The arrest operation went smoothly, and all eight people involved in the crime were arrested.

However, the investigation of the case has just begun. Commissar Zhou and Wang Changjiang cannot escort the people involved in the case for the time being. They have to search the companies involved in the case overnight, seize official seals, contracts, accounts and documents related to import and export, and collect

and fix the evidence.

At the same time, forces must be organized to search the homes of eight people involved in the crime overnight to prevent relatives of the people involved in the crime from transferring stolen money.

Tomorrow morning, we have to go to the bank to freeze the accounts of the companies and people involved in the scandal.

Han Yu is also busy in the East China Sea. He has to keep records for relevant personnel overnight, collect and fix the evidence of import and export declarations by the companies involved in the East China Sea Customs.

After dawn, we need to contact and request experts from the Donghai Electronic Technology Research Institute to sign the props used by the companies involved in tax fraud. We must find out what the "tax fraud props" are, what they are used for, and how much they are worth.

After these tasks are completed, a large flatbed truck will be used to transport the "tax fraud props" and the container back to Binjiang and store them in the cargo yard under customs supervision.

Since the Smuggling Crime Branch was a newly established unit and had no experts in pre-trial, Li Weiguo was invited to join the special team. Jiang Xiaojun was responsible for guiding the investigators to collect evidence, while Li Weiguo was responsible for guiding the legal police to review the evidence.

While the branch police were extremely busy, Chen Zikun, Xiaoyu and other Changhang officers, under the guidance of Jia Yongqiang and Wu Minde, former captain of the Criminal Police Brigade of the Dongqi Municipal Public Security Bureau, successfully captured a ship owner who was reselling "red oil" in his inland river.

About 12 tons of "red oil" were seized from the cargo ship's oil tank.

According to regulations, as long as the smuggling cases occurred in Binjiang, they must be handed over to the Smuggling Crime Investigation Branch for investigation and handling. However, the whole branch was busy investigating the case, and it was impossible to spare investigators for a while.

As soon as Han Yu received the call, he asked two seniors, Lao Jia and Lao Wu, to guide Xu Haoran to investigate first. If there was insufficient manpower, he would continue to ask for assistance from the Changhang Navigation Branch or the Water Branch.

Comrade Lao Jia also believed that Xu Haoran needed an opportunity to stand alone and accompany Xu Haoran in interrogation.

"Li Dawei, you see clearly, our policy is to be lenient if you confess, and strict if you resist!"

Xu Haoran pointed to the slogan on the wall, looked at the ship owner and reminded: "Where does the 'red oil' come from? If you don't explain, the crew on your ship will also explain. Once the crew does, you will be passive."

The captain was in his early fifties, with a dark face and wrinkles on his forehead. He looked like an old man in his sixties or seventies.

Jia Yongqiang worked at the riverside police station before he was transferred to the Shuangshui Branch. He knew the situation of the boat people very well and knew that it was not easy to make money by running boats. He took out a cigarette and handed it to him, and began to persuade them earnestly.

"Li Dawei, I know you are a loyal person, but you need to consider the occasion when you talk about loyalty, and you also need to think about who you should be loyal to. You have an elder and a younger son. The eldest son and the second son have started a family, and the younger son is not married yet.

Well. You are the backbone of the family. If you go to jail for this matter, what will happen to the family?"

"..."

The captain raised his head and looked at the two of them, but hesitated to speak.

Seeing that his attitude had relaxed, Xu Haoran struck while the iron was hot and said: "From what we know, you just bought and used 'red oil'. Although you resold a little to your fellow villagers, you did not make any profit from it. You just helped your fellow villagers to bring it to you."

Yes, as long as you cooperate, we can give you a lighter punishment."

The captain lowered his head and remained silent.

Jia Yongqiang realized that the person who sold him oil was not an ordinary oil dealer, or that he had an unusual relationship with the ship owner. He picked up his mobile phone to check the time and reminded: "Li Dawei, you are running a big ship, not a small one. If you don't listen to the advice,

, if you don’t cooperate with the investigation, we will have no choice but to fight with you.

We can afford it, can you afford it? Think about it, if the boat is temporarily impounded by us, how much does it cost to anchor it on the riverside for a day! You are already in your fifties, so you should be able to settle this account, and you can’t make trouble with anyone.

Don’t struggle with money, let alone struggle with yourself!”

"You don't want to say it, right? Forget it if you don't want to say it! I'll send you to the detention center right now, and go to the cell to reflect on it!" Xu Haoran didn't expect the boat owner to be so uncooperative, and got up with a bang.

The captain was startled, hesitated for a moment and said with a grimace: "I said, I will explain."

