Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 508: The Sucker Who Was Swindled Out of Million?
"come out!"

"Don't touch anything!"

Qian Baishan raised the muzzle of his gun towards the burly man who had threatened him earlier. The man was moving towards the filing cabinet against the wall with his hand stretched out.

He wanted to take a gamble, thinking that bullets might not be able to penetrate the tempered glass.

At the critical moment, Qian Baishan led his men to rush in quickly.

Then the sturdy man opened the drawer and took out a one-foot-long knife.

Qian Baishan pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"Bang, bang!"

After two bullets were fired, the other two gangsters in the smoking room, some holding their heads and some squatting on the ground, were immediately controlled by the plainclothes police who rushed in.

Because the trigger was pulled at close range, the bullet fired from the gun hit the sturdy man's wrist squarely.

The knife in his hand fell to the ground with a bang.

Qian Baishan rushed over, holding the gun and kicking.

"Damn it, you dare to attack J. Don't you have no face to show off without taking out a knife?"

The plainclothes officer behind Qian Boshan quickly restrained the man, grabbed the sturdy man's arm, and dragged him out of the smoking room.

Qian Baishan let out a breath, and then he had time to take a look at the office on the left.

The situation here has stabilized. All those involved in online fraud have been pressed into chairs. Most of them are young men and women, a total of more than a dozen people.

Several of the masterminds were dragged over and squatted in the corner, among them was the woman who opened the door for Qian Baishan.

Luo Rui stood in the middle of the room and ordered a policeman below: "Turn on the lights."

"Okay, Mr. Luo." The police officer gratefully complied.

After a moment, all the white woven lights on the ceiling were turned on and the curtains on the windows were all opened.

At first, these controlled people looked at each other, but when the lights came on, they all lowered their heads, not daring to look at the police officers around them.

Luo Rui walked to the corner and asked the masterminds squatting on the ground, "Who is the boss?"

The five people, four men and one woman, held their heads. They tried to raise their heads, but the plainclothes officers in front of them held down their heads and said, "Just answer the question. Keep your face down!"

"You!" Qian Baishan pointed at the burly man holding his ID card and said, "Weren't you very arrogant just now? What's your name? Aren't you going to cause trouble for me? Where's my ID card?"

The sturdy man's wrists were covered in blood and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. Because of his injuries, he couldn't stand steadily on his heels and sat down on the ground.

He said with chattering teeth: "I...I didn't know you were a policeman."

"Damn it, even if I'm not a policeman, you can't bully me like this!" Qian Bashan hit him on the back of the head.

"I'll ask you again, where is my ID card?"

The sturdy man said weakly, "In the filing cabinet in the smoking room."

Qian Baishan nodded to Luo Rui and led his men to search.

At this time, Luo Rui reached out and pulled up his trouser legs, squatted in front of this man, facing him, and asked in a cold tone: "I just asked you a question? What's your name?"

"Yang... Yang Chao."

"Who is in charge here?"

The sturdy man avoided his gaze. Luo Rui looked at the few people squatting with him. These people raised their heads and glanced at the rows of computer desks in front of them.

One of them was a middle-aged man wearing a white shirt and gold-framed glasses. He sat in a chair with his head lowered. Although his eyes were fixed on the computer screen, his peripheral vision would glance over here from time to time.

Luo Rui stood up with a sneer on his face. He walked around the long row of computer desks, came to his side, and stared at him intently.

The man in white shirt looked nervous, his throat kept rolling and he couldn't help swallowing several times.

All the people sitting around him were young people, but he was the only one in his fifties who stood out.

Luo Rui looked at a young girl sitting next to him. She had her hair loose and her hands were around the chair. Her wrists were handcuffed.

Her shoulders were held down by a female plainclothes officer behind her. She looked pale and her shoulders were shaking.

Luo Rui asked: "What's your name?"

The girl trembled as she spoke: "Kong... I, my name is Kong Lingling, officer, I've only been here for two days, I... I haven't done anything bad."

"What are you responsible for in this company?"

"Just...just make a phone call."

“How do they calculate your performance?”

The girl swallowed her saliva and replied, "I get 50 cents for each call. If it's a valid call, I get... a commission..."

At this point, the girl paused and started to cry: "I just graduated from college, I can't find a job, working on the assembly line in the factory is too hard, I've only been here for two days... Woohoo, I have no money, I can't do anything."

Hearing her words, Luo Rui showed no sympathy and continued to ask: "Who taught you?"

The girl pointed to the side and said, "That's him. He's our boss."

The girl then looked at the woman squatting in the corner: "It was Sister Li who invited me in. She even took my ID card away. We eat and live in the company and are not allowed to go out..."

Luo Rui nodded and pointed at the burly men squatting in the corner: "What do they do in the company?"

"He...they are in charge of us..."

"Okay, I understand."

