Chapter 905

"As far as I know, current cases of trafficking women fall into two types: one is women with mental health issues, and the other is acquaintances introducing jobs." Liu Jinghui sat up a bit straighter, his expression becoming slightly more serious.

Trafficking cases are often referred to as cases of trafficking women and children. In earlier years, the types of these two cases were indeed very similar, but now, the distinction between cases of trafficking women and cases of trafficking children has become increasingly large.

Apart from the constantly rising cases of trafficking foreign women, the mainstream of domestic women trafficking cases consists of the two types summarized by Liu Jinghui. The former exists universally in all regions, while the latter has different incidence rates depending on the region.

The attention of Jiang Yuan and the others was drawn, and they all began to think.

Liu Jinghui's mind was agile at this time, and he directly stated his line of thought: "The victim, Chen Nuan, came to Changle City to work on her own initiative. The work at the fast-food restaurant is heavy, and the food and accommodation are poor. Everyone is in a state of 'riding a donkey to find a horse,' so it's very natural for Chen Nuan to look for a new job. The only question is, did she find the job online, or did she find it through a hometown acquaintance?"

Liu Jinghui immediately answered his own question: "If she was looking for a job on her own, she would probably have cast a wide net. For example, asking in a classmate group, or asking multiple acquaintances at once. Unless there was someone definite who could solve the job problem for her, otherwise, if Chen Nuan wanted to actively look for a job in Changle City, it's unlikely she would have kept it a secret."

"So someone introduced a job to Chen Nuan proactively?" Su Shanming joined the conversation at the right time, and then quickly added: "It's also possible that Chen Nuan saw an advertisement, or took the initiative to find an agency."

Liu Jinghui nodded, looked at Jiang Yuan with slight hesitation, and said: "This direction can be investigated. However, if the other party contacted her by phone and then threw the phone away afterward, this line of investigation will be cut off."

Although phone numbers are registered with real names, it is still too simple for people planning trafficking to get hold of some phone cards. Finding a killer through a phone can only work for accidental killers; compared to crimes of passion, premeditated crimes have a certain advantage in this regard, and the sentences are also heavier.

"Let us investigate this part." Su Shanming took the initiative: "We'll ask the technical investigation team for help to check all the calls Chen Nuan made first. It would be best if we can find the source of all of them. If there are any we can't find, we'll check with the cybersecurity team to see if they were scam calls or something else..."

"Regarding anti-trafficking, are there any special informants available? Assuming Chen Nuan encountered a trafficking situation." Jiang Yuan had once specialized in a batch of trafficking cases and had experience to follow in this area of investigation.

Simply put, trafficking women and children has never been an isolated case, but an entire industrial chain. This is similar to organ trafficking. It is relatively difficult to traffic a single woman or child alone, especially trafficking women; there is often someone responsible for luring, someone responsible for implementing control behaviors, someone responsible for transport, and someone specifically responsible for connecting with buyers. Moreover, every level in the middle is an intermediary, which means the return of funds is extremely fast and the efficiency is extremely high.

Even the final buyers are not pure buyers; many people will resell the women they bought, and those resold many times can be resold five or six times or more. In the China Judgements Online database, the cheapest transaction was a scavenger who resold a woman with mental health issues he had picked up to another scavenger in exchange for only one tool.

And in this long chain of transactions, it can be assumed that those in the know exist, but these guys are like being in a local area network, sharing resources and transactions within the network, while being heavily vigilant against the outside.

Special informants, or informants as seen in Hong Kong movies, are relatively easy to use to break this restriction.

Su Shanming hesitated for a moment and then looked at Detachment Captain Lang Heng. The power to use special informants was still held very tightly, especially in exchanges with external units.

Lang Heng exchanged a glance with Huang Qiangmin and then said: "I can have someone ask around, but whether there is any news, I can't say for sure right now."

"That's fine." Jiang Yuan couldn't expect the other party to sign a military pledge or anything, so he turned his head to look at Huang Qiangmin and said: "I think we can contact the Guqi City Bureau. The human traffickers we caught before should have been sent to them for inspection and prosecution, right? I don't know how they were sentenced."

"There are more than a dozen who have already been executed, and some others are going through the second instance or death penalty review process." Huang Qiangmin had relatively more contact with well-funded units in other places, and he was quite clear about such major events.

