Three company names appeared on the screen.
Orbe Consultores.
Norte Capital Servicios.
ENM Strategic Holdings.
Valeria frowned.
“I’ve never heard of any of them.”
“You paid all three.”
“No, I didn’t.”
“Exactly.”
Lucía showed her the transfers.
Small ones at first.
Two hundred thousand pesos.
Three hundred fifty thousand.
Four hundred thousand.
Then larger payments.
One million.
Two million.
Several transactions had been labeled consulting fees, property management expenses and investment advisory services.
Over eighteen months, they totaled 16.8 million pesos.
Valeria stared at the numbers.
“How?”
“Nicolás had limited authorization to manage household expenses while you were traveling.”
“Limited. The cap was fifty thousand pesos per transaction.”
“They appear to have bypassed that by routing approvals through an administrative account connected to one of your companies.”
Valeria looked up sharply.
“Whose account?”
Lucía hesitated.
“Yours.”
“That’s impossible.”
“Someone used your credentials.”
A terrible memory surfaced.
Six months earlier, Nicolás had entered her home office while she was preparing to leave for Monterrey.
He had held out her phone.
“You forgot to approve the building insurance payment.”
