Chapter 53

March’ 2004,
Midtown, Manhattan Borough, Travis County, NY.

Aryan arrived at the police station to meet with the Lieutenant Vincent Louis. He was also informed that the officer was accompanied by Bryan Hensley and Yugandhar. All of them were waiting for Aryan in the private chamber at the station.

“Aryan,” Vincent uttered, “he is Yugandhar, Rekha’s maternal uncle and this is Bryan Hensley, you knew him already,”

“Nice meeting you Aryan,” Yugandhar said, “we gonna let out few facts and believe me it’s going to take you places because they are just spooky. The murder of Anusha, while you knew it was true, it is not just a murder but is a piece from an incomplete puzzle and Mr. Dayanand had been murdered with a perfect plot,”

“I don’t need any more precautions policeman,” Aryan said, “throw light on the investigation results”

And Vincent Louis began…

“Anusha was murdered by Shikar. The brothers had started a family business, a chemical industry on a small scale. It had less than fifty employees, it was growing at linear scale and expanded to more employees and consumers in a few years. Apparently in ten years, the company went public and started trading in the NASDAQ.

At the early stages after the company was setup, Shekar was married to Sailaja. The couple after couple of years gave birth to Anusha. The clever plot, which you will know in a while, had drastically turned the tables. Shikar met Mythili, Rekha’s mama. Mythili was an assistant chief in the company. She was on the lines of being palsy-walsy with Shikar and is known to have engaged with him in various activities. In the fullness of time, the set of events engendered love between the two. In fact it was later known that shikar lured her and she was deceived by taking it to love. They gave birth to Rekha in the absence of the conjugal bond. Regardless of how, Shikar promised to marry her at some point of time in the near future. For all that, in the later stage of his life he was then uninterested rather he wasn’t confident with beginning a family of his own. Shikar lied to her by voicing out that the venture they had taken up and the pressure to swell the company to a large scale didn’t encourage him for a marriage by any grounds. But the truth is, shikar was superficially involved in the company operations; he was a tacit board member and got a buzz outta his share while Shekar involved in the family business full time yet condoning his brother over anything he did. Mythili unaware of this fact complied with him. It took three years before Mythili instigated to ventilate on the subject of nuptial. Shikar had always repeated the same for excuse, his stance persisted and she was enforced to be in terms with him for ten more years. By then it was already 1970 and shikar reached forty;

In the year 1969 when the movie ‘Blue movie’ took the film industry by storm with its wide release in the cinemas. The access to the digital content was unlikely back then and the film industry was per se at the helm of adult erotic movies. With the permissive legislation, the subsequent increase in the film distribution proportionally with the cinemas in the United States proliferated the porno films.

Shikar who eyed on for a fortune, invested in the industry and that was the time he met the pornographic star Mary Millington Sibleno. The relation between the two had gradually matured leaving Mythili downright out of sight for Shikar. Shikar later went on to marry her only after Varun was born. This time he was being loyal to the porn star, he promised to marry her and he did. Shikar is a wise man, he did give the low-down on his hymeneal status except by dispensing the fact about his natural daughter Rekha.

Be that as it may, Mythili, she was in the dark of Shikar’s wedlock with Mary. Apparently, after three years, she was in the light of the matter following then she divulged their affair to Mary and guess what happened? It’s the obvious. Mary left Shikar and her son Varun with him. Mary was a pornstar but she disliked encouraging infidelity and shikar was utterly desolated with the way he was treated by a pornstar. Raged shikar conceived that Mythili would be a peril for the rest of his life and apprehended her in a dungeon cell. He then sent your mother, Mrs. Rekha to a distance far pension in Germany. He looked after her education but Rekha suffered under his regime. With Mythili, it’s a vicious conduct, no day went by with her being tormented, he continued to indulge her in fornication. He threatened her to kill Rekha if she was inimical to the swive.

