Bankerupt (Ravi Subramanian) by Ravi Subramanian

Author:Ravi Subramanian [Subramanian, Ravi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789351182986
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2013-09-18T18:30:00+00:00

42

26th May 2008

Boston

Around the time Windle was with Cirisha in Cambridge, Aditya had travelled down to Greater Boston to meet Shivinder.

‘Until the preliminary investigation is over, he will remain in custody,’ the officer-in-charge announced. ‘In any case, Lieutenant Windle is handling this case. We will have to wait till he returns.’

‘Lieutenant Windle?’

‘Yes, he is the in-charge of the precinct. He is visiting MIT in connection with this case. You could either wait in the visitors’ room or you may choose to come back later.’

‘Thanks, sergeant. But when I had called yesterday, I was asked to come in today. And that’s the reason I have driven all the way from Cambridge to meet him. Do you think it will be possible?’

‘Let me see what I can do.’ And he disappeared. In three minutes he was back. He had probably conferred with Windle in the interim. ‘Please follow me.’

‘What happened? How did you land up in this mess?’ Aditya asked Shivinder the moment he saw him.

‘It’s all because of your wife.’

‘Come on, Shivinder. You did all this because you were blinded by money. You should have stopped after we got rid of the shoes in the warehouses. Instead you went a step ahead and started manufacturing low-cost fakes and stuffing them into the fraudulently opened stores, and pocketed the money for yourself.’

Shivinder laughed. ‘What about you? You were the one who got me into all of this.’

‘Come on. Don’t pull me into this. It’s your problem. You deal with it,’ Aditya whispered. ‘I came here because you called me. Only because you said you needed help. For old times’ sake.’

‘Adi, I am stuck here with my reputation in tatters because of you and your wife. Without your manipulation, I would not have got into this. I am not an idiot, dude. There is enough on record to prove your involvement. If I go down, I take you with me. And as far as that wife of yours is concerned, let her know that I am going to come after her. Just watch out.’ The look in Shivinder’s eyes scared Aditya. He was worried. More than anything else, he was worried that Cirisha would find out about his involvement in the Snuggles scam.

‘What do you need from me? Why did you call me here?’

‘I need to make sure that my money is safe. These guys here can’t do anything to me. I haven’t committed a crime on US soil. Sooner or later I will be out. Even if they file against me in Indian courts, it will take some time before the courts there charge sheet me and ask for my extradition. Till the time all this settles down, I need to make sure that the money we have accumulated in GB2 is safe. Not only the floats in India, but also in Geneva. You have to make sure of that.’

‘But how?’

‘You are the banker. You know how to move money. Figure it out.’

Aditya gave him a long hard look. There was no way he was going back into GB2 India to pull the money out.

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