r factory was shut out by the a similar germahe germaheir best to buy up the eern bloc.”
“you said that he had beey million kronor.”
“exactly. the money served as a-free loan. the idea, of course, was that the panies art of the money over a number of years. but minos had gone under ar?m ed for it. here the state guarantees ki, ar?m was indemnified. all he o do ay baey that was lost whe under, and he could also show that he had l amount of his own money.”
“let me see if i uhis correctly. the gover supplied billions in tax money, and diplomats to open doors. ihe money ao i iures from which they later reaped vast profits. in other words, business as usual.”
“you’re a ic. the loans were supposed to be paid back to the state.”
“you said that they were i-free. so that meaaxpayers got nothing at all f up the erstr?m got sixty million, ay-four million of it. eher six million?”
“when it became clear that the aia project was goiigated, wer?m sent a illion to aia for the differehe matter was settled, legally at least.”
“it sounds as though wer?m frittered away a little money for aia. but pared with the half billion that disappeared from skanska or the ceo of abb’s golden paraore than a billion kronor—set people—this doeso be much to write about,” blomkvist said. “today’s readers are pretty tired of stories about i speculators, even if it’s with publids. is there more to the story?”
“it gets better.”
“how do you know all this about wer?m’s deals in poland?”
“i worked at hahe ies. guess who wrote the reports for the baive in aia?”
“aha. tell me more.”
“well, aia got their report from wer?m. dots . the balahe money had been paid back. that six million ing back was very clever.”
“get to the point.”
“but, my dear blomkvist, that is the point. aia was satisfied with wer?m’s report. it was a wehere was no criticism of the way it had been managed. we looked at iransfers as. everythiiculously ated for. i believed it. my boss believed it. aia believed it, and the gover had nothing to say.”
“where’s the hook?”
“this is where the stets ticklish,” lindberg said, lly sober. “and since you’re a journalist, this is off the record.”
“e off it. you ’t sit there tellihis stuff and then say i ’t use it.”
“i ly . what i’ve told you so far is in the public record. you look up the report if you wahe story—what i haven’t told you—you write about, but you’ll have to treat me as an anonymous source.”
“ok, but ‘off the re t termi i’ve been told something in ’t write about it.”
“screw the terminology. write whatever the hell you want, but i’m your anonymous sreed?”
“of course,” blomkvist said.
in hindsight, this was a mistake.
“all right theory took place more than a decade ago, just after the wall and the bolsheviks starting ag like det capitalists. i was ohe people who ied wer?m, aime i thought there was something damned odd about his story.”
“why didn’t you say so when you signed off o?”
“i discussed it with my boss. but the problem was that there wasn’t anything to pinpois were all ok, i had only to sig. every time i’ve seer?m’s he press sihink about minos, a bee years later, in the mid-ies, my bank was doing some busih wer?m. pretty big busiually, and it didn’t turn out so well.”
“he cheated you?”
“no, nothing that obvious. we both made mohe deals. it was more that…i don’t ko explain it, and now i’m talking about my own employer, and i don’t want to do that. but what struck me—the lasting and overall impression, as they say—ositive. wer?m is presehe media as a tremendous financial oracle. he thrives on that. it’s his ‘trust capital.’”
“i know what you mean.”
“my impression was that the man was all bluff. he wasicularly bright as a finan fact, i thought he was damned ignorant about subjects although he had some really sharp young warriors for advisers. above all, i really didn’t
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