Three years passed quickly and the Chinese football news spread as a number of companies dominated the global football market in Europe in order to become China's superpower on the football level by 2050, a plan under the leadership of the country's president to control the ball around the world and see the Dragon team The Chinese achieve the World Cup title.
As Chinese football progressed, there was talk of a money laundering suspicion in the purchase of China's Yong Hong Li for Milan by former owner Silvio Berlusconi, in the absence of material evidence to prove the existence of the Chinese owner's companies in his country, in addition to the fact that the Milan deal was made through loans from banks , Which threatens the club by the end of the season.
Is there any suspicion of money laundering in Chinese deals in Europe, and what is the secret of what Chinese landlords are paying for deals as big as they are now ?!
- Chinese investment in Europe
Chinese companies have invested heavily in European clubs either by buying club shares or by buying clubs as fully as with Milan, and the most important European clubs with Chinese investors in England: Manchester City, West Bromwich Albion, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Wolverhampton Wanderers, France: Sochaux, Lyon, Nice, Auxerre, Italy: Milan poles with Parma, Espanyol, Granada and Atletico Madrid in Spain, Sparta Prague and Czech Ido Den Haag.
Standard deals
Chinese clubs have been largely in control of them, including players such as Oscar, Halk and Tevez to be the most expensive salary in the world before and many names that left the European ball for big money in Easy trials, as well as being mentors for Chinese players, with international coaches currently represented by Marcello Lippi, Fabio Capello and Luis Felipe Scolari.
- Chinese measures
The Chinese government has not been aware that this huge amount of money will be spent in less than two years inside or outside the country, beginning to put strict procedures to prevent the transfer of funds outside the country in order to reduce the presence of the idea of money laundering with more scrutiny from the financial authorities to avoid it, Restrictions on investments that divert funds to limit the transfer of funds abroad, and although investing in football is not prohibited, but Chinese companies would like to get part of the fame and money from the football industry, so go to invest in the major periodicals , Which may be seen Some as money laundering, especially since most of the money is in loans with a high interest rate, especially with the opportunity to take money out of the country easily without government procedures.
- Money laundering?
The term money laundering is an attempt to legitimize illicit funds collected illegally and are carried out in three stages.
The Chinese club Sunning won the Inter club after the club suffered a five-year loss of 275 million euros with a contract of 270 million euros, representing 70 percent of the club and its neighbor Milan, bought for 740 million euros, The club, in addition to the fact that the figure is more expensive than the real value of the club at the moment, where Yong Hong borrowed Lee 300 million euros from the Bank of Elut, to complete the purchase, to respond to an academic researcher in China in one of the previous dialogues: "Some companies already have debts within the country , But uses loans to complete the sale It is not ruled out the lack of suspicion of money laundering. "
"If you want to make a money laundering operation worth 10 million euros, you will invest about 50 to 60 million to make it legal."
The Chinese Football Federation has tried to reduce the maximum limit for the professional joining, but the situation inside China is very different from China, which will be strong in the coming days, especially in light of the evolution of the case of Milan expected whether there is suspicion of money laundering or paying the owners of the value of the loan granted with The deadline for the term of the loan approaches.