“She told me she’d check.”
“What happened to her?”
Alejandro froze.
The accounting director, Mariana Solís, had resigned six months earlier.
Ramón said she moved abroad.
Elena’s team checked.
Mariana had not moved abroad.
She had been pressured to resign after refusing to approve several
vendor payments.
She had kept copies.
Those copies became the backbone of the investigation.
Within a week, outside auditors identified more than eighteen million
dollars in suspicious transactions.
Ramón learned something was happening.
He tried to leave Mexico.
He did not get far.
Authorities detained him pursuant to the developing investigation before
an international departure.
The story exploded publicly.
Not because Alejandro wanted it to.
Because Montero Holdings was too large for an internal fraud
investigation to remain invisible.
Headlines focused on money.
Millions.
Shell companies.
The trusted uncle.
The family empire.
Few people initially knew about Lucía.
Alejandro wanted it that way.
