Chapter 960: Looking for traces
In fact, there is nothing wrong with Huang Tongyang's handling method. In a place with such a large flow of people as Shengli Port, there are countless things that require the police station to manage every day. Even if there is a homicide case, as long as it is confirmed that the cause of death is not homicide, then everything will go according to procedure. At most, it is just that because of the foreigner status of the deceased, he needs to say hello to the foreign affairs department.
Fu Li also had experience working at the grassroots level, so he did not express doubts or dissatisfaction with Huang Tongyang's statement. He nodded and returned the topic to the case: "I think if it is an emergency, the murderer is using some kind of After suffocating Hassan to death, he might have pushed him into the sea in a panic, but he was obviously calm enough to search Hassan's body without touching his money. , just taking away the train tickets to pretend to be an accidental death and making it more difficult to verify the identity of the deceased afterwards is not something ordinary people can do.”
Fu Li has been working in the Police Department for several years and has been exposed to many cases. Naturally, his ability to figure out the psychology of criminals is not comparable to that of the police officers who maintain law and order at the police station. Although the clues currently available are relatively limited, Fu Li believes that the emergence of this case is not accidental, and there may be some unknown secrets hidden behind it.
Huang Tongyang frowned and said: "The most suspected person now is the person who had dinner with him in Zuixian Tower, but this person's face is unclear. How can we find him?"
Lin Nan then said: "We have not found any more information about that mysterious figure yet, and we still have to find clues from Hassan."
Huang Tongyang cupped his fists and said, "Please give me some advice, Mr. Lin!"
"I don't want to take advice as an advice. I have some ideas. Let's talk about it and ask everyone to refer to it for details." Lin Nan muttered: "We now know that Hassan came to Victory Port three times in four days. In fact, the supporting facilities at Sanya Port are also very complete. Yes, there is no need for him to come here specifically to have a meal. So what was the purpose of Hassan's first two visits to Victory Port? Where else did he go besides Zuixian Tower? Was it to discuss business or visit friends? ”
Fu Li continued: "As for Hassan's purpose of traveling alone, we have carefully questioned his subordinates before, and we can basically confirm that it was not to discuss business, because on the day he arrived in Hong Kong, he had already negotiated a freight forwarding agreement with the Ministry of Commerce. Ship the goods to Thanh Hoa, Annan, and even if you need to purchase bulk goods, you can actually just say hello to the people from the Ministry of Commerce. After all, he just shipped a batch of copper ingots. The Ministry of Commerce is eager to stabilize this channel. He has He will try his best to meet any request. As for whether he is visiting friends, he is not sure, but according to his subordinates, Hassan will definitely take a few people with him when he goes out. "
"Can it be understood that Hassan's intention is not to let his men know where he has been, who he has seen and what he has done." Huang Tongyang added.
Fu Li nodded and said: "I think so too, so what Mr. Lin just said is very important. Where has he been besides Zuixian Tower and who he has met. These are the clues we need to verify next."< br>
Lin Nan sighed: "Just like this, the number of objects we need to investigate will increase several times. This matter is not easy to handle."
The current Port of Victory port area plus the commercial area between Fort Victory and the port area cover an area of at least three to four square kilometers. If we add in the various surrounding official institutions, service facilities, and naturalized residential areas, Then the area will be increased by half on this basis. To investigate the whereabouts of a person in such a large area, the investment of manpower and material resources is not small, and the social impact will be relatively large. Moreover, with the authority of the Shengli Port Police Station, it will definitely not be able to handle this matter. It's over.
Fu Li had been in the system for several years, so he naturally understood the meaning of Lin Nan's words. He nodded and said, "It's no longer enough for just a few of us to do this. We have to report it to the higher ups."
To conduct a large-scale investigation visit in the Victory Port area, the matter must be reported to the leaders of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Security. If necessary, it even needs to be discussed at the executive committee. Although Fu Li and Lin Nan have some authority in their hands, they also know that every inch of land in Victory Port has more or less interests entangled with the leaders. If there is not enough reason to investigate the shops and staff here, It's really easy to offend the big shots above. If this case is to be pursued further, it is best to say hello to the superiors first and get permission before taking further action.
