AC米兰中国买家涉嫌在谈判中提供了虚假银行文件

多数人在申请抵押贷款时，不会伪造银行对账单。想象一下在购买一家职业球队时这样做，会有什么后果？

据江苏银行在周三提供给彭博社的声明显示，计划以8.25亿美元收购世界最知名足球俱乐部AC米兰的中国投资者财团，可能在收购的过程中提供了虚假的银行文件。

该财团名为中欧体育投资管理长兴有限公司，其在与AC米兰当前老板、前意大利总理西尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼的初步谈判过程中，使用了江苏银行的信笺和名称。但江苏银行表示，其从未出具过这样的文件。

彭博社报道称，有知情人士透露，这些文件似乎显示了投资者财团一家成员公司账户的交易详情。其中一份所谓银行文件显示，截至8月25日，账户尚有约1.28亿美元余额。这些文件上还印有红色印章，使用了江苏银行的名称。该印章可能系被专门伪造的印章。在中国，印章等同于签名。

这些所谓的银行文件与其他文件一起，被提交给了贝卢斯科尼的公司Fininvest。卖方通常需要此类文件来确认买方的资金来源。

而中国投资者可能正面临着资金方面的问题，因为有知情人士告诉彭博社，在交易开始阶段，该财团尚没有准备好收购所需要的资金。

中欧体育投资管理长兴有限公司包括海峡资本（Haixia Capital）和商人李勇鸿。该公司的发言人在发给媒体的声明中表示，公司“无法证实其曾提供过这样的文件”。 Fininvest在周二发布了一则类似的声明，称其“无法证实曾经收到过相关文件。”

AC米兰与中国投资者之间的收购交易预计将在2016年底完成。这也是中国2016年大规模海外并购活动的一部分。到2016年年中，中国海外并购的规模已经达到了1,353亿美元。

《财富》杂志已经联系了Fininvest和海峡资本，在收到回复后将对本文内容进行更新。（财富中文网）

译者：刘进龙/汪皓

Most people would not forge bank statements when applying for a mortgage. Imagine doing that when buying a professional sports team.

The Chinese investor group trying to buy AC Milan may have done just that during the $825 million acquisition process of one of the world’s most famous soccer team, according to the Bank of Jiangsu in a statement to Bloomberg on Wednesday.

The group, which is called Sino-Europe Sports Investment Management Changxing, used the bank’s stationary and name during initial negotiations with the soccer club’s current owner, former Italian prime minister Silvo Burlusconi. The Bank of Jiangsu says it never issued such a document.

According to people familiar with the matter, those documents appeared to detail transactions of one of the investor’s corporate accounts, Bloomberg reported. One of the supposed bank reports lists an ending balance of around $128 million on April 25. The document is even stamped with a red seal using the Bank of Jiangsu’s name. Such a seal, which is the equivalent of a signature in China, would’ve been specially carved.

The purported bank statement was given to Fininvest, a firm founded by Burlusconi, as part of package of paperwork. Such papers are often requested by the seller to confirm the buyer’s source of funding.

That might have been a problem for the Chinese investors, as people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the consortium did not have their funding ready at the initial stages of the deal.

A spokesperson for Sino-Europe Sports Investment Management, which includes Haixia Capital and businessman Li Yonghong, said it “does not confirm it has ever sent such a document” in a statement to the news organization. Fininvest issued a similar statement Tuesday, saying it “does not confirm having received the specific documentation under discussion.”

The acquisition deal between AC Milan and the Chinese investors, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2016, is part of a surge of outbound Chinese mergers and acquisitions activity in 2016, reaching $135.3 billion by mid-year.

Fortune has reached out to Fininvest and Haixia Capital, and will update this story when they respond.