Chapter 175: The Box Under Her Name

At first, Gape had brought the copies of those original books home so he could use his spare time to make the accounts look more reasonable.

He did not consider it a wrongful criminal act. At the time, Ristowan Group was still one of Sabine City’s most important firms. As an accountant, he understood very clearly how important the mutually beneficial and mutually dependent relationship between a firm and the government could be.

It was even possible that City Hall would support Ristowan making some internal revisions to its books in order to avoid being implicated with Biddle Group.

As for the fact that the contents of the two sides’ accounts were different?

That was not a problem. It was merely that someone was attempting to use vile and dirty methods to bring down our pillar-industry corporate group, to make our citizens lose their jobs, and to leave tens of thousands of families without security.

Forget City Hall and the mayor himself refusing to allow it. The citizens of Sabine City as a whole would not allow it either. That was the value of local protectionism, and the extent of its power.

Those corporate groups that never lost lawsuits on their own turf, and those groups that faced all kinds of trouble yet were never formally investigated by local authorities, were not actually above the law, nor were their owners.

It was simply that the value of those groups continuing to exist was far greater than the value of their collapse. At the very least, their existence might harm certain capitalists, but it was valuable and beneficial to most ordinary people. Therefore, they had to exist.

But now the situation was different. City Hall and the state government were both dissatisfied with the corporate group. The copies of the original books in Gape’s hands, which originally had not counted as any serious problem, had become a hot potato.

Rationally speaking, destroying them would be more suitable. Without those most original account books, even if problems were found in the group’s books, investigators would need a great deal of time for repeated verification. There would be a long investigation period.

The various applications for legal authority involved would drag on so long that many people would gradually forget the matter. It was possible the corporate group would already have relocated before some of those applications were fully approved.

Yet a voice in Gape’s heart told him that he had to keep those books. It was a small habit of a man who dealt constantly with numbers when guarding against risk.

If something really did happen, he would need some kind of fallback.

The next day, using the account she had registered at a foreign bank, Vera opened an international settlement account at Sabine City Shengrong Bank. Then, in the name of the offshore account, she entrusted the bank with opening a safe-deposit box, with access controlled by password verification.