Chapter 424 Dai Qingfu was arrested
The days suddenly became very quiet, so quiet that Liang Ziqiang felt uneasy.
When he went to the shrimp pond or stayed at home, he kept thinking to himself, so many days have passed, and I don't know what happened to Banjiu Island.
It stands to reason that with so many fishermen carrying submersibles to report on the spot and making phone calls to expose the incident, there would be no response, right?
But after three days, it was like a stone thrown into the water, without even a splash.
The dull days continued until after dinner on the third day.
Liang Ziqiang didn't wait for any noise, but an explosion.
After several consecutive news items such as "Unconventional" and "Joyful gathering", the announcer's voice suddenly became more serious.
"Here is an important news report. Our city's crackdown on smuggling crimes has recently achieved the most significant breakthrough since the operation began.
After careful research, relevant departments recently launched a surprise comprehensive search of Banjiu Island and successfully found out that the island is ostensibly a fishery sorting and transit island for the Qingwei Group, but is actually the largest base for the group to secretly carry out smuggling criminal activities.
Preliminary evidence shows that the scale of Qingwei Group's crimes is huge and the amount involved is huge, far exceeding all the smuggling criminal organizations uncovered by our city in the early stage.
Dai Qingfu, chairman and general manager of Qingyi Group, has been arrested. After preliminary interrogation, it was found that Dai Qingfu was not only involved in organizing smuggling crimes, but also in murder. More details will be further investigated.
Severely cracking down on smuggling crimes is an important task that our city has been continuously promoting in recent years, and we will continue to do so in the future. No matter how perfect the image of any person or organization is, or how much achievements they have made on the surface, as long as they participate in crimes, they will inevitably be caught by the law. There is no luck, and there can be no tolerance.
We hope that no one or any organization will attempt to challenge the rule of law. At the same time, we welcome the general public to report and expose illegal and criminal acts..."
After the news was broadcast, Liang's father and Liang Ziqiang looked at each other in silence, unable to utter a word for a long time.
After sitting for a while, the father and son found an excuse and went back into Liang Ziqiang's bedroom, closed the door and had a secret talk.
"A Qiang, you guessed right, there is indeed something wrong with Banjiu Island! What we didn't expect is that it's not a problem of enemy spies, but a den of smuggling!" Liang's father was full of emotion.
"It is still not completely certain whether there are enemy spies, but the lid has been lifted now," Liang Ziqiang nodded.
From the very beginning, Liang Ziqiang understood that using this as an entry point would be the most powerful and more effective than directly reporting crimes such as smuggling.
With so many people reporting it, it's hard to just brush it off. Then, it's very likely to lead to a full raid, a complete search, turning it upside down, searching every secret corner.
In this way, no matter what kind of crime it is, it will be difficult to hide and will most likely be exposed under the nose.
"This Dai Qingfu really deserves to die. He donates this and that all the time, acting like a great philanthropist! Did you just hear that he killed someone and his hands are stained with blood! I guess he's afraid of retribution for doing those good deeds, and can't sleep, right?!" Liang's father was shocked just thinking about it.
"I don't know who he killed. I originally thought the city was too slow, but I didn't expect that in just a few days, after a sudden interrogation, they found out everything about Dai Qingfu's murder. It's really amazing!"
Liang Ziqiang was actually a little confused. The murder case shouldn't be referring to the fact that the other party hired someone to plot against his father and brother, right?
If it was in the previous life, his father and brother were indeed successfully killed by Dai Qingfu, then it would make sense.
However, due to some changes in his trajectory in this life, Dai Qingfu has not yet succeeded in killing his father and brother, which does not match the "murder crime". Therefore, the murder mentioned in the news should refer to someone else, not his father and brother.
In fact, Liang Ziqiang still has many unsolved mysteries in his heart.
