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“It turns out they’re investigating Wallace’s leather coh a coal entities, several of which are located in Hong Kong, all with Cayman Island bank accounts The ownership is so convoluted that only Wallace is traceable”

“Why?”

“Good question Even better answer The Guardia di Finanza suspects that the cooods and that it has strong ties to Albanian organized crime”

“Da Wallace blind and setting him up to take the fall for a dirty business but he’s also setting him up so the authorities will believe he has ties to Albanian organized crime”

“And you and I know exactly why Liu’s planning things so that when Rich and his squad close in on the Black Eagles, he’ll ht to Wallace Johnny Liu will have extricated hi and charged with every cri, major theft, and murder”

That pro has Wallace had an ownership interest in this leather goods company?”

“A year Why?”

Sloane shrugged “I’m just surprised that Wallace didn’t take on a more active role in the purchase He was an investment banker before Sophie died—a pretty brilliant one It’s out of character for him to blindly trust someone else to handle all the details on such a sizable transaction Even if Wallace didn’t have the ithal to take the reins in the acquisition, he’d at least do soence Clearly, he didn’t If he had, I’ fishy”

“What are you getting at?” Derek asked

“I’m not sure” Sloane studied Derek uneasily “Could there have been a differentany questions?”

“You mean like blackmail?” Derek mulled over the possibility “Liu certainly pulled it off with Wallace’s partners, through Xiao Long But ould they have on Wallace to black to make him aware of?”

“You’re right I’ this”

“Maybe Maybe not We’ve spent a lot of ti Liu’s ties to Wallace as they relate to Meili We really should broaden the spectruate the entirety of their history”

“And while we’re at it, I think we should include Cindy in that investigation She and her amah”

“That woy Sun? Why?”