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Also, a thread of some of the reporting that went into this:
If this is a real company, then it has to be registered somewhere. So I checked Orbis, which has records on some 300 million companies worldwide. We found no matches in Spain for FlameTech. And just to be sure, @aritzparra check Madrid's registry too.
Bowman claimed to be living in Madrid. We tried to look him up, but there was no Madrid-based person by that name in Spain's Páginas Blancas.
Here's where the wide reach & resources of the @AP come into play. It doesn't matter where it is in the world, we can show up in person. So we did. We visited Madrid's Crystal Tower high-rise. Here's a pic:
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