Rebirth 2014: I, the King of Criminal Investigation

Chapter 348 The worst thing about being a criminal is having a terrible teammate.
The factory owner was naturally unwilling to spend that much money.

At this point, an intermediary organization emerged that could not only provide cheap labor but also ensure a sufficient number of personnel.

You don't need to buy insurance or provide any benefits.

Even if a workplace injury occurs, you won't be held responsible; they'll even replace you with a new person.

Even if something really happens in the end, you won't be held criminally liable.

Faced with such conditions, even a slight greed can make it difficult to control oneself.

Let me do the math for you.

It was Captain Hua who spoke. He saw that Yu Dazhang didn't want to explain, so he was the only one who could do it.

"Let's take a monthly salary of 1,500 as an example. At first glance, this monthly salary seems very low."

"But what if it's a year? You can calculate it again."

Upon hearing this, the police officer immediately replied:
"1,500 multiplied by 12 equals 18,000 in a year."

You could tell from his expression that an annual salary of 18,000 was a very low income.

Team leader Hua nodded in satisfaction and continued:
"Let's think about it further ahead. How many years of work experience does a person have? Even if it's heavy physical labor, is it ten years?"

This question is easy to answer; ten years is the minimum.

A young adult can work for twenty or thirty years, even in heavy physical labor.

Seeing everyone nod in agreement, Team Leader Hua continued:
"If we calculate it this way, a mentally disabled person can generate a profit of 180,000 over ten years."

"What if there are a thousand people?"

When this question arose, not only the police officer, but many people present couldn't help but gasp.

One hundred and eighty million!

Clearly, most of the people present hadn't done the calculations like Hua had.

And this is just a conservative estimate.

In the industrial zone of Zhiyancheng, a third-tier city, there are more than 300 people with intellectual disabilities.

It's important to know that Province N has thirteen prefecture-level cities.

If you include everyone, how many people would that be?

According to current information, they began planning their operations in Yancheng seven years ago.

What about even earlier?

They likely started in other cities first, so the organization must have started planning even earlier.

Even if the time frame for their crimes is shortened to five years, the total number of mentally disabled individuals involved is still set at four thousand.

Even with this calculation, the profit reached 3.6 million.

Who dares to say this is a small amount of money?
Moreover, this is a conservative estimate; the actual number will certainly be higher.

"Do you still think a monthly salary of 1,500 is low now?" Captain Hua asked the police officer.

There's no need to answer this question.

So the police officer could only give an awkward laugh.

Through Hua's analysis, the profit point has become clear.

But now a new question has arisen in everyone's mind.

That organization could clearly earn more money, so why hasn't it asked for a raise in all these years?

It's important to know that average wages are rising every year.

They have every reason to demand a wage increase, and as long as the increase isn't outrageous, the factory owners are unlikely to refuse.

However, the factory owners' testimonies revealed that this salary level was set from the beginning.

Seven years have passed and nothing has changed.

Given the other party's strategic planning capabilities, they should be well aware that this kind of business will eventually fail, so they wouldn't have any idea of ​​low profit margins and high sales volume for long-term development.

Is there any possibility...?

Do they have other profit sources?
Upon hearing this idea, Yu Dazhang immediately felt his scalp tingle.

Enslaving mentally disabled people is bad enough; this is practically no different from human trafficking. If there are other profit-making opportunities...

That really is human trafficking!

How else can we sell it?

Yu Dazhang was stuck on this thought.

The main targets of human traffickers are women and children; they generally do not target adult men, let alone people with intellectual disabilities.

the reason is simple.

It's not selling well.

Therefore, this option can be ruled out. Another feasible method is organ trafficking.

Yu Dazhang had previously handled cases involving top-tier hospitals and had some knowledge of organ and bone marrow transplantation.

Even if it's illegal, the hospital will find its own way to deal with it and will never cooperate with others.

Since hospitals don't lack staff, they can get everything they need with a little ingenuity.

Besides, the patient population here is too large, and the hospital doesn't need that many people.

Based on the above points, the hospital can also be ruled out.

Unable to guess... Yu Dazhang went through everything he could think of in his mind.

Since you can't figure it out, there's only one possibility left: the other person did something beyond your comprehension.

At this moment, another police officer spoke up:
"Since they're already using mentally disabled people to make money, why don't they send people to illegal brick kilns?"

How did this get involved with illegal brick kilns...? Yu Dazhang didn't understand at first and turned to look at Captain Hua.

"Is such that."

Team Hua immediately explained:
“In recent years, we have carried out several large-scale crackdowns, mainly targeting illegal brick kilns in the province.”

"It can be said that every operation was successful, and several criminal gangs involved in forced labor and illegal profiteering were apprehended."

"But I've never encountered anything like this before, where people with intellectual disabilities are specifically targeted for financial gain."

Why can't cases of illegal brick kilns enslaving people be eradicated?

It's because nobody wants to do this job.

In that kind of environment and workload, if the pay is too low, no one will do it; if the pay is too high, the boss won't make any money.

Therefore, the only way to maintain this is to take risks.

Moreover, the methods used by illegal brick kilns to control people are simple and brutal; there is only one way: if you don't submit, you get beaten.

They don't discriminate against people; most are migrant workers, and they even illegally buy and use abducted children.

Therefore, whenever a case involving illegal brick kilns is involved, the verdict is basically one of two types of crimes:

1. Intentional injury.

2. Crime of illegal imprisonment.

And they were all cases with particularly serious circumstances.

"I guess this organization thinks the people working in the illegal brick kilns are unprofessional."

Yu Dazhang analyzed:

"Clearly, this organization is very meticulous in its planning and personnel arrangements, and it targets a fixed group of people."

"In comparison, they are more covert and more deceptive."

"The illegal brick kilns have long been under police surveillance. Cooperating with those who only rely on violence is tantamount to finding a useless teammate."

Everyone nodded in agreement, as this was the only explanation that made sense.

When Yu Dazhang was reviewing the testimonies, he had already foreseen the future verdicts for these factory owners.

It's certain that he was convicted of forced labor.

Knowing that others are forcing others to work through violence, threats, or restriction of personal freedom, and yet recruiting or hiring others to work for them.

This falls under the category of assisting in forced labor.

For a term of not more than three years, or detention, and a fine.

There is also the crime of illegal detention.

In terms of plot, it also falls into the relatively minor category.

For a term of not more than three years, the sentence may be imprisonment or probation.

As long as these mentally disabled individuals are not violently beaten in the factory and there is no intentional harm involved, these bosses will not be severely punished in the end.

At most three years, one year for minor offenses.

However, judging from the case as a whole, these business owners will definitely bear criminal responsibility.

I'm going to jail for sure, the only difference is the number of years.

Taking chances is not a good idea... Yu Dazhang guessed that those bosses thought they could get away with just having their business licenses revoked and being fined a little.

Unfortunately, they overlooked one crucial point: the nature of this case was extremely serious.

In this situation, it's impossible to avoid criminal liability.

After the meeting, Yu Dazhang returned to the observation room.

The interrogation had been going on for more than half an hour, and the man in the suit named Wang Hao inside had started smoking.

Yu Dazhang was stunned when he saw the surveillance footage.

He confessed so quickly?
(End of this chapter)