Missing Tech Recovered; Vice-Consul Indicted, Ambassador Acquitted

Jurgætioid Embassy Vice-Consul ‘Doc’ Braun has been apprehended and charged in a case of missing mind-transferral technology from the Jurgætioid Embassy in Heritageville on Earth.
  Private enquêteurs hired by the Orville Corporation (actually APF free agents) had remote-scanned Ambassador Magister DeVault’s Heritageville chancery last September, finding quantum signature traces of 39 Gist-Transfer Psy-Truncheon Manifolds — proprietary technology that Orville had reported missing. The ambassador was tending to his affairs on Jurgætium at the time.

  Upon arrival at the chancery, agents found no remaining evidence of the missing tech, but were able to decrypt a suspicious travel itinerary disguised as doggy scrip. Agents mobilised and intercepted transit shuttle Oborme on its approach to Firthsdale Spaceport where Vice-Consul Braun was arrested with the stolen mind-transferral tech in his possession.

Braun is currently in custody in an undisclosed location.
  Vice-Consul Braun is to be charged with Corporate Espionage and Conspiracy to Traffic Unregulated Technology, both Class III felonies under the United Planets’ Interplanetary Criminal Court.
  Magister DeVault has been cleared in all investigations and reinstated as Ambassador by the Grand Synod House of Jurgætium with full honours.
  “I want to thank my family and the Prime Imperator, but most of all I’d like to thank the Orville Corporation for clearing my name,” DeVault stated from his dacha outside of Jurgæpolis. “Now we can all get back to business running the galaxy.”