Origin Season Two by James Nathaniel Dean

Author:James, Nathaniel Dean [James, Nathaniel Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780992844646
Amazon: B00VXCXPKQ
Goodreads: 23763022
Publisher: Millennium Birdhouse
Published: 2015-04-10T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 61

Zurich, Switzerland Monday 18 June 2007

0900 CEST

Rex was sitting at his desk just outside the server room where no fewer than six monitors had been mounted to a frame on the wall in front of him. Five of the screens were populated by stock market indexes, an ever-changing jumble of red and green letters and numbers that were, at least in theory, a virtual heart rate monitor of the world economy. But Rex was ignoring these for the moment. What interested him was the screen directly in front of him, where two windows now stood open. The first was the non-descript interface of the hacking software he was using, a program of which Mitch Rainey would no doubt have been proud. The second showed a series of account numbers in white against a black background. Below each account number was a series of dated transactions running from the low thousands to several hundreds of thousands, and all denominated in US dollars.

“Mags,” Rex said, not bothering to look up.

“What?”

“You better come have a look at this.”

Magda got up from her desk and made the short trip across the office.

“I’ve found the money,” Rex said.

“All of it?”

“Maybe. Most of it anyway.”

Magda leaned down to look at the screen. “What am I looking at?”

“The internal sub accounts of the Bank of China at the Bank for International Settlements.”

She glanced at him in surprise, “How—”

“You really want me to explain?” Rex said.

She considered this for a moment and said, “Would it help?”

“Probably not.”

“Then no.”

“Alright,” Rex said. “So this is why we weren’t getting anywhere. It looks like the boys and girls in Basel have got a little sideline going. It’s completely illegal, and a flagrant violation of their own charter, but then when did that ever stop them, right? We couldn’t find any transactions because all they’re doing is moving digits around between the Chinese and British national accounts.”

“So who’s paying the suppliers?” she asked.

Rex scrolled down several pages and pointed at the screen. “Pegasus Holdings of London, by the looks of it.”

“Who?”

“No idea,” Rex said. “I’ve never heard of them. The money is moving through the Bank of England to TriStar Capital, then on to Pegasus. There, that’s one of the payments. Three hundred and forty thousand in February and another seventy-five in March. I’ll have to find a way into the Pegasus servers to see where it went from there, but I think it’s safe to say we already know.”

“I’d better call Caroline,” Magda said, then hesitated and added, “Whatever you’re doing can’t be traced back to here, can it?”

Rex didn’t answer right away.

“Rex? It can’t, can it?”

Rex closed the window, then moved his mouse pointer to the button on the hacking interface labeled terminate and clicked. “Not anymore.”

“Not anymore?”

“Relax. If anyone was on to me I would have known.”

“I hope you’re right,” Magda said. “Because a raid by the Swiss Federal Police right now would be extremely inconvenient for both of us.”

Rex ignored this. “Why do you think she wants this stuff?”

“If Caroline wanted us to know she would have told us.

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