The Blacklist

Chapter 193 Friant Enterprise Secrets
Hearing this, Kerry knew what was going on. The importance of this Vordiante enterprise was naturally very great, but what Fitch didn't mention was another secret of it - the secret society's money laundering agency! Since the other party didn't say it, he naturally wouldn't point it out. Who would regret it in the end?

"Well, this is indeed a big deal!" Carrie said, "But Chairman Fitch, you should be very clear about the nature of our SLR's work. This kind of thing should be handled by the FBI or DHS, right?"

Fitch smiled bitterly and said, "Director Kerry, it is true from the perspective of duty, but this enterprise is related to some secrets of the secret society, and it is not good to let other departments interfere..."

Carrie nodded and said, "Okay, for Reddington's sake, I can take care of this, but I'll have to charge a fee... oh, no, it's a tax!"

Although he was very anxious, Fitch was still amused by this. He certainly knew what SLR did. Compared with the safety of the Ferdinand Enterprise, tens of millions of dollars were nothing. So he said, "After the problem is solved, at least 30 million dollars in tax will be paid!"

"Pay half first!" Carrie said deliberately.

"No problem." Fitch said immediately.

Since the other party was so straightforward, Kerry gave him a clear idea and said, "How about this? You ask the House Intelligence Committee to go directly to Deputy Secretary Cooper of the DOJ on the grounds that it is related to food security and ask him to hand the case over to SER. Since I am also the deputy director of SER, I will naturally bring SLR into the picture..."
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At ten o'clock, SER, which had received the formal order, took over the case, and Kerry also arrived at the scene to listen to the case report.

Alam was browsing the information just transferred from the Ministry on his computer, and was responsible for introducing the case: "Fradite is the world's largest producer of improved crop varieties. Its genetically modified corn and soybean seeds are popular because of their good insect-resistant genes, but they are also resisted by small farmers because of their high prices.

“Two days ago, a group of radical elements calling themselves ‘Harvesters’ attacked the company’s production base in Iowa, not only causing casualties, but also stealing the company’s most important GMO patent data!

"If this information is released, its products will be copied in large quantities, which will not only affect the stock market, but also seriously threaten national food security..."

Elizabeth said: "In other words, the most important thing for us now is to take this patent information back!"

Donald nodded and said, "Yes, this is our mission. Okay, let's go!"

Although the current SER has the authority to mobilize helicopters and DOJ charter flights, the distance from Washington, D.C. to Iowa is more than 1300 kilometers, and ordinary passenger planes are too slow. Kerry had to mobilize the IRS's Gulfstream G650, which has a speed of 0.9 Mach and arrived in a little over an hour.

On this business trip, Donald brought Elizabeth, Mira, Nawabi and an eight-man combat team, and Carrie also came with Gina and Abby - since they had already collected taxes, they had to show their appreciation.

The reason why he brought Abby out was that he knew he needed to retrieve data from the computer. Although he could do it, why not use it when he had a helper? He could also bring her out to relax, so why not? Look, the Gothic girl is so happy now, she is talking non-stop while looking at the scenery outside the plane with Gina and Elizabeth.

As for the case itself, it's very easy. With him going along, it won't take much effort!

After takeoff, Donald specifically asked him, "Richard, why are you so concerned about this case?" "This company paid an additional 3000 million in taxes, and I took half of it first." Carrie did not hide it from him and said directly.

"Haha...you!" Donald was stunned, then burst into laughter.

The others who heard their conversation also laughed a lot. Carrie was a very dedicated tax collector!
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More than an hour later, the plane landed at the airport in Des Moines, the capital of Iowa. The local FBI branch, which had received the news long ago, dispatched a field operations team to cooperate, prepared the vehicle, and the group got in and set off.

Donald and the others were enough to investigate the case, and Carrie just brought Gina and Abby with her.

At the production base of Friant Enterprise, Donald and his party met with the company's aftermath personnel and learned that after the base was invaded, nine employees were killed, the data room was stolen, and it was set on fire...

After examining the bodies found at the fire scene, the experienced Nawabi concluded that there were only eight bodies, one missing! Soon, it was determined that the missing person was Bruel Costa, an employee of the company, and everyone believed that this person was the traitor.

In the subsequent investigation, Donald and Elizabeth found several bankrupt farmers in a semi-abandoned farm nearby. They were very dissatisfied with the Friant Enterprise because the expansion and operation of the enterprise bankrupted their family farms. They learned from them that the person who led several radicals to attack the Friant Enterprise was Eli Matchet.

At this time, the benefit of bringing Abby along was apparent. With just a laptop, this Gothic-style girl with two pigtails and a tattoo on her neck found Costa's cell phone location in just a few minutes. After checking, she discovered that this was a simple feed warehouse.

After the sudden entry, no one was found, but three bodies and some computer equipment were found under a canvas. One of the bodies was Costa, an employee of Friant Enterprises!
After further searching, they found a basement in the warehouse filled with biological experiment equipment! Because they didn't know what it was, they invited experts from Friant to study it and confirmed that biological viruses targeting crops had been studied here...

During this process, Abby had cracked the firewalls of several computers. Although she didn't know what it was, she quickly copied all the data in the computers - this was what Carrie had instructed her to do in advance.

After the experts from Friant looked at the laboratory equipment and then saw the data on the computer, they were shocked, because the experimental data recorded on it were for their company's crop products!

Everyone realized the seriousness of the problem. If someone spread this targeted biological virus, hundreds of millions of crops around the world that use Friant Enterprises seeds would be killed, and the consequences would be catastrophic!

While everyone was still in shock, Kerry, who had been silent before, spoke up: "Abby, locate Eli Matchett's phone."

"Understood." Abby agreed and started typing on the computer again. After a moment, she shouted, "I found him..."

Donald immediately led his men to the location address, and Abby followed them to find the direction. However, Carrie took Gina out of the warehouse and handed the case over to the local FBI branch.

(End of this chapter)