I just joined the inspection department, and the whole country is in a panic.

"Let's see how Guo Shaoqiu tries to argue this time!" Wang Zeqing sneered.

After hanging up the phone, Wang Zeqing did not sit idle. Instead, he personally led a team to summon Gu Jiaming and his son over!

When Yang Wen returned, he found that Wang Zeqing had gone out, so he began a new round of interrogation of Guo Shaoqiu by himself.

"Guo Shaoqiu, do you know what we found in one of your houses?" Yang Wen asked with a smile.

Guo Shaoqiu remained silent.

"2300 million in cash, and gold bars worth over 300 million! Explain to me, whose money is all this? Are you sure it's all yours?" Yang Wen questioned coldly.

“Of course it’s mine, the money in my house is definitely mine,” Guo Shaoqiu immediately stated.

To be honest, after he bought the house in his name, he let his relative, Gu Jiaming, use it.

It was also the other party who suggested that he give up the house to them.

He might have vaguely known that the house was used by the other party to keep a mistress or to hide money, but since the other party was his backer, he naturally dared not ask or think too much.

It's been revealed that this house was hiding so much money!

"You're saying all the money in this house is yours? Why don't you deposit it in the bank?" Yang Wen questioned.

"Uh, I just like looking at cash, so I have a habit of hiding money," Guo Shaoqiu said, forcing himself to make an excuse.

"That can't be right! Your restaurant and liquor store have only been open for three years, and you even have a partner, who's the major shareholder. Based on your annual tax payments, the combined profit of your two stores is only around 600 million yuan a year. Subtract the fact that your other partner, Gu Xiaohu, takes two-thirds of the shares, plus the 300 million yuan you currently have in your bank account, and the several properties and cars you've bought in the past few years, how could you possibly have assets of over 2000 million yuan in just a few years?" Yang Wen sneered.

"Do you think I'm an idiot?"

Faced with Yang Wen's interrogation, Guo Shaoqiu immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

Yes.

Judging from his annual profit sharing, his current assets, and the money he has spent in recent years.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't add up to more than 20 million in cash!

Too much!

He knew that he absolutely could not implicate Gu Jiaming and the others; if he did, everyone would be finished!

We must continue lying and making excuses to have any chance of survival.

He was also a quick-thinking person, and in the blink of an eye, he came up with a new excuse.

"Actually... actually, my two shops each make more than ten million in profit every year. My greed led me to not only try to evade taxes, but also to cheat my partner Gu Xiaohu!"

“I manipulated the profit margin. I told my partner, Gu Xiaohu, that we only make 6 million a year… In reality, the lion’s share is mine. I can even get a cut of that 6 million…” Guo Shaoqiu hurriedly said.

It's just tax evasion!

Maybe if we pay the taxes later, we can get away with it.

If he admits that the money doesn't belong to him but to someone else, and those people dig it up, then everyone will definitely be ruined in the end!

So now they're trying to increase the profits of their two stores, and then claim they're just secretly taking advantage of their partners while also evading taxes to earn even more.

Isn't that reasonable?

Isn't what you said reasonable and well-founded?

Listening to the other party's words, Yang Wen sneered inwardly.

Trying to get away with it?

Refuse to admit it to the death?

If it were someone else, his explanation might have some basis.

They were also trying to avoid the main issue.

They tried to get away with it by paying back taxes.

Generally speaking.

Once you pay the back taxes, the punishment is almost always very light.

It won't do anything to you.

It has to be said that Guo Shaoqiu really played his cards right.

……

at the same time.

Wang Zeqing also summoned Gu Jiaming back.

On the way here, Gu Jiaming had been thinking of countless ways to justify himself, but he was still very flustered!

Only now did he realize that Guo Shaoqiu might have already revealed something.

If he confesses anything, he will most likely be finished.

However, he still trusted Guo Shaoqiu, who was quite clever and might try to delay the inevitable.

But what worries him most is a property under Guo Shaoqiu's name, which contains more than 30 million yuan in cash and gold. If it is discovered, then things will be dangerous.

Gu Jiaming now understood that thinking about these things was useless; he would have to take it one step at a time.

In the interrogation room.

Wang Zeqing sat down opposite Gu Jiaming with an air of authority.

"Comrade Gu Jiaming, are you aware that Yuan Li, the director of the provincial lottery dialogue center, has been dismissed?" Wang Zeqing asked, squinting at the other party.

"Huh? This... I don't know, and I don't know this person either. Why did you bring this up, Team Leader Wang?" Gu Jiaming's expression was well-controlled. Although he was extremely shocked inside, he still looked bewildered.

He never expected that Yuan Li would get into trouble.

Damn!

Is it possible that Yuan Li betrayed him?

He had contacted the other party before.

He hoped the other party could use some of their connections to provide him with the winner's lottery number.

However, the two had been trading face-to-face and no evidence was left behind. He told himself, "Don't panic, don't panic!"

“Yuan Li told us that you asked him for the winning numbers several times. Did you want to buy lottery tickets from the winning people and launder the money you got through the lottery?”

“Your son won 800 million, and your brother-in-law also won 500 million! Isn’t that exactly the same information Yuan Li provided?” Wang Zeqing looked at the other party with a smile.

"Moreover, a witness named Zeng Haifeng, who won 800 million yuan back then, also confessed to us that someone did indeed approach him to make a deal, buying his winning lottery ticket with 900 million yuan in cash! And this person was your relative Guo Shaoqiu who made the deal with him."

"What do you have to say about this?" Wang Zeqing asked in a deep voice.

"What? This is slander! Absolutely slander!"

"I don't know any Yuan Li at all! I don't know any Zeng Haifeng either. My son won the lottery because he was lucky. As for money laundering and all that, those are all slanders!" Gu Jiaming shook his head vigorously and quickly denied it.

Despite Wang Zeqing's coercive interrogation, Gu Jiaming still refused to confess.

Basically, they're just trying to make it seem like you have no evidence!

Another one is that Wang Zeqing plans to have a heart-to-heart talk with the other party, hoping that the other party will stop struggling. But how could an old hand like Gu Jiaming be so easily won over?