I am a super cop

Chapter 2886: Is this a familiar taste?

In the car, Gu Chen asked Xu Gang again: "Did this independent investigator tell you anything about the mining area before?"

"Uh..." After hesitating for a while, Xu Gang said slowly:

"The last time the investigator spoke to me, he told me that he had entered the mine, but he did not tell me what was going on inside the mine."

Taking a deep breath, Xu Yang continued to explain: "There is a rule in our industry, that is, when we send you to investigate, you only need to submit the results to us in the form of a report."

“So, generally speaking, the other party will not contact us if the work is not completed.”

"That is to say, when you contacted him for the last time, you didn't get any specific information about the mining area, right?" Gu Chen asked again.

Xu Gang nodded vigorously this time: "Yes, we have also been waiting for the report of the independent investigator."

"However, unfortunately, we have not received any further information and we have suspected that the independent investigators may have encountered an accident in the mine."

"But judging from today's situation, he was indeed very unlucky. However, we cannot be sure whether his drowning was related to the mining area. I am not sure about this. I am just making a rough guess."

"Okay." After hearing what Xu Gang said, Gu Chen felt that it was necessary to have a chat with the bald man and Xu Gonghao.

So Xu Gang walked out of the police car, and Gu Chen waved to Xu Gong, indicating that Xu Gong could come over.

Xu Gong looked around, and was obviously a little nervous. He adjusted his glasses tactically, and then walked to the police car: "Director Gu."

"Get in the car, Mr. Xu," said Gu Chen.

"Oh." Mr. Xu took a deep breath and got into the police car.

Everyone closed the car door. In the closed environment, Gu Chen adjusted the angle of the law enforcement recorder and asked:
"Mr. Xu, this deceased had been to your mine before. You know about this."

"I...I..." Feeling a little guilty, Xu Gong was speechless for a moment.

Lu Weiwei got straight to the point and said, "It was you who told the workers to keep silent about the deceased. It was you who told them to say they had never seen this person when they met outsiders. Is that true?"

Lu Weiwei's words made Xu Gong feel extremely embarrassed.

He smiled bitterly, nodded silently, and said without hesitation: "Yes, I did say that."

"Then why did you lie to us before? You have been deceiving us from the very beginning." Yuan Shasha said unhappily.

Xu Gong felt a little aggrieved and choked up as he said, "I am not doing this for our mine."

"If the investment is not in place, we may not be able to operate here. We don't want any unfavorable factors to exist before the investment negotiations are completed."

After taking a deep breath, Xu Gong continued to explain: "Yes, there are workers in our mine who have seen the deceased. He was indeed wearing our mine work clothes and appeared in the mine."

"But where did he go afterwards? We don't know."

"Moreover, his presence would bring a lot of trouble to our mining area. We didn't know his identity, but in the end, you told me that he had drowned in a nearby reservoir."

Shaking his head, Xu Gong took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes, then put them back on and said:
"Even if this person has been to our mining area and we don't know what he does, he is dead now."

"If I tell you now that he not only came to our mine, but also wore our work clothes, then it is obvious that this is a disaster for our mine."

"The situation was already a mess, and now we have to face your police investigation, and people from the Yuan Group's investment department will appear at our negotiation table at any time."

Spreading his hands, Xu Gong asked Gu Chen: "If this happens, what do you think I should do?"

"Director Gu, if you were me, what would you do? I can't do anything. I can only bite the bullet and ask everyone to keep quiet and say that they haven't seen this guy, that's all."

After a pause, Xu Gong raised his right hand and explained, "But I swear, the drowning of this deceased person has nothing to do with us, and we don't know why he died in the nearby reservoir."

"You can't explain this matter in this way." After hearing what Xu Gong said, Officer Wang also said straight to the point:

"You concealed all kinds of information before, and even colluded with these workers to lie that you had never seen the deceased."

"Now that the deceased has died in the reservoir, you who concealed the truth are the biggest suspects."

"But this matter has nothing to do with us, right?"

"It doesn't matter, why do you lie? Isn't it better to be honest? If you lie, you are the most suspicious, do you know that?" Officer Wang also responded in a stern tone.

As if he felt that he was in the wrong, Xu Gong couldn't raise his head. He sighed heavily and said helplessly:

"I know that the current situation is not favorable to us, but we have already explained everything we need to explain."

"Have you seen this person in the mining area?" Gu Chen suddenly asked.

Xu Gong was stunned for a long time before he slowly said, "No... I haven't seen it."

"Have you really never seen it?" Gu Chen repeated.

Xu Gong could only continue to nod: "Yes, I haven't seen it."

"Call your bald manager over." Upon hearing this, Gu Chen could only ask Engineer Xu to call his colleague over.

Engineer Xu sighed and walked up to the bald manager with heavy steps, motioning him to go into the car to be questioned.

The middle-aged bald man also had mixed feelings at this moment, and came up with a complicated expression.

"Get in the car." Officer Wang reminded.

"Oh." The bald man sighed and got into the car.

Looking at the law enforcement recorder, he smiled and said, "Director Gu, do you have any questions?"

"Do you know this person?" Gu Chen once again showed the photo of the deceased.

This time, the bald man still smiled faintly and said, "Isn't this the deceased you are looking for?"

"I mean, have you seen him in the mining area?" Gu Chen asked coldly.

The bald man was stunned for a long time before he nodded silently and said:
"never seen it."

"Then do you know that he has been to your mining area?" Lu Weiwei asked again.

"do not know."

"Tell the truth." As soon as the bald man finished speaking, Officer Wang reminded him.

The bald man hesitated, thought for a few seconds and then slowly said, "I know."

