The room fell into dead silence for a moment, followed by a sharp, loud gasp.
“Five million!” Stellan’s eyes were practically bulging out of their sockets. His Patek Philippe watch was worth just over a million dollars, yet the company was now losing several times more than the benefits he’d gained.
Fred rapped his knuckles on the table, snapping Stellan out of his daze. “Dolphin Real Estate submitted a report on our substandard materials. Five million is just for returning the defective goods, resupplying qualified ones, and covering the costs they’ve incurred from using the unqualified materials. This doesn’t even include the cost of a full internal investigation into our quality issues, nor the expenses of finding new material suppliers. We don’t even have a final number yet.”
“Why s
