Chapter 148 - The Fall of the Council
Within forty-eight hours of the raid in Zurich, the remaining members of the Council of Nine were rounded up across four continents in the largest coordinated international law enforcement operation since Nuremberg.
In Monaco, two billionaire yacht magnates were arrested aboard their vessels by French maritime commandos.
In London, three senior directors of private merchant banks were escorted from their Mayfair offices in heavy steel handcuffs.
In Vaduz, former Judge Henri Laurent was formally remanded to a maximum-security federal facility, facing thirty years for judicial treason and bribery.
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And inside the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Count Dominic Sterling-Vance and Lord Charles Sterling were led into the secure detention pavilion, stripped of their titles, their passports, and their billions, wearing generic orange jumpsuits, their names entered into international criminal registries as convicted human traffickers and racketeers.
The great Sterling-Vance dynasty had not simply been defeated; it had been pulverized into ash, its stolen billions redistributed to fund pediatric trauma centers, refugee education wings, and the restoration of historic heritage sites across Europe.
