The filing went in on a Thursday. Garrett and the Montague legal team had coordinated the submission over two weeks, building the evidence package from Lars's documentation and the Montague intelligence files and the shell company exposure that had been accumulating since the first forty-seven-page file arrived on Roman's desk. Comprehensive. Exact. Quiet. No press statement. No advance notice. Both families preferred it that way and had said so through separate channels without needing to discuss it directly. The three remaining shell companies were exposed and frozen by end of business Thursday. The regulatory investigation opened Friday morning on three separate counts, arising apparently independently of different directions because that was how the documentation had been structured.

