Chapter 26 — Seventy-Eight Billion And The President Has No Heir

Rumors about the charity fund came from an account that used to belong to Minh Chau.

She denied it, but data showed a new media group hired her former employees. Someone continues to use her name to draw attention away from other streams of money.

Hoang Nam discovered that a shell company was buying land around the southern cold storage. If Tan Cuong goes bankrupt, they will buy land at a cheap price.

Vu wants to report to the police. I want to check the final buyer.

We hired a local appraisal team and found the name of an investment fund run by an old friend of Vu's father. This fund once sat at the same table with Khai but was not prosecuted.

I met him at a riverside restaurant.

“Do you want land or do you want a corporation?”

He laughed.

“I want to buy what you guys can't keep.”

“I don't sell.”

“Seventy-eight billion is not enough to fix what Vu's father left behind.”

"But enough to buy time. You know that."

He pushed a file. In it is a hidden debt that Tan Cuong has not recorded: guarantee contracts for Khai's company. If creditors call, the company may lose liquidity.

After reading it, Vu's face turned pale. His father signed bail before he passed away.

“You can withdraw,” he said as he got back to the car. "Sell your shares today, you'll still make a profit."

I looked at the street through the glass.

“You want me to withdraw?”

“I want you to not have to pay the price for my family's mistakes.”

"I've already paid the price for my old company's mistakes. This time I choose to pay the price for what I believe."

Khang heard the story and did not advise me. He just created an expense list and asked me if I still had a separate reserve fund.

"Still."

“So invest with company money, not family money.”

I did exactly that. An Minh did not transfer another individual coin; The bailout goes through the shareholder fund, with limits and conditions.

We negotiated with creditors, exchanging unused land for time to repay debt. The other investment fund failed to force a sale.

But the night before the signing day, a young employee of Tan Cuong sent me a photo of Vu's father's death certificate.

The date of death on paper is two days different from the date on the will.