"Were you the one who asked the miners to say they had never seen this man?" Yuan Shasha asked.

"Yes." It seemed that the police had asked this many questions, so they must have some clues. In addition, when Xu Gong got out of the car earlier, his expression was obviously much uglier.

So the bald man naturally knew that Xu Gong must have explained the problem.

If he still pretended to be ignorant, he would be ignorant of the situation. The bald man was not stupid, he naturally knew that this was wrong.

So after hesitating for a long time, he decided to tell the situation:

"Workers in our mine did see him. He was wearing our work clothes at the time. Many workers thought he was a worker in our mine."

"But in reality, no one knew him. No one paid much attention to him at the time. But now, when you took out the photos, I asked in the group and found that some people had indeed seen him."

"Then why did you ask them to shut up? What exactly do you want to hide?" Officer Wang asked in a blunt tone.

The bald man was a little nervous, and he also said slowly: "I don't want to hide anything, I just want to keep our mine."

"I have told you before that the mining area needs investment. We need that money. We cannot fail at the critical moment. We must get this investment."

"So when you all came to me, in order to avoid affecting our business negotiations, I told them to shut up. That's all."

"But this deceased was wearing your mining work clothes and had come to your mining area before. But he disappeared strangely afterwards and drowned in a nearby reservoir."

"Who do you think is the most suspicious in this situation?"

Officer Wang also laid out the situation and gave the choice to the bald man.

The bald man was very embarrassed at the moment, and he smiled bitterly and said slowly:

"This... this is hard to say."

"What's so awkward about that? Why don't you just say that you are the biggest suspect?" Lu Weiwei also went straight to the point. After all, everyone thought so.

However, the bald man did not refute it, but smiled coldly, and explained wisely:

"It's not wrong for you to think so. After all, this person did appear inside our mine wearing our mine work clothes."

"Now that he's missing and drowned in a nearby reservoir, you can understandably suspect that I did it, but in fact, this incident had nothing to do with me from beginning to end."

Spreading his hands, the bald man continued to explain: "From the beginning to the end, I have no idea what happened here?"

"It was only after you arrived that I learned that this person had appeared in our mining area."

"I... I am really wronged." At this point, the bald man's eyes turned red with grievance, and he said:

"Our boss is under a lot of pressure, and we are under even greater pressure. The investment and operation of the mining area is not like other industries, which require a lot of capital investment and a slow payback period."

"Once the capital chain is broken, a lot of debt will be generated. We really want to dig out the iron ore and make the mine profitable as soon as possible."

"Moreover, our initial investment has been very high, and the benefits are very good."

"That doesn't seem to be the case, right?" Yuan Shasha interrupted as soon as she heard it:
"It seems like the workers here are all pretending to be busy, but in fact, their daily output is very small, and most of them are just slacking off."

"That... that's because the equipment is not good enough. We are purchasing new equipment, but there is a large funding gap, so negotiations in this regard are also ongoing."

"Once the investment amount is in place, we can immediately purchase new equipment."

The bald man has his own explanation.

During the entire investigation process, the bald man communicated with everyone in a pitiful manner.

Everyone then realized that the major shareholder of the mine was the bald man's brother.

The fact that his elder brother handed over the mining area to the bald man for management was already a great enough pressure on him.

In addition, the development funds are like a big hole, requiring continuous capital investment.

Many of the previous major shareholders decided to withdraw their funds because they felt they could not make any money.

Some felt that the investment payback period was too long, and many of the capital investments in other areas also had problems, so they had no choice but to withdraw their funds, causing problems in the mining area's capital chain.

Of course, Gu Chen couldn't believe everything the bald man said. It was only after he had investigated the situation of the bald man's brother that he told the bald man:
"I hope what you said is true. Have you concluded the negotiations with Yuan Group's investment department?"

"No, they are still investigating." said the bald man.

"Then you can continue your work now." Gu Chen said.

The bald man was stunned for several seconds before he bowed to Gu Chen and thanked him:

"Thank you, thank you Director Gu."

After he finished speaking, the bald man quickly walked out of the car and walked towards his colleague.

Lu Weiwei glanced at Gu Chen and asked, "Junior Brother Gu, what are you going to do next?"

"Send the information about the bald man's brother to Senior Brother He, and ask him to help me investigate." While Gu Chen was speaking, he had already sent the relevant information to He Junchao, and then he said:
"This mining area doesn't feel that simple to me. It doesn't feel like it's really going to be mined."

"We have been to some mining areas to handle cases before. Have you ever seen a mining area like this one?"

"No." Lu Weiwei shook her head.

Officer Wang also said without hesitation: "Really not. There is a large mine here. This large mine looks relatively normal, but it feels like it was formed by the main terrain. Many things here are not formed by mining."

"Also, all the workers here are slacking off and pretending to be busy."

"In the final analysis, there is no work to do, but the performance must be done well."

"But how can such a profitable mine be short of funds? That's the problem."

"So we need to investigate the bald man's brother. After all, this mine was invested by his brother. However, I am not sure whether this mine is considered a financial product."

"Senior Brother Gu." After hearing what Gu Chen said, Yuan Shasha quickly asked:
"Are you suspecting that the bald man's brother is illegally raising funds?"

"Yes." Seeing that Yuan Shasha had guessed his thoughts, Gu Chen simply told everyone:

"I suspect that the mine itself has no value, but is valuable because it is called 'mine'."

"With this name, the bald man's brother can use high returns as bait to raise a large amount of illegal funds. So now the mining area cannot have any problems, which means that there is a big problem with the funding chain of the bald man's brother."

Spreading his hands, Gu Chen asked again: "Is it a familiar smell?"

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