We asked you to solve cases, and here you are sharing your criminal experiences?

Zhao Ming locked the door to the task force's office.

The blinds were also completely pulled down.

The convenience store surveillance video on the big screen has been paused.

Everyone's attention is now focused on the large whiteboard in the center of the room.

The fund flow chart hand-drawn by Song Qianxia, ​​with its interlacing red and black lines, resembled a dense spider web.

Gu Tingchen stood in front of the whiteboard, his arms crossed over his chest.

His gaze followed the lines, moving slowly and deliberately.

Zhao Ming and Xiao Wang also came over and stared at the whiteboard.

After watching for a while, the two of them felt dizzy and lightheaded.

"Xiao Song, is this a maze you drew?" Zhao Ming rubbed his eyes.

"How did the 500,000 yuan involved in the building materials fraud case go through seven or eight twists and turns, eventually becoming connected to a remittance in a missing person case?"

Song Qianxia was still holding a red whiteboard marker in her hand.

She was planning to sneak back to her workstation and continue lying down.

Gu Tingchen, however, called out to her directly.

"Song Qianxia, ​​come here."

The man's voice was devoid of emotion.

"Go and give everyone a full recap of what you just found in the archives."

Song Qianxia paused, cursing the wicked capitalists in her heart.

She slowly moved back to the whiteboard and tapped the top red circle with her pen.

"Alright, then I'll give a brief report."

She pointed to the red circle.

"The case file clearly states that in this building materials market fraud case from three years ago, the suspect absconded after defrauding customers of 500,000 yuan."

"The police found that the 500,000 yuan went into a private account."

"But what happened next? Within 48 hours, the money was split into dozens of small transfers of a few thousand yuan each."

Song Qianxia quickly drew dozens of divergent short lines on the whiteboard.

"The officers handling the case believed that the suspect was transferring money to different relatives and friends to cash out."

"Because the amounts were too small, and cross-bank investigations were difficult, it eventually became a dead end."

As she finished speaking, she changed the subject and pointed to another blue circle.

"But look at this."

"The fatal fight that occurred last year at an underground casino."

"When the police raided the casino, they seized a batch of POS machines used for chip laundering."

"I glanced at the transaction details of those POS machines."

"There were a lot of loose change, amounting to several thousand yuan, in the account."

"What's more, the timing and amount of these deposits match perfectly with the split transfers in the building materials case."

The entire room fell silent.

Xiao Wang even held his breath and stared wide-eyed at the whiteboard.

Zhao Ming's mouth was wide open.

"You mean, the money from the building materials fraud was laundered in underground casinos?"

"But these two cases weren't committed by the same group of people at all!" Zhao Ming thought this was too outrageous.

"The fraudsters are a few con artists from out of town, while the casino owner is a local tyrant in Jiangcheng. They have absolutely no connection."

Song Qianxia sighed, looking at Zhao Ming with disappointment.

"Deputy Captain Zhao, money laundering and crime are never linked."

She casually drew a large square in the middle of the whiteboard.

"Imagine this box as a huge pool of funds."

"Whether it's money obtained through fraud, robbery, or gambling winnings."

"Once the money enters this pool, it goes through several hedging processes, and what comes out is clean money."

Song Qianxia tapped on the names of those shell companies.

"Haisheng Trading is one of the outlets of this pool of funds."

"The 200,000 yuan settlement fee received by the missing driver's family also came from here."

Gu Tingchen remained silent.

He stared at the whiteboard, his mind rapidly constructing a model of the entire underground gray market in Jiangcheng.

He slowly turned his head only after Song Qianxia finished speaking.

"Therefore, these are not a few isolated cases."

A dangerous glint flashed in Gu Tingchen's eyes.

"Someone has established an absolutely independent underground financial system in Jiangcheng."

"They are providing a one-stop money laundering service for all criminals."

Song Qianxia silently applauded Gu Tingchen in her heart.

This man is truly perceptive.

It's very easy to understand, no need for any unnecessary explanations.

"And there's an even more critical problem," Song Qianxia couldn't help but add.

"Take a close look at these methods of committing the crimes."

She pointed to the building materials case, the casino case, and tonight's convenience store data theft case.

"The methods used in the building materials case were very crude and full of flaws."

"Casino cases are a bit more sophisticated; they know how to use POS machines for hedging."

"By today's convenience store case, they have started using sophisticated methods such as physical theft devices."

Song Qianxia looked at everyone.

"The perpetrators' skill level showed a very clear step-by-step upward trend."

What does this mean?

Xiao Wang scratched his head. "Does that mean these thieves are studying hard and trying to improve themselves every day?"

Song Qianxia rolled her eyes.

"This means it's not the same group of people!"

"The methods used in this crime are too varied and do not fit the behavioral logic of a criminal gang at all."

Song Qianxia's gaze turned serious.

"My assessment is that the mastermind behind this is training different small groups in Jiangcheng."

"It's like leveling up in a game."

"They assign low-level tasks to lower-level gangs, such as defrauding building material companies."

"Assigning casino management tasks to mid-level gangs."

"And the person who installed the burglar device today was definitely a high-end one in their hands."

"Each small group is only responsible for a small link in the entire chain."

"They didn't know each other, and they didn't even know who their ultimate benefactor was."

The moment those words were spoken, the air in the office froze completely.

This goes beyond the scope of ordinary criminal cases.

This tight organizational structure, this hierarchical management model that treats people as tools.

It's absolutely chilling.

Song Qianxia knew exactly what was going on.

Isn't this the most common "outsourced crime structure" in the underworld?

Those bastards, Night Owl, love to play these kinds of tricks that muddy the waters.

They hide behind the scenes and reap the rewards, leaving the outsourced scapegoats to take the fall.

Even if the police manage to catch one link in the chain, they still won't be able to reach the core of the Night Owl.

She was about to blurt out the term "outsourced structure".

He swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue.

That's too low-class; it doesn't fit her character as a useless intern.

Song Qianxia quickly coughed twice and put on an easy-to-understand expression.

"It's like a subcontracting project for a large company."

She gestured as she made things up.

"The head office took the project, broke it down into several parts, and sent them to different outsourcing teams to do."

"The coders don't know what the graphic designers are doing, and the graphic designers don't know what the business development team is doing."

"As long as the work is completed and payment is settled on time, that's fine."

"This is a criminal network operating on the same model as Meituan Waimai!"

Upon hearing this analogy, a hint of admiration appeared in Gu Tingchen's eyes.

He nodded.

"The analogy is very accurate."

"This is a well-established criminal industry chain."

Gu Tingchen turned around and walked to his desk, picking up the landline receiver.

"Zhao Ming, organize these files immediately."

"I'll immediately apply to the bureau to have all the unsolved cases involving unclear fund flows from the past three years investigated together!"

"Since they dare to play this kind of subcontracting game in Jiangcheng."

"Then let's follow this line and uproot their stronghold."

Song Qianxia looked at Gu Tingchen's decisive and efficient manner.

He secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Luckily, we managed to get away with it.

As long as the task force goes all out, Night Owl's days in Jiangcheng will be numbered.

As a salted fish, all she needs to do is hide behind Gu Tingchen, this big tree, and swim!