The first frozen account belonged to a man Adrian had not spoken to in nearly eight months; the second belonged to a consultant who had once managed offshore investments for several of the company's subsidiaries.
By the end of the week, seven separate financial accounts connected to former associates had been temporarily restricted pending government review. The news spread through executive circles with alarming speed; nobody knew exactly what investigators had discovered, nobody knew how much evidence existed, and nobody knew who would be questioned next.
That uncertainty proved more damaging than any public accusation; fear filled the spaces where confidence once existed.
