Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 190, 168 billion fraud case closed
Ever since they suffered a severe defeat at the hands of Uesugi Sosetsu last time, the District Public Prosecutors Office Special Investigation Team naturally paid attention to Uesugi Sosetsu.

Based on the investigation over the past month, the district prosecutor found that Uesugi Munesetsu had a clean background and he did not have any special hobbies. He did not like smoking or drinking and was not particularly pursuing fame and fortune. He was indeed interested in promotion and wealth, but not to the extent of obsession. If he had any hobbies, the first one was food. As long as it was his day off, Uesugi Munesetsu would go out to find delicious food.

The second is a woman.

The district prosecutors had also heard about Uesugi Sosetsu's chaotic private life, but Uesugi Sosetsu had always been unmarried, so there was no point in making a fuss about these things. Secondly, generally speaking, the special investigation team of the district prosecutors was responsible for economic and political cases, and there was a principle in such cases that they would not and could not launch an offensive from problems in the lower body, unless they directly violated the law, but this was not under the jurisdiction of the district prosecutors.

Uesugi Sosetsu is now a member of the Metropolitan Police Department and has a strong background. The district prosecutors can't find a breakthrough, and their goal is not to kill this guy, but to ask him for help.

"No matter what, we have already won a great victory this time." Kitsureikawa thought there was no need to rush and would observe for a while: "Kamibayashi, since Uesugi-kun is unwilling to reveal the name of the informant, then you must find a way to complete the chain of evidence to facilitate prosecution."

"Don't worry, Minister, none of them can escape." Prosecutor Shenlin smiled.

The harvest this time is really amazing.

Although they failed to obtain the key evidence to defeat the entire Toyokawa Group, they could say that they had caught all of the subordinate company Toyokawa Trading Company in one fell swoop. Although they didn't kill the big tiger, they did beat a wolf hard and got a large piece of meat from the tiger!

Moreover, this time, the District Prosecutors Office finally got back at the Metropolitan Police Department. Relying on the black money transaction records of Toyokawa Trading Company, Chief Kurosu of the Ebara Police Station was found to have accepted various bribes totaling 3300 million yen in recent years.

To be honest, this amount of money is actually not that much. Director Kurosu's annual salary is more than 800 million yen.

Moreover, for Japan, the real corruption in police organizations is often not about how much money they receive directly, but about relying on their status as police officers to engage in collusion between officials and businessmen. After they retire or resign from the Metropolitan Police Department at an old age, they take up high-level positions elsewhere and legally acquire large amounts of wealth.

After retiring, a former National Police Agency chief went on to serve as chairman of the Japan Automobile Federation for 15 years, receiving a total salary of more than 10 billion yen and nearly 10 billion yen in on-the-job death compensation. During his tenure as chief, he fully promoted reforms in various transportation fields and fully supported the use of motor vehicles on the road.

Didn't the special investigation team know that there was something fishy going on? But they couldn't find any concrete evidence, and could only helplessly watch the former police chief's life and death. At his funeral, hundreds of representatives from financial associations and companies came to pay their respects, and thousands of former police officers attended.

Their move this time directly destroyed Director Kurosu's chance of a revolving door after his retirement.

This is a victory in the true sense, and it is also the greatest deterrent to the police organization and even the entire Japanese system.

This is the significance of Emperor Mai’s creation of the Special Investigation Team.

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At the same time, the interrogation in the Investigation Section 1 was also proceeding intensively.

Ryuhei Yamabuki's good friend Kuroda, who worked at Hanaka Dyeing Industry, soon couldn't stand the pressure and confessed everything.

It turned out that Ryuhei Yamabuki loved mountaineering and joined a mountaineering association. Not only did he meet his current girlfriend here, he also became friends with several members including Kuroda.

When the 168 billion yen bill fraud case broke out, Ryuhei Yamabuki felt the danger, so he divided the files into two parts. He gave the part about the merger and acquisition case to Kuroda, and the part about the payment records to his girlfriend.

It's just that Yamabuki Ryuhei trusted Kuroda too much. He and his friends revealed some internal information about the Toyokawa Group, saying that he might be in danger, and secretly placed something with Kuroda.

