Chapter 182

"What?" Michael was stunned. This wasn't how things were supposed to go. For years, both the French branch and the team back home hadn't paid taxes, and they even got tax breaks for being a multinational company. If it were domestic authorities investigating, that'd be one thing, but now that France was checking? Foreigners didn't easily let stuff slide. Michael rubbed his temples, frustration crawling all over him. "Has anything unusual happened in the company lately?" He suspected something had gone wrong after his return—a rival trying to bring them down, doing something shady, maybe even ratting them out. "Nothing out of the ordinary. Everything's been business as usual," the manager reported. Michael's mind started piecing things together again. Even if a competitor wanted to cause trouble, attacking from the tax angle was a bit too precise. "Do a full check, find out what started this. And bring me all the business reports from the time I was away." "Yes, sir." The people he'd se