This matter can only be handled by Fu Li and Lin Nan separately. Huang Tongyang's level is not high enough, so after the three people reached an agreement, they immediately split up. Fu Li went to find Ren Liang, and Lin Nan went to Hao Wanqing, each of them applying for permission to expand the investigation.
The office building of the Haihan Ministry of Justice is a three-story gray brick building on the west side of Fort Victory. It is square and shaped like a matchbox. If it weren't for the height of about ten meters, the appearance of this office building would be quite inconspicuous.
At present, the Ministry of Justice is headed by Gu Kai and Ren Liang, who serve as chief and deputy officers respectively. This is one of the few departments with two executive committee members serving as full-time leaders. However, due to the relatively limited number of professionals, public security agencies, prosecutors, and judicial agencies are all under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice, and Ren Liang is responsible for public security affairs and related agencies.
Ren Liang not only managed the hard labor camp before, but also served as the director of the Port Management Committee of Shengli Port for a period of time. It can be said that he is still very familiar with the grassroots affairs of port operations, so after reading the report submitted by Fu Li , and have a more thorough understanding of this incident.
"Do you think there is another hidden story in this case besides murder?" Ren Liang asked Fu Li with interest.
"I have carefully checked the background of Hassan. In the past few years, he has come to Sanya once or twice a year, but he has never heard of any local relatives, friends or personal grudges. He leaves every time after completing a purchase and sale transaction. , the longest time he stayed here was no more than a week. The murderer had already thought about the way and place of his attack before he started. He led him to the sparsely populated dock area and then arranged the scene to look like he was drunk and had slipped and drowned. He was so thoughtful. , and using such a complicated method, I think it is very unlikely that he died due to personal grudges." Fu Li paused and expressed his conclusion: "I think he was killed because he knew some kind of secret. Silenced.”
Ren Liang took another look at the report and said slowly: "You mentioned that Hassan's main trading partners in the past few years were us and the Spanish in Manila?" "Yes, but there is no evidence to prove this yet. It has something to do with the Spaniards," Fu Li responded cautiously. So far, this case is still a homicide, but if a Spaniard is involved, it may be something more than simple. Fu Li also knew that the Haihan Militia only took action against the Spaniards last year. It can be said that the two sides are still in a state of war, so he did not dare to casually connect this case with the Spaniards.
Ren Liang smiled and said, "Don't think I'm being alarmist. Someone from the Ministry of Security has asked for instructions on this case, right? Based on their work habits, I guess Hao Wanqing's conspiracy theory will definitely come out again."
Since the Danzhou assassination in 1631 and the Shilu riots in the same year, the Ministry of Security has stepped up its efforts to arrest intelligence agents from outside forces who have infiltrated Hainan Island. There is also more involvement in the case handling process. Even the monthly inspection teams organized by the Ministry of Justice include representatives from the Ministry of Security like Lin Nan, whose purpose is to pay attention to cases that have been missed by the security agencies.
Although this approach may seem a little overwhelming, it has indeed solved several espionage cases. Ren Liang didn't have any objections to this, but Gu Kai had always complained about the excessive authority of the Security Department. After all, except for the rare occasions when the Security Department needed police assistance to arrest people and handle cases, they basically solved it on their own, and often in a row. No action was taken to inform the Ministry of Justice, and it was just called "confidentiality needs".
Once the Ministry of Security encounters a case that the Ministry of Security believes has intelligence suspicion, it will take corresponding actions, summon or arrest relevant personnel to go back for interrogation, and even use some extra-legal means to solve the problem when necessary. In this case, even Fu Li noticed the strangeness of the case. Ren Liang believed that an old fox like Hao Wanqing would definitely not ignore such details, and would classify this case as requiring direct intervention from the Ministry of Security. extent. Of course, even if the Ministry of Security does not take this lead, the police will still investigate and handle this case step by step, but the intensity may be more limited.
