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apparent anomalies in the documentation.

But there's another question which is equally important, which is...

There's a second question which is equally important, which is whether Ioko itself exercised its powers, and we know they have considerable powers, whether those powers are being exercised lawfully.

proportionately and fairly in pursuing their investigation, because it's possible for an investigation to be legitimate while aspects of the manner in which it is conducted raise legitimate rule of law concerns.

So for me, it's important that we follow the evidence rather than presume either guilt or political prosecution.

You've already And I think that with regard to the five million, the question we should ask ourselves is, or one of the questions we should be asking ourselves is, whether the five million CDs is a commercially defensible compromise of a difficult judgment debt, and whether that compromise, if so, whether that compromise was properly authorized.

And for me, the authority to settle is the settlement on behalf of SIC.

I know that Yuriko is questioning the authority of the lady, the SIC official who was involved in all of this, or allegedly involved in all of this.

But for me, that's capable of documentary resolution.

We can settle that with just documentation.

Number one, was there a board resolution? Was authority delegated? what instructions were given to the lawyers where is the lawyers engaged contract with sic what does it say who actually approved the figure of five million cities and what advice was received about continuing uh enforcement because if properly authorized management made a commercial decision after receiving advice, then that presents one factual picture.

Conversely, if someone without authority surrendered a substantial judgment debt, then that presents a different matter altogether.

And we have to remember that a bad settlement is not automatically a crime.

We need to remember that.

Because commercial decisions are made every day.

That subsequently may look unwise.

Kofi was just talking about situations where he himself has been involved in where, you know, he's winning the case and the client says stop.

So these commercial decisions are made all the time.

And criminal law can't turn every poor exercise of commercial judgment involving a state entity into an offence.

We need to be careful.

But equally, calling something a settlement can't also immunize an otherwise criminal arrangement.

So the

question that must flow, Vicky, and you asked the question directly about authorization of the settlement.

Do you think that the lawyer must come in at all? And as we understand, you say the SIC life manager former is also under Yoko's radar.

We have been informed that until the scaffold at the court...