The Detective’s DeskMEDIUM · CASE FILE
Medium · A club collection and bank run
A signed cash count is genuine, but the bank receives a tagged bag containing equipment slips. Follow the bags and establish who knowingly agreed to the switch.
Read the case file below, or open the interactive desk to examine records, keep notes and submit your reasoning. These are the case materials, without the solution.
The club’s red bag was full at the count. No cash leaves the grounds before the driver’s collection, and the bank records the exact bag it receives.
Volunteer driver
I delivered the bag Nia gave me. I knew we were keeping the red cash bag out of the bank run.
Nia asked me to use the blue empty-kit bag with the red bag’s tag.
Registration volunteer
I witnessed the cash count and kept the count photograph.
The original red bag’s tie is numbered R6 underneath the knot.
Sports-club treasurer
I counted the entry cash and put it in the red collection bag. I did not take it home.
The receipt number identifies a transaction, not a bag colour.
Bank clerk
I photographed the delivered bag at intake. It held equipment slips, not cash.
Its tie serial is visible in the intake photograph.
Read each record on its own terms. A claim made by a person is different from a fact established by an independent record.
Physical record · Club desk
The cash is sealed in the red bag with tie R6. The tie number is beneath the knot, not only on its removable tag.
Physical record · Club desk
Before collection Nia writes, “Keep the red cash bag off the bank run; move its tag to the blue bag.” Osa replies, “Understood. I will deliver the slips instead.”
Physical record · Club desk
Nia hands Osa the blue bag and keeps the red R6 bag beside her car. No exchange with another driver occurs.
Physical record · Bank counter
The receipt confirms Osa delivered the photographed blue B2 bag. It does not certify the earlier red R6 cash count.
Physical record · Bank counter
The delivered bag is blue with tie B2. It bears the red bag’s movable R6 tag but contains only equipment slips.
Physical record · Club desk
The club phone’s authenticated export dates Nia’s instruction and Osa’s reply before the loading view. The agreement was not invented after the shortage.
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