Chapter 291 A new enemy or an old one – 3
Leonardo spent weeks tracking every little trail and tracking every penny before he managed to pinpoint the mastermind.
Bronsson Mcclory used to work in the Petrova factory before he was fired and arrested for stealing the company’s secrets.
However, shortly after Leon and Kathrine Petrova passed away, he got released from prison. The details around his early release were vague.
Leonardo could see Bronsson had some influence, but Leon had suppressed him. As soon as Leon died, he was able to spring free.
Bronsson Mcclory then left P city and established himself abroad with a new name – Brian Lory.
His business remained the same as that of the Petrova factory, which later became the Aprice Group. Moreover, he was involved in several other underground dealings as well. He developed connections with the mafia in the foreign country and became a supplier for P City.
He would supply drugs and arms to the P city underground in exchange for girls and organs.
They had an extensive network and had bribed several authorities over the years to keep themselves safe.
However, Bronsson has learned from his previous mistakes and kept all his chickens in different baskets.
Alice Moss had previously bought illegal drugs to harm Mariana. Bronsson was the supplier of that drug. However, in front of Bronsson’s vast criminal network – Alice was like a drop of water in the sea.
She was merely a minor customer who held no value.
But her actions had a ripple effect.
Liam had investigated and ended their dug network – effectively cutting off Bronsson’s one arm.
But his influence on the P city network did not diminish. After all, he kept his drugs, arms, and prostitution business completely separate from one another.
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Bronsson killed his contact and cut off his links in time to minimize losses.
Besides, his attention had already shifted by then.
He held a grudge against Leon and always kept an eye on the Petrova heirs. His influence had largely vanished when he remained locked up for years.
He was busy picking himself back up post moving abroad. During that time, he had been lax, and Leonardo and Liliana had disappeared for years. But they had recently surfaced under his watchful eyes.
Bronsson began planning his revenge immediately after Liliana announced her partnership with the Smith Group.
It took him a lot of time to gather intelligence because Liliana had kept strict security around her children.
So he started to plant seeds within the Smith group as it was a giant conglomerate, and one couldn’t possibly keep a tight lease on everyone.
Finally, Liliana showed her hand at the Petrova family banquet, and he finalized his plans.
Liliana and Jonathan kept everything under wraps, and Bronsson couldn’t figure out where things went wrong.
Moreover, those were just disposable pawns, and he didn’t care about them.
The plan was several folds. Since the kids escaped, he had planned to throw the blame on Patrick Cox. At the bare minimum, it would jeopardize Liliana’s relationship with Jennifer.
While Leonardo was investigating Bronson, Jonathan was busy dealing with several issues in the Smith Group.
The shareholder Mr. Cox, who initially only had 7% shares, had acquired the odd lots. He held 13% shares, and that increase exponentially elevated his arrogance.
Mr. Windt had 7% shares.
United, those two had 20% shares of the Smith Group. It was a lot, and they had been trying to topple Jonathan for a long time.
Bronsson had coerced three project managers for some of the most important projects of the Smith Group. Concurrently, they messed up all three projects. That directly resulted in the company losing more than five Billion in investments and money spent on the initial development and acquiring the projects.
It wasn’t much for Jonathan, but from a company and shares – it was a massive loss, and the share price dropped drastically.
Mr. Cox and Mr. Windt were waiting for that chance and immediately called shareholder’s meetings.
The agenda was to replace Jonathan for his mismanagement.
However, they had severely underestimated the mysterious shareholder they couldn’t contact.
At that shareholder’s meeting, several unexpected things happened.