Jiang Yuan nodded and said: "Then contact them? See if anyone is willing to perform meritorious service."

"That's possible." Huang Qiangmin agreed decisively. After thinking about it, he dialed the number of Gao Changjiang, the bureau chief of the Guqi City Bureau, on the spot.

The bureau chief and leaders of the Changle City Bureau present hadn't reacted yet when a hearty, fake laugh had already come out of Huang Qiangmin's phone.

Huang Qiangmin explained the situation in a few sentences and put forward his request.

Gao Changjiang on the other end agreed without hesitation and said: "I'll coordinate with the Prison Administration of the Department of Justice and strive to find you a few prisoners willing to perform meritorious service."

Life in prison is absolutely not easy. Just the monotonous, nutritious, and healthy meals from morning to night every day can destroy a person's conviction after a few months, not to mention the strict requirements and 8 hours of labor every day. Only those who have studied in places like Hengshui High School would feel that life here is still passable.

And ordinary criminals are mostly "yellow-haired" types; how could they endure such suffering?

When some prisoners were first caught, they even had thoughts of brotherhood and the like in their hearts, and some even took the blame themselves to protect their accomplices. However, after living in prison for a period of time and discovering that their accomplices didn't care about them at all, that their wives wanted a divorce, or that their accomplices were playing "Cao Cao" with their wives, the thoughts of some people would always undergo a 180-degree turn.

Based on Gao Changjiang's experience, even if those human traffickers from back then had been screened once and everything that could be said had been said, a year or two had passed, and the situation outside might have changed again. It was also possible that the little brothers who weren't worth much back then had grown up.

On the other hand, even if those human traffickers had said everything they could, there were always some things they couldn't say or were unwilling to say. If one didn't count on them saying it themselves, developing their cellmates or prison bosses also offered hope of squeezing it out.

As the saying goes, if you don't want people to know, don't do it. Many prisoners were originally serving a few years in prison, but they ended up serving a lifetime, and some reached the point where they wanted to stay in prison but couldn't.

Huang Qiangmin discussed some details with Gao Changjiang again, hung up the phone, smiled at the few people from the Changle Bureau, and said: "Our Jiang Yuan helped the Guqi Bureau solve cases back then and caught a large group of human traffickers; it just so happens we can use them again."

"The Guqi Bureau gained quite a lot of prestige; I remember that." The bureau chief of the Changle Bureau couldn't help but sigh, his eyes shining as he looked at Jiang Yuan.

Huang Qiangmin laughed and started chatting with the bureau chief about those "adult" topics.

Jiang Yuan tilted his head and turned to verify some key points with Liu Jinghui, Lang Heng, and Su Shanming.

The next day.

Jiang Yuan arrived at the criminal police detachment early and saw that the hall was once again a scene of busyness.

Jiang Yuan was very familiar with this process.

Half a minute after walking into the office, Wang Chuanxing, who had arrived earlier, came to report the situation.

"According to intelligence, we have caught several trafficking-related suspects active in Changle City." Wang Chuanxing said first: "The criminal police of the Changle Detachment started their operation in the early morning. By the time I arrived this morning, four people had already been caught. After overnight interrogations... there is still no news about Chen Nuan for the time being."

Jiang Yuan nodded, not feeling disappointed. After all, someone had died, and if it really was caused by trafficking, the participants would also keep their mouths shut and wouldn't be interrogated so easily.

Wang Chuanxing nodded and continued to report the situation: "However, these few people have now confessed to a few more people. The people from the Changle Detachment have already set off to catch them; the subsequent situation is not yet known."

Jiang Yuan said "En" and asked again: "What do cybersecurity and image investigation say?"

"We have now mapped out Chen Nuan's route for her last day, but there is nothing after 7 PM. It was dark, and the cameras on one section of the road weren't good, so the trail was lost." Wang Chuanxing said.

"What about technical investigation? Is there any mobile phone signal?"

"The mobile phone signal was also cut off shortly after."

"Bring the video over for me to see." Jiang Yuan wiped his hands.

"It's already prepared and put in the laptop." Wang Chuanxing opened the laptop on the desktop, having been prepared for a long time.