After fourteen years, when the whole state of affairs was in knowledge of Shekar yet again he condoned and besides made his mind up to send Rekha to the US for her high school. Rekha yielded to Shikar when he threatened to drive a nail in to the coffin of Mythili. Rekha was in a fluster and was left with no other choice except to agree with Shikar. So as you say, your mother was brought up in Germany for a while later she was never allowed into the territory.

It was in the same year – 1969, the couple Sailaja and Shekar were blessed with a boy, Satya, the current CEO of JAPMI.

Shekar and Dayanand met each other for the first time in 1970’s as at the same time the Germany economy was burgeoning and the companies, competitors in the chemical industry were also in proportion with the prosperity. Increased competition and overcapacity problems that persisted in the SS chemical industry provoked the family to make various acquisitions through cash, stock and debt to raise the bar for the company standards and expose its potential with the competitors. The acquisition were made from the loan that was sanctioned by the Swiss bank with the approval of your grandfather, Dayanand.

Dayanand in the 1970’s by then had already seen massive success in the manufacturing industry and was planning for an expansion across Europe. At the same time, warag bank was acquired by the Swiss bank corp and the CFO of the warag bank was a dear friend of Dayanand. When Dayanand and Shekar met for the first time in a pact of SS chemical industry with JAPMI, Shekar solicited Dayanand on the imprimatur of loan from the Swiss bank. Shekar persuaded and in the due course, the loan was ratified by the Swiss bank. I don’t have details on the accurate figures but it was understood that the lump sum amount would expand the chemical industry and also favour the JAPMI in various aspects along with the supply of chemical and materials to JAPMI at the European centre in the due course of time.

With help of the loan on which the SS has got its mitts on, the industry was able to prosper at a rapid rate from their aggressive acquisition strategy. Share price went up like never before in the company history record. It continued to stay in standard with the industries and put the investors happy for about five years then.

The success couldn’t stay for long time, the management interpreted the prosperity on a whole different lines that drastically changed the things to sour. The board and the management was under immense pressure to meet with the expectations from the investors that eventually lead the board ensnared in dishonesty and fraudulence.

Shekar had the premonition of downfall of the SS chemical industry and there it is, the ignition to the things happened with the fall of JAPMI. The pestering instigated him to rat in the board of directors of JAPMI. He was yearning for a share of JAPMI to hedge on his debts and that sow the seeds for an agreement of Vivek with the acting CFO of SS industry and Anusha be married to Vivek, to erect the bridge between the families in the name of conjugal bond. While Shekar shared his forethought with his brother, it flared up Shikar and triggered the yen for the position. Shikar was already a brute who had murdered Mary Millington in 1973 for her unpolished comportment towards him. His close encounter with Shekar’s preconception catapulted him into a disorder phase of life thereafter.

Shikar murdered Anusha for the patent reasons. He forced her to write a letter that conveyed she had eloped and it asked her father not to come after the woman. Shikar with his contemptuous psyche played his card and poor Shekar who weighed his family’s reputation more than the lives of members of the family took it for the truth and shrugged off on the correspondence. Shikar who killed Anusha strategically in a savagely violent manner in time had seen the conspiracy of his rising to live. He had witnessed what he had predicted. Shekar who was always interested to have the family with the power requested Shikar with the espousal of Rekha to Vivek. Shikar used the state of affairs to his advantage and demanded Varun to be made the CEO to JAPMI when he turns his right for the position. Shekar shoved it off with a naïve compliance and that’s how your mother was married to Vivek. Thereafter the proceedings were Vivek was named the acting CFO at JAPMI while Shekar observed the position of an outside director at JAPMI. Shikar was convinced that his son would be the CEO of JAPMI in time and for it to be of monumental, he conceived that Shekar’s presence was needed with the board at JAPMI,”

Shekar does do deeds for others Aryan, he does it for himself Aryan recollected Rekha’s premonition I see it, So Shekar is avenging his daughter’s murder. Aryan thought while Vincent continued, “But fate wasn’t favouring SS industry with its dramatically stagnated revenues. The profits generated were parlous below the operating costs which goaded the company to a travesty of financial reporting. The company was certain to dodge the repercussions and they refrained to accurately represent the financial condition of the industry. The industry was afraid of losing the investors and to tackle the risk associated with it the financial division of the company went over with a fine-tooth comb on the expected results on the Wall Street to manipulate or improve on the actual figures made by the company.

