Chapter 99: The End of the Banquet (1)
“Young miss, Arthur Andersen... isn’t that one of the Big Five accounting firms? If they were the ones overseeing the books, there’s no way they wouldn’t have noticed the Ponzi scheme... I think.”
Ha Yeong-il cautiously raised the question.
He was basically saying, Am I the only one hearing this wrong...?
But this time, I was the one mistaken. I should’ve said, I was right again this time, but...
“Yeah. If they’d looked properly, even they would’ve seen it.”
I stood on the balcony of my residence in America, gazing out the window. The meeting had ended, and a golden twilight had settled over the horizon.
“...Are you saying... that Arthur Andersen didn’t actually look at the books?”
“...”
I broke into a sweat at those words.
I still didn’t fully grasp it.
Was it just coincidence, or was part of it deliberate...?
Arthur Andersen.