After finishing speaking, Luo Rui looked at the middle-aged man in the white shirt who was already sweating profusely, and jokingly said: "Boss, right? What should I call you?"

The man in the white shirt pursed his lips, looked at Luo Rui's murderous eyes, and replied tremblingly: "My surname is Zhang, Zhang Shan."

"Are you the person in charge here?"

Zhang Shan remained silent, his eyes moving around.

"Don't want to talk?" Luo Rui nodded: "Leave a few of the masterminds to identify the scene! Take all the others away and interrogate them one by one. Whoever confesses honestly will be considered meritorious.

You guys should listen carefully, what you did is not punishable by death, so don't resist me. If you really want to resist stubbornly, you will be committing an even greater crime!"

After Luo Rui finished speaking, several young people raised their hands and wanted to report him on the spot.

But the plainclothes police officers did not give them a chance to speak and took them out one by one.

At this time, Ma Chengyu and Chu Yang entered the scene with network security officers.

Among them were two people wearing bank uniforms.

Ma Chengyu introduced: "Boss Luo, these two are technical personnel from the Banking Regulatory Bureau. They are here to help us investigate the whereabouts of the stolen money."

Luo Rui nodded. After scamming people into paying money online, the scammers would use various means to launder the money. The process was very complicated and involved a lot of professional knowledge.

The most typical case is to use fake ID cards to open dozens to hundreds of secondary accounts, withdraw cash from ATMs, or transfer money across banks, thereby diverting huge amounts of stolen money.

What's even more amazing is that the money is transferred from the domestic accounts of underground banks to corresponding overseas accounts. The two places where these stolen money most often go are Hong Kong Island and Macau.

For example, some "smuggler" gangs commit crimes by smuggling cash in suitcases, laundering hundreds of millions of yuan every month.

Or they use fake trade to launder money. Gangs that can do this are generally more advanced, involve larger amounts of money, and are more rampant.

Therefore, every corner of this floor must be searched carefully, and even small items such as cigarette boxes and toilet paper must not be left out.

The man in white shirt and several main criminals were taken to different rooms and interrogated by Qian Baishan, Qiao Xue, Fang Yonghui and others to see if they could get any clues out of their mouths, otherwise they would have to come back for investigation once they confessed something after being taken back.

The man in white shirt sat in a chair in the conference room, facing Luo Rui's burning gaze, and wiped the sweat from his forehead with toilet paper guiltily.

His handcuffs had been removed, which was considered a preferential treatment for him.

Two recorders sat on one side, one with both hands on the computer keyboard, and the other holding a law enforcement recorder in his hand, pointing it at the man in white shirt's face.

Luo Rui narrowed his eyes and was silent for a few minutes before he spoke first: "I am the deputy chief of the Criminal Police Corps of the Public Security Department of Yunnan Province, and also the head of the network security department. My name is Luo Rui..."

As soon as he said his name, the man in white shirt immediately raised his head and looked at him with horror.

This was the first time the other person looked him in the face.

Luo Rui's tone was neither salty nor bland. He didn't care about his expression and asked directly: "Name, age, and place of origin, please tell me everything."

The man in the white shirt did not struggle anymore. He cleared his throat and said, "I have nothing to say to you, Officer Luo. I will tell you everything I need to tell you.

His name is Huang Zhang, he is 48 years old, a native of Yunnan Province, and used to be a construction contractor.

Luo Rui raised his eyebrows. This was a big jump for him. A person working in the construction industry actually switched to online fraud.

Huang Zhang continued: "Construction contracting is profitable, and my previous company also took orders from government departments, so I did construction business in Myanmar for a while.

In 09, I lost a lot of money in Myanmar. I lost my house, car and company, and I also owed a lot of foreign debt in Myanmar..."

When he reached here, Luo Rui interrupted him with his hand.

Huang Zhang looked up in confusion. Luo Rui whispered to Lin Chen, who walked out of the meeting room and talked to a fat man in a blue vest.

The fat man was none other than Ma Chengyu.

Ma Chengyu looked around the conference room, then walked in carrying his computer.

He first nodded and greeted Luo Rui, then found a chair and sat down.

At this time, Luo Rui looked at Huang Zhang: "Go on."

Huang Zhang didn't understand what he meant. Luo Rui comforted him: "Just continue the topic you were talking about just now, say whatever you want to say, don't hide anything."

Huang Zhang nodded immediately: "Yes, Officer Luo, I understand my situation. I am a fraudster, not a murderer. I still have a chance to survive. Don't worry, I will tell the truth."

Luo Rui nodded. It seemed that the other party had already learned about the relevant laws and regulations before engaging in fraud.

At this time, Luo Rui suddenly thought of Hao Fan who was arrested at the end of last year. This big criminal from Myanmar wanted to change his career and engage in Internet fraud.

