Ni Lucheng was not at home but was taken from the bar. The inspector who led the arrest team said that he did not resist throughout the process and instead expressed confusion about the police coming to his door.
There is no point in not understanding.
Still in this interrogation room, Ni Lucheng replaced Tan Jiakui's seat.
"Let me introduce myself. I'm Senior Superintendent Li Zhongzhi from the Serious Crime Squad. I summoned you because you're suspected of a serious case."
"How could I be involved in the case? Stop slandering me. It is my right to ask for a lawyer." Ni Lucheng shouted.
"Quiet!" Li Zhongzhi knocked on the table.
"The police will not wrongly accuse a good person, so they summoned you for questioning. I hope you will answer truthfully."
"Then ask."
"You know Tan Jiakui, right? He confessed that you ordered him to attack the motorcade of Si Mingyu, the president of East Asia Mingyu Group."
"What did you say?" If Ni Lucheng hadn't had his hands handcuffed to the chair, he would have jumped up in shock.
"He attacked the convoy of the president of East Asia Mingyu Group?"
"Yes, and he confessed that it was you who ordered it."
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! This is slander!" How could Ni Lucheng admit to such a thing? Besides, he really didn't do it.
"Tan Jiakui confessed that you found out that several Red Flag cars would be arriving from the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Port today, and asked him to scratch them. Is that true?"
"That did happen, but those cars belonged to a competitor of mine. I admit my methods were a bit unscrupulous, and I'll pay whatever compensation is due. I accept the penalty. But I have nothing to do with the attack."
Ni Lucheng admitted it readily. After all, he just had to pay compensation for having someone scratch his competitor's car. As a car dealership owner, this amount of money was nothing to him.
"Then do you know that those cars are the fleet of the president of East Asia Mingyu Group?"
"How is that possible? Such a big boss would have to drive a Bentley even if he doesn't drive a Rolls-Royce? At the very least, he would have to drive a Maybach. How could he possibly drive a Hongqi? Besides, my information is absolutely reliable. It's my competitor's car." Ni Lucheng argued loudly.
"Who is your competitor?"
After hearing this, Li Zhongzhi felt that this was most likely a misunderstanding. After all, the testimonies of so many people matched and did not seem to be false.
"Song Anran from Xingmao Car Dealership."
"Then why did you hire someone to scratch his car?" Li Zhongzhi wanted to find out Ni Lucheng's motive first.
"He and I are competitors. There's a car show tomorrow. If his cars are scratched, they won't be able to go on display at the show, and he'll lose a lot of orders for no reason," explained Ni Lucheng.
"Is this your motive? You'd better think about it carefully. If it's really as you said, you are the mastermind behind the attack on the convoy." Li Zhongzhi said in a deep voice.
"I didn't ask Tan Jiakui to attack the convoy. I just asked him to scratch Song Anran's prototype car." Ni Lucheng hurriedly defended himself.
"It's true that Tan Jiakui attacked the convoy, and it's also true that he said you ordered it. Just because you deny it doesn't mean it's over. That's why I asked if you've made up your mind. I don't believe you'd hire someone to scratch cars just for business, but if you want to take the case, that's fine."
The reason why Li Zhongzhi said this to Ni Lucheng was because the other party's reasons were totally untenable.
First, commercial competition doesn't warrant resorting to such tactics; it's just a matter of selling cars, not seizing territory. Second, if Ni Lucheng were truly unscrupulous, he would have resorted to such tactics long ago, why wait until now? Finally, while Ni Lucheng was a moderately wealthy businessman, he wasn't yet able to find out when and through which ports the other party's cars would arrive from the mainland.
There must be someone behind him, and it seems that Li Zhongzhi knows that Ni Lucheng is not the kind of person who would sacrifice himself for others.
Indeed, Ni Lucheng was weighing the pros and cons in his mind. Li Zhongzhi had no reason to lie to him, so the attack on the convoy was true. Tan Jiakui had been the one who had set it up, and there was no way he could deny it. So if he was the mastermind, he would be sentenced to several years in prison.
Ni Lucheng's car dealership was quite large, and he had access to some wealthy individuals. He knew that Si Mingyu, the president of the East Asia Mingyu Group, had been attacked in the street in Hong Kong. He knew that if the same thing happened twice, the Hong Kong authorities and police would have to give an explanation.
So no matter who takes on this matter, the result will definitely be a sentence above the upper limit.
So Ni Lucheng immediately made a decision to sell out the person behind the scenes to save himself, so that he could at least get a lenient treatment.
"If I tell you the truth, can I serve as a tainted witness..."
Before Ni Lucheng could finish his words, Li Zhongzhi interrupted him: "You are not qualified to make demands. If you don't want to say it, then don't say it. You are qualified to be the mastermind."
"I'm telling you, it was Fan Longping, the eldest son of the Fan Group, who asked me to do it." Ni Lucheng, realizing Li Zhongzhi was planning to let him take the blame, quickly revealed the mastermind. Just as Li Zhongzhi had said, his car dealership wasn't small, and with his wealth and status, he was certainly qualified to take the blame. He didn't want to gamble on whether the police would continue to investigate.
"Why did Fan Longping do this?"
"It's because of a woman. Fan Longping fell in love with a woman and pursued her for a long time but couldn't get her. Instead, the woman followed Song Anran. He wanted to embarrass Song Anran at the auto show tomorrow, so he found me and asked me to scratch those test drive cars from the mainland. Fan Longping told me the time and place for the vehicles to enter the customs."
The market value of the Fan Group is nearly 6 billion. It is not small in scale and has a wide range of business directions. Fan Longping is also involved in the family business. If it were him, he could indeed find out about Song Anran's cars.
Furthermore, the colleague sent to interview Song Anran called to say that their Xingmao dealership was indeed planning to exhibit the Hongqi series of sedans at tomorrow's auto show. This was because Song Anran had obtained the Hong Kong distribution rights for the series. They were indeed planning to bring in several test drive cars from the mainland today, but one of the drivers had diarrhea midway, delaying them from entering customs for over ten minutes.
Now the matter is clear, it was just a mistake.
Tan Jiakui and his men had intended to block Song Anran's test drive, but ended up blocking Si Mingyu's convoy by mistake. After all, both were Red Flag sedans, and there were several of them in a group. It was no wonder that Tan Jiakui was able to admit his mistake, and no wonder he acted so nonchalant when he was first caught.
However, since the Fan Group was involved, Li Zhongzhi could no longer make the decision. He immediately compiled the whole matter into a brief but detailed report and submitted it to his superiors.
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