Chapter 549 Arrest
"What are you doing?!"
"Get out of the way! If you don't move, don't blame us for being impolite!"
"You can't go in! This is the women's changing room. What you're doing is extremely impolite..."
A noisy argument came from the corridor. Li Banxia frowned slightly, quickly buttoned her clothes, and went to open the door.
"Li Banxia?"
When the man saw her come out, he flashed his ID in front of her and said, "We are from the China Banking Regulatory Commission. We have detected large-scale financial transactions involving your bank cards. Please come with us to cooperate with the investigation."
"Cooperate with the investigation?" Li Banxia emphasized the word "cooperate" and glanced at the names on the two people's identification documents.
The person who came in instinctively took back their identification and explained awkwardly, "They kept stopping us from knocking, so we thought... you were trying to escape."
“You’re overthinking it. I own the health spa, and I earned the money honestly. I won’t run away,” Li Banxia said calmly and respectfully.
The other person looked her up and down and nodded slightly. "Okay, then please come back with us, Comrade Li, and prove to us that the money in your bank card is legally obtained."
Li Banxia also glanced at him, but didn't make him prove on the spot that her money was illegal.
To put it bluntly, arguing with them is pointless; they're just following orders, and the people investigating her are waiting to see her.
Li Banxia glanced at the handbag hanging in the closet and asked the two of them, "Do you need me to take that bank card with me?"
"Of course!" the second person exclaimed excitedly.
Li Banxia hummed in agreement, turned around and went back to get her handbag.
"Dr. Li..." Several female employees looked at her with concern.
Li Banxia smiled and said, "It's alright, I'll be right back. I'll tell Dr. Li later that he'll take care of the morning patients, and I'll try to be back before lunch."
She spoke while observing their reactions.
The first person frowned slightly, while the second person curled his lip and glanced at her disdainfully, his eyes clearly telling her that this matter wouldn't be resolved so easily.
Li Banxia understood the situation, patted the female employee's hand, and glanced at the phone not far away.
The female employee understood and nodded.
A car was parked in front of the health center. Two people sandwiched Li Banxia between them. After she got into the car, the other person got into the passenger seat, and the car drove away.
The female employee turned around and rushed back to the phone, first calling Su Lao Er's office.
It's been too long, and Su Lao Er still hasn't gone to work.
She hung up the phone and called Song Yuanzhi again. Fortunately, Song Yuanzhi was already at work. Upon hearing the female employee's description, his face immediately darkened. "I understand. Everything at the health center is normal. If Dr. Li asks, don't hide anything and tell the truth."
"Yes, Deputy Director Song, our Dr. Li will be fine, right?"
Song Yuanzhi smiled, "Yes, she'll be fine."
"Thank you, Deputy Director Song."
After hanging up the phone, the female employee breathed a sigh of relief to her colleagues who had been watching her anxiously. "Deputy Director Song said that Dr. Li will be fine and that we should continue as usual."
"Very good!"
"I was terrified! Those two looked so menacing. I thought our Dr. Li had gotten into trouble..."
"Don't talk nonsense. People are saying that Dr. Li is suspected of large-scale money transactions. Our health center has a lot of people coming and going. Her son runs so many grocery stores. Isn't it normal for money transactions to happen?"
"Do you think these people are after Dr. Li's money?"
The group looked at each other, all agreeing that what was said was true.
Wealth is a powerful motivator. A few thousand, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions are not a big problem, but a single transaction of over seven billion is indeed too eye-catching.
Li Banxia sat in the car and sighed softly.
She had previously calculated that the total value of Ai Shi and Fei Le was only a few hundred million yuan. If she hadn't remembered Yuyuan Mall later, she wouldn't have suddenly swiped out so much money.
The car was parked in a place she had never been before, and the two men led her inside, one in front and one behind.
After passing through a narrow corridor, they led Li Banxia to a small, semi-basement office. The second person took out a key, unlocked the rusty lock, and gestured to Li Banxia, "Go in."
Li Banxia glanced at the dimly lit room, the only source of light being the row of glass windows protruding from the floor above.
She stood still, looking at the two men. "I'm here to cooperate with the investigation. Are you sure you want to lock me up here?"
"Enough with the nonsense!"
Seeing that she was not cooperating, the second man grabbed her arm and shoved her inside, sneering, "Until we find out the true source of the more than seven billion in your account, this is your place to reflect!"
"Comrade Li, we have a few questions. Please answer them carefully and truthfully."
The first person stepped forward, took out paper and pen, and asked Li Banxia, "How did you know that Yuyuan Mall would skyrocket that day? Where did the more than 70 million yuan for buying Yuyuan Mall come from? Was the loan legal?"
"You found me, so you must have already investigated me secretly. After the investigation, you didn't believe me and called me here, ostensibly to cooperate with the investigation, but actually to illegally detain me?"
Li Banxia looked directly at the two men and said, “Although I am not highly educated, I still understand the difference between cooperating with an investigation and illegal detention. I will not answer any of your questions until I receive the treatment I deserve. You are breaking the law, and I will sue you and the China Banking Regulatory Commission behind you in accordance with the law.”
Their expressions changed, and they exchanged a glance.
The second man, enraged, spat, "I told you this woman wasn't so easily fooled! Why did you have to ask? What's the point of asking? Lock her up for a few days without food and water and she'll behave."
He reached out and snatched Li Banxia's handbag, pulled the first person out, slammed the door shut, and locked it. "Let's go, let her stay here by herself for a few days."
"this……"
The first person hesitated for a moment, then was dragged away by the second person, who was cursing and swearing.
Li Banxia stared at the glass and sighed.
These people seemed to have ill intentions. Who would have thought that the China Banking Regulatory Commission, a body with a name and a reputation, could do something like this?!
Outside, Song Yuanzhi received a phone call and immediately began contacting people.
He had just reached the position of deputy director of the district bureau, which is a separate system from the China Banking Regulatory Commission, and there was no connection between them.
My network of contacts from the past ten years or so is all from the military. Although some of my retired comrades are useful, their positions are not very prominent, and there are very few who can be of help.
It was an hour later when I finally got in touch with a junior staff member at the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) through a comrade who worked in the CBRC office.
After making his inquiries, the junior staff member called Song Yuanzhi back, "I haven't heard that the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) brought anyone back to the office. Are you sure they were from the CBRC? Could it be someone impersonating someone for money?"
A chill instantly ran up from the soles of Song Yuanzhi's feet.
He hung up the phone and called the health center to confirm. Several female employees confirmed, "That's right, Dr. Li only agreed to go with them after seeing their identification. There's absolutely no mistake. They even said they were from the China Banking Regulatory Commission..."
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