Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 1204 - 63: Reaping Unexpected Gains

"I'm also short of staff here. I just asked Director Liu to notify Ma Jintao to come back quickly."

"Then I'll have someone notify Chen Zikun and Xiao Yu to come back and support."

Binjiang District doesn't have a large population, and Binjiang lacks a nightlife. Although it's close to the Spring Festival, the roads are still deserted after dark.

Moreover, this area is by the river, not a bustling district.

Though there weren't many police officers participating in the inspection operation, they barely managed to handle it.

After over an hour of inquiries, Zhang Lan hurried over, parked her newly purchased scooter, and asked urgently, "What's going on? Was there a murder? How many people died?"

"Not sure."

"Where did the murder happen?"

"Not sure."

"Then what do you know?"

Han Yu, while signaling to a truck with its turn signal on to pull over for inspection, replied with a bitter smile, "I only know that the higher-ups told us to guard several nearby intersections and inspect suspicious men under thirty."

Zhang Lan was bewildered, and Ma Jintao and the Water Police of the Third Team arrived with Yang Yong.

Han Yu directed them to quickly support the Changhang Bureau. The Port District now relies entirely on the Water Police Station and Changhang Bureau to guard, and in times of extreme urgency, there's no room for division.

Just then, the police conducting the inspection at the front intersection urgently called out over the walkie-talkie, "Secretary Han, Secretary Han, two people refused to submit to inspection and are heading your way on a motorcycle!"

"Copy!"

Han Yu quickly gestured, and Xiao Wang, the driver on standby in the police car, immediately sounded the siren, driving the Santana police car to the center of the road.

Han Yu didn't have a gun and could only follow bare-handed.

Zhang Lan hesitated for a moment and also ran to the center of the road.

Just as the comrades in front said, a man riding a 125 motorcycle with another man was speeding from the west towards them.

Xiao Wang kept flashing between high beams and headlights, signaling the other party to stop.

The man driving the motorcycle ignored it, trying to bypass to the side and evade the checkpoint.

Just as Han Yu hesitated whether to grab them, a piercing siren blared from behind. Looking back, reinforcements from the Port District Bureau's patrol team arrived, blocking the potential escape route of the suspect vehicle with their police car.

The man driving the motorcycle, seeing no way to escape, braked sharply and fell with a crash.

Han Yu and Liu Junhai charged forward immediately, seeing the two men get up and make a desperate run across the road.

"Where are you running to? Stop right there!"

"You can't escape, stop!"

...

The comrades from the front inspection chased over, along with the Port District Bureau's patrol police. The three groups together quickly caught up, with Han Yu leading, tackling one of the men to the ground.

"Don't move, stay still!"

"Handcuffs, get me some cuffs."

Han Yu tightly grasped the man's hand until Liu Junhai cuffed him, finally letting out a sigh of relief.

Just as they lifted the attempted escapee, preparing for a search, the Port District Bureau's patrol police caught the other man, dragging him out of the roadside bushes in front.

The man shivered with fear, evidently suspicious.

Han Yu retrieved a dagger from the man's pants pocket, held it up, and asked, "What's this?"

"..."

"What's your name, why did you run?"

"..."

The man hung his head, too afraid to speak.

Liu Junhai then turned on a flashlight, shining it on the freshly captured man, noticing injuries on his legs, elbows, and the back of his hand, with blood marks. They were evidently from the fall just now, then took the dagger Han Yu had found to inspect it, sniffing at it, just about to say the suspects the higher-ups wanted probably weren't these two when suddenly Director Liu's voice called out from the walkie-talkie.

Han Yu stepped aside and raised the walkie-talkie, responding, "Received, Director Liu, go ahead."

"The command center reports that the seven fugitives are all Jianfu people, not tall, no more than 170 cm, with slim builds. One wears a brown leather jacket, another a black down jacket..."

"Director Liu, we just caught two here, but judging from their height and build, they don't fit the suspect characteristics from the command center."

"Conduct on-site interrogation, report back once you have clarity."

"Understood!"

Han Yu just set down the walkie-talkie when the senior brother, seemingly worried about Zhang Lan, showed up with Xu Haoran.

The senior brother was an experienced criminal investigator, so Han Yu assigned the interrogation task to him.

Xu Mingyuan didn't disappoint Han Yu, dragging the previously silent man to the fallen motorcycle, asking briefly, then handing it over to the Port District Bureau's patrol officers. He walked over nonchalantly and said, "They're both Changzhou people, had no money for the New Year, tried stealing a motorcycle to sell. Bad luck, got caught right after getting it."

"Stole a car?"

"Yeah, they both learned auto repair at Yongxing Automobile City, they know some techniques, even without keys they can start a motorcycle."

Han Yu didn't know what to say, and then heard Director Liu's report on the walkie-talkie.

"Salted Fish, Salted Fish, the Command Center reports that two suspects have been caught, Captain Wei is leading a team to capture the other five, please hold on for another two hours, secure the perimeter."

"Understood!"

