Chapter 8 — The London Office

London. CipherNet HQ, Canary Wharf. November 19th. Remote.She did not go to London.She went to Geneva, which was the address of the third contact on Arjun's list, and she worked the London problem from there.The Geneva contact was a man named Philippe Mauret, sixty-two, retired from the Swiss financial intelligence unit, currently consulting for three NGOs on financial crime. He had a specific look — the look of a man who had spent thirty years following money and had found it went to the same places every time and had stopped being surprised.He had no connection to journalism. His connection was the financial trail."Your husband came to me in September," he said, in an office overlooking the lake that was too pleasant for the subject matter. "He had documentation of the financial flows from Vayu's Dubai operation. The payments from client governments, routed through a series of shell companies, ultimately connecting to accounts in three jurisdictions — including one in London." He folded his hands. "The London account is held in the name of a subsidiary of a UK-registered private security firm called Meridian Strategic Solutions.""Which has contracts with UK intelligence," Naina said.