Chapter 13 - The Foreign Investor
The shadowy investor backing Victor and Ethan was none of other than Dmitri Sokolov, an international financier with questionable ties.
Seated in a private VIP room of a Manhattan steakhouse, Dmitri slid a black leather briefcase across the mahogany table.
Inside the briefcase rested five hundred thousand dollars in crisp, untraceable hundred-dollar bills.
"This is your seed money to file an injunction against Arthur Sterling's board control," Dmitri instructed in a gravelly voice.
"If you succeed in destabilizing the company, my firm will acquire the controlling shares for pennies on the dollar," Dmitri added.
Ethan’s eyes gleamed with malicious greed, forgetting his federal indictment entirely in the pursuit of bitter revenge.
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He signed the illicit partnership agreement without reading the fine print that effectively made him Dmitri's legal scapegoat.
The trap was fully set, and Ethan walked straight into it believing he was the hunter instead of the prey.
