Becoming a Russian Oligarch After Rebirth
Chapter 1438 - 1119: New Lease on Life from a Desperate Situation

"Ladies and gentlemen, everyone must know the reason why we have formed this special investigation team, which is to quickly uncover the truth behind the Election Fraud Case!

During the investigation, no matter who or which organization is involved, we must thoroughly investigate without allowing any concealment or abuse of the law for personal gain.

Otherwise, once discovered, legal responsibility will be pursued!

The first thing we need to do now is to immediately dispatch a joint investigation team from multiple departments to the Siberia Region to find those voters whose votes were bought and ascertain the authenticity of the fraud case.

Only after confirming that this case genuinely exists and is not a media fabrication, will we proceed to the next steps.

I suggest..."

Wang Ye directly announced a list, appointing a senior Duma Member to lead the team, with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Safety Bureau as the main executing personnel, heading to Siberia to investigate the Election Fraud Case.

Their job is relatively simple; first verify whether there has been any election fraud, locate the parties involved, the voters whose votes were bought, and primarily establish the facts.

Then proceed to investigate the orchestrators behind the scenes.

Of course, everyone here understands very well that determining whether fraud has occurred is straightforward because those implicated voters are not going to run away.

The real challenge is identifying the masterminds behind the scheme—who dare to do such, surely have ensured they won’t get caught.

With the situation now stirred up, those who used money to buy votes probably don’t even know themselves where they ran off to.

Besides, this is Siberia!

Apart from a few scattered cities, once you leave the city, it isn’t an exaggeration to say that you could run for hundreds of kilometers without seeing a soul, with mountains and forests all around, where are you going to find people?

So, Wang Ye wasn’t really counting on capturing anyone...

As for who the mastermind behind the scenes actually is, everyone has their own answer, and they’re all different!

It can only be said that the truth of the matter isn’t actually important.

The person leading the team to Siberia for the investigation, could very well be considered Wang Ye’s right-hand man, his faction’s Party Whip Dania!

After aligning with Wang Ye, Dania quickly gained Wang Ye’s trust and was put to use extensively, taking on the important role of the faction’s Party Whip.

Last year, Wang Ye promoted Dania to Duma through the faction’s recommendation, becoming an esteemed Duma Member!

Although the 450 members of the Duma seldom change during a term change, actually every year a few members resign or are expelled from Duma for various reasons, and the vacant spots are filled by differential recommendations from the resignee’s faction.

Dania entered the Duma through this method, without needing an election.

Before leaving for Siberia, Wang Ye and Dania had a long private talk; what exactly they discussed, no one knows...

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Upon arriving in Siberia, Dania’s team immediately began their operation.

Using some pre-obtained information, they directly located some of the voters whose votes were mysteriously bought, and through a combination of soft and hard tactics, these voters essentially confessed that their votes were indeed bought with money.

However, to avoid taking responsibility, everyone claimed they had intended to vote for Medvedev anyway, and just happened upon those people, who offered $100 for a photo proving they voted for Medvedev, a deal too good to pass up, so everyone simply took a photo while voting, and received their $100...

Actually, Dania initially had no intention of holding these ordinary citizens responsible, though strictly speaking, this "selling" of votes is illegal.

But pursuing this is not very meaningful, and they aren’t foolish; they insist they intended vote for Medvedev, merely "earning" $100 on the side, which you can’t prove otherwise.

It would save trouble to just let it be, as long as these people are willing to testify that someone indeed paid money for their votes, the investigation team would consider their task completed, to everyone’s satisfaction.

In just three days, the investigation team gathered a lot of evidence, confirming that the election fraud did indeed occur and was not a media fabrication; they immediately returned to Moscow and submitted all the evidence and confessions to Wang Ye.

Next, it’s up to the higher-ups, the Big Shots, to start their bickering...

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After receiving the evidence submitted by the investigation team, Wang Ye started contemplating his next move.

According to the rules, when an "accident" occurs during the Election, resulting in an uncontrollable situation, then the Duma must initiate procedures to take control of the situation.

Because at this time, the Duma, representing the ’will of all citizens,’ holds the greatest Power!

But Wang Ye did not do this, or rather, he wasn’t prepared to initiate the procedure immediately; he first wanted to discuss with the Kremlin and relevant personnel to see everyone’s opinions before deciding what to do.

So, he dialed his Father-in-law’s phone number, talked about the things the investigation team verified in Siberia, and particularly emphasized that the purchased votes indeed all had Medvedev’s name written on them!"