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CHAPTER 158: The Envelope She Collected
Patricia Shaw arrived at nine fifteen the following morning.Helen saw her through the glass partition before the receptionist announced her. Patricia paused beside the reception desk to check her phone, then slipped it into her handbag and followed the receptionist down the corridor.Lucas stood as she entered.“Ms. Shaw. Thank you for coming.”Patricia acknowledged him with a nod. Her eyes moved to Helen, then to the Legal Director seated near the end of the table.“I was told this concerns the Deputy Director's old office.”“It does,” Lucas said. “And a restricted document identified as ER/77-D.”Patricia set her handbag beside her chair. “I remember the reference.”Lucas opened his notebook. “You remember the document itself?”“I remember collecting an envelope with that number on it. I couldn't tell you what was inside.”The Legal Director opened her notebook. “Let's establish your responsibilities during the office clearance first.”Patricia folded her hands. “I was the Deputy D
CHAPTER 157: The Requesting Account
The records liaison arrived twelve minutes before the scheduled interview.Lucas watched her enter the conference room with a slim laptop tucked under one arm. She introduced herself as Claire Bennett, a Corporate Administration records officer responsible for maintaining departmental indexes and processing routine custody updates.Helen sat opposite Lucas, with the Legal representative beside her. A copy of the electronic register amendment lay on the table.“Ms. Bennett, we're reviewing a change made to the restricted custody record for ER/77-D,” Lucas began. “Your account appears in the submission history.”Claire placed her laptop down.“I was told this concerned an old administrative adjustment.”“It does. The item was originally recorded under Executive Coordination. Three weeks after the Deputy Director left, the custodian field changed to Corporate Administration.”“I remember processing a custody adjustment around that period.”“Do you remember this particular one?”“Not clea
CHAPTER 156: The Missing Custody Receipt
Lucas read the amendment again before leaving the conference room.The electronic restricted register showed that ER/77-D had remained under Executive Coordination's custody until three weeks after the Deputy Director's departure. Then the custodian field had been changed to Corporate Administration without a signed transfer receipt.The amendment carried a timestamp, an administrative account reference and a blank approving officer field.Someone had changed the record. The system couldn't establish who requested the change or who authorized it.Helen stood beside his chair, reading the printed copy.“Corporate Administration didn't have responsibility for restricted succession instructions.”“Not under the original custody procedure.”“Then why would the register have been changed?”“That's what we need to establish.”Lucas handed the document to Legal.“Preserve the amendment and its audit history. The new custodian field doesn't prove Corporate Administration physically received t
CHAPTER 155: The Officer's Account
The former restricted correspondence officer arrived at 10:20 the following morning.Lucas watched through the glass partition as Legal's representative escorted him into the conference room. The man was in his early fifties, with thinning grey hair and a dark suit that hung loosely around his shoulders. He carried a worn leather folder and kept one hand pressed against its handle.Helen had arranged the relevant documents on the table. The original inventory recovered from the migration backup, the restricted register entry and the personnel archive access history were kept in separate folders.Lucas waited until the man sat down.“Mr. Grant, thank you for coming.”Grant placed his folder on the table. “I was told this concerned a handover declaration I signed before leaving the company.”“It does. We also have questions about restricted correspondence reference ER/77-D.”Grant's expression changed slightly.“I wondered when that would come up.”Lucas noticed the reaction but didn't
CHAPTER 154: The Missing Attachment
Lucas received the first response from Legal at 9:06 the following morning.The handover declaration had been filed in the personnel archive, but its supporting inventory wasn't attached to the scanned copy. The original submission had been recorded as three pages: one signed declaration followed by a two-page inventory.The archive register marked the file complete when it was received four months earlier. No amendment or removal had been recorded.Lucas forwarded the message to Helen.“They're saying the file arrived complete,” she said.“That's what the register shows.”“So the inventory existed.”“Someone received it, counted it and registered it. We need to establish what happened afterward.”Helen placed her notebook on the desk. “Can they identify the receiving clerk?”Lucas opened the archive history. The declaration had been submitted by the former restricted correspondence officer. A records clerk had received it, checked the page count against the submission slip and transf
CHAPTER 153: The Desk Behind the Account
The investigator called at 8:17 the following morning.Lucas was already in the office. He had spent most of the night reviewing the four documents recovered from the migration backup. The coffee beside his laptop had gone cold, and his eyes ached from staring at the same lines until the words began to blur.Helen stood near the window, reading a message on her phone.“Tell me you found something useful,” Lucas said as he answered.“We found the account assignment history,” the investigator replied. “ES-RC-04 wasn't registered to an individual employee.”Lucas glanced at Helen.“Who was it registered to?”“Executive Coordination's restricted correspondence desk. It was a shared account. Three positions had permission to use it during the relevant period.”“Names?”“I've sent the access schedule to Legal. Two positions were held by people who have since left the company. The third belonged to the office of the Deputy Director of Executive Coordination.”Helen lowered her phone.“Does t
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