Chapter 18 - The Last Shell Company
The task force traced the final shell company to a regional infrastructure fund.
The fund had paid Richard's vendors and several local officials, including Price.
Grant was arrested at an airport using a passport in another name.
The investigators documented the detail before anyone was allowed to touch the next piece of evidence.
In his luggage was the stolen original trust.
He tried to bargain by claiming Richard had forced him to participate.
The investigators documented the detail before anyone was allowed to touch the next piece of evidence.
Records showed otherwise.
Grant had designed the shell structure himself.
The investigators documented the detail before anyone was allowed to touch the next piece of evidence.
His cooperation nevertheless revealed millions more in diverted public money.
Clara recused herself from all charging decisions and transferred operational control of the investigation to an independent commander.
The investigators documented the detail before anyone was allowed to touch the next piece of evidence.
"Tell me the part you left out," Clara said.
No one answered immediately.
"That silence is an answer," she said.
The room seemed to tighten around them.
Clara had spent years following money through false names and polished paperwork.
She knew fraud rarely collapsed because of one dramatic confession.
It collapsed because liars eventually created more details than they could keep consistent.
This case was beginning to fracture exactly that way.
Before the day ended, another preserved record contradicted the version her family had repeated publicly.
Clara read it twice.
Then she looked up.
"Now we know where to go next."
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