Shekar had setup the phantom character ‘George hettich’ which was played by his brother Shikar. In the name of the non-existent character they have established a phantom company as well. They did the related-party transactions to commit the fraud. They sold their own patented technology to George hettich’s company and they showed the revenues by acquiring the company. It was like buying back their own technology and produce an illusion for a rise in the stock price.

That was one part of it, changing agreements between the affiliated companies or shifting costs from one quarter to the next was not saving the industry with the tactics. They were impelled to sketch more elaborate plan of actions and they devised the most terrible schemes the industry had ever done.

They hided the debts and stowed the liabilities off the books by allocating co-borrowing loans among its unspecified subsidiary companies. It appeared to the investors that the company was paying off the debts. They did fabricate sham transaction and fictitious documents to prove the details on the repayment of their debts. In addition, the company manifested the upgradation of plants in a false manner and they leveraged the case to distend their earnings. Besides, realising the kickback of revenues from the phantom upgradation of plants and shifting the expenses to unspecified subsidiary companies the investors were caused to feel certain with the industry performance in the market.

The treacherous of all is Mr. Shikar had spent six hundred and fifty thousand euros on establishing a laboratory in the city outskirts near to the factory and the fact is that lab hasn’t been traced by the policeman till today. Well, it does look absurd but that should not be the case. If we read between the lines, it comes into sight how puissant Shekar is and Shikar had made the best of it. His son varun was rather extravagant in whoring around and playing casinos.

Truths never sinks, it remains floating and in the fullness of time someone would catch a sight to give it a yank. That was when the SS industry at length reached a stage where they had to look for filing bankruptcy but Shekar had an aversion to it. He cast his eyes over JAPMI and the rest of the story is already unravelled,” Vincent Louis finally breathed and took a sip of water from the tumbler.

Aryan remained silent for the whole time and before he showed any emotion, “I guess it’s my time to join the conversation,” there came the voice. Aryan casted his over the doctor, Bryan Hensley, “Shekar consulted me to do a check over the health of Dayanand. From the revelations made by the policeman I get to the bottom of the stratagem by him. I was bribed to inject the bitcoin, a savage poison that could potentially do a mass killing, into Dayanand and false his death by nicking the advantage of the fibrosis pulmonary disease.”

Vincent intervened, “he then hatched a phantom company by the name Bloomberg’s Automobile spare parts manufacturing industry from Germany”

“I have the deets under my sleeves, Officer Vincent,” Aryan voiced out, “I am aware all of that,”

“He killed my sister Mythili brutally,” Yugandhar intervened, “he killed her dissolution” I was waiting for a revenge and I kept waiting for the opportunity” He moaned.

“So it’s you who revealed the facts to Mr. Vincent?” Aryan questioned his kith, Yugandhar.

“Yep Aryan,” Yugandhar sounded out.

“How did you find out all the details and why should I trust you?” Aryan asked.

“Aryan, Katie Joanna is a woman, a loyal woman to her husband. She would risk her infidelity for her husband to give him whatever he wishes for,”

“Who is that woman?” Aryan enquired.

“She is my wife and I have planted her as the chief assistant of Shekar,” Yugandhar replied.

“If you had done that, didn’t you get a time to divulge all this information long back?” Aryan questioned.

“As I said, I was looking for an opportunity which I never found; But what a poor can do to a rich and powerful bastard?” he exclaimed, “except to get suppressed under their power”

“Uncle Yugandhar,” Aryan rose up from his seat, “I feel remorse but be that as it may,” he came close to him, “I’ve got your back and you have my word,” he said and walked out of the place with an optimistic redemption.