By Monday morning, Elena had assembled her full research team, the weekend's preliminary findings expanded into something considerably more concerning than a simple financial anomaly.
"Walk me through what we actually have," Dr. Chen said, joining the emergency session alongside Priya, connected remotely as always given her continued commission responsibilities.
"Financial signature doesn't match any previous network," Elena said, displaying the compiled analysis. "But it's not just money movement. There's an academic publication pattern connected to it too, three papers over the past two years, all from different institutions, all touching tangentially on related genetic research."
"Coordinated, or coincidental?" Priya asked.
"That's exactly what we need to determine," Elena said. "In
