Chapter 587: Chapter 587: The Ringleader Caught
No one has been there? That’s okay, there’s a local police station nearby, we can ask them.
We arranged for someone from the Criminal Investigation Team to call and ask, and sure enough, Lu Chuan was right.
The smell around the sugar factory is indeed not sweet.
Now, the focus is on the North Suburb Chemical Plant.
However, the area of the North Suburb Chemical Plant is quite large, with dozens or even hundreds of small workshops around.
How to investigate?
The information provided by Sun Yu could potentially lock down the approximate location of Zheng Bin and others, but it’s still quite difficult to investigate specifically.
In the interrogation room, Li Donglin sent someone to interrogate Sun Yu again.
"In the yard?"
Sun Yu scratched his head: "The yard doesn’t seem to have any distinctive features..."
"Oh, does a crabapple tree count?"
Crabapple tree?
The interrogator was suddenly alert: "How tall and big is the crabapple tree?"
"I don’t know, but it looks pretty tall, probably a few years old."
"Any other characteristics?"
"Officer, it’s just an ordinary yard, I didn’t go out much, so I really don’t know."
Crabapple tree!
Meeting room.
Li Donglin is deploying the operation.
"According to the location described by Sun Yu, it should be in the bungalows around the North Suburb Chemical Plant."
"Send drones over, mark all the yards with crabapple trees!"
Sending people over...
The risk is too high.
Since Zheng Bin chose a yard near the North Suburb Chemical Plant as a hideout, it shows that they must be very familiar with the surroundings.
If we send detectives to search, they are likely to find some clues.
However, the risk of being exposed is also greater.
After all, one or two people going in wouldn’t do much, but a dozen or twenty strangers going in is likely to alert them.
So, sending in drones first is a better approach.
While Li Donglin is diligently arranging the work, there has been a breakthrough in the investigation of the white Jinbei van.
"Director Li, we’ve found the information on the van."
As long as the vehicle doesn’t have fake plates, checking its information is too easy.
Although Sun Yu only saw the last three digits of the license plate, filtering it out is still relatively simple.
There are a total of 123 vehicles in the city with the last digits 798.
Among them, there are four Jinbei vans, and only two of them are white.
"Among the two white Jinbei vans, one belongs to the city’s management bureau, and the other is registered under an individual’s name."
The projector shows the registration information of the two vans.
"Wu Qiong?"
"Yes, the owner of the Jinbei van registered under an individual’s name is Wu Qiong, the legal representative of Tianmei Paper Co., Ltd."
The detective responsible for investigating the vehicle information did a very solid and detailed job, bringing back not only the vehicle information but also some preliminary information on the owner.
Of the two Jinbei vans, one belongs to the city’s management bureau, the possibility of it being used by Zheng Bin...
Is practically none.
Moreover, during the investigation, they had already contacted the city’s management bureau.
Their Jinbei van goes out on missions every day.
Therefore, the van Zheng Bin used to pick up Sun Yu must belong to Wu Qiong.
"Wu Qiong, male, 38 years old, native of the provincial capital, had a previous record of theft early on, five years ago, started this paper company, company registration location... 34 North Second Lane, Yingbin Road."
Hearing North Second Lane on Yingbin Road, everyone perked up.
The North Suburb Chemical Plant is right by Yingbin Road, and North Second Lane is the backyard of the North Suburb Chemical Plant.
"Move out! North Second Lane on Yingbin Road!"
...
An hour later.
Members of the major crimes unit, including Lu Chuan, some officers from the provincial capital’s Criminal Investigation Team, and an armed police squad have arrived at North Second Lane on Yingbin Road.
"The drone has already scouted, and there is indeed a crabapple tree in the yard at number 34."
"The photos have just been sent back to the team, and Sun Yu confirmed that this is the yard he stayed at a couple of days ago."
Having confirmed the location, the rest is to make the arrests.
"Can we confirm the situation inside?"
"Not yet; the drone didn’t capture anyone inside..."
"Wait!"
The detective operating the drone noticed something new: "Target spotted!"
"Target spotted!"
Li Donglin moved forward, seeing five or six people on the drone’s surveillance footage.
Two of them, Li Donglin had seen their photos before.
One is Wu Qiong, the owner of the white Jinbei van.
The other, a slightly balding man, is actually Zheng Bin, Sun Yu’s childhood friend!
There are also four young men; all of them are currently carrying a large box out of the house.
Wu Qiong opened the side door of the van parked in the yard, and they were about to load it.
Damn it, it looks like... they are likely transporting fake currency?
Caught red-handed!
"Action!"
On command, the prepped and ready SWAT team sprang into action.
Three SWAT officers rushed in through the front door, while two others climbed over the wall to get in.
"Police! Don’t move!"
The five people stared at the black muzzles pointing at their heads, and were almost scared out of their wits.
How could they dare to resist?
Although Lu Chuan has seen armed police operations before, honestly, the deterrent is strong.
Many criminal suspects still try to run when they see regular police, but few dare to run when faced with SWAT.
After the five outside were subdued, five SWAT officers entered the house and arrested two more.
A total of seven people, all apprehended.
At the same time, three large boxes of counterfeit currency were found inside the house.
Totaling over ten million.
...
Provincial capital Criminal Investigation Team interrogation room.
"Name."
"Zheng Bin."
"Gender..."
"Male..."
Caught with the evidence, Zheng Bin, after being captured, did not resist and answered the interrogation questions truthfully.
It turns out he indeed got involved in this during his time working abroad.
"I connected with Wu Qiong, and after returning from working abroad, we started planning this thing."
Zheng Bin came back from working abroad, bringing back some startup funds, enabling them to prepare quite well early on and recruit a few people to join him in this venture.
"I don’t know the specifics too well, but I’m not the only one; there are corresponding people in other provinces, but we’re all in single-line contact and don’t know each other’s situations."
According to Zheng Bin’s confession, he is only responsible for the distribution of counterfeit currency within the province.
The identities of others, they are on an equal level and do not know each other.
"But we and the adjacent three provinces all obtain counterfeit currency through a single channel. I was cautious and managed to take photos of a few of them."
"They’re all in my phone."
Zheng Bin and the others willingly engaged in this because of the huge profits involved.
They obtain counterfeit currency without any cost but keep all the profits after selling it.
As for how these things are obtained, it’s actually quite simple.