Kuroda's reaction was that Yamabuki Ryuhei was trying to trick him.

If you think about it carefully, it is true. No one can afford to offend a behemoth like the Toyokawa Group. Yamabuki Ryuhei thought that hiding the documents with Kuroda was a proof of trust and lifelong brotherhood, but Kuroda understood that his best friend had sent him a time bomb and did not tell him where it was hidden.

Is this a close friend? This is clearly a disaster star, the reincarnation of the devil pill!
I consider you my lifelong brother, and you use me as a shield?!

Don’t splash your blood on me when you die!
So Kuroda took the initiative to find Toyokawa Trading Company. He did not dare to say that he had hidden something there, but only said that Yamabuki Ryuhei sensed the danger and might be the first to report it.

At this time, Toyokawa Seikao, the president of Toyokawa Trading Company, was extremely depressed because he was defrauded. He was the one who promoted the entire real estate merger. The failure at this time also meant that he would bear the main responsibility and might lose his status as heir.

Kuroda's visit made Toyokawa Kiyoshi even more frightened.

However, the president's secretary made a suggestion at this time: they have a way to solve this problem. The 168 billion yuan probably cannot be recovered, but in order to maintain your status as the heir, you have to find a way to explain it to the higher-ups.

Toyokawa Kiyoshige might know what the secretary was going to do, but he said he didn't know.

The president's secretary should know that Toyokawa Kiyoshige knew what they were trying to do, but he said the president didn't need to know.

Thus, a carefully designed incident was planned in which Ryuhei Yamabuki, an accountant in the finance department of Toyokawa Trading Company, privately forged the company seal and forged the signature, resulting in a loss of 168 billion yen and then committed suicide out of fear of punishment.

Among them, Kuroda, as a good friend of Yamabuki Ryuhei, also participated. He invited Yamabuki Ryuhei to come out for a chat as a close friend, and then took advantage of Yamabuki's unpreparedness and secretly put aconitine into Yamabuki Ryuhei's thermos cup while wearing gloves. After the other party died of poisoning, the president's secretary arranged another group of people to pretend to be a taxi and take him to a bench near the station where there was no surveillance, disguising it as suicide.

The whole plan seemed flawless, but it was violently cracked by Uesugi Sosetsu.

There is no way, Ryuhei Yamabuki's dead soul is too complete.

I don't know how the district prosecutors plan to explain his "deus ex machina" method of solving cases. That night, they temporarily completed the interrogation and took notes. Seeing that the Ebara Police Station, from the director to the deputy director and several section chiefs were directly arrested by the district prosecutors, and only the traffic section chief escaped, the uncles of the Investigation Section 1 finally felt proud.

I suffered so much humiliation when I first arrived here, now I have to fight back!

Moreover, this entire police station was involved in such a scandal that every policeman here has a big stain on his resume. Not only will they have no hope of promotion in the future, but they may also be transferred to more remote places. However, the chief of the Traffic Section, the only one whose donation record was not found, turned a disaster into a blessing. Not only was he ordered by the Metropolitan Police Department to "temporarily serve as" the chief, but because he survived the battle royale at Ebara Police Station and was the only one with a clean record, he became a fig leaf for the Metropolitan Police Department. It is very likely that he will be appointed chief and promoted directly to the rank of superintendent afterwards.

Late at night, everyone in the Investigation Section was still discussing the case.

The case has been solved and everyone looks relaxed.

Inspector Shiratori of the Second Department leaned back in his chair and said casually, "Who did the president's secretary find? How did he get it done so cleanly?"

"It seems to be a few Korean gangsters!" Kashiwagi Ren pounded the table unwillingly. "After the case was fabricated, Fengchuan Trading Company sent these Koreans abroad to the Philippines overnight. The airport branch confirmed that they had left the country early."

"Tsk, tsk, why didn't they send them back to South Korea?" Inspector Okada said with a smile, holding a cup of green tea, "That's their hometown."

"We have an extradition treaty with South Korea. Toyokawa Trading Company cannot send them back to South Korea." Ukyo Sugishita, the head of the Investigation Division, who was sitting in the middle, was holding a cup of Darjeeling black tea produced in the British Empire. "I talked to Chief Cabinet Secretary Onoda, and he said that the Philippines would not agree to our extradition. The resources of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are precious and cannot be wasted on such trivial matters... Really, human life is a trivial matter..."

