Chapter 289 Major Clues
It rained all night and was still falling.
Linjiang City is filled with mist and shrouded in mist, coupled with the low sky, making people breathless.
A black off-road vehicle parked on the roadside in front of the court for an hour.
Subsequently, another police car with the word "Public Security" printed on the body drove over. Kang Berlin and a man wearing a prison guard uniform got out of the car, walked to the side of the black off-road vehicle, and knocked on the door.
Luo Rui opened the car door and asked, "How was it?"
"Said in the car." Kang Bailin opened the back seat door.
The back seat was empty, so he got into the car with the prison guard and closed the door tightly with a bang.
Kang Bolin immediately introduced: "This is the deputy warden of Linjiang Prison, Luo Bo."
Luo Rui was sitting in the passenger seat. He quickly reached out his hand and shook it. grip.
"Hello, Warden Luo."
Luo Bo smiled: "Hello, Team Leader Luo. When I came here, I even checked the genealogy. We are from the same clan."
"Really?" Luo Rui was surprised.
"Is your grandpa's name Luo Bingwen? He used to be a scholar?"
"That's what happened." Luo Rui looked at the other person carefully, Luo Bo was in his forties Years old, tall and strong, in the prime of life, but the hair on the temples is a bit gray.
"The genealogy of my family contains the name of your great-grandfather, but he was later separated, and the names of his descendants are not recorded. When I have time, I will give you a genealogy, and you can take a look at it then."< br>
"Okay, thank you then." Luo Rui did not refuse. Judging from the seriousness of what he said, it should not be a lie.
Besides, a deputy warden is considered to be at the deputy county level according to local standards, so there is no need to get close to him. Although it is called Linjiang Prison, it is not under the management of Linjiang City, but directly managed by the Haidong Provincial Prison Administration Bureau.
Seeing that the two people were familiar with each other, Kang Bolin said: "Let's talk business."
Luo Rui pondered: "I just came out of the court, and the people inside told me that the boss of the coal mine After Xin Zongliang fled, Hong Bo was found to be the person responsible for the major accident. He forced production in the coal mine despite knowing that there were safety hazards, causing six miners to be buried underground, and none of them survived. They said there was no possibility of a reduced sentence. "
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Kang Bolin asked: "Will you tell them the details of the case in our hands?"
Luo Rui spread his hands: "I said, it is precisely because they heard this that they did not let go."< br>
Although the words were very cryptic, several people in the car understood it.
"How is it over there in the prison?" Luo Rui asked.
Kang Bolin looked at Luo Bo, who shook his head: "There was a meeting this morning, and the prison did not agree with Hong Bo's commutation of his sentence."
“What’s the reason?”
“It’s because Hong Bo didn’t behave well in prison.”
“Why did he behave badly?”
“Hong Bo once had a relationship with a fellow prisoner. The prisoners in the cell had a fight, and it was almost He stabbed the other person with a sharpened toothbrush handle." Luo Bo hesitated, and then said: "Not only that, I'm afraid you may not be able to see him next time you visit the prison..."
Luo Rui sighed. Take a breath, turn around, and lean back on the chair.
Kang Bolin said discouraged: "Is there really nothing we can do? Luo Rui, when you went to the prison yesterday, you didn't just meet him. What did Wang Guoxiao say?"
"He doesn't know anything. Hong Bo is right in what he said, a prisoner sentenced to life, He really knows more than a person sentenced to twenty years in prison."
"What should we do now? If Hong Bo doesn't speak, we won't find out the truth."
Luo Rui said nothing. , he thought for a moment, then turned around and smiled.
Kang Bolin looked at his smiling face: "You can still laugh, Luo Rui, this case has such great resistance, what should we do now? I made several phone calls yesterday, what the above means Yes, tell us to catch the murderer as soon as possible, hand the murderer to the prosecutor's office, and stop worrying about other matters."
Luo Rui curled his lips and looked at Luo Bo.
"Warden Luo, we can't contact Hong Bo. You should be able to see him, right?"
