The Blacklist

Chapter 96: Establishment of a Special Taxation Group
On March 3, Reddington provided the SER team with a new blacklist target - Douglas Monarch Bank - through Elizabeth.

Reddington said the bank is the preferred bank for underground criminals. It is headquartered in the United States and has branches in 63 countries, but the only branch involved in the flow of criminal funds is the Warsaw branch.

Just two hours ago, the Warsaw branch was robbed by several well-trained men, and although the bank claimed no losses, Reddington believed they had lost all their assets.

SER immediately conducted an investigation and determined that the bank was indeed suspected of money laundering, but its accounts were clean and no loopholes could be found.

Cooper believed that this robbery was aimed at the bank's money laundering records, which should contain many criminal clues, so he sent Donald, Elizabeth and Mira to Warsaw to investigate.

After Donald and his two companions arrived in Warsaw, Agent Salerno from the FBI's Financial Crimes Division had already arrived and was participating in the local police's investigation into the bank robbery.

Just as Reddington said, Matt Strickland, the vice president of Monarch Bank who had arrived here, initially denied any losses, but later said after being pressed: He only lost $40 in bearer bonds, and he also cooperated in providing various bank records.

Donald and his two companions discovered new circumstances from the surveillance video at the bank entrance - five people in dust-proof jumpsuits entered the bank to rob, but six came out, and from their figures it could be seen that the extra one was a woman!
Although the bank was not very willing to cooperate, Donald and his two companions finally found out after a lot of effort that the woman who was taken away by the robbers was a bank employee named Kaya Tomchak.

After checking the employee's credit card spending records, they found the hotel where the robbers were hiding, but unexpectedly, Kaya was not kidnapped, but she hired the robbers to take her away!
It turns out that Kaya has a super memory and can remember all the bank accounts and transfer records of money laundering. All the contents that cannot be on the books are stored in her mind. Kaya feels guilty about this and decides to escape.
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Just when Donald and the other two were busy investigating a case in Warsaw, Kerry was suddenly summoned by IRS Deputy Director Most, who asked him to return to the IRS immediately!

When Moster saw him, he took him directly to the director's office without any further ado!

The IRS is indeed very powerful. Just when Donald and his two companions in Warsaw found out that an employee of Monarch Bank was missing and were looking for her everywhere, the director and deputy director got the detailed information.

For the FBI, controlling this lady who remembered all the illegal financial transactions in the bank is equivalent to mastering the capital flow of a large number of underground criminal organizations. However, the director and deputy director of the IRS feel that if this woman is controlled in their hands, it means the whereabouts of a large amount of illegal funds. It doesn’t matter what they are used for. What is important is that they have discovered a new source of tax!
The two directors had two purposes for recruiting Carrie back. One was to use his current identity to bring this super-memory genius to the IRS. The second was to make full use of this person's talent. The IRS decided to imitate the FBI and set up a special taxation team, which would be in charge of Carrie!
The two directors have such great imaginations that they even thought of a name for this special IRS group: Special Levy Roll, or SLR for short.

Carrie felt a headache after hearing this. He thought it was unreliable and didn't want to take the task.

The two directors saw what he meant and began to work on him. One of the statements by Deputy Director Most touched him: "Richard, think about it, you have made a lot of contributions to SER before! But so what? The Ministry of Justice replaced the deputy minister in charge and immediately kicked you out of SER... I know that when you asked me for a vacation, you must have felt very uncomfortable, right?" Kerry wanted to say: I didn't feel uncomfortable! But he couldn't open his mouth.

The director continued, "Richard, we haven't had much contact, but I know that you can collect taxes from that 'Red Devil', and of course from those other criminals... Over the past year, your achievements have been recognized by everyone in the bureau!"

As he spoke, he picked up a document from his desk and added, "This year, you have collected more than 1.5 million in taxes, making you the undisputed No. 1 in the bureau! Therefore, we decided to set up this SLR team to reward you for your contribution - the director of this team will be promoted to the rank of deputy director!"

Huh? It must be said that the director is really good. This really tempted Kerry! He thought, Cooper is the deputy director of the FBI's counter-terrorism division. If he can be promoted to the deputy director level of the IRS, the value of the position will only be higher!
Seeing that he was already tempted, Most followed up and said, "Richard, I know your girlfriend has a special identity. In the incident some time ago, her exemption documents were almost revoked by the Ministry of Justice... So, if you can get that super-memory genius here, the director and I will take care of your girlfriend's affairs, and I guarantee that there will be no future troubles!

"Moreover, after the SLR team is established, you will be the director. You will be responsible for the personnel, equipment, and use of funds. The bureau only wants to see more tax revenue... As long as this premise is met, no one can interfere with your authority!"

Kairui's eyes really lit up. Fortunately, he still remembered his main mission, so he put forward two conditions: "Director, Deputy Director, this sounds really good, but I have two requirements: First, Gina must join this SLR team with me..."

"No problem!" Deputy Director Most said immediately. He didn't even need to ask the director for permission. He could make the decision.

"Thank you!" Carrie said, "Secondly, I hope that our IRS can come forward to prepare an exemption document specifically for Reddington, so that he can also be our informant. This way, I can continue to collect taxes from him and let him provide information on other criminals to collect more taxes."

"Very good!" the director said immediately, "Richard, this is not a request, it is a very good suggestion for the future work. Not bad!"

Kerry looked at the two directors with excitement on their faces and said, "I have another idea, but I don't know if it's a good suggestion. That is: Can we set up the SLR team on the floor above the SER team? In this way, we can..."

"Good idea!" Most clapped his hands before he could finish. Then, seeing that the director was a little confused, he explained, "Director, the SER team is located in the old post office building, but it only uses the three underground floors and the first and second floors above ground. The top ten floors are empty! Most importantly, the property rights of this building belong to the Federal Asset Management Bureau of the Treasury Department. The FBI is just borrowing the lower floors..."

(End of this chapter)