I have checked with Richard Baird who has managed and coordinated much of the Thailand manufacturing/consulting project. I have also obtained the back-up working papers for this invoice (see attached).
It is now clear that mention of the name “W Wang” was a typing error. No person by this name has ever worked on the project, in any capacity. One of our engineers, a Mr Ken Wong did work on the project and some costs relating to his assistance with the project have been recharged on this invoice. So we simply cannot provide the requested information as the person (Wang) DOES NOT EXIST!
I have placed a call with our Citibank contact to question the obstacle you have encountered with your local branch. In the interim, if my explanation and attached documents are not sufficient, I will be happy to re-issue the invoice (without the offending name). please let me know which way to proceed.
Either way, please confirm immediate payment of the balance (A$172K).
As for the future, I am informed that there won’t be any recharges for a while. If there are, we will exclude any individual names from the invoice, so as not create this problem.