Luo Bo blinked and was shocked: "Do you want to..."< br>
Luo Rui pondered: "What I mean is that last night, Hong Bo sat down and asked for a price, wanting to reduce his sentence. Of course, this was his best plan, but now, the situation The situation is different. It is not a matter of commutation or not, but a matter of saving life!
He should know who he is provoking and how deep the involvement is. If he wants to be safe in prison! It's best to wait and tell us what he knows, otherwise, as we continue to investigate further, he will become more and more dangerous
If you want to survive, it's best to tell him what he knows honestly. ”
Hearing this, Kang Bailin slapped his knee and looked at Luo Bo with burning eyes.
Luo Bo hesitated, looking very embarrassed.
Luo Rui’s The meaning is obvious. If you want him to trick Hong Bo, and in the current situation, only he can contact the other party.
But if you do this and let your own people know, it will be difficult in the future. .
Seeing his embarrassment, Kang Bolin quickly persuaded him: "Warden Luo, we are all policemen. Although we have different divisions of labor, our goals are the same, which is to uphold justice and reduce criminals and silverfish in society.
< br>We have known each other for so long Now, I know who you are and you have a hot heart. I believe you will make a wise choice."
Luo Bo was not moved by his sweet words. He thought for a long time and looked at it. He glanced at Kang Bolin, then looked at Luo Rui, silent for a long time.
Kang Bolin was anxious: "Lao Luo, please stop writing. If you agree or disagree, please give me a word."
Luo Bo gritted his teeth: "Team Leader Luo, I want a promise .”
Seeing his eager look, Luo Rui quickly leaned forward and turned his face.
Luo Bo stood up from his seat, put his head on the roof of the car, and whispered to Luo Rui for a while.
After finishing speaking, Luo Rui took out his mobile phone without saying a word, opened the car door, got out of the car and made a call.
Fang Yonghui, the main driver, quickly got out of the car, opened the handle and wanted to give it to him, but he refused.
Kang Bolin was a little confused. He looked at Luo Bo suspiciously, who leaned back in his chair, his face heavy and his eyes closed.
About ten minutes later, Luo Rui opened the car door.
Luo Bo immediately opened his eyes, his eyes burning.
"Warden Luo, your phone number."
Luo Bo quickly opened the car door, jumped out of the car, took the phone with both hands, and trotted to the steps.
Behind him is the court building, with long steps, looking solemn and solemn.
The rain fell on Luo Bo's head, but he didn't care.
After a while, Luo Bo hung up the phone and returned the phone to Luo Rui with a smile.
"Team Leader Luo, thank you, don't think that I want to..."
Luo Rui quickly waved his hand to stop him from continuing: "If it were me, I would do the same For the sake of your own future, there is nothing wrong with what you did."
After the call was finished, Kang Bolin also got out of the car. He heard Luo Rui ask: "When can you get Hong Bo's confession? "
Luo Bo replied: "Hong Bo changed cells this morning. He has been held in solitary confinement. At the latest, I will give you news tomorrow morning, but his confession cannot be used as evidence."
"Then Of course."
"Okay, I'll go first." Luo Bo looked at Kang Berlin and nodded with a smile.
"Okay!" Luo Rui responded.
Luo Bo walked to the police car and opened the door. Just as he was about to get in the car, he suddenly said: "Team Leader Luo, based on seniority, we are brothers."
Luo Rui grinned: "Yes, we are brothers!"
After he got in the car and left, Luo Rui's face immediately turned cold.
Seeing this, Kang Bolin hesitated for a moment and asked: "What conditions did you agree to him?"
"It wasn't me, it was Wu Ting."
" Huh?”
"There is no free lunch in the world. This brother of mine is very ambitious."
After finishing, Luo Rui and Kang Bolin got in the car together and rushed back to the city bureau.
In the conference room, all four criminal police brigades were present. After more than ten hours of investigation, the full picture of the case had been unfolded.