Ren Liang asked some more detailed questions about the case, then asked Fu Li to go out and wait while he dialed Hao Wanqing's number. After some communication on the phone, the two big bosses made a decision to set up a joint task force, with Fu Li and Lin Nan jointly responsible. At the same time, the two departments each assigned several backbones who are good at criminal detective cases to join in and investigate Persia. The unexpected death of businessman Hassan launched further investigation in an effort to find out the truth behind the death.
However, this in-depth investigation was not carried out in the form of large-scale visits and inspections. On the day after the two departments made the decision, newly posted rewards could be seen everywhere on the streets of the Victory Port area and adjacent commercial districts. Missing person notice.
The content of this notice is to find the whereabouts of Hassan, a Persian businessman who has recently disappeared in the local area. It details his appearance, grooming, etc. Anyone who can provide clues will receive a reward ranging from 50 to 500 yuan depending on the importance of the clue. If the clues provided can directly lead to the person involved, a reward of two thousand yuan will be given. Of course, no one can take away the two thousand yuan. After all, Hassan's body was cremated after a comprehensive autopsy was completed, and all Hassan's men were temporarily placed under house arrest. All personnel involved in handling the case, including the Inspection Department, and even the staff of the Ministry of Commerce and Zuixian Tower who Fu Li and Lin Nan visited and inquired a few days ago, were all given a gag order.
As for the people who reported the report and watched at the pier that day, because they did not know the inside story of the investigation, they did not connect the body with the reward notice, because the unit stated under the notice to co-organize the matter was the Haihan Police Secretary, the police will never be so idle as to put a reward on a corpse that they have already sent out to collect.
The task force believes that a foreigner like Hassan has been strutting around in the Victory Port area for several days. It is impossible that no one noticed his existence. If a reward is offered in the name of finding missing persons, it will not only save the time required to launch a large-scale investigation. A lot of manpower and time might work wonders.
Sure enough that afternoon, several people reported various clues about Hassan to the police. Of course, some of them were true and some were false, but for the police who had a rough grasp of Hassan's itinerary, it was not difficult to distinguish the true from the false. The task force quickly screened out several pieces of information that matched the time and location, and then began to conduct in-depth investigation.
One piece of information attracted the attention of Fu Li and Lin Nan, because after comparing the reported information, more than one person testified about this piece of information, and the time and place were relatively consistent, and it was consistent with Hassan's itinerary.
"Shopkeeper Wang of the Piaoxiangyoujiang Shop on the Second Branch of Landscape Avenue saw a man with a similar appearance to Hassan entering the street on January 23, the afternoon of the day Hassan arrived at Sanya Port. The Nanyang Pavilion opposite. He remembered this because after that, a customer couldn't get change for the payment, so he went to the Nanyang Pavilion opposite for help and saw the man talking to the shopkeeper Su of the Nanyang Pavilion. "
"Another clue came from the servant of the Persian envoy who lived in the guest house. He met Hassan on the Landscape Avenue that day. Seeing that he looked like a compatriot, he went up to say hello, and the two even talked. A few words. According to him, Hassan was going to a store to consign the gems he purchased from Java, and the only store selling luxury goods nearby happened to be Nanyang Pavilion."
After Fu Li finished reading, he put down the information and said to Lin Nan: "If Shopkeeper Wang saw that the person entering Nanyang Pavilion was Hassan, then the time is basically consistent with another clue. According to the clues we have previously grasped, Hassan should He took the train back to Sanya Port after not staying long. He had dinner with his men that day. It is possible that Nanyang Pavilion was his destination in Victory Port that day.”
"It's Nanyang Pavilion..." Lin Nan responded, but did not continue.
"What's wrong with this store?" Fu Li noticed something strange about Lin Nan and asked.
"This store... is an industry under the name of Qiong Lianfa, and part of the shares are in the hands of some big leaders." Lin Nan said in a deep voice: "It doesn't matter if you investigate the murder case, I'm just afraid of finding something that shouldn't be investigated. …”
(End of chapter)