchase of Premier League broadcasting rights this year will cause trouble for Sky TV, Barron will also contribute to this matter.

However, he is not ready to stand up to the public right away, although he has begun to instruct his intelligence department to collect media from News Corporation and bribe some private detectives to eavesdrop on public figures including the royal family. and relevant evidence of tracking.

Soon, many media outlets, including The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, and some entertainment tabloids, began to appear in more "eavesdropping" reports about News Corporation's media. These reports were not only It pointed to the "News of the World", but also involved some other News Corporation newspapers, and even similar incidents in their local newspapers in the United States.

The examples they cited include the royal family, celebrities, political figures, murder victims and even the families of the victims of the "7.7" bombing in London in 2005. They have all become the targets of eavesdropping by these newspapers.

Some newspapers even pointed out that the families of the victims of the 9/11 incident in the United States were eavesdropped by newspapers owned by News Corporation.

The emergence of these reports immediately detonated News Corporation's "eavesdropping scandal", causing an increasing impact.

After that, newspapers under the Independent Press also began to join this feast of "exposing crimes" - many of the materials in the previous reports came from Barron's instructions, and his men reported the conclusive evidence It was sent to the hands of relevant personnel of many newspaper offices.

The Independent announced on its front page that they had conclusive evidence that a private detective hired by News Corp.'s newspaper eavesdropped and modified the voicemail of missing girl Millie's mobile phone in 2002, which led to the misdirection of the police investigation at the time and led to the death of Millie. The reason why Li finally died tragically.

As soon as this report came out, it directly aroused public anger. Many people even took to the streets to demand that the government thoroughly investigate News Corporation's "wiretapping scandal" and deal with their infringement of citizens' privacy.

All newspapers and TV stations of News Corporation in the UK have been affected, and many people gathered in front of these newspapers and TV stations to protest.

Under such turbulent public opinion, Brown gave a speech and announced that he would form an independent investigation team to investigate the News Corp. "Wiretapgate" incident. Until the investigation is completed, all their personnel will be restricted from leaving the country.

At this time Murdoch realized that their big trouble was coming...

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"Has His Royal Highness the Crown Prince left?"

"Yeah, looks like he's in a good mood... Ella."

Barron met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince at his villa in Westminster, and what they were talking about was the News Corp. "Eavesdropping" incident.

As early as more than three years ago, Barron had spoken to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince about the excessive media control by News Corporation in the UK. The royal family was also very dissatisfied with the overzealous attitude of their tabloids towards royal news. ——Especially after the police discovered that a reporter from the "News of the World" was involved in the eavesdropping of royal phone calls, they did not like him even more.

Of course, at that time, Barron was very measured and did not tell His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in advance about their enthusiasm for tapping phone calls.

Obviously, after the "Eavesdropping" incident intensified this time, the Crown Prince also supported Barron. He also hoped to use this to beat other media to prevent them from using excessive means to continue to pay attention to the life of the royal family.

Barron did not say too much about the content of their conversation, but pulled Miss Ella into his arms, pressed a kiss on her lips, and said softly:

"Did you wait too long?"

"Fortunately, I don't have to go back to Kensington Palace today."

This villa was originally bought by Barron for his tryst with Gabriel, and he will stay here today.

Speaking of which, compared to Miss Ella, who was a little uneasy about the relationship between the two at first, now she is very accustomed to this kind of "private meeting" feeling, and she is becoming more and more addicted to it.

The daughter of the Duke of Kent, who is usually elegant and generous, can be said to be passionate when the two get along in private.

Speaking of which, although they live in Kensington Palace, because their family is no longer a direct member of the royal family, they still need to pay rent. Of course, the rent they pay is compared to the huge maintenance cost of Kensington Palace. , and more of it is just a symbolic rent.

Kensington Palace is home to many members of the royal family, both collateral and direct - in the original time and space, William and Cather also lived there after their marriage.

From the fact that Ella's father, the Duke of Kent, also owns an art trading industry, it can be seen that at some point, their family still needs to rely on selling the huge inherited jewelry and art to "improve their lives." Of course, compared with ordinary people, Their wealth is naturally far greater than theirs, but for wealthy people like Barron or the Duke of Westminster, it is far inferior.

After graduation, Ella first worked in design in a company. Later, Barron opened a design office for her. Her own income was already quite generous, but most of the time, she still lived with her parents and The siblings lived together at Kensington Palace, only occasionally spending the night at the villa.

On the next day, Barron went to Devonshire Financial Center.

Currently, DS Group owns Athena Fund, a quantitative trading fund, and Hera Fund, a high-frequency trading fund, in London.

Although we know that after the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis this year, the stock markets in London and Europe will fall to a certain extent due to its impact, these two funds are not long-term holdings, but high-frequency trading through computers. , and after following the correct trend prediction, its profits will not be greatly affected.

But the Mars Fund is different. In addition to crude oil, foreign exchange and other futures transactions, the stocks they hold will be relatively long-term holdings. Therefore, the positions of the Mars Fund will be adjusted later, and they will participate in the trading. The stock market is short.

"According to your request, we have investigated the positions and transactions of all traders. So far, it seems that the situation is not bad..."

“But there are still unexpected losses, right?”

Barron took the document handed over by Daisy and asked casually.

"Yes, but this time the investigation also took a lot of extra energy."

The scale of trading funds involved in the DS Group is now far from what it was at the beginning. It is precisely at this time, especially the upcoming subprime mortgage crisis, that Barron is concerned about the trading conditions of the traders affiliated with the group. Only a detailed investigation is required.

After all, stories of huge losses caused to a large-scale investment bank or investment company due to some traders' private trading negligence and deliberate concealment have always happened. Of course, Barron does not hope that DS Group will become One of the typical examples.

Especially at the moment when the subprime mortgage crisis is about to break out, if any trader privately invests a large amount of funds in subprime loan-related debt products, and adds high leverage without hesitation, then it will be very difficult for them to prepare for the subprime mortgage crisis. Before profits are made, it is likely to be affected first, causing high losses.