Female Novel
Chapter 173
I sneaked into the Roberts Building when a crowd started to form around the car.
There weren't many people working in the Roberts Group when I got in. I only saw some people from
the management level and also those who were investigated by the Industry and Commerce Bureau at
that time.
I found my way to the conference hall. Austin was already there negotiating with the people from the
Industry and Commerce Bureau.
Seeing me, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "How did you get in?"
"I walked in," I answered.
I sat next to him as the people from the Industry and Commerce Bureau handed him a stack of
documents, "The results of the investigation on Roberts Group will be out tomorrow. According to the
current investigation, there are only violations within the audit and Advancer Tech. Other than that,
everything seems fine."
Austin nodded solemnly and said to them, "Sorry to trouble you."
As soon as the investigators left, Austin started reading the documents. He didn't look anxious. Instead,
he looked very calm.
I took away the documents in his hand and said, "Mr. Shelley, let's talk!"
He raised his eyebrows and looked at me, "About what?"
Looking at his calm expression, I held my breath, and I suppressed my anger as I said, "I only took
over the Roberts Group audit and Advancer Tech for two months, and this happened. Do you think I'm
stupid?"
"What?" He sneered, "Do you think I'm the one behind this?"
"Aren't you?" I looked at him coldly and said, "You were in charge of the Roberts Group's audit
previously, especially for the Shelley Group. Now the problems that were found in the audit process
were under the Shelley Group, which was handled by Alford Audit. The problems with Advancer Technovelbin
were so obvious, do you need me to say anything more?"
"Oh!" He leaned back in his chair and looked at me, "I was indeed in charge of the auditing before, but
there was no problem found for the past few years. The problem with Shelley Group only appeared
after you took over. Did you not pay any attention when you skimmed through the reports and
documents? You signed the result reports too. What can I do?"
After a pause, he adjusted his position, then continued saying, "Technically speaking, you're the one
who uncovered the problems within Advancer Tech. Hendrix already knew about the factory in the
southern district. He also knew that I have replaced the cash flow from other streams. We couldn't
declare what happened to the factory, especially after the company went public. It will affect our stock
prices, so we chose to keep it low. But you... You dug out everything."
I couldn't believe the words he said. "So, you all knew about this from the very beginning, but none of
you told me?"
He laughed and said, "Miss Reid, you have been working for so many years, don't you know the rules
of the business world? Don't you know how huge the Roberts Group is as a company? Don't you know
that there are loopholes in every big company out there? As long as these loopholes don't affect the
company's development as a whole, and they're not involved in other major problems, they can all be
ignored. Besides, we have already settled the incident with the southern district's factory. Otherwise, do
you think that the victims' families stayed put and didn't trouble us any further?"
"Then why did someone commit suicide?" I asked. I remembered what the interrogation officer had told
me when I was taken away by the Public Prosecutor Office.
He sneered, looking at me as if he were looking at an idiot, "I think it's true that being pregnant will
make someone silly. It's been more than half a year since the incident, yet people are only committing
suicide recently. Do you think they're really doing this because of the factory?"
Someone was trying to link those two incidents together so that they could damage the Roberts Group
further.
I didn't know what to say. So, I was the most clueless one for the whole time? The reason why Austin
was so calm was that he knew. As Sawyer had said, it was only a big shuffle within the company.
And that the one to be eliminated from the game was me!