"Let's go. Find somewhere safe to make a call."
After Li Ye and Sun Xianjin parted ways with Pavlov, they did not immediately head to the hotel where they were staying. Instead, they had Jiang Shiqi find them a safe place to make a phone call.
Liang Furu was still in Russia wrapping up the previous projects and would not be coming to Ukraine for another two days. Moreover, some of what they had discussed with Pavlov was not exactly aboveboard, so the two of them at least needed tacit approval.
Otherwise, Li Ye might spend money out of good intentions, only for certain fault-finders to seize on it and slap him with a disciplinary penalty afterward. Wouldn't that be stiflingly unfair?
Li Ye knew something about people who specialized in picking faults, but he found the idea of looking for a safe telephone rather amusing.
However, seeing Li Ye being so cautious, Sun Xianjin said with a laugh, "Big Brother, have you watched too much 007? Do you think spies are everywhere?"
Li Ye knew what Sun Xianjin meant. He was saying that Pavlov was not a spy.
But Li Ye still waved a hand and said, "The social order here is even worse than in Russia. In some people's eyes, we're fat sheep. If we don't want anyone to get hold of something against us, we have to do the unexpected."
Once Russia realized that state-owned assets were being siphoned away, it would at least tighten its policies and supervise things strictly. Even Sophia could only stall things a little. But over here in Ukraine, they were openly splitting things fifty-fifty. How high could you possibly expect this country's people's bottom line to be?
What Pavlov had discussed with him today was highly sensitive. That was why, even