Chapter 194: The Conclusion of the 16.8 Billion Fraud Case

Ever since they suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Uesugi Muneyuki last time, the Special Investigation Division of the District Public Prosecutors Office naturally began to pay close attention to Uesugi Muneyuki.

According to their investigation over the past month, the District Public Prosecutors Office discovered that Uesugi Muneyuki's background was very clean. He had no particular hobbies; he did not smoke or drink, and he was not particularly driven by fame or fortune. He was indeed interested in promotions and wealth, but not to the point of obsession. If he had any hobbies, the first was gourmet food; whenever it was his day off, Uesugi Muneyuki would go out everywhere looking for good things to eat.

The second was women.

The District Public Prosecutors Office had also heard rumors about Uesugi Muneyuki's chaotic private life, but Uesugi Muneyuki had always been unmarried, so making an issue out of these things was meaningless. Furthermore, generally speaking, the Special Investigation Division of the District Public Prosecutors Office was responsible for economic and political cases, and these types of cases had a principle: they would not and could not launch an offensive based on issues of the lower body, unless it directly violated the law, but that did not fall under the jurisdiction of the District Public Prosecutors Office.

Uesugi Muneyuki was now a person of the Metropolitan Police Department, and his background was very deep; the District Public Prosecutors Office could not find a breakthrough point, and their goal was not to kill this guy, but to get his help.

"Forget it, we have already won a complete victory this time." Commissioner Kirekawa thought there was no need to rush and to observe for a while longer: "Kamibayashi, since Uesugi-kun is unwilling to reveal the name of the informant, you must find a way to make the chain of evidence complete to facilitate prosecution."

"Rest assured, Commissioner, not a single one of them will escape." Prosecutor Kamibayashi smiled.

The harvest this time was truly astonishing.

Although they failed to grasp the key evidence to crush the entire Toyokawa Group, the subsidiary Toyokawa Trading Company could be said to have been wiped out in one fell swoop. Even if they didn't kill the big tiger, they had severely beaten a wolf and incidentally dug a huge chunk of meat off the tiger!

Moreover, this time the District Public Prosecutors Office had finally regained their standing against the Metropolitan Police Department. Relying on the black money transaction records of Toyokawa Trading Company, it was discovered that Chief Kurosu of Ebara Station had received a total of 33 million yen in various bribes in recent years.

To be frank, this amount of money was actually not much; Chief Kurosu's annual salary alone reached over 8 million yen.

And for Japan, the true corruption of police organizations often did not lie in how much money was received directly, but in relying on the police identity to play at collusion between officials and businessmen, and after getting old and retiring or resigning from the Metropolitan Police Department, going to other places to serve in high-level positions to legally obtain large amounts of wealth.

One Commissioner of the National Police Agency, after retiring, moved to the Japan Automobile Federation to serve as Chairman for 15 years, receiving a total of over 1 billion yen in salary and also obtaining nearly 1 billion in death-in-service compensation, while during his tenure as Commissioner, he had fully promoted various reforms in the traffic sector and fully supported motor vehicles "getting on the road."

Did the Special Investigation Division not know there was something fishy about this? But they could not find definitive evidence and could only helplessly watch this former Commissioner of the National Police Agency live in glory and die in mourning, with hundreds of representatives from financial groups and associations coming to pay their respects at the funeral, and thousands of police and former police in attendance.

Their move this time directly struck down Chief Kurosu's opportunity for a revolving door after retirement.

This was a victory in the true sense, and also the greatest deterrent to the police organization, and even the entire Japanese system.

The significance of Ma the Emperor creating the Special Investigation Division lay right here.

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At the same time, the interrogation on the side of Investigation Division 1 was also being closely conducted.

Yamabuki Ryuhei's good friend, Kuroda, who worked at Uchu Dyeing Industry, quickly could not withstand the pressure and confessed everything.

It turned out that Yamabuki Ryuhei loved mountaineering and joined the Mountaineering Association; not only did he meet his current girlfriend there, but he also became good friends with Kuroda and a few other members.

When the 16.8 billion bill fraud case broke out, Yamabuki Ryuhei felt the danger, so he divided the documents into two; he placed a portion of the documents regarding the acquisition case with Kuroda, and a portion of the account records with his girlfriend.

It was just that Yamabuki Ryuhei trusted Kuroda too much; he had revealed a little bit to his friend about the internal affairs of the Toyokawa Group, saying that he might be in danger and had secretly left a few things with Kuroda.