The captain of the first team, Zhang Qianghui, reported: "Wang Chu, team leader Luo, and Kang detachment, we have investigated all the accounts of Jiuling Coal Mine. In addition to the collapse accident eleven years ago, there are also There are suspicions of falsifying accounts, engaging in pornography, and involving..."
At this time, the conference room was silent, the door was closed, and only a few people responsible for the investigation were present.
Luo Rui raised his head, turned the marker in his hand, and glanced at Lin Chen's laptop. The computer's camera was turned on, and the faces of Zhu Yong and Wu Chaoxiong appeared on the screen.
Wang Mu, who was sitting aside, said: "It doesn't matter if you say so."
Zhang Qiang carefully said a few names, one of which was Yang Xudong.
Luo Rui knows this person.
Wang Mu glanced at the words that appeared on the computer screen and said to Zhang Qiang: "Give the information to the anti-tank bureau and the accounts to the economic detachment. We have no control over this matter!"
"Okay!" Zhang Qiang nodded quickly and let out a long sigh of relief. He was also afraid of getting into trouble.
“Furthermore, through visits and investigation, we investigated the use of illegal labor in coal mines, and one of the relevant people was Shi Mingdong, who is the logistics director of Jiuling Coal Mine.”
"Have you been interrogated?" Luo Rui asked.
“Not yet.”
“Ignore him for a while. If you don’t believe me, he won’t speak.”
Then the captain of the Second Brigade reported: "We investigated that after Liu Jiafu and Ding Li were laid off from the cotton mill, they started running buses in 1990. During this period, no evidence was found that they abducted children. However, in May 1997, the Anti-Human Trafficking Office A human trafficker was caught on their bus..."
Information about the relevant events appeared on the big screen, with photos of the human trafficker and the missing children on it.
The trafficker is a middle-aged woman with a child about two years old in her arms.
In addition, there were scenes of police arresting people on buses.
Luo Rui asked: "Where is this trafficker now?"
"This woman was only sentenced to five years. She was released from prison long ago. Now she can't be found."
"Damn!" Luo Rui cursed.
Wang Mu analyzed: "It should be from this time that Liu Jiafu and Ding Li began to engage in child trafficking."
The captain of the Second Brigade said: "From the evidence we searched Look, it should be like this, because in 1999, the couple bought a bus and put it under the name of a bus transportation company. According to the person in charge of the company, he The time it takes for each trip is twice as long as others, and we have found passengers who have taken this bus many times. According to their memories, Ding Li always held her child in her arms and pretended to be a passenger. Not only that, At the beginning of 1999, there were eight children in their bus, ranging in age from thirteen to fifteen years old.”
Hearing this, Luo Rui quickly asked: "Is there a list of these people?"
"No, no one knows their names or where they come from, and there are no adults around. We took care of them, but we found a rest stop during transportation. According to the owner of the bus rest stop, these children were all in rags and were malnourished."
Lin Chen said in shock: "Eight children. ? They are too brave to kidnap so many people at one time! Don't these children resist? "
Luo Rui shook his head and explained: "They should be beggars, these children have no parents, or they are Due to family changes, they left home and wandered outside.
They were underage, had no identity cards, and could not find a job. They had to travel around all day just for a bite to eat.
Maybe they happened to be met by Liu Jiafu, who coaxed them into finding jobs for them, and then sold them to Jiuling Coal Mine. "
Lin Chen clenched his fists and cursed: "What a beast! ”
At this time, Wu Chaoxiong on the computer screen was leaning back in his chair, with a solemn expression and a slight frown.
When Lin Chen saw his appearance, he quickly stuck out his tongue.
Wu Chaoxiong rolled his eyes at her
Wang Mu said: "It would be great if there was a list of these children."
Although he said this, he understood that it would be extremely difficult to find out the names of these people unless he found one of them. a certain person.
"How was the interrogation by Kou Tao and Wu Qiang?" Luo Rui asked.
The captain of the third brigade stood up and replied: "We kept them up all night and recruited them all. In addition to their previous confessions, they confessed the true identity of the man named Nie Lin.
< br>Eleven years ago, this Nie Lin was an illegal worker in Jiuling Coal Mine. He was only 15 years old at that time. This is his sketch..."
