Chapter 591: The Insider Surfaces

Chen Yang returned home and discovered that Fruit Company's stock price had not only not fallen, but had surged to eighty-five dollars.

In this light, Chu Ning's "financial poison" attribute still isn't strong enough. Or put another way, she, like most retail investors, likes to chase high-priced stocks, then stubbornly holds on after being trapped, waiting for the next market wave.

Then she sank deeper and deeper.

Chen Yang curiously glanced at Chu Ning's stock account transaction history and found it indeed matched his guess closely.

However, Fruit Company's stock price suddenly surged so sharply; there must be major positive news.

Chen Yang quickly skimmed online news and discovered that Fruit Company had launched a brand-new portable music player. It is only 6.85 millimeters thick and weighs just 28 grams.

Of course, most importantly, this player's appearance design is very fashionable, its interface is simple and intuitive, and it is very popular among young people.

With such major positive news backing it, Chu Ning would indeed find it difficult to short him.

After sighing, Chen Yang immediately placed a sell order for Fruit Company's stock.

Usually, when positive news is realized, it also marks the beginning of a stock price pullback.

Moreover, this stage is when retail investors' enthusiasm is highest and the price rises, making it easiest to offload shares.

Even so, Chen Yang took two days to liquidate all seventy-three million shares of Fruit Company in his account, at an average price of eighty-two dollars.

After the transaction, his available funds became five billion nine hundred eighty million dollars.

And Fruit Company's stock price also fell to seventy-eight dollars after he completed the transaction.

At that price, Chen Yang did not plan to enter the market immediately. In his view, only below seventy dollars was the ideal time to establish a position.

After resting and recuperating for a day, Chen Yang then returned to Tianqi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. to go to work.

"Chairman, Novartis has withdrawn the lawsuit." Zhang Lan immediately reported the good news to Chen Yang.

"Besides that, any other good news?" Chen Yang had never been worried about the lawsuit. Upon hearing the other side had withdrawn, he actually felt a bit disappointed, because this increased the difficulty of ferreting out the company's insider.

Zhang Lan pondered and then said: "Chairman, the land for the company's staff dormitory area has been approved. However, according to the information I've gathered, the people below don't seem very enthusiastic."

Chen Yang found this news rather surprising and immediately asked Zhang Lan: "Have you looked into what the reason is?"

Zhang Lan hesitated, then whispered: "Chairman, I hope you won't get angry after I say this!"

Chen Yang said impatiently: "Why are you being so fussy? What exactly is the matter?"

Seeing Chen Yang already angry, Zhang Lan could only confess: "Chairman, they say you're playing favorites. You arranged half-price home-purchase quotas for employees of other companies, but for our company's staff there are only dormitories."

Chen Yang couldn't help laughing upon hearing that. He had thought something major had happened. Actually, everyone just wants to own their own home rather than live in a collective dormitory.

He immediately called He Wanqiu to his office.

"General Manager He, is the land we applied for with the city government for industrial residential use or commercial residential use? If it's industrial residential, we should reapply to change it to commercial residential."

He Wanqiu glanced at Zhang Lan, immediately understood why Chen Yang had summoned her. It seems the opinions of the people below; she reminded Chen Yang: "Chairman, the procedures to change to commercial residential land are very troublesome, and the company's expenses will increase considerably. This will not only affect the company's operations but also reduce your year-end dividend. You should think it through before deciding."

Chen Yang waved his hand, smiling calmly: "I don't lack this amount of money. What matters most now is boosting everyone's work enthusiasm."

Seeing that Chen Yang, as boss, didn't care either, He Wanqiu could only relay the message to the company's other directors.

Not long after she delivered the message, Zhang Lan rushed excitedly into Chen Yang's office.

"Chairman, your decision today is truly wise; our company's stock has hit the limit up!"

Upon hearing this news, Chen Yang not only wasn't pleased, he was actually furious.

The Novartis matter had just ended, and this insider pops up again causing trouble, utterly disregarding him!

"Zhang Lan, go tell General Manager He to have everyone who knows the news gather in the meeting room."

"Okay, I'll go right away." Zhang Lan, seeing Chen Yang's expression was off, immediately realized the seriousness of the issue. She hurried to He Wanqiu's office to convey Chen Yang's order.

Twenty minutes later, Zhang Lan returned to Chen Yang's office and informed him that all relevant personnel had arrived at the meeting room.

"Zhang Lan, go lock the meeting room door from the outside. Including General Manager He and yourself, nobody is allowed to leave the meeting room."

Upon hearing that she too was a suspect of Chen Yang's, Zhang Lan, who had initially been excited, immediately became gloomy: "Chairman, you even suspect me?"

Chen Yang, seeing she had misunderstood him, replied unhappily: "If you don't go, and if we fail to find that insider, who would the suspect become?"

Zhang Lan isn't stupid either. After thinking it over, if everyone else is above suspicion, the insider can only be either her or Chen Yang.

Chen Yang is the chairman; he would hardly sabotage his own reputation, so the remaining suspect can only be her.

So, without hesitation, she ran into the meeting room.

After he left, Chen Yang called Chen Bing and asked him to investigate the call records of Tianqi Pharmaceutical's board members over the past hour.

Then he summoned the head of network security to his office and asked him to check for suspicious information on the company's internal network over the past hour.

When the company's stock hit the limit up, related personnel hadn't left the company. Therefore, the insider could only transmit information outward via phone and network.

Chen Yang confined the relevant personnel in the meeting room and did not remind He Wanqiu to confiscate their phones. In fact, he merely wanted to create conditions for Chen Bing to gather evidence.

Because once the insider senses something is amiss, he will surely try every means to tip off his accomplices. As long as he leaks the news, Chen Bing will have a chance to trace the related evidence of the leak.

And the facts were exactly as Chen Yang anticipated. After waiting another hour, Chen Bing finally had a result.

However, the suspect was not a board member but a vice president named Xu Zhongliang from the marketing department.

This Xu Zhongliang left a deep impression on Chen Yang. Among all the company's middle-level managers, he was the one who had cursed the former chairman Su Zhichao the most fiercely.

Originally it was thought he was the least likely to betray the company. Who would have guessed he was actually the insider!

Of course, a middle-level manager couldn't possibly know the company's internal information right away. His superiors must certainly include genuine board members.