Indeed, as long as it does not involve a major criminal case, if you are caught committing cyber fraud, the sentence will definitely be lighter than that for drug trafficking.

Furthermore, drug trafficking is not necessarily more profitable than online fraud.

If Hao Fan had not been arrested and had really succeeded, one can imagine how many families would have been broken up and their savings would have been swindled away by this group of people. Some extreme cases would even choose to jump off buildings.

Huang Zhang organized his thoughts and began to narrate: "In 09, I owed a loan shark in Myanmar, with interest totaling more than million RMB. I was detained and would not be allowed to leave if I could not pay back the money.

I called home, and my family scraped together the money, but the loan sharks said that the principal and interest had doubled, and I had to pay back six million.

Where could I get so much money? So, I met a friend named Hu Jing who worked in the construction industry. This woman was quite influential in Karen State and had connections with both the black and white parties.

She helped me find someone, but I didn’t know his name, only that his surname was Lin.

Mr. Lin found the loan sharks. By the way, these people who loaned me money at high interest rates were basically from Country Z and they called us piglets.

Mr. Lin helped me pay back the money, but the price was that I had to do something for him.

At that time, I had no choice but to agree.

Later, Mr. Lin took me to one of their parks for training. There, I saw many compatriots from Country Z who were deceived and were all fraudsters..."

Having said that, Huang Zhang swallowed his saliva, blinked continuously, and sweat kept coming out of his forehead.

"Officer Luo, that place is not as safe and peaceful as ours.

They really don't treat people as human beings. These people who have been deceived cheat their compatriots, parents, relatives and friends. If they can't cheat money, they cheat people! One person leads another.

I saw with my own eyes that a girl deceived her brother, sister-in-law and parents.

Think about it, it used to be a scam, but now, the other party is giving you money. For example, you are playing games and meet a young girl who you can chat with. She says she is a rich woman and has money, so you like to make friends with her.

She is pretty and has a sweet voice. She moves you towards her and asks you to meet her. She also buys you a plane ticket and transfers a few thousand dollars to you. You say you don’t want to go?
Once you are deceived, you can't escape even if you want to. The park is closed, with high walls, electric fences, and armed guards. There are surveillance cameras installed everywhere, and they also have more than a dozen wolfhounds.

They have many ways to deal with you, electric shocks and water dungeons are just some of the tricks.

After squeezing you dry, they will sell you through human traffickers, selling your body, your organs, and women are even more miserable.”

This was in 2012. Ordinary people in the inland areas didn't know much about this kind of thing, but Luo Rui knew that the place outside the border was indeed as Huang Zhang said.

He twitched his chin and asked Lin Chen to pour him a glass of water.

"Thank you." Huang Zhang took it and quickly drank two sips.

After calming down, he continued, "Mr. Lin arranged for me to receive training at that place for three months. During this period, he asked me to bring my wife and children over.

I was under his control, and I had no choice but to... call my wife and children over.

After that, Mr. Lin released me and asked me to come back and set up a company here, where I was responsible for online fraud and helped them launder money.

I started doing this in June 10. I would move to a new place every few months, and never stay in one place for three months, so as to avoid being discovered by the police.

Luo Rui went over his words in his mind and began to ask, "You mentioned two people, one named Hu Jing and the other named Mr. Lin. Where are these two people from?"

"Hu Jing is from Country Z, but I don't know exactly where she is from.

As for Mr. Lin, he is also Chinese, but I don’t know where exactly he is from.

But this guy has a lot of power, he has several bosses in the park, and I heard that even the local military and police don’t dare to go against them.”

"Well, I'll find someone to draw their portraits. Can you cooperate with me?"

Huang Zhang nodded hurriedly: "I will definitely cooperate. I am also a victim."

Luo Rui narrowed his eyes at him and said, "Your wife and children are still over there, aren't you afraid?"

Huang Zhang shook his head, hesitated for a moment, and answered honestly: "She is not my original wife. I have no feelings for her."

Hearing this, Lin Chen, who was standing aside, narrowed his eyes. The female police officer who was typing on the keyboard next to him also looked up at him with fierce eyes that seemed to want to kill someone.

Huang Zhang avoided Luo Rui's gaze, not daring to meet his gaze. Such outrageous words were truly hard to accept.

He said timidly: "Officer Luo, I have no choice. I have been arrested by you. What else can I do? I want you to help me rescue my wife and daughter? It's impossible!"

Lin Chen asked in a cold tone: "Don't provoke us! Have you ever thought about their fate? Just like you said just now, they are likely to be sold and bullied!"

Huang Zhang lowered his head and dared not answer.

Lin Chen continued, "How dare you ask us to rescue them? How did they get tricked? It's you, you did all these stupid things!

Why don't you just stay in the country? You have to go out. When someone gets into trouble, you blame us for not being able to save them. Do you have the nerve to do that?"