The person's face immediately appeared on the big screen, and after zooming in, his face could be clearly seen.
This is a young face, with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, and long hair.
When the car exploded, his eyes were captured by the roadside surveillance camera.
Compared with each other, their eyes are exactly the same, it is indeed this person.
The captain of the third brigade continued: "There are many illegal workers in Jiuling Coal Mine, most of them without ID cards. Kou Tao and Wu Qiang knew Nie Lin, and as for the others, he didn't know them.
The place where illegal workers work is different from theirs, and the work area is separated by barbed wire, so they are not allowed to come into contact with it. ”
“Why hire these underage children? "Wang Mu asked.
" Kou Tao said that because some dangerous jobs require people to perform them, in addition to being cheap, those illegal workers do not need to pay a large sum of money even if they die. After they have eliminated the danger, they will let regular workers start mining. In this way, the risk of casualties to regular workers can be reduced. "
"Even so, eleven years ago, it still caused a collapse accident and six workers died? What is the cause of this? "
Komblin took out a piece of information, looked at it, and replied: "This is a previous file. It says that after water seeped underneath the mine, the rock wall failed to support it, causing the collapse. ”
Luo Rui squinted his eyes: "Could it be man-made?"
"Huh?"
Luo Rui buried his doubts in his heart and didn't say much.
But the seeds of doubt rose in everyone's heart.
If Jiuling Coal Mine first used illegal workers to detect dangers, then why did it lead to a collapse accident later?
To put it more cruelly, if those who died were illegal workers, these people had no identity and no one cared about them, wouldn’t it be...
Also, when I went to the prison yesterday, Hong Bo once said that the death toll was far more than , where are these black workers now? This is what Luo Rui is most concerned about right now.
Wang Mu broke everyone's silence and asked: "Did Kou Tao say how many people there are in these black tools?"
The third captain shook his head: "He doesn't know either. The accommodations are all separated. "
"Okay, sit down." Wang Mu looked at the captain of the Fourth Brigade: "Have you found out why Nie Lin killed Liu Jinhan and Zhang Shirong? Has the background been checked? ”
"Wang Chu, Liu Jinhan and Zhang Shirong have something in common. They are gangsters and have criminal records. They have no contact with Jiuling Coal Mine. I suspect that Nie Lin simply wants to kill them."
These words Meaning, he found nothing.
Seeing the other party's embarrassed look, Luo Rui raised his hand: "I agree with this point of view. Nie Lin is probably the beggar Liu Jiafu sold to the coal mine. These beggars are often bullied by local gangsters. It should just be people who are simply seeking revenge..."
Luo Rui didn't finish all his words. Judging from Nie Lin's behavior, I'm afraid there was more.
Such a person feels that he has suffered too much injustice, and I am afraid he will not have a good impression of the police, otherwise he would not do these things.
The focus of the investigation has now shifted to the collapse of the Jiuling Coal Mine eleven years ago.
Wang Mu took people to the abandoned coal mine immediately, hoping to find the real cause of the accident and the list of those who worked illegally.
As long as one of them is found, the truth of the case may be revealed.
Half an hour later, in the interrogation room.
Shi Mingdong held a plush hat in his hand and sat in the chair uneasily.
His eyes were wandering and he looked nervous.
The door of the interrogation room was suddenly pushed open, and he stood up quickly, hunching his back.
After Luo Rui came in, he looked at him and pointed to the chair: "Please sit down."
"Officer, I have been sitting for long enough, why did you call me here? Something?"
"I know you are in a hurry, but don't worry yet," Luo Rui replied, and then sat in the chair opposite Fang Yonghui.
"Your name is Shi Mingdong?"
"Yes!"
"You really don't know why we are looking for you?"
Shi Mingdong swallowed a mouthful of saliva and lowered his head. Then shook his head.
