Crossing Hong Kong to be a police officer, but the system is wrong

Following Zhong Xin's narration and the supplementation from Mr. Xia, Vice Chairman of the CSRC, and Huang Furong, Chief Inspector of the CCB, Song Shijie slowly figured out the whole story.

The investigation into Fenghua International began when Song Shijie was still in CIB. However, due to the strict confidentiality rules among CIB teams, Song Shijie, who was a member of the informant recruitment team at the time, had not heard of it.

According to Zhong Xin and Huang Furong, he arranged for his deputy commander of Group A, Chief Inspector Li Guang, to follow up on the case. Li Guang sent the captain of Rabbit Team 2, Liang Junyi, and two team members, Yang Zhen and Lin Yixiang, together with two police officers Joe and Mary from CCB, to monitor several senior executives of Fenghua International in turns 24 hours a day.

But according to the reports of the five team members responsible for monitoring, these executives have a strong awareness of anti-detection. They would remove the batteries of their mobile phones every time they returned to the office, and would turn up the volume of the speakers to the maximum when talking in the reception room.

For two months, the two departments have been unable to obtain any useful clues from wiretapping. The only thing that can be confirmed is that one of Fenghua International's senior executives, Luo Yaoming, had an affair with his newly hired secretary, Lin Qiling.

A few days ago, Fenghua International saw an extremely unusual increase after the market opened, from 0.2 yuan per share to nearly 0.8. The China Securities Regulatory Commission urgently halted the trading of this stock and announced that it would launch an investigation into Fenghua International, and would only allow the stock to resume trading after the investigation was completed.

What's even more outrageous is that in the past, under such circumstances, stocks would generally be sold in a panic after resumption of trading, and the share price would plummet. However, Fenghua International's share price soared by more than 300% after resumption of trading today, closing at 2.75 yuan, which is extremely exaggerated.

If you say that there is nothing wrong with such an increase in the stock price after it resumed trading without any major positive news, no one would believe it.

According to Mr. Xia from the Securities and Exchange Commission, "It would be fine if they were just speculating on one stock, but this time the dealers behind the scenes are speculating on all five stocks related to Fenghua International. They are simply treating the Securities and Exchange Commission as nothing."

He also explained the reason for inviting Song Shijie here. It turned out that people from their Securities and Futures Commission had been monitoring people related to Fenghua International. This golf club was where they often gathered. Today, several of their major departments were discussing the emergency situation of the "Fenghua case" at the club.

After all, CCB Chief Inspector Huang Furong has rich experience in handling cases. He said: "I recalled the entire operation process in the past two months. The only possible problem can only be the night before the first unusual fluctuation in Fenghua's stock price. That night, there was a surveillance video recording a suspected flirting conversation between Luo Yaoming and his female secretary Lin Qiling, but the surveillance screen was suddenly interrupted, and a few seconds of the conversation were not recorded..."

"I found that the transcripts had been edited. I asked my subordinate Mary, and she said that she thought the flirting between Luo Yaoming and the female secretary was too obscene and irrelevant to the case, so she edited the transcripts. She said that the CIB team was responsible for monitoring the conversation at the time."

It is obvious that the five people that night may have heard some inside information about Fenghua International from the conversation between Luo Yaoming and the secretary, and concealed the information in order to make profits in the stock market. They also deleted the recording to get away with it.

Zhong Xin finally explained why he was so anxious to find Song Shijie privately. For such a matter, according to the police practice, an investigation would be immediately launched on the five police officers present that night, but once the internal investigation department or even the ICAC gets involved, things would likely get out of control.

It's exactly the same situation as when Wang Sir got into trouble. If your own department finds out, you can turn a blind eye and even make it look like the police officer involved in the case surrendered himself. But if other departments, especially ICAC, find out, then the police force will lose face.

Mr. Xia said at this time: "Originally, your police force's affairs are not under our jurisdiction. I just want to find out the big shark behind Fenghua as soon as possible. I definitely agree that other departments should intervene in the investigation as soon as possible. But Ashin's father and I are old friends. Since he asked, I can only give him this face."

Mr. Xia smiled at Zhong Xin, who looked a little embarrassed.

Huang Furong's intention was obviously similar to Zhong Xin's. If something really happened to Joe and Mary, his subordinates, he didn't want outsiders to find out.

The police department sometimes has similar traditions to the military, which is to protect one's own faults and if there is any investigation to be done, it is done by our own people.

Song Shijie is this “one of us”.

He briefly summarized the current situation:

1. CIB Team 2 Captain Liang Junyi, two team members Yang Zhen, Lin Yixiang, two CCB police officers Joe and Mary were all at the scene that night and are all suspects. Chief Inspector Li Guang was the leader of the CIB team, but he did not appear at the scene that night, so he is temporarily ruled out as a suspect. But he cannot attend this "party" tonight, which means he is also suspected of shielding his subordinates.

2. Although it was not stated explicitly, it was obvious that Zhong Xin from CIB and Huang Furong from CCB both trusted their own subordinates and did not trust the other party's subordinates. So neither wanted the other party's people to investigate.

3. Although he said that he was giving face to Zhong Xin's father, Song Shijie felt that it was more likely because the case was highly confidential. Mr. Xia did not want the internal investigation department, the wealth investigation team and the ICAC to intervene. After all, no one could be sure that all the people from these departments were clean. If the matter was exposed to the big boss behind Fenghua who they had been tracking for so long, the other party would have a hundred ways to destroy the evidence in advance or find someone to take the blame.

To sum up, Song Shijie, who has a clean background, quick thinking, strong case-handling ability, monitoring/counter-monitoring skills, is proficient in computers (it is no secret that he has been in CIB for so long), and currently does not belong to any of the CIB and CCB, let alone the ICAC, the Internal Investigation Department, or the Wealth Investigation Group, is the only candidate recognized by all parties.

Song Shijie: Why does this plot feel a bit familiar...

Damn, I'm almost a professional at catching traitors, so I'm easy to bully, right? I'm from the serious crime team!

"System, this sounds familiar, but I'm not sure. Is this the script of a movie?"

[Yes, host, this is the first related plot of the Blue Star movie "Overheard". Unfortunately, you don't have enough points to redeem it.]

"I'm not trying to exchange it. I'm just confirming it. In this case, I've decided to intervene."

[I wish the host success]

"Mr. Xia, Mr. Zhong, Mr. Huang, I understand what you mean. The question is, what should I do? I can't just call in the serious case team to investigate these five guys, right?"

"Don't worry, Jet, we've already thought of it..."

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