Alejandro told her accounting would handle it.
Accounting did.
Accounting sent the question to legal.
To Ramón.
Elena continued.
“Two weeks later, Lucía requested copies of foundation invoices.”
“Why?”
“She was helping prepare the annual charity report.”
“And Ramón knew?”
“Yes.”
Alejandro sat back.
Lucía had not been removed because Ramón disliked her.
She had been removed because she was approaching his fraud.
The pregnancy created opportunity.
Ramón could separate them.
Discredit Lucía.
Control communication.
Then accelerate his theft before an independent audit scheduled for the
following year.
But there was more.
Ramón had manipulated Alejandro too.
He fed him evidence of Lucía’s supposed affair.
He encouraged anger.
He repeatedly advised against public divorce proceedings.
He said scandal could damage the company.
He urged Alejandro to wait.
To let Lucía “come back when she needed money.”
Alejandro had hated that advice.
