I kept looking through the documents in front of a quiet Jonathan. He seemed to have put a lot of effort into setting up regulations for all of the paper companies since the links between more than a thousand paper companies were a mess. He arranged circular shareholdings and holding structures in a complex manner, and it made the readers, who reviewed these documents, dizzy. 

Of course, the firms that did this on our behalf followed the law, but it became illegal when the results came into our hands. Ironically, we would be the ones at fault and not the firms who actually performed the work. 

“So these are the originals. May I keep them?” I asked, and Jonathan slowly nodded.

The connections were complicated enough that even a few missing pages would make a search take years when looking for the missing links. Without this ledger, we wouldn’t know where, how and how much funds were going to be put in. Therefore, this ledger was a manual that proved our ownership of those companies. 

We moved...