National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 1052 - 985: Take Down

Chapter 1052: Chapter 985: Take Down

Jiang Yuan’s call was made directly to Song Tiancheng.

If the police hierarchy were simply divided by rank, people like Wu Junhao at the deputy section level would count as LV1, the former Huang Qiangmin was LV2... Song Tiancheng had at least reached the full LV5, or was half a step into LV6.

And when it comes to special case teams, the one led by Song Tiancheng was... unlikely, having exceeded the ceiling already. Therefore, after receiving the call, Song Tiancheng brought people over to supervise and at the same time to understand the progress of the case on Jiang Yuan’s end.

This was also facilitated by their proximity in Beijing, which made it considerably convenient.

Police stations often manage to handle major cases, and this advantage of closeness indeed simplifies reporting and communication.

If Jiang Yuan were to work on a case of a similar level in Changyang City, it would not be easy for him to request the help of a big shot like Song Tiancheng. Of course, it wouldn’t be very useful either.

Yet in Beijing, through Huang Qiangmin, Jiang Yuan reported to the leaders of the Zhengguang Bureau and quickly gained support from this end.

Tao Lu, the shadowy Tao from the Zhengguang Bureau, wearing a brand-new set of rarely-worn plainclothes, appeared in the meeting room, specifically to welcome Song Tiancheng.

"Duanda Group, huh!"

Just by hearing the briefing, Song Tiancheng couldn’t help but reflect on it.

The case itself seemed solid. Pu Li, as Duanda Group’s chairman Lü Qiang, was the hitman he used when starting up his business. Not only did he help Lü stab a bottom feeder, but he also dealt with a debtor and a lady aspiring to move up in the hierarchy.

Out of these three cases, Pu Li didn’t leave any evidence for the first assassination; however, in the latter two, he intentionally left behind some evidence. Especially during the third murder, when dealing with the woman for Lü Qiang, Pu Li collected the Nokia phone he used and deliberately buried it near the body disposal site.

With evidence at this level, without Pu Li’s testimony, it might be slightly difficult to sentence him to death, but with Pu Li’s account, it was a case of both physical evidence and confession being complete.

Besides, Pu Li also gave up a large number of Duanda’s members.

Pu Li was also one of the big shots who had gone legitimate; had it not been for his involvement this time, and Jiang Yuan leading the Cold Case Squad to specifically target Duanda with a special case team, starting the operation from petty thieves, it might be possible that by the time the mid-to-high-level members were arrested, Pu Li might not have come into the police view or he would have fled before getting implicated.

At his level, backed by Duanda Group, ordinary restrictions were useless. He could completely avoid public transportation and secretly take a speedboat out of the harbor, with local bigwigs waiting for him abroad.

Thus, Pu Li was someone truly capable of bringing Lü Qiang to his demise, which was precisely why he was so worried and sought out Jiang Yuan.

As for why Lü Qiang couldn’t prevent this in advance, it could only be said that even the most powerful bigwigs rely on their middle and upper management to prop them up. Pu Li held his secret of ordering murders, the Chief Financial Officer held his secret of transferring assets, the company secretary knew his secret of stock market manipulation, the driver knew about his illegitimate child, and his wife and his fifth child each held his secrets of privately starting companies and tax evasion...

Everyone is a bacterium within you; no one expects to live in a sterile environment.

From Song Tiancheng’s perspective, arresting Duanda Group’s chairman and then arresting such a large number of mid-to-high-level members, even if Duanda Group wouldn’t be destroyed, it would have to be admitted to the ICU.

"You always get the job done." Song Tiancheng looked at Jiang Yuan, then glanced at the mobile phone twice and said, "Then let’s proceed as you wish."

"If it’s as I wish, then it’s about arresting people directly, restricting everyone from leaving the city, and then arresting as many as we can find guilty," Jiang Yuan paused, then said, "Duanda must be paralyzed at least."

"Even if it’s paralyzed, it’s not a problem; someone will always be able to operate it." Song Tiancheng, seeing the issue from an even higher perspective, indifferently said, "Let’s dig out the wound first; whether it survives and how well it heals, is something to consider later."

"As long as it’s done without regard to life or death, that makes things easy!" Having received his orders, Jiang Yuan immediately turned to Tao Lu and said, "Tao, then let’s start arresting people and locking down the company."

Tao Lu patted his forehead, looking a bit flustered and said, "This is a huge case, are we really going ahead with the arrests? It might end up half-baked."

Song Tiancheng chuckled and said, "Whatever you decide, I support it."

Jiang Yuan looked at Tao Lu and said, "Anyway, we are criminal police, not economic investigators."

"If I were to say that to the director, he’d curse me to death." Though Tao Lu spoke this way, he still nodded and said, "Let’s start with the arrests then, to prevent them from running away."

"I’ll lend you personnel from other cases," Jiang Yuan said with a polite smile.

Tao Lu sighed, "I might really need them."

With that, Tao Lu began to mobilize troops in front of Song Tiancheng and Jiang Yuan.

The details of arrests matter a lot, especially here, where a large-scale operation isn’t something that can be explained in a word or two.

However, Tao Lu had ample experience. He quickly got things underway while making phone calls and summoning people.

For them, making preliminary decisions was the hardest part. Once that was accomplished and the execution phase began, it was... even if they weren’t skilled themselves, they could just find someone skilled to handle it.

Beijing is never short of strategists and strongmen.

Song Tiancheng watched for a while, then started to frequently use his mobile phone, whether for chatting or negotiation was unknown.

Jiang Yuan sent the Cold Case Squad members out and temporarily stopped working, reopening his computer to start checking the evidence.

Pu Li’s confession included a lot, as he was still continuously disclosing information. The cases, characters, and evidence he was involved with were even more extensive.

Many cases, which might not have been given the right direction or enough attention years ago, or may have been put on hold simply due to insufficient technical capabilities, could now be revisited.

With the new information, Jiang Yuan extracted them and began to immediately get to work on some of the more straightforward cases.

As everyone was busy with their tasks, the meeting room became rather quiet and peaceful.

Until a certain moment, the system interface in front of Jiang Yuan started flashing numbers:

Task progress: 137 people arrested.

Task progress: 144 people arrested.

Task progress: 177 people arrested.

It was clear that this wave of arrests was completely different from before; the number of arrests was increasing in double digits.

At the same time, Tao Lu began to receive an increasing number of calls.

"Captain Jiang, some photos were sent over, can you take a look?" Wang Chuanxing on the other end, having more operational information, saw many potential pieces of evidence begin to surface frequently.

Jiang Yuan’s work WeChat group also started to grow at a double-digit rate.

Task progress: 205 people arrested.

When Jiang Yuan saw this number of arrests, he knew without thinking that Duanda Group was definitely in chaos.

During the arrest operation, police might even have encountered some form of resistance.

Otherwise, the number of arrests couldn’t have been so high!