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“Oh well.”
The black market merchant said while looking at the prosecutor Lee Jong-in.
“Neither do I.”
“Once again, if you continue to come out uncooperatively like this, you are responsible for all charges…”
“okay. okay.”
The merchant said with a frown.
“I just did it all. So, the prosecutor, do whatever you want, whether you want it to be roasted or not.”
“…
Snow White is the problem.
As the Food Sanitation Act is applied under the current law, the level of punishment is too weak.
Usually, when dealing with point organizations, it is common to propose a judicial transaction in such a way that the level of punishment is lowered for these pyramids, but the threat is not working because the level of punishment is too weak.
This was because the source of the snow white fruit was more important to them than a fine not exceeding a thousand at most.
“I’m going to pay the fine, so let’s stop now. It’s already been 6 hours, and an arrest warrant hasn’t been issued, so please send me home. I will be worried about you.”
“shit!”
In the end, Lee Jong-in sent the black market merchant back without much income.
“What the hell is Parliament doing?! If this isn’t a drug, what the hell is it?”
At Lee Jong-in’s words, the investigator said.
“Calm down. Inspector.”
Jongin Lee said, grinding his teeth.
“There is no end to this.”
Even one of these pyramids, which barely make up the bottom, is having such a hard time.
“I have to hit my head.”
“A head?”
“Jung In-soo.”
The person who is believed to be behind all these incidents.
At the same time, he was a person who boasted a tremendous influence in the dungeon industry.
“The estimated amount of money illegally traded on the black market is in the trillions. If we can prove that all of that belongs to Jeong In-soo… then imprisonment is not even a dream.”
No matter how weak the punishment of the Food Sanitation Act is, if the amount increases by this level, it is a different story.
Of course, there is a high probability that it will end up with a probation of a few years if it is good, or a probation if it is unlucky, but it is important that he was sentenced to prison.
“The goal is to alert the people and the National Assembly to classify the berries as narcotics.”
The investigator said with a firm expression.
“It will not be easy.”
A person who is more familiar with dungeons than a hunter while being an ordinary person.
The dungeon industry’s top experts and wealthiest people possessed land and personal connections throughout the dungeon industry.
Jeong In-soo’s influence was not based solely on his wealth.
Starting with the Jung-in guild that he has directly, the guilds that are cooperative with the development of Jeong-in, and the numerous hunters living in the land he owns.
“It is an open secret that the upper classes consume snow white fruit. You also have to consider their backlash.”
“I know. But someone has to.”
Jongin Lee said as he got up from his seat.
“The manager said he would send support personnel. Please look at me and brush it off properly.”
The investigator said with a surprised expression.
“You mean the manager?”
“Yes. So now is your chance. An opportunity for us to freely investigate without pressure from superiors.”
Lee Jong-in said with scorching eyes.
“Jung In-soo. Let’s get it right.”
In addition to the investigators sent by the chief prosecutor, Lee Jong-in set up a secret investigation team by holding an office near Dangjin with a total of 10 people.
Jongin Lee began to collect information about Dangjin in earnest.
Jong-in Lee, who started investigating everything that happened from the time Jeong In-soo first bought the land to the present.
“We do not hesitate to engage in illegal business and use the road as an excuse to intimidate land owners…”
Now, Jung In-soo was building a decent young businessman image by donating various dungeon items in addition to donations to the low-income class and the homestead business.
But Jung In-soo was never such a person.
If it’s money, it’s really a no-brainer.
“How about asking the landowners to testify? I think we need to do some damage to Jung In-soo’s image.”
An investigator said with a skeptical look at Lee Jong-in’s words.
“It could be a bit of a challenge. Rather, it is highly likely that it will flow into Jung In-soo’s ears.”
Currently, most of the land near Dangjin Dungeon is being developed on the condition that Jeong In-soo purchases 30 percent of the land.
From the land owner’s point of view, you’re barely breathing, but suddenly you’re asked to testify against Jeong In-soo’s heart?
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Most likely, most of them would rush to Jeong In-soo and tell them all about Miju and the daffodils.
Because Jung In-soo was still a pawn for them.
“Then what about illegal garbage disposal using slime slime?”
Jeong In-soo made a lot of money by disposing of garbage at an absurd speed using a smelter before the purpose of slime slime was revealed.
“It’s a possibility, but now it’s time to prove it…”
The garbage has already been disposed of with slime slime and disappeared.
Not only was it difficult to prove it, but it was difficult to cope with the rainy season, which was part of the experiment.
Lee Jongin bit his lip and said.
“Like a loach.”
Even though the monster arena is suspicious, Jung-in is more actively catching illegal Toto than anyone else through the illegal Toto reporting program.
Other than that, there are many cases where Jung In-soo’s involvement is certain, but there is no conclusive evidence.
After thinking for a while, Jongin Lee said with his eyes shining.
“The problem now is that there is no point in tracking Snow White? If you catch it, the punishment is mild.”
“Yes.”
“The reason they don’t speak up is because of the money. So how about targeting that money?”
“Money?”