Luo Rui took the information handed over by Fang Yonghui, looked at it, and said: "Jiuling Coal Mine used to be a state-owned mine, and you were also a working worker. Later, after it was contracted to Xin Zongliang, you continued to work. You worked as the logistics director at the coal mine until you retired one year after the coal mine was abandoned. Did you still get the retirement benefits of a staff member? ”
"Yes!" Shi Mingdong nodded.
"You are in charge of logistics, you should know what Jiuling Coal Mine has been trying to cover up, right?"
Hearing this, Shi Mingdong immediately raised his head, his eyes filled with fear.
"No, no, I'm just in charge of logistics. Major matters are handled by the production mine director and the safety mine director. It's not my turn."
Luo Rui smiled and said: "Ha, You are still pushing things away, so let me ask you, is hiring underage workers a big deal or a small matter?”
"Ah?" The plush hat in Shi Mingdong's hand fell on the table.
Cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and the wrinkles on his face were tight.
Luo Rui stared at him closely: "Shi Mingdong, let me tell you the truth, I just came back from prison. Hong Wei has already confessed everything to the police. He has left everything he knows. We are looking for you now, you know The reason? ”
"Hong Chang..." Shi Mingdong said hesitantly: "Did Hong Wei really tell you?"
Luo Rui threw a piece of information on the table to him: "This is his confession... …”
Shi Mingdong picked it up tremblingly and read only a few lines before Luo Rui took it away.
"I'm sorry, I almost forgot, I can't show you this."
Shi Mingdong hesitated for a while, and then raised his head as if he had made up his mind: "This matter is hidden in my I have been thinking about it for more than ten years. Now that the police have found me, I won’t hide it anymore. Jiuling Coal The mine did employ underage workers!"
Seeing him relax, Luo Rui leaned forward and asked, "How many people are there in total?"
"No ID cards? There are 11 adults and 5 minors, all of whom are teenagers.”
Luo Rui glanced at the tripod camera. The red light was on, indicating that it was recording.
Fang Yonghui also began to record with a brush.
"How do you know so clearly?"
Shi Mingdong's eyes did not dodge, and he replied: "Because I am responsible for their three meals a day."
" How many people know about this? ”
"Many people know that coal mines employ illegal workers. This is normal. This happens in any coal mine. But the only ones who know about the existence of those children are Xin Zongliang, Hong Wei and me!
I didn't know it at first , but Hong Wei asked me to take care of it After dealing with these people, I realized that among these black workers there were half-grown children. They were all beggars who were sold into the mines.
The work they did was very dangerous and hard. , they were the first batch after the mine was blasted Go down into the well, eliminate the danger, and wait until it is safe before letting the formal workers go down to work..."
Seeing him pause, Luo Rui was about to ask a question, but Shi Mingdong spoke again: "These illegal workers have a very difficult life. , adults without ID cards can They received some very low wages, but those children didn't get a penny. They were just responsible for their meals.
And several of them wanted to run away, but they were chased by several of Hong Wei's subordinates. Come back and beat him to death
There are two older children among them, and..."
"What else happened? "
Shi Mingdong sighed: "They were beaten to death by the security personnel at the mine! "
Luo Rui was shocked: "Who did it? Say their names! "
"I only remember the name of one person, the brother-in-law of the boss Xin Zongliang. He is the security captain of the mine, named Jia Quan. ”
"Where are the bodies of the two children buried?"
Shi Mingdong shook his head: "I don't know, Hong Wei should know. After the death, Jia Quan called Hong Wei immediately."< br>
“After the coal mine closed down, do you know where these illegal workers went?”
“I don’t know, because There was a collapse accident and six workers died, so Xin Zongliang and others were afraid that these people would be found, so they quickly dismissed them.
But those underage children had no homes and no money. If we let them go, they won't get far, but I haven't seen them in the town.
I suspect..."
Luo Rui's eyes were sharp and he asked: "What do you suspect? "
Shi Mingdong took a deep breath and met Luo Rui's gaze.
He replied word for word: "I suspect they are all dead, because the one that collapsed at that time was not A mine..."
Hearing this, Luo Rui suddenly stood up, feeling that all the blood in his body froze.
(End of this chapter)