Kang Tao's CEO reacted just as quickly, and had plenty of reasons to support them:
First and most directly, they still couldn't recover the Sandevistan Prototype data from V. All they could do was watch this mercenary use their hardware again and again to perform beyond the figures recorded in the lab.
But it would have been sensitive for Kang Tao agents to show up in Night City to capture a celebrity Wanted Criminal, so they had kept silent.
Things were different now. Arasaka had stepped forward, Militech had voiced its support, and their preliminary discussions had also dragged Kang Tao into the matter-
Kang Tao's CEO was actually bewildered by the whole thing. Even his advisors had been baffled at first:
Because they didn't even know about this case themselves.
So, in just a moment, they had reached a conclusion: Why had someone used Kang Tao technology to attack Arasaka and Militech without Kang Tao knowing?
Of course, it was because people in the know at Arasaka and Militech had suppressed the matter.
Most likely, they had taken a hit and couldn't go into detail.
So Kang Tao's advisors immediately pointed out that this was a scheme by the two companies. But after seeing the images from the scene that the companies had leaked, they no longer thought so:
The Micro Smart Explosive Rounds that had scattered in every direction had also been on display at the Racing Competition that night. Kang Tao was still discussing how to get its hands on them. After all, they knew Burger King had gotten one of their stolen Eight-Star Shotguns in Dogtown.
And yet Arasaka and Militech were saying that this group had used them at the border a long, long time ago?!
Kang Tao's image-processing AI restored and enhanced the pictures,