The Blacklist

Chapter 418 Minister D's Eavesdropping and Blackmail

Christmas and New Year's Day are approaching, but on Tuesday, December 12, Reddington sent another blacklist target, which caused everyone to criticize!

Elizabeth introduced the situation and said: "The target of this case is nicknamed 'Minister D'. He is a habitual blackmailer. His method is to collect evidence of someone's guilt and use it for blackmail. Because he hides so deeply, he has never been caught.

"For example, fifteen years ago, he discovered that two stock trading company operators were suspected of insider trading, and used this to extort four million dollars; six years ago, he found evidence of kickback transactions between Senator Contis' husband and a real estate developer, and made a fortune again...

"No one knows how 'Minister D' got hold of this information and how many times he used it to blackmail people. In Reddington's words, if this 'Minister D' can be caught, a large number of cases will be solved, and the stolen money involved should be huge..."

Nawabi smiled and said, “We should tell Lee about this. He will definitely be interested!”

Everyone laughed, and Elizabeth also smiled and said, “I have called him and told him that he is in a meeting at the General Administration now, and he will also participate in this case when he comes back.

"Okay, let's first check a clue mentioned by Lao Lei. The taxi tycoon Sayantan Shah was blackmailed by 'Minister D' in 2006. He survived the crisis by borrowing money from Reddington to pay the extortion.

"Nawabi, you and Duke go to Sayantan and tell him that we need clues about Minister D. We don't care about his own affairs!"

"I understand." Nawabi nodded. Without this guarantee, Sayantan probably wouldn't cooperate.
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Kerry was called to the General Administration as soon as he got to work. The National Security Council asked all law enforcement agencies to step up their vigilance in response to public security issues during the two festivals. The requirement for CTU and the FBI was to prevent terrorist attacks and organized crime. The task was quite heavy.

During the meeting, Carrie received a call from Elizabeth. After learning about the case, she was indeed very interested. Just as SER agent guessed, this case was more "money-making".

As soon as the meeting was over, he said hello to Donald, then returned to the post office and came to SER to learn about the case investigation - although he had no feelings about Christmas, he liked holidays! Considering the feelings of everyone in the post office, it would be better to close the case as soon as possible so as not to delay everyone's vacation.
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Kerry just arrived at SER, Nawabi and Duke are back too…

The previous judgment was correct. After hearing that he would not be held accountable for his crimes back then, Sa Yantan agreed to cooperate and told the story of how Minister D blackmailed him.

One day thirteen years ago, after lunch, when Sa Yantan returned to his office, he saw a letter on his desk. It contained a written record of a phone call he had made, involving some illegal business practices he had done. A few days later, he received a call and was blackmailed for 40 yuan in cash. At that time, his business had just started and he did not have that much cash. He had to ask someone to borrow money from the famous "Red Devil"!

Afterwards, he asked a technician to check and found a bug in the phone line in his apartment. He still has a photo of it.

The photo of the bug was projected onto the big screen, and Alam immediately recognized that it was a spy tool that had been around for more than a decade, called a separator, which could copy specific mobile phone signals and send calls from the original mobile phone number to a designated receiving end. Similar devices found on the Internet were all targeted at mobile phones from Vera Telephone Communications Company!
Nawabi and Duke investigated the work records of Vera Communications. Only a very small number of employees had been to the separator installation site. Excluding those who joined the company after the accident, settled abroad, or died, the only one left was Elijah Bailey!
However, Alam soon found out that the man used a fake name, his academic qualifications were forged, his tax information was registered with a stolen social security account, and all the relevant information only had an address in Arlington.

After listening to the report, Carrie nodded and said, "Liz, take people to catch this guy! I think, even if you can't catch him, you can still see a lot of new things! Oh, by the way, bring back all those equipment and recording materials, they are a huge treasure!"
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Before setting off, Elizabeth and others did not understand what Carrie's last words meant, but after they led the field operations team to raid the apartment in Arlington at the address, they found a large number of monitoring devices and tens of thousands of audio tapes in the basement. The number was so large that everyone who saw it was dumbfounded.

Elizabeth called the post office and asked Abby and Alam to bring technicians from the SLR and SER departments to pack up everything and take it back...
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After seeing the large amount of equipment and tapes brought back by Elizabeth and her team, Kerry personally assigned tasks, asking Abby to lead the SLR technicians to analyze the tapes, and the SER technicians to analyze the equipment. She even pointed directly at an old ribbon typewriter that was brought back and said, "Aram, don't worry about anything else for now. Analyze this typewriter first. I want to know what it printed last."

Hearing his order, the agents were a little surprised - is it possible to analyze what is printed on the typewriter? However, after checking the typewriter, Aram said confidently: "Don't worry, boss, I will give you the results soon!"

Aram was not bragging. He knew what Carey meant. This old-fashioned ribbon typewriter would leave marks on the ribbon and the roller when typing. Although the marks would overlap and become blurred after long-term use, the last printed text would be the clearest...

After a careful inspection, Alam restored the last typed message and determined that it was a new blackmail letter. The blackmailer was named Peter Dremer, who killed his wife!
Based on this information, Abby immediately checked the latest batch of tapes and found the corresponding one. After playing it, she basically restored the situation - Dremer cheated on his wife and killed and hid the body in order to be with his mistress Michaela Parent, and he also received 220 million in life insurance compensation from his wife!
The female agents headed by Elizabeth all looked unhappy. They hated people like Dremer more than the eavesdropping blackmailer!

Aram immediately looked for Dremer's whereabouts and found that he had gone to the apartment of his mistress Michaela.

This time, Carrie didn't even need to give any orders, as agents Elizabeth, Nawabi, Rosa and others rushed out to catch people. Jiva, Elise and others from SLR also took the initiative to follow and help!

During the arrest, Dremer fell to his death while escaping from the fire escape, and Michaela was arrested.

(End of this chapter)