“Yes. It’s about identifying a few merchants, finding the merchant’s money cache, and then conducting a search and seizure to confiscate the money as proceeds of crime. Then, in return for the return of the proceeds, they blow the upper line. If we move in this way, we can understand the overall flow of money in the black market, which will be of great help in proving Jung In-soo’s crimes.”
“Aim for money?”
All of the personnel that the chief prosecutor applied to Lee Jong-in were those who were promised investment positions by me.
Beyond simply obstructing Lee Jong-in’s investigation, I was planning to take this opportunity to conduct an experiment to check if there was any hole when a prosecutor with a strong sense of justice decided to attack.
Unsurprisingly, Lee Jong-in started moving for the money, which is the top goal of merchants.
“This is not bad.”
The reason merchants do not betray is money in the end.
But is all the money you have earned being confiscated?
Regardless of whether it is recognized as criminal funds and forfeited or returned because it is not recognized, in itself, it is bound to come under great pressure to merchants.
“Hmm···”
How do I fill this hole?
Currently, merchants only trade in cash.
Since it is criminal money and business money, you cannot put it in a bank, so the only way is to keep it in your own home or safe.
“It’s a safe way to store the proceeds of crime…”
I pondered for a moment and then smiled.
“What is the matter with this?”
idea is good
Confiscating money and coercing it.
But the problem is that it takes too much time in the process.
How could one snatch a pyramid like that, but by then, the superiors would have already taken the money and disappeared.
Ultimately, the limitations of this method are clear.
But in the long run, it is true that we need to be prepared for this.
“Just make an illegal money changer or a bank.”
The problem now is that merchants have no place to store the proceeds of crime.
Just as merchants make money illegally, it is enough to build a system that allows you to store such money illegally or convert it into a specific item and turn it into cash at any time.
“For now, let’s keep moving and disturbing them.”
If you stay in one base for too long, your weaknesses are easily exposed.
Avoid tracking in this way until a perfect alternative is available.
“More errands, too.”
When delivering snow white fruit from top to bottom, messengers are mainly used.
A method in which the upper part, who receives the order, puts beksul seasoning in a specific container, and delivers the address there to the lower part.
At this time, the people who do this work are called errands, and by increasing these people, the transaction method becomes more complicated.
Having come up with a simple way to deal with it, I raised the corners of my mouth and said.
“Thank you? Find out my weaknesses. Keep looking.”
Jong-in Lee succeeds in finding a few merchants who go in and out of the market, find out their movements, and eventually find the money for the crimes they hide.
Jong-in Lee took this money as a prisoner and threatened the merchants, and eventually succeeded in making the superiors vomit out of their mouths.
However.
“It’s already gone…”
“shit!!!”
That’s why it’s so difficult to dig out the point structure.
It was close to impossible to go to the next step even if I cut off the tail right away.
“. . . I was wrong.”
How to focus on the money and not the snow white fruit itself.
It certainly worked, but finding the place where the money was hidden was not common, and above all, their response was immediate.
Not only the sudden change of residence, but also active disturbance using errands.
Seeing this series of processes proceeding too systematically, Jongin Lee was even more convinced.
Behind this black market, there is someone who controls all of this, and that person is Jung In-soo.
“Whoa. Let’s find another way.”
Lee Jong-in made every effort to connect Jung In-soo with criminal acts in the black market by any means.
However, whenever a brilliant idea comes to mind and is put into practice, it is blocked at some point and is a series of frustrations.
In the end, Jongin Lee had no choice but to admit.
In this way, you can never catch the black market and Jeong In-soo.
“at once. You really have to hit the head in one shot.”
The investigators looked at them and said.
“I know that, but…”
It’s impossible to hit Jeong In-soo directly.
There was no criminal charge, but he could not be summoned or searched for.
In addition, if you are acquitted after touching it clumsily, you are giving an indulgence to Jung In-soo.
Then an investigator said:
“It would be difficult for us alone, but how about getting some police support?”
“A police officer?”
“Yes. They’re getting the cops inside the black market. If you eat together with them and build trust, then you can see a way.”
Lee Jong-in, who had been thinking for a while at the investigator’s words, shook his head and said.
“Police support is not allowed.”
“Yes?”
“The police cannot be trusted. If the police in Dangjin were sane, they would have already overturned it several times. But look at the results. Repetition of meaningless crackdowns with no results every time. I’m sure there will be a praakjji in the police force.”
Lee Jong-in, who had been thinking about it for a long time, said.
“Yongin Dungeon.”
The starting point of all these events and the origin of the snow-white fruit.
“Snow White Fruit can only be found in Yongin Dungeon. Unless there is another entrance to the dungeon, Snow White Fruit must come out through Yongin Dungeon. However, a search bar is placed there to block illegal items from being brought in. But how were you able to bring them out?”
Jongin Lee said in a confident voice.
“Perhaps they bribed the officials responsible for the search. Let’s check all the accounts of those officials and their families.”
What is a vaccination?
Vaccination is the purpose of injecting a controllable level of germs to create immunity in the body.
In that respect, Jongin Lee was a very good vaccination.
