Remember Bee Taechaubol, the Thai broker who disappeared from the radar in December 2015 after having negotiated the purchase of AC Milan club for over a year? Well, according to what La Gazzetta dello Sport reports, Mr. Bee was back on stage a few days before the closing with Yonghong Li. An important international investments bank called Fininvest (the company that owned Milan) and guaranteed a new partnership with Bee Taecheaubol with backing from Qatari capital.
Essential condition for the operation: close any relationship with Yonghong Li. The new buyers would respond fully to the requirements of Silvio Berlusconi, but to complete the ownership transfer several months were needed, maybe a year. And this would force Fininvest to burn even more money on football. Hence they decided to move forward with Yonghong Li who now is under investigation for money laundering.