Dead Horsemeat by Dominique Manotti

Author:Dominique Manotti [Manotti, Dominique]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Detective and Mystery Fiction
ISBN: 9781909807334
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Publisher: EuroCrime
Published: 2006-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Thursday 5 October 1989

Lavorel sends the new boys to stake out Transitex, with instructions to establish an exact timetable of the company’s operations, to be corroborated by tapped phone conversations, while he pays a visit to his former colleagues in the Fraud Squad to find out a bit more about Transitex.

A quick and easy task. A small family firm which belonged to a certain Jacques Montier until last year. It imported low-quality meats from South America, which were processed into dog food in an old factory. A year ago, the company was sold. Taken over by a property developer, a certain Perrot. Too good to be true.

‘Stop. Why would a property developer want to get involved with a meat business?’

‘Perrot split Transitex into two companies. He kept one of them, Transimmobilière, a real estate company, which took over the factory and the land it stood on, 10,000 square metres in the middle of Paris’s 20th arrondissement. Then he demolished the factory and is building a housing development on the site. Let’s do a quick calculation… the price Perrot paid for the whole of Transitex is lower than the sale price of 10,000 square metres of building land in the 20th. There are two possibilities: one, there was some restriction on developing the land which was removed after the sale, or the former owner is an idiot. In any case, Perrot’s come off very well. We should talk to the lawyer.’

‘Get me the details of this supposedly idiotic former owner. What about the other company?’

‘It’s kept the Transitex name and is continuing to import meat from South America. It’s been bought by a certain Pierre Aubert.’

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