He does not pay in installments, he does not hide behind companies in the Cayman Islands, when he buys a house he settles the bill with an urgent bank transfer. Invisible, unknown, as shrewd as it is determined. Born in the year of the Snake 1989, it acts with a feline leap in the year of the Tiger when it comes to eliminating from the market one of the jewels of the Mediterranean, the Villa dei Gabbiani, in the heart of the most exclusive Sardinia. An operation that had to remain secret , lightning-fast, planned in the high peaks of the global economy, one of those thousand and one night trades capable of marking, for the umpteenth time, indelibly, the future of the Costa that belonged to the Prince Aga Khan Karim.
Urgent bank transfer
When the cashier 17 of the headquarters of what was once the Banca Popolare di Milano receives the transfer order at noon, it has not yet struck. It is April 8, 2022 when the Madonnina Agency 21 beats the banking provision. There is no philosophical treatise to support the causal: "Sale price on today's date in my deed". The diligent employee «02085» does not even think for a moment to make the discount : «Commission fixes urgent bank transfer 5 euros and 16 cents», with the addition of another 46.49 euros for the disturbance of the urgency. The amount is stratospheric: 80 million euros. One on top of the other, without the slightest hesitation, as if the cash couldn't wait to move into the Swiss coffers of Bank Cic Ltd. The transaction is lightning-fast and contextual. To sign the deed is one of the most famous notaries in Milan, Fabio Gaspare Pantè.
The Chinese tycoon
It is he who certifies the signature of Nani Wang, 33, born in Jangsu, a stone's throw from Shanghai on the central-eastern coast of the People's Republic of China, the leading province in finance, education, technology and tourism of the great eastern power . She, the new "mandarina" of Porto Cervo, buys, he, Joseph Jack Setton, the American of the most chic yachts, sells. He sells one of the most stratospheric jewels of the Costa Smeralda, she becomes the new hostess of one of the five most exclusive estates in the Mediterranean. From a revolutionary "house", conceived in the seventies by the English tycoon Lord Charles Clore, a sort of "King Midas" of retail and real estate, to a heavenly and exclusive residence in the heart of the Costa Smeralda. A "peninsula" in the land of the sun, a real oasis of luxury and privacy . Impossible to get there. Four hectares of Sardinia manned and prohibited, 49 "rooms" for a kingdom of 1,300 square meters of interiors, dotted with a millionaire collection of works of art, among the rarest and most exclusive. Exposure at sunrise and sunset, 1.6 km of walking path along the private path, heliport, three beaches, terraces always protected, whatever the wind, swimming pools and splendor of princes. Cinema room, four large VIP suites, eight guest bedrooms, three of which in a separate private pavilion with living room and kitchen. What has just been consumed in the Prince's home, however, is not a normal Costa Smeralda purchase. Unhinging the documents, names and surnames of this operation means starting a new course, the least known and most silent in Sardinia of luxury.
The Russian thread
Nobody was supposed to know of very private transfers, of secret identities and even less of the million and 464 thousand euros paid into the coffers of the Intesa San Paolo di Santa Teresa di Gallura for the intermediation of the hottest sales in recent decades. In reality, however, the confidential voices of the Porto Cervo eldorado tell a breathtaking story, of business relationships closed to most, consumed in the imperial suites of the billionaire yachts of Putin's oligarchs on the Costa Smeralda. The Russians, those who count, those of the "oligarchic state" in the land of Sardinia, will not be seen and will not be seen this summer. Problem of passports and sanctions, of seized houses and luxury ships moored under the aegis of the Guard The Russians , those who bought the most impressive villas, those located in the most reserved peninsulas of this "disposable" hermitage for 50 days a year, have no more cash to shop for square meters of gold. of arrest or stop forever nobody knows, of course, however, something under the table is moving and it is not a small business.
Russia & China
In this promised land for tourism, valued for a few days a year, the geopolitics of post-sanctions affairs is being reorganized for the first time on the world stage. In practice, with a change of witness, studied at the table or imposed by international conditions, in the Costa Smeralda, with this massive real estate operation, the alternative to the Russian dominance in Sardinian land has begun. It is the first time, in fact, that China appears so impetuously in the enchanted proscenium of "Punta Maistrali" close to Liscia di Vacca , a stone's throw from Villa Violina, the favorite residence of Alisher Usmanov, the true head of state Russian oligarch in Sardinia. We cannot say, but the well-informed "blurt out" that he, Putin's tycoon, the first to finance Mark Zuckerberg's venture with Facebook with two hundred million dollars, is the first true director of the Chinese landing in the hermitage of the Prince. As if he had foreseen everything, as if intuition had guided him in geopolitical predictions, as if his foreboding skills had indicated the wind direction of sanctions and war, Usmanov had long ago begun to throw the pillars of the new route of Sardinian-Russian-Chinese silk.
Secret meeting
The meeting intended to trace the future fate of this union remained secret. Summit covered by that confidentiality paid to the sound of golden salaries and endless tips aboard his Dilbar, that opulent and ultra-luxury yacht positioned, perhaps, for the last time in the heart of the Porto Cervo bay. On that day two years ago, none other than the richest man in the Chinese universe, Jack Ma, owner and inventor of that machine churning out money designed to become the most powerful and innovative "Amazon" of the East, climbed on the bridge. . That “Alibaba Group” capable of earning the “Yellow Jack” a net worth of over 60 billion dollars. And it is no coincidence that the two were business at first sight that began with a $ 2 billion joint venture created between the Alibaba group and the very powerful Internet services company of Alisher Usmanov. The goal was to build the Chinese takeover in Russian e-commerce . The two, however, the oligarch and the dissident Chinese, held the double thread when Usmanov dramatically increased his investment in the Chinese e-commerce giant. When asked how important his new participation was, he replied in his own way: there is no modest way to describe it.
The tsarina in "yellow"
Now the new Chinese Tsarina in Sardinia is called Nani Wang. According to Washington financial intelligence, she is in charge of investments at "JD.com", the number one e-commerce platform in China. A platform with 580 million customers, the new frontier of global commerce. It is she who, on her own or on behalf of others, has opened the doors of the Sardinian paradise to the Silk Road. In place of the Russians, the Chinese.