And Kuroda's reaction was that Yamabuki Ryuhei was setting him up.

Thinking about it carefully, it was indeed true; a behemoth like the Toyokawa Group was something no one could afford to offend. Yamabuki Ryuhei thought that hiding the documents with Kuroda was proof of trust and being brothers for life, but Kuroda's understanding was that his best friend had sent over a time bomb, and didn't even tell him exactly where it was hidden.

This was a best friend? This was clearly a disaster star, a reincarnated demon soul!

I treat you as a brother for life, and you treat me as a shield?!

If you die, don't splatter blood on me!

So Kuroda took the initiative to find Toyokawa Trading Company; he didn't dare say that he had hidden things, only saying that Yamabuki Ryuhei felt danger and might report himself first.

And at this time, President Toyokawa Kiyotsugu of Toyokawa Trading Company was extremely depressed because he had been defrauded. The entire real estate acquisition case was promoted by him alone, and the failure at this time also meant that he had to bear the main responsibility and was very likely to lose his status as heir because of this.

Kuroda's visit made Toyokawa Kiyotsugu even more terrified.

The President's Secretary, however, made a suggestion at this time: they had a way to solve this matter; that 16.8 billion could probably not be recovered, but in order to keep the President's status as heir, they had to think of some way to explain it to those above.

Toyokawa Kiyotsugu might have known what the Secretary was going to do, but he indicated he did not know.

The President's Secretary should have known that Toyokawa Kiyotsugu knew what they wanted to do, but he indicated the President did not need to know.

Thus, a meticulously designed event was created: Yamabuki Ryuhei, an accountant in the Finance Department of Toyokawa Trading Company, privately carved an official seal and forged signatures, leading to a loss of 16.8 billion, and then committed suicide out of fear of crime.

Among them, Kuroda, as Yamabuki Ryuhei's good friend, also participated. He invited Yamabuki Ryuhei out for a chat as a best friend, then, catching him off guard, wore gloves and secretly poured Aconitine into Yamabuki Ryuhei's thermos. After the other party died of poisoning, the President's Secretary arranged for another group of people to pretend to be a taxi to send him to a bench near the station without surveillance, disguising it as a suicide.

The entire plan looked seamless, yet it was violently cracked by Uesugi Muneyuki.

There was no help for it; Yamabuki Ryuhei's Dead Soul was too complete.

It was also unknown how the District Public Prosecutors Office intended to explain this "Mechanical Deus Ex Machina" way of solving the case.

That night, they temporarily completed the interrogation and made the transcripts. Watching the "grand occasion" where the Ebara Station, from the Chief to the Deputy Chief and then to several Section Chiefs, were wiped out by the District Public Prosecutors Office, with only the Traffic Division Chief escaping disaster, the big shots of Investigation Division 1 finally felt proud and elated.

How much humiliation they had suffered just after arriving here, now they were paying it back in kind!

Moreover, with such a scandal in this entire police station, every single police officer here had a significant stain on their resume. In the future, not only was promotion hopeless, but they might also be transferred to more remote places. However, the Traffic Division Chief, who was the only one whose contribution records were not found, was blessed by misfortune; not only was he ordered by the Metropolitan Police Department to "temporarily act" as Chief, but because he survived the Ebara Station battle royale as the only clean one, he became the fig leaf for the Metropolitan Police Department, and it was highly likely that he would be formally appointed as Chief afterwards and promoted directly to the rank of Police Superintendent.

Late at night, the group from Investigation Division 1 was still discussing the case.

The case was solved, and everyone's expressions were very relaxed.

Police Inspector Shiratori of the Second Division leaned on his chair and said casually: "Which people did that President's Secretary find? How did they handle things so cleanly?"

"It seems to be a few Korean gang members!" Kashiwagi Jin hammered the table with some unwillingness: "After creating the case, Toyokawa Trading Company sent these Koreans out of the country to the Philippines overnight. The airport branch confirmed that they had already left the country early."

"Tsk tsk, why weren't they sent back to South Korea?" Police Inspector Okada held a cup of green tea and laughed: "That is their hometown."

"We have an extradition treaty with South Korea; Toyokawa Trading Company could not have sent them back to South Korea." Sugishita Ukyo, the Investigation Division 1 Chief, who was sitting in the middle, held a cup of Darjeeling tea produced in the British Empire: "I spoke with Chief Cabinet Secretary Onoda, and the other party said that the Philippines would not agree to our extradition. The resources of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are precious and cannot be wasted on such small matters... Really, human life is actually a small matter..."

