Chapter 19
I found it at 11:43 on a Tuesday night.
I knew the exact time because I checked the clock the moment the document loaded.
I had been digging through the Vela Holdings transaction records for three hours straight. I was monitoring the trail of shell companies and fake businesses they used to transfer fraudulent money. The same pattern they had been using: a small, ordinary company would handle the transfer. Making the money look like ordinary income from regular work. Clean on paper and hidden unless someone knew exactly what to search for.
I knew what I was searching for.
It came out in the third set of transfers.
The company they used was a small accounting firm in Silverton's eastern part. It had been established for twenty-four years. Then, eleven years ago, regulators
