Montgisard Hotel Scandal
The Montgisard hotel scandal, was an event that took place on August 3rd, 2011. The scandal brought to light an international organisation known as IPAIA. A private intelligence agency that, according to The Briselle Post, bought and sold sensitive information, investigated the lives of famous, powerful and wealthy people, and is also thought to carry out assassinations, notably the 2003 death of Delamarian Senator Charles Hunton Starnby, who, at the time of his death, was leading an investigation into the practises of military contractor Monroe International.
The Montgisard Hotel is a hotel in Briselle, Delamaria, in which IPAIA reportedly held an auction for the sale of notable information and services. The Briselle Post recieved a call originating from the hotel at 7:24 on August 3rd, in which a disgruntled buyer told a reporter about the IPAIA organisation, though it is unknown who made the call, the body of Michael Sharif, an Aurelian businessman facing corruption charges in his home country, was found in the room the call way made from, but recordings of the phone call, when compared to earlier recordings of Sharif's voice, indicate that he was not the one to make the phone call.
The reporter, Abigail Ossden, immediately after recieving the call, contacted the police. However once they had arrived to the building, the rooms that had been booked by IPAIA, under a shell corporation known as Wendell Imports, were abandoned, with only a few documents found under furniture and half destroyed. Two people were caught fleeing from the hotel, Paul Hanker an Argic political strategist, who was caught putting state secrets concernign the personal lives of multiple incumbent politicians into his briefcase, which was subsecuently stolen from a InBe evidence warehouse in New Bedford in 2013, and one of the organisers Margot Kovinov, who claimed that she was merely an accountant, and had no real authority within the organisation. In 2012 she was handed 12 years in prison on the charges of being a member of a criminal enterprise. After 2 years in prison, Kovinov requested a new judge, as the magistrate on her original trial spoke publically against the organisation, though many legal scholars found that these were insufficient grounds to request a transfer. Her case was transferred to the New Flanders Circuit Court, the smallest in the nation, with only one senior judge, in April 2014, and was immediately acquitted.