Chapter 585: Chapter 585: Blossoming Everywhere
And Sun Yu didn’t return empty-handed from the provincial capital this time.
Some counterfeit notes were found in his luggage.
But the quantity was small, only ten thousand yuan.
According to Sun Yu, these notes were given to him by his childhood friend, Zheng Bin, who asked him to return to Qinzhou City and find some trustworthy people to use the money to see its effect.
As for Sun Yu becoming a distributor, that has to wait until next week, when there will be a large shipment of new goods to carry out the plan.
In the conference room, only members of the Major Crimes Unit were present.
The massacre case in Tianzhou City was now considered completely closed.
But just as this case ended, another case emerged.
Li Donglin, who had been on the case of selling counterfeit currency for over half a year, now had an unexpected breakthrough, which made him very excited.
"About six months ago, there were quite a few reports of counterfeit currency in the provincial capital."
"Once the report clues were received, the leaders paid great attention because the counterfeit currency that appeared this time was of a new model, different from the previous ones."
Generally speaking, counterfeit notes are named with prefixes, and different types have different prefixes, but the prefix that appeared this time had never been seen before.
This is why the higher-ups paid such close attention.
"The batch of counterfeit currency that appeared in the provincial capital was of such high quality that even the bill-checking machines couldn’t fully detect it."
So advanced?
Lu Chuan and the others looked at each other.
If even bill-checking machines can’t tell the real from the fake, what’s the difference between these so-called counterfeits and real money?
Lu Chuan had never dealt with counterfeit currency cases before, so he wasn’t particularly knowledgeable about them.
But Wang Song and Song Mingguang were different. They both had dealt with such cases in their respective Criminal Investigation Teams before.
They were fairly familiar with the general process of making counterfeit currency.
Making counterfeit currency is a crime with a very high technical threshold.
Not only does it require special printing machines, special paper, special ink, but besides these basic things, how to replicate the currency is an enormous problem.
The patterns on the currency are very complex, and there is more than one printing method used.
The first step in making counterfeit money is to draw a template of real money.
This step alone can stump a large number of genius artists.
Furthermore, considering the current tough crackdown on crime domestically, most counterfeit currency is produced abroad.
A lot of other issues are involved in this.
It’s simply impossible for a small group of criminals to make counterfeit money...
Leaving the technology aside, how do they transport counterfeit money into the country?
Through regular channels, it’s impossible; let alone counterfeit money, even real money that exceeds a certain limit can’t be brought back through regular channels.
So it must be smuggling.
But smuggling this stuff is no less a crime than smuggling drugs.
The risk is also much greater.
Such cases are hard to handle.
Very difficult.
No one expected that investigating a massacre case would unexpectedly reveal a counterfeit currency case.
Li Donglin continued speaking.
"This case is still in the confidential investigation phase."
"The clues we have are not much, or more precisely, we don’t even have as many clues as Sun Yu has."
"I just reported to the higher-ups, and the Major Crimes Unit will take over this counterfeit currency case locally, striving to solve the case in the shortest time possible!"
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In the hotel, Lu Chuan was on the phone with Shen Yan.
"When are you coming back?"
Lu Chuan had been out for three days.
He was supposed to return to Haizhou City today, but now he was involved in a counterfeit currency case, and it was unlikely he could go back any time soon.
"The massacre case here was just solved today, and we don’t need to worry about the follow-up work. The Tianzhou City and Qinzhou Criminal Investigation Teams can handle it."
"Qinzhou?"
"Yeah, one suspect is the suspect of case 116 in Qinzhou City."
Case 116?
This case had a significant impact within the system back then.
When Shen Yan first started working, the case had happened less than a year before.
She had heard Wang Changjiang mention the case.
No expected that Lu Chuan and his team would also solve that case this time.
"But I won’t be able to return these two days. While reviewing a suspect, we found leads on another case, and the higher-ups have asked our Major Crimes Unit to keep investigating, and I might have to go to the provincial capital in a few days. I estimate it will be about ten to twenty days."
Shen Yan was slightly taken aback on the phone. Ten to twenty days? That long?
They talked a bit more; there wasn’t any major case recently in the Haizhou City Criminal Investigation Team, things were quite calm.
With New Year’s Day approaching, the Bureau was organizing a cultural performance.
This year, the situation of the Haizhou City Criminal Investigation Team looked promising, benefiting the overall Haizhou City Public Security Bureau.
Over the past year, although Haizhou City had several big cases, none of them remained unsolved and were all cleared smoothly.
This made it unique within the system.
That’s how case handling works; there’s no 100% success rate.
Major cases aren’t necessarily slow, as finding the key clue can lead to quick resolutions and locating suspects in a very short time.
Seemingly smaller cases might not necessarily be handled faster.
In fact, the cases hanging in the criminal investigation teams of various cities are mostly those that seem relatively small.
With just over a month to New Year’s Day, looking at the current situation, the Haizhou City Criminal Investigation Team is estimated to rank higher than last year’s heroic first place.
After all, just based on the case-solving rate, the Haizhou City Criminal Investigation Team ranks at the top this year.
Plus, with a talent like Lu Chuan, the Haizhou City Criminal Investigation Team has also aided other teams in solving many cases.
Such help is not just given casually.
This is a big bonus item within the evaluation mechanism of the Provincial Department.
Recently, the happiest people are Song Jiangguo from Haizhou City Public Security Bureau and Qin Yong, the head of the Criminal Investigation Team.
Within the entire public security system, Haizhou City is considered mid to upper-level across the province, following routine work, but particularly excelling in criminal investigation with outstanding results.
After all, regardless of public security, drug enforcement, or law enforcement, the number of big cases isn’t too high, and many cases can’t be solved in a short period.
This makes the criminal investigation side dominate, with many cases resulting in outstanding achievements easily.
Of course, failure is also easy. If a case can’t be solved, isn’t that a failure?
So, the cultural performance organized by the Haizhou City Public Security Bureau this time, they’re going all out.
It’s said that Song Jiangguo is personally overseeing this event.
They talked for over an hour and then hung up. Lu Chuan had almost packed up his things.
This afternoon, the Major Crimes Unit was pressing Sun Yu to return to the provincial capital.
Li Donglin was in a good mood.
With Sun Yu captured, the investigation into the counterfeit currency case had found a major breakthrough.
Zheng Bin...
He was very likely the main source of counterfeit currency within the province.
Catch him first, then deal with the rest later!
But midway, Li Donglin received bad news.
The counterfeit money that was initially only circulating in the provincial capital suddenly spread across multiple cities within the province.