"Which countries have signed extradition treaties with us?" asked Uesugi Muneyuki, who was quite interested in this.

"Only South Korea and the United States." Sugishita Ukyo shook his head.

"Why not send them to North Korea?" Kashiwagi Ren was still unwilling to accept it. He was unwilling to accept that such a great credit was taken away by the local prosecutor, and he was also unwilling to accept that he failed to catch the Koreans who were involved in the murder and were under the command of the president's secretary.

"Speaking of which, this time it was really interesting. The dignified District Prosecutor's Special Investigation Team was actually yelled at by the forensic officer. They followed us like a group of little brothers." Inspector Shimano of the Fourth Department took the initiative to change the subject while holding a cup of coffee: "If it was in South Korea, this kind of thing would never happen."

Inspector Shimano felt that today was like a dream. Only forensic officer Sosetsu Uesugi could achieve the miracle of solving a case in one day.

"South Korea? If it's really in South Korea, your wife Shimano won't be able to be a full-time housewife!" Miss Minami followed suit and said, "You can earn 700 million a year. In South Korea, how much does a police officer at the level of a police chief earn a year? Guess?"

"In South Korea, the annual salary of a police inspector-level police officer is about 350 million to 400 million yen. Add bonuses and allowances, minus taxes and pensions, and based on Shimano-kun's seniority, he will get about 380 million yen," said Section Chief Ukyo Sugishita with a smile.

As the 56-year-old Chief of the First Investigation Division, Inspector Shimasa, Ukyo Sugishita earns around 1200 million yen a year. He has no children, so he has escaped one of the biggest expenses. Therefore, he has a lot of spare money to do what he likes, such as playing with various suits, famous watches, and often eating at restaurant.

Sugishita Ukyo's words made the uncles in the Investigation Section sigh.

Isn’t the status and treatment of South Korean police too low?
A police inspector in Tokyo only gets 380 million yen a year? What can you do with this little money? A police inspector in his 40s at the Metropolitan Police Department gets 700 million yen a year and often complains that he gets a little nervous when his children go to private schools in junior high and high school in Tokyo.

In comparison, the annual salary of a newly appointed prosecutor in the South Korean Prosecutor's Office is between 500 million and 700 million yen, senior prosecutors between 800 million and 1200 million yen, and the annual salary of the chief prosecutor starts at 1500 million yen, while the prosecutor general can earn up to 2200 million yen a year.

"We can't help it. We are different from South Korea. If this were South Korea, Director Watanabe would have to follow the Attorney General and carry his bag, then beg him to give us some money!" Uesugi Sosetsu joked, "Give us some budget and some credit too!"

The police officers present all smiled subconsciously, but no one dared to laugh out loud. Only Erina couldn't help but chuckle, while Miss Minami gave Uesugi Soyuki a coquettish look.

Still called director?

From now on you have to call your father "Godfather", Kora!

You dare to make fun of your father? I'll confiscate your Ikeda! I'll let you hit the wall! You bad boy!
Oh yeah, it's about time.

"Hey, hey, hey, supper is here!" At this moment, the acting chief of the Traffic Division of the Ebara Police Station was filled with joy, and brought several police officers from the branch station with a bunch of food bags. "Thank you for your hard work, everyone. Come have a midnight snack!"

"Come here, Officer Uesugi, we know you have a big appetite, so we bought two portions for you, one beef udon and one beef rice!" The head of the transportation department was particularly kind to Uesugi Sosetsu.

You, Uesugi, really make me happy!

It was not his turn anyway, but when Forensic Officer Uesugi arrived, how come the position of director fell to me?

"Then I won't be polite." Uesugi Sosetsu did not refuse.

"Captain Watanabe, would you like some too?"

"Oh, okay." Miss Minami remembered what Watanabe Eiji had told her.

Things have almost been settled. It's time to have Uesugi-kun come to the Watanabe residence in Gotoku-ji so that our family can have a meal and discuss the adoption!

(End of this chapter)