A great shot that finds loopholes on your own and points out who is vulnerable.
“It’s Yongin Dungeon…”
Lee Jong-in’s prediction was correct.
Because all the officials there had already been bought.
But, as far as I can tell, no one has taken any illegal bribes.
All of them are just investors in Jeongin Investment Company.
Of course, it is possible to draw reasonable doubts based on this, but will this work in court?
Thousands of investors in Jeongin Investment Company are bribes simply because they are among them?
nonsense.
Under such a logic, the remaining thousands of people are all indirectly admitting that they have taken a bribe.
And all the investors made up of high-ranking officials and politicians.
But does Jong-in Lee not know about it?
“… after threatening public officials to the point of accepting testimonies, we might be able to dig deeper based on that testimony.”
In any case, it’s true that the government officials turned a blind eye to the export of Snow White.
Even if the offense of bribery cannot be applied, there is no point in being punished for failing to perform duties properly.
It’s a smuggling system we’ve built, but we can’t just let it get vaccinated.
“Good work. Jongin.”
Jongin Lee has faithfully performed his role.
Thanks to this, the black market has become immune to the prosecutor’s investigation.
Now it’s time to eradicate the bacteria that have entered the body and return it to a clean body.
I said with a smile.
“Let’s finish it now.”
Lee Jong-in’s investigator Park Hyuk-jun is a veteran with 15 years of investigative experience.
“…they are great guys.”
It was the first time for Park Hyuk-joon to be in a situation like a black market and snow white fruit.
Illegality has always been everywhere, but it is such a structure that has been openly traded since broad daylight and at the same time it is so difficult to touch.
The peddlers can still be caught, but if they did, they would have to pay a fine and come back to do business.
“The leader of the Yongin Dungeon Search Team. I made 500 million won in financial income this year alone in my wife’s name.”
Not only the team leader, but all of the team members also earned huge financial income.
It wouldn’t be an illegal bribe.
If that was the case, I wouldn’t be able to report it so proudly.
The money earned by investing in Jeongin Investment Company was certain.
“I’m sure Jeong In-soo is behind him…”
Based on these facts, it was Jongin Lee’s plan to press the public officials and then obtain a testimony from them that it was the price for smuggling snow white fruit.
Of course it won’t be easy.
Public officials aren’t stupid either, so they know well that the prosecutor’s office can’t touch the money no matter how much it flies or crawls.
But it wasn’t without a way.
As a public official, the fact that I am investigating myself and my family is inevitably burdensome.
Perhaps, in the course of the investigation, another misinformation that has nothing to do with Snow White may be revealed.
Then, one way is to use that as an excuse to threaten to obtain testimony.
“By the way, it’s 500 million… that’s a bit harsh.”
It was not a bribe, but a clean money of 500 million won by a legitimate method.
It was a condition that even a high-ranking official, not a search party official, could turn to.
“There is no room for this.”
But then.
A text message flew to Detective Park Hyuk-jun’s cell phone.
“Well?”
Investigator Park Hyuk-joon’s pupils, who checked the text, shook.
“Jeong-in… an investment company?”
It was an investment proposal from Jeongin Investment Company.
An investment proposal from an investment company that is exactly what people in the acquaintance call it.
“Maximum … 40 million won.”
At the time of the most recent second round of investor recruitment, the return of Jeongin Investment Company was 10 times.
“…4 billion.”
Swallowing Park Hyuk-jun’s dry saliva, he said.
“west. Maybe you noticed?”
I wondered if they knew that they were researching the black market and offered him an investment.
Park Hyuk-jun hurriedly looked at the other investigators.
All investigators are engrossed in their work, buried in documents.
Perhaps this text came only to him.
“uh. What do we do.”
If you let Lee Jong-in know that this text message has arrived, Lee Jong-in will be delighted and will try to use it for the investigation.
But if you do, your chances of making money will disappear forever.
“Ugh.”
I fully understand why the officials were being bought.
Until I got this text message, I thought it was just harsh, but after receiving the text message, arrogant thoughts do not leave my head.
After thinking for a while, Hyuk-jun Park finally got up from his seat with a determined expression and approached Jong-in Lee.
“what happened? Detective Park?”
“Inspector. Take a look at this.”
Lee Jong-in, who picked up the phone, said with a surprised expression.
“This···! Jeongin Investment Company!”
“Yes. This is an investment proposal from me.”
Jongin Lee said with a bright smile.
“If you use this well, you might catch the key evidence!”
“…that’s what I thought and showed it to you.”
At Park Hyuk-jun’s words, Lee Jong-in paused for a moment and said.
“Aren’t you greedy?”
“Of course I was greedy. But .
Then Lee Jong-in said with a smile.
“From the head of the department to Detective Park, I guess I really have one.”
“It was nothing.”
Jongin Lee jumped up from his seat and said.
“Detective Park, contact the person in charge and make an appointment. Everyone else is ready too!”
Jongin Lee said with a smile.
“This is a great opportunity to get a bid directly from their mouths. Jeong In-soo. Let’s catch it!”