The Blacklist

Chapter 313 Poisoning His Wife for Money
Carrie came to the command hall and arranged the investigation of the "pharmacist". The first step was to ask Alam to ask the local prosecutor's office for case information.

"The judicial authorities have always suspected that Ilario Panetti, the leader of the Panetti Group, was involved in economic crimes, but they have not obtained any evidence." Alam introduced the case, "A month ago, the office of Ilario's competitor exploded, and afterwards his accountant Helen transferred 200,000 yuan to a secret account.

"After discovering this, the prosecutor questioned Helen, and she was willing to testify that it was Ilario who paid the attacker. But the day before the trial, Helen had an inexplicable allergic reaction to food while out having dinner with friends, and she is still in a coma."

Nawabi immediately said: "It must be Ilario who instructed the 'pharmacist' to do it, but how did he do it?"

"It's not too difficult to poison someone to kill them directly, but under current medical conditions, it's too difficult to keep someone in a coma for more than 20 days!" Carrie said, "I suspect someone is constantly poisoning him...

"Well, Tang, you take Elizabeth and Mira to the hospital to find Helen's doctor to find out what happened, and also ask Helen's family members! Gina, Nawabi and I will go meet this Ilario and see what kind of person he is!"

"Okay, let's split up." Donald and others agreed and set out together.
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Kerry had no habit of waiting for notification, so he rushed directly into Ilario's conference room with Gina and Nawabi, kicking everyone else out, but allowing the boss to keep his lawyer.

Nawabi was good at interrogation and had sharp words. He cornered Ilario with just a few words. He explained: "I have never heard of the 'pharmacist', and I didn't hire him to harm Helen! The 20 yuan was blackmailed by someone, and I spent it to get rid of the disaster... If you don't believe me, you can ask my lawyer."

"Yes, I can prove it." The lawyer said, "The day after Mr. Panetti's competitor's office was bombed, someone threatened him that if he didn't pay $20, the same thing would happen to the Panetti consortium. In order to avoid trouble, Mr. Panetti asked Helen to transfer the money to the other party... If Helen testifies in court because of this incident, we will be very happy because it will prove our innocence."

Nawabi and Gina were stunned when they heard this. They didn’t expect things to be like this!

Carrie was watching from the side, and he didn't even need the "reading" skill to figure out that what Ilario and the lawyer said should be true.

Afterwards, he specially arranged for Abby to investigate the matter. The $20 paid by Ilario was transferred to the account of a non-profit organization on the West Coast, but the organization was a falsely registered company. The money was transferred to an account in a Swiss bank, and then disappeared from the Internet after dozens of transfers!

All this shows that the money laundering level of the operator behind it is extremely high, but is it a bit of an exaggeration to go through so much trouble just for 20? If Reddington's matter was not more important now, he would not mind checking the person behind it, but he still wrote it down first.
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Donald, Elizabeth and Mira met Helen's parents and husband in the hospital and learned that Helen had fallen into a coma after having dinner with a female friend. After being sent to the hospital, she was diagnosed with an allergy and has not woken up since.

When they communicated with the doctor, they reminded him that he might be poisoned. After re-examination, the doctor confirmed that they were correct, but because the type of toxin was not identified and the detoxification could not be done, there was no way to save him.

Helen's husband, Robert Dahler, said that he had left once not long ago, and in order to reminisce about the time he spent with Helen, he went to the Saratoga Springs Hotel... After returning to the post office, Elizabeth said to everyone: "I think Robert is hiding something. His reason for going to the Saratoga Springs Hotel alone is far-fetched - his wife was unconscious, and he went to the place where they had gone on their anniversary. What does it mean, to reminisce?"

"Since you have doubts, let's check it out!" Kerry agreed, "Aram, find the surveillance video of the hot spring hotel and see what Robert was doing there?"

Alam's level is trustworthy. He quickly found Robert's whereabouts a few days ago. As a result, he found out from the surveillance video of the hot spring hotel that Robert had checked into a room with another woman at that time!

Everyone praised Elizabeth's sensitivity highly, she actually guessed it right!
Donald immediately said: "It seems that Robert has a motive to murder his wife!"

Nawabi raised a question: "But, the time Helen was poisoned was the best opportunity. If we killed her directly, we could put the blame on Ilario. Why did we just let her fall into a coma?"

"I think it's because of the prenuptial agreement." Mira, who went to the hospital to investigate, said, "Helen's father, John Tansen, is the president of a hedge fund with $47 billion in assets. Before Robert and Helen got married, he insisted that they sign a prenuptial agreement, which stipulated that if Helen died or the two divorced within ten years of marriage, Robert would not get a penny."

Elizabeth added: "It's only two weeks until their tenth wedding anniversary, so Robert can't let Helen die!"

Although her words were somewhat malicious speculation, everyone believed that this was most likely the truth.

Kerry ordered: "Investigate the woman who checked into the room with Robert. She should know the inside story."
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Reddington soon found Marvin, who was vacationing in Florida with his fiancée, but he firmly denied betrayal, and testing of the bottle of red wine he sent proved that there was no toxin in it.

Later, after returning to Washington, he went to visit Demby who had recovered. Demby recalled more details. Before drinking the glass of red wine, he had drunk a bottle of water, and the water was taken from Reddington's car!
For this reason, both of them fell into deep thought. Who could put the poisoned water in the car? And this target should be Reddington.

Reddington's heart sank to the bottom, and now all the blame was directed at Kaplan! ——
Donald and Elizabeth brought back Robert's lover Brooklyn, and soon there was a breakthrough. She confessed that although she didn't know how Robert did it, she believed that he poisoned Helen. Moreover, Robert now dripped eye drops into Helen's eyes twice a week to keep her in a coma.

After Robert was arrested, a bottle of unlabeled eye drops was found in the medicine cabinet in his home. After analyzing its ingredients, the doctor found that it contained polypeptide components from the venom of the red-headed krait.

(End of this chapter)