Lin Chen became more and more excited as he spoke, and his saliva sprayed all over the table.

Luo Rui quickly waved his hands, telling her to calm down and go back.

Then Luo Rui asked: "Huang Zhang, do you have any other accomplices besides you?"

Huang Zhang shook his head, but after shaking it twice, his face froze.

"I...Officer Luo, I remember now that there were two other people who were training with me, a man and a woman. They were quite young and also had relatives detained in the park.

At the time, I left the park with them, but when we were taken away, our heads were covered with sackcloth, so I don’t remember it very clearly.”

Luo Rui leaned forward: "Can you recall what they look like?"

Huang Zhang rolled his eyes and replied, "I need to think about it..."

As soon as Luo Rui saw his expression, he immediately understood that he wanted to reduce his sentence.

"Okay, go to the detention center and think about it carefully. When you have figured it out, we can talk in the interrogation room." Luo Rui stood up and called for the plainclothes police to take the man out.

Luo Rui and Lin Chen followed them out and saw that the investigating police had already collected a lot of evidence.

The ground was filled with identity cards, bank cards, and various controlled knives.

Early the next morning.

As soon as Luo Rui arrived at the office, Huang Weidong rushed over and asked with a smile as soon as he entered the door: "Boss Luo, did you arrest a group of people last night?"

Luo Rui quickly came out from behind the desk and nodded, "More than 20 online fraudsters were arrested. This is a case that Director Ma and his team had already been investigating."

Huang Weidong gave a thumbs up and said, "Well done. I didn't expect you to achieve results so quickly."

Luo Rui smiled modestly, but he knew in his heart that Huang Weidong definitely didn't come here just for this matter so early in the morning.

Sure enough, Huang Weidong said, "I heard that this case also involves the cyber fraud park in Karen State?"

It was just one night ago, and I hadn't reported it yet. How did the news get out? Luo Rui's heart sank, but he pretended to be surprised and said, "Boss Huang, I was just about to go to the building opposite to report this to you and Director Song."

Huang Weidong waved his hand: "Luo Rui, don't think too much. Director Song and I fully support your work, but there is a prerequisite. To combat online fraud, we mainly need to eliminate the criminals on our side. If it involves Myanmar Pad, it will be an international incident, so we all have to be careful."

Luo Rui's eyes narrowed. Huang Weidong came here specifically to warn him. Indeed, he was afraid that he would cause some big trouble.

He nodded immediately: "Don't worry, I understand."

Huang Weidong patted his shoulder and said, "That's good. I have nothing to do. I'll just walk around. You go ahead and do your work."

Luo Rui sent him to the door, and then saw Ma Chengyu, Chu Yang and others coming over with thick documents.

Several people had dark circles under their eyes, apparently having worked all night.

Luo Rui waited for them to come in and then closed the door.

"How was the search?"

Ma Chengyu put the document in front of Luo Rui's desk and pushed his glasses: "We have found more than 135 accounts, victims, and the amount involved has exceeded million yuan. However, all this money has flowed to overseas accounts through offshore accounts and false trade.

As for where the money ended up, we have no way of finding out."

Chu Yang nodded: "We found out from their computer equipment that Huang Zhang is indeed in contact with Myanmar Dian every week. In other words, he should not have lied, but the Myanmar Dian electronic fraud park is carrying out fraud activities on our side."

Luo Rui nodded and looked at Qiao Xue: "By the way, what did Huang Zhang say?"

Qiao Xue replied, "It has not been explained yet, but I have found technical personnel from the provincial department, and they are copying the portraits of Mr. Hu Jing and Mr. Lin. The results should be out in the afternoon.

I think Huang Zhang really wants to get his sentence commuted by making meritorious contributions, otherwise he wouldn’t have kept it to himself.”

"I can reduce the sentence. I will go and negotiate with the procuratorate. I am afraid that this man and woman are also committing fraud in our Yun Province. If we don't find out, we don't know how many victims there are."

At this time, Lin Chen was flipping through the documents in his hand, and when he saw a name, he frowned.

"Mr. Luo, the largest amount of fraud committed by Huang Zhang and his gang was 20 million, and it happened three days ago."

Fang Yonghui laughed and said, "There are so many rich fools."

Lin Chen slid his finger across the list, at the end of which was the bank card account, name and identity information.

When she saw the man's name, her heart tightened, and she immediately raised her head and said, "Boss Luo, guess who was defrauded of the 20 million?"

When Luo Rui heard her say this, he must have known her. Could it be Mo Wanqiu?

She can't be that stupid, right?
Luo Rui swallowed his saliva, and then heard Lin Chen say a name: "It's Wu Yue, the CEO of Zhongan Heavy Industry, whom we met on the plane."

"Wu Yue?" Luo Rui's eyes narrowed. "Is he the rich man whose daughter is missing?"

(End of this chapter)