Dai Qingfu had already ordered people to murder his father and brothers in August more than two years ago, but why did he not rush to do it again in the following two long years? And why did he want to kill his father and brothers? This question still cannot be answered by the news just now.
"Dad, think about it carefully. Did you really not find any signs of smuggling on Banjiu Island more than two years ago?" Liang Ziqiang asked again.
"Really not," Liang's father said confidently, "If I were to guess, they would only do smuggling at night. During the day, I saw them just loading and unloading fish and shrimps normally. I didn't see anything suspicious at all!"
"That's strange."
Don’t think about things that you can’t figure out.
The two of them decided privately that even though Dai Qingfu had been arrested, they would not reveal their dispute with Dai Qingfu to Liang's mother, Chen Xiangbei and others for the time being.
The next evening, the news continued to report on the events on Turtle Dove Island, adding some new details.
The main purpose was to expose the smuggling methods of the Qingwei Group. The news revealed that during the day, the fresh-catch boats came to the island for loading and unloading, and they were indeed carrying baskets of fish and shrimp.
At night, the busy big ships are still unloading baskets of fish and shrimp to the island, but those big baskets are actually specially made and have other purposes.
The basket was divided into two layers. The thin top layer looked like fish and shrimp, but the bottom layer of the basket, separated by a dustpan, was full of smuggled goods.
In this way, even if fishermen come near the island during the day, they will not see any unusual signs.
Even if someone sneaked up to the island to spy at night, they could only see crew members and fishermen carrying baskets of fish and shrimp. No one could have imagined that those were actually large baskets of smuggled goods that were gathered and hidden on this island and then quietly flowed to channels all over the country.
It can only be said that Dai Qingfu acted very meticulously and carefully. Whether it was sparing no effort to package a positive image for himself or taking great pains to conceal the details of smuggling, it can be said that every link was disguised quite successfully.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this that, in the past two years or so, Yanghai City has been cracking down on smuggling, arresting round after round of smugglers, but no one has suspected him.
After receiving a lot of reports from fishermen this time, the first department to intervene was naturally not the anti-smuggling department, but the more powerful anti-espionage department.
When a large group of people gathered quietly, they suddenly attacked Banjiu Island in the middle of the night with guns and live ammunition, and searched every hidden corner of the island, they found that there was a lot of secrets on the island.
In addition to the cold storage used to preserve fish and shrimp, the basement is filled with mountains of smuggled goods.
The area of the smuggling warehouse is at least five or six times that of the fish and shrimp cold storage! This result shocked everyone present. They couldn't believe that the Qingwei Group, which has a high reputation, is actually the largest smuggling organization behind the scenes in the city.
The interwoven pine algae on the submersible may be related to Banjiu Island, or it may just be entangled in other places in the deep sea. But no matter what, being able to accidentally uncover such a huge smuggling criminal organization is also an exciting achievement.
The next day, the provincial anti-smuggling department immediately intervened in the Banjiu Island case.
The intensity of the interrogation was not revealed on TV. Liang Ziqiang only knew that in just three or four days, Dai Qingfu confessed many truths.
He has even confessed to a capital crime like murder, so the interrogation must have been quite thorough.
Now many villages have at least one black-and-white TV. With the news broadcast for two consecutive days, the fishermen have a new topic to talk about after dinner.
Various discussions spread from village to village, and the villagers' biggest emotion was shock.
They couldn't believe that the Qingwei Group, which seemed so grand on the surface, was actually like this in private. The contrast was too great. They also couldn't believe that the Banjiu Island, which they had occasionally visited during the day, actually hid such a big secret.
The heated discussions might continue for a while. Whenever Liang Ziqiang heard them from the villagers, he would just make a few grumbles and pretend that it had nothing to do with him.
The matter has come to an end for the time being, and he cannot delay the fleet's voyage because of this incident. He plans to start going out to sea again in the near future.
That day, just as he was about to inform the crew of the sailing plan, something even more shocking suddenly happened...
(End of this chapter)
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