Corruption's Price: A Spanish Deceit by Charles Brett

Author:Charles Brett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C3B Consulting Ltd
Published: 2015-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Slow Progress (and Six Weeks Later)

Monday: Madrid

Juez Garibey looked up as his assistant opened the door to usher in Pedro and Davide Shape. He was looking forward to this. From what Pedro had said over the telephone regarding progress over the past six weeks, there should be much to learn as well as, hopefully, decisions to be made and actions to initiate.

Though he knew he shouldn't feel this way he wanted Pedro to succeed; to complete a case which might see some of the tainted, who all too often thought they enjoyed a self-assigned impunity that abused ordinary people, appealed to his sense of justice. He would, however, have to watch himself to ensure he didn't let this enthusiasm overcome fairness and the application of the law or its arcane processes, however dumb the latter could be on far too many occasions.

After exchanging greetings they got straight to business.

Pedro started, "I am going to ask Davide to describe the work that my people and his Australian colleagues have been doing during the past six weeks. Why? My experience is that he's rather good at bridging the gap between the technological and 'normal' worlds by providing explanations that are understandable to humans. Afterwards I'll add the policial dimension."

"That's fine with me. Before you start, Señor Shape, I've done some asking around. Despite my lack of belief in its propositions I have good friends in the Church who eventually put me in touch with the secretary to a Cardinal da Ferraz in Rome. Pedro had already told me about you. Seemingly you also come extraordinarily well recommended by people in the Vatican. You must tell me more about this HolyPhone one day. Anyhow, I'm preventing you from talking."

He waved a hand, instructing Davide to begin.

Davide commenced by summarising how the copy of the smartphone was originally made. He continued by describing the break-in to the ORS offices with the theft of the key laptop, followed by Caterina's unexpected announcement that she'd made a backup of the backup, and also documented its existence to an Interpol colleague.

Next, Davide covered the steps that Pedro, Caterina and Emilia had worked out for recovering the backup of the backup into a place and form which it would make its evidence legally usable. This had involved creating a master copy within a CNP system using a unique verification key issued by FNMT, the Spanish equivalent of the UK's Mint or US Treasury. As it happened, her backup of the backup had used a version of this, which would remain in place. The significance was that copies could be compared, if needed, to establish that no alterations or tampering had occurred to the original data contained. With such verifiable authentication in place, they had been able to start on the real analysis.

Juez Garibey nodded in appreciation of the care taken and the implications for judicial processes and any evidence that might need presenting in court.

Using the primary data the team had begun by examining the 'M Accounts', the term they had adopted as shorthand.

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