"Which countries have signed an extradition treaty with us?" Uesugi Muneyuki asked; he was quite interested in this.

"Only South Korea and the United States." Sugishita Ukyo shook his head.

"Why not send them to North Korea?" Kashiwagi Jin was still unwilling; he was neither willing to have such a great credit shared by the District Public Prosecutors Office, nor willing to have failed to catch the few Koreans under the President's Secretary who participated in the murder.

"Speaking of which, this time it was truly interesting. The dignified Special Investigation Division of the District Public Prosecutors Office was actually shouted down by a Forensic Examiner, following behind us like a group of lackeys." Police Inspector Shimano of the Fourth Section held his coffee and took the initiative to change the subject: "If it were in South Korea, this kind of thing would not be possible."

Police Inspector Shimano felt that today was simply like a dream, a miracle of solving a case in one day, which only Forensic Examiner Uesugi Muneyuki could achieve.

"South Korea? If it were really in South Korea, Shimano, your wife wouldn't be able to be a full-time housewife!" Miss Minami joined in the teasing: "You can get 7 million a year; in South Korea, guess what the annual salary of a Police Inspector-level police officer is?"

"A South Korean Police Inspector-level police officer has an annual salary of about 3.5 to 4 million yen. Adding bonuses and allowances and then deducting taxes and pensions, according to Shimano-kun's seniority, he would get about 3.8 million yen." Investigation Division 1 Chief Sugishita Ukyo said with a smile.

As a 56-year-old Investigation Division 1 Chief and Police Superintendent, Sugishita Ukyo received about 12 million yen a year. He had no children, which allowed him to avoid one of the biggest expenses, so he had a lot of spare money to do what he liked, playing with various suits and famous watches, and often eating at Ryotei.

Sugishita Ukyo's words made the big shots of Investigation Division 1 sigh with emotion.

The status and treatment of South Korean police are too low, aren't they?

To be a Police Inspector and only get 3.8 million yen a year? What is this bit of money enough for? Here at the Metropolitan Police Department, a middle-aged Police Inspector in his 40s who gets 7 million yen a year often complains that he will be a little nervous when encountering his children attending private cram schools in junior high or high school in Tokyo.

In contrast, the annual salary of a first-year Prosecutor at the South Korean Prosecutors Office is between 5 million and 7 million yen, a senior Prosecutor is 8 million to 12 million, a Chief Prosecutor-level annual salary starts at 15 million yen, and the Prosecutor General can reach a maximum of 22 million yen a year.

"There's no helping it; we are different from South Korea. If this were South Korea, Director General Watanabe would only be able to follow behind the Prosecutor General to carry his bag, then beg the Chief Prosecutor, 'Give me a little, give me a little!'" Uesugi Muneyuki cracked a joke: "Give a little of the budget, and give a little of the credit too!"

The detectives present all smiled subconsciously, but not one dared to laugh out loud, all holding it in. Only Eirina couldn't help but giggle, while Miss Minami gave Uesugi Muneyuki a charming, coquettish eye-roll.

Still calling him Director General?

From now on, you have to call Father "Father-in-law," Kora!

To think you'd dare to joke about Father; watch out or I'll confiscate Ikeda! I'll make you face the wall and jerk off! You bad thing!

Oh right, it's about time too.

"Hehehehe~ midnight snacks are here!" Just then, the Traffic Division Section Chief of Ebara Station, who was acting as station chief, arrived with a face full of joy, bringing several precinct officers carrying a pile of food bags: "You've worked hard, everyone has worked hard. Everyone, come eat some midnight snacks!"

"Come, Forensic Examiner Uesugi, we know you have a big appetite, so we bought you two portions: one beef udon and one beef rice bowl!" The Traffic Division Section Chief was especially amiable toward Uesugi Muneyuki.

You, Uesugi, truly bring me joy!

Originally, it wouldn't have been my turn no matter what, but ever since Forensic Examiner Uesugi arrived, how did this station chief position fall to me?

"Then I won't stand on ceremony." Uesugi Muneyuki did not refuse.

"Would Section Chief Watanabe like some too?"

"Oh, alright." Miss Minami remembered the instructions Watanabe Eiji had given her.

Things are practically settled; it is time for Uesugi-kun to come to the Watanabe Residence in Gotokuji, for our whole family to have a meal and discuss the adoption!

(End of this chapter)