Bai Song has been on so many business trips, but this is the first time he feels so comfortable.
In the past, when I was on business trips, I was either rushing to do things, arresting people, or going on thrilling adventures. I never had the chance to see any special scenery in the city I was visiting.
This time, Captain Guo gave the contact person and the office staff was responsible for the arrangements. Bai Song felt that this business trip was like a trip.
This is an investigation into a murder case that happened 20 years ago... On the first day he arrived, Bai Song felt very comfortable. Basically, he went to various units to deliver some documents, then went back to wait, and then ate and stayed around.
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Better treatment is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the work is going more smoothly than Bai Song had imagined.
The industrial and commercial, taxation and other departments here all gave the green light, and we could get the result the next day with the documents. Even retrieving the cash flow of the bank's public account was very efficient.
But even so, this matter is still not easy to handle.
Bai Song was mentally prepared for the situation of the printing and dyeing company, but he felt a little dizzy when he looked at the shareholder relationship chart.
The electronic data that can be retrieved is okay, but much of the data from six or seven years ago, that is, before 2008, is not computer data but paper version, which took a lot of effort.
The industrial and commercial department is now looking for someone to enter some information into the system, but it is still not perfect and we need to look at the original data.
There is an astonishing amount of information about a company like this.
That’s not all. The company also has its own document library, which contains tens of thousands of contracts of various types, filling up an entire warehouse over the past thirty years.
This is simply not something that these few people can fully understand, unless thirty or fifty people come, and they must be professionals or auditors who can understand this.
Sometimes the police encounter such situations when handling cases, for example, when Bai Song was in the Economic Investigation Corps, he encountered a case involving 26 billion yuan in property. He could ask an accounting firm to audit some data, but this case was not an economic case, but a homicide case. In addition, since the case was handled in another place, it was not appropriate to ask outsiders to audit.
In addition, economic cases themselves freeze a large amount of funds on the books. By the time the cases are checked, they are already considered solved. It is not a big deal to ask an accountant to audit them and spend a few hundred thousand dollars.
The probability of solving this case is so low that no one will pay this money.
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Time flies, and it's Wednesday in a blink of an eye.
Bai Song was responsible for looking at some data and statistics, Wang Liang was responsible for analyzing some film and television materials stored by the company, Wang Huadong was responsible for proofreading some files that were somewhat blurry and unclear, and Sun Jie helped Wang Huadong.
"It has been preliminarily determined that this company has raw materials of unknown origin."
On Wednesday night, at the daily routine meeting, Bai Song gave a brief report.
The report took him three days to complete.
This is not a valuable clue. For the local authorities, such enterprises that basically meet the tax standards will definitely be taken seriously. Even if some problems with raw materials are found, at most a few supervisors will be punished, which will not shake the foundation.
Of course, Bai Song did not intend to shake the foundation of the company. It was meaningless. Even Zheng Yanwu said that in the past, it was not difficult to resell dozens of tons of chemicals privately.
The hotel we stayed in was pretty good because we booked four rooms and we were familiar with the local area, so we could use the small conference room for free. There were a lot of materials on the tables, most of which were moved from the company.
"The company doesn't have a roster from more than 20 years ago, and few people have worked there for that long. We found a few old employees, but they only knew Zheng Yanwu, and their impressions of him were mixed, so they are not very valuable for reference. We didn't find much about the company's former executives," Bai Song concluded. "Now there is a problem, which is to analyze who got the profit when Zheng Yanwu sold his shares. Now if we look closely, several shareholders got shares at that time, and judging from some of the handwritten agreements at the time, although the transfer price was not high, there was no problem at all."
"Don't underestimate Zheng Yanwu." Team leader Guo said calmly, "He was able to achieve that, so he was definitely not an ordinary person. If he sold his shares and someone obviously got a huge benefit, he would know it. So, he must have done a good job on the surface. If it could be discovered by bystanders 20 years later, then he, the eyewitness at the time, would be too bad. What we need to consider is that even if someone gets a huge benefit, it is the exchange of interests behind it, not on the surface."
"Well, what Captain Guo said makes sense," Bai Song nodded. "One direction of investigation is to find out whether these shareholders had any share changes in other companies or transactions of related large assets when Zheng Yanwu sold his shares."
"Well, no hurry." Captain Guo was not in a hurry at all. He had no hope for this case at all, and he came here to provide service and support.
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Bai Song finally realized how difficult it was to investigate such cases.
As an expert in handling cases, Bai Yulong was fortunate enough to follow the team to Nancheng to participate in the handling of the Nanjing University murder case. Later, the evidence was obviously insufficient and the case remained unsolved.
To this day, the investigation has not stopped.
Technology is constantly improving, but it’s really too long since the crime happened.
Looking back at the Nanjing University murder case 18 years ago, it is unlikely that any new clues will emerge. No one can say whether there will be any conclusion if the old clues are re-investigated with a higher level of technology.
If the case is really solved one day, it may be because the suspect is old and confesses it himself.
The same thing happened in Bai Song's case. A residential area had been planned where Zheng Yanwu's house was, and dozens of floors of buildings had been erected. The soil 20 meters below the villa was dug away and used to form the foundation.
The evidence at the scene has long been lost in the Pacific Ocean!
Bai Song also gradually understood why Captain Guo had never been anxious or impatient, because there was no point in being anxious.
This case happened 20 years ago, and after so many changes in the times, it is difficult to find people who knew Zheng Yanwu at the time. Even if someone knows him or has any doubts about the deaths of Zheng Yanwu's family members, it is useless.
Even if everyone is lucky enough to have a witness suddenly come out and say that he knows what the boss of the original transportation company did and who instructed him to do so, it may not be useful. Because even if such a witness comes out, he must provide corresponding evidence, otherwise the evidence will be too weak just by his mouth.
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