Well, the Gizmondo thing was very shady indeed and while there is no proof that the people currently working at CIG were involved in the money laundering it still leaves a sour taste.
Why? Well, these people that are now Executive Management at CIG were Executive Management at Gizmondo or one of the companies that was bought by Gizmondo.
That leaves the doubts/questions how much they knew about what was really going on at Gizmondo and if they were developing software for that device (Erin Roberts) they must have known in what state the Alpha/Beta Hardware was and what would be possible. So by this mere fact they must have known beforehand that this was gonna bomb at least and how viable it would be in the market back then. I’ve worked myself on several occasions with Devkits of different consoles and I know exactly what I’m talking about.
That’s the reason why Derek finds this suspicious and on top of that those multiple companies that have been set up, the Twin Bros one standing out immediately.