It's almost New Year, deploying so many police in the middle of the night, we can't let all the unit leaders get confused.

Director Liu thought for a moment and added, "I just got the details clear; the man killed at Beihao Bridge was also a Jianfu person. This is a vendetta due to an economic dispute, both the mastermind and the victim were bosses doing electrical hardware business near the long-distance bus station."

"A murder case caused by an economic dispute?"

"Yes, the mastermind hired a killer, all the operatives are fellow townsmen."

A group of outsiders causing a midnight mobilization of public security police throughout Binjiang District, what a hassle.

Han Yu just got the situation clear when Xu Mingyuan sighed and said, "Ginger gets hotter as it ages, handling such sudden murder cases requires an old hand like Captain Wei."

From the time the case occurred until now, it's less than three hours, already they understood the whole story and successfully captured two suspects, the identities of the other suspects are probably all known, next is the capture operation.

The efficiency is indeed high, thinking carefully Captain Wei is indeed impressive, no wonder he's nicknamed "Old Coach."

Remembering that the master brother was once a key member of Linghai's Criminal Investigation unit, Han Yu curiously asked, "Master brother, do you regret transferring to Customs?"

"Why would I regret, why did you think to ask this?"

"Being a criminal police officer, solving big cases, catching murderers, it's very fulfilling!"

"I feel fulfilled now too, not only me, Haoran does too."

Just as Xu Mingyuan finished speaking, Xu Haoran couldn't help but ask with a smile, "Salted Fish, do you know what we've been busy with these days?" 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Han Yu replied without thinking, "I know, isn't it investigating Hanwu's cigarette smuggling case?"

"That's old almanac now."

"Old almanac?"

"Last time when we went to Hanwu, we didn't just catch people; we also checked accounts, and during the investigation discovered that since the company involved in smuggling exported cigarettes, they ought to have foreign exchange income."

"Do they really have foreign exchange income?" Han Yu asked curiously while looking at the deserted road.

Xu Haoran laughed, "Yes, otherwise it wouldn't add up. But their foreign exchange income wasn't obtained through regular channels; they sent someone to Shenzhen to exchange through the black market."

Han Yu instinctively asked, "So you later tracked it to Shenzhen?"

Xu Mingyuan chimed in proudly, "We followed the trail, with the assistance of Shenzhen Customs and Shenzhen Foreign Exchange Administration, we raided an underground money exchange. Immediately after, from the obtained accounts from the underground money exchange, we followed the trail back to Binjiang, discovering a company in Chonggang District fraudulently obtaining tax refunds through fake exports."

"How did that company get the tax refunds?"

"Fake exports, we opened containers to inspect their goods, and found nothing but waste cardboard inside. Since it's an export, it requires foreign exchange income, and to make the accounts balance, they also used Shenzhen's underground money exchange to exchange foreign currency."

Han Yu didn't expect a company in Binjiang to be involved in this, couldn't help asking, "When you dismantled the underground money exchange, the clues you had weren't just for Chonggang District, right?"

Xu Mingyuan laughed, "Of course not, there are too many clues, we couldn't investigate them all, our superior instructed us to hand them over to the brother customs."

This year the customs are truly busy.

It is said that in East Guang, smuggling is rampant, tax fraud is widespread, documents from superiors clearly state the tax fraud issues are severe in Eastern Guangdong.

As the master brother and Brother Haoran kept achieving results, Han Yu was genuinely happy for them, just about to ask them to treat him to beef noodles later, when Director Wang finally returned, looking exuberant from drinking, smelling of alcohol before speaking.

"Salted Fish, sorry, I had to attend my cousin's wedding, I couldn't miss the celebration."

"No problem, what about wedding candies, did you bring any?"

"I brought some, they're in the car, I got several boxes."

Wang Wenhong hiccupped, turned to open the car door, took out three big bags of wedding candies, distributing them while laughing, "Salted Fish, take some, this is for Han Han. Ming Yuan, Haoran, these two bags are for Yuanyuan and Junjun."

Han Yu was just about to thank him when his phone rang, it was Director Feng calling!

Late at night without any public phones, had to answer, as soon as it connected he heard Director Feng say on the other end, "Salted Fish, Captain Chen just called me; the Navy Chief plans to visit East Sea Base for a morale visit tomorrow afternoon, intends to swing by your place, hurry and report to Mayor Qin and Commander Wang, you need to get ready quickly."

"Tomorrow is the twenty-seventh of the twelfth lunar month, it's almost New Year!"

"Isn't that obvious, the Commander deliberately scheduled to visit for New Year's morale."

"What about the Rescue Boat Team inauguration ceremony then."

"The inauguration is as planned, but the Commander is just passing by to have a look this time."

"But coming now, they won't see many people, Jiang Shengqi and others have gone home for New Year, Shipping Academy is on break!"

"Reserve forces are different from active-duty, not many people are around regularly, as long as the main team cadres are present."

"Alright, I'll report to Mayor Qin now."

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PS: These days there's a double monthly ticket event, kindly ask those with tickets to throw a few!