In the coming weeks, Vanessa’s information was verified. Not all of her claims could be confirmed immediately, but the documents provided investigators with new leads and helped identify some transactions that the internal audit had not initially noticed.
The lawyers reviewed whether certain financial information had been hidden or incorrectly presented in the divorce proceedings. In parallel, the company began civil efforts to recover the amounts that there was evidence that they had been paid without commercial justification.
I quickly learned that real life doesn’t work like in movies.
There is not always a single piece of evidence that solves everything.
There’s no judge knocking on the hammer and bringing your money back in five minutes.
There are months of checks, lawyers, experts, awkward documents and questions.
But for the first time I wasn’t alone anymore.
Nearly three months after the divorce, Julian came to the company’s headquarters.
He didn’t have an appointment.