"That's right, just tell me."

"Oil... My nephew brought the oil for me."

"What's your nephew's name?"

"Gu Feng."

"Nephew?"

"Um."

"How old is he?"

"Thirty-two."

"What does he do?"

"He is also a ship operator. He is a seafarer."

…

At nine o'clock in the morning, Han Yu accompanied the experts from the research institute whom he contacted yesterday to unbox and inspect the "tax fraud props".

A total of four experts came, two middle-aged people and two young men.

They brought several instruments and equipment, but none of them could be used.

As soon as Guo Weitao and Xiao Gong carefully moved the "tax fraud props" out of the wooden box, an expert recognized them as a set of medical testing equipment.

Most of the accompanying instruments are medical laboratory equipment.

It can barely be considered "advanced" in China, but it has long been outdated abroad, and judging from the date on the circuit board, it is probably second-hand.

"Gong Yang, you are an expert. Can you help me estimate how much these things are worth together?"

"Comrade Xiao Han, electronic equipment is updated very quickly, so it is difficult to estimate its value. Besides, we are a research institute, not a forensic appraisal agency. We cannot produce the kind of appraisal report that your police need. We can only help you see what it is.

.”

"I'm talking about how much it's worth, and there's no need to issue an appraisal report."

"perhaps?"

Han Yu confirmed with a smile: "Well, according to the current market conditions."

Yang Gong pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "These are equipment that have been eliminated from abroad. I think they are worth at most 20,000 to 30,000 yuan."

Han Yu asked: "US dollar or RMB?"

"Of course it's RMB."

"So it's almost like electronic waste!"

"You're right, in my opinion this is just a pile of electronic waste."

Yang Gong pointed at the equipment arranged in a row, thought about it and smiled: "Last year, the customs seized a batch of electronic waste, which looked similar to these things. Those people imported these things and refurbished and sold the ones that could be refurbished, but not the ones that could not be refurbished and sold.

They are resold to others to refine precious metals. If you refine them from circuit boards, you can imagine how polluted they are."

"Thank you, I understand."

"Comrade Xiao Han, what I just said is just my personal opinion."

"It doesn't matter. In fact, we mainly want to have an idea."

…

Han Yu thanked him and sent several experts to the car. He, Guo Weitao and Xiao Gong were busy packing the moved equipment into boxes when Deputy Commissioner Ma suddenly called.

There is a landline phone in the goods yard, but I am not familiar with it and I am embarrassed to borrow it, so I can only answer it this way.

"Shimonoseki, we just sent the experts away, what are your instructions?"

"No instructions, please report a situation."

Deputy Commissioner Ma was on his way to Jiangcheng. He looked at the phone call record that the office police officer Xiao Liu had just made. He held up his mobile phone and said with a smile: "The political commissar and Wang Changjiang have made great progress and gained a lot. They have investigated the companies involved in the scandal."

Contracts and accounts over the past few years have revealed that the company involved had previously reported high export prices for equipment sold to countries such as Thailand, Malaysia and other countries to defraud tax refunds. A total of 31 transactions were involved, with export goods valued at 158 ​​million yuan. It was suspected that

Fraudulent export tax rebate of RMB 26 million."

Han Yu exclaimed: "So the tax refund they defrauded amounted to hundreds of millions!"

"The leaders of the General Administration and the General Bureau of Smuggling Crime Investigation were also shocked. They decided to list this case as a supervision case and asked us to work hard to recover the tax. I was on the way to Jiangcheng when Xu Guan and Hu Guan asked me to go to Jiangcheng for a meeting.

I’ll leave the East China Sea to you.”

"yes!"

…

Han Yu put down his cell phone and reported the situation.

Guo Weitao and Xiao Gong were so excited that they couldn't believe that what they were investigating was a huge eucalyptus worth hundreds of millions.

However, Han Yu was not happy. He continued to work and said worriedly: "Those guys are so bold. They are defrauding the country's money, and they have defrauded so much. Hundreds of millions of taxes. What if we can't get it back?"

"Secretary Han, don't worry, they won't be able to squander that much even if they squander it every day."

"Yes, everyone has been caught. I don't believe they want money rather than their lives."

"Some people really want money rather than their lives."

"impossible."

"There's nothing impossible about this. As long as it doesn't lead to the death penalty, some people will really be lucky."

Xiao Gong couldn't help but ask: "Is cheating hundreds of millions in taxes enough to warrant a death sentence?"

Han Yu secretly sighed and said with a wry smile: "Many smugglers have been arrested over the years, and a few of them were actually sentenced to death."

Xiao Gong was stunned.
To be continued...