In name only: The land of Handong, I shall rule its fate.

If you refuse a toast, you'll have to drink the penalty cup!

"It seems you're quite confident in using overseas accounts to transfer benefits to them!"

Hou Liangping sneered, "But have you considered that your overseas accounts have long been under the surveillance of relevant authorities?"

What!

Gu Beilou's expression finally changed.

How is that possible?

For domestic authorities to investigate overseas accounts, it takes at least 2-3 months from filing a case to confirming the tracking.

However, it has only been a little over a month since the subway line demolition project was approved.

The anti-corruption bureau doesn't have time to investigate!

Unless he was being watched from the very beginning.

"Well done, Director Hou. I admit defeat."

"I admit that I induced the heads of the other three major urban construction companies to withdraw from this bidding process by transferring money through overseas accounts."

"I am guilty! Judge me!"

After reading the account information on the document, Gu Beilou accepted it without hesitation.

He was decisive and ruthless, abandoning himself in a clean and efficient manner.

Ha ha!

Hou Liangping sneered repeatedly, a bloodthirsty crimson gleam in his eyes. His target had changed the moment he obtained the detailed information about the overseas account.

What's the point of investigating a private real estate and urban construction boss? It's irrelevant to him. But the information conveyed by his overseas accounts is quite interesting.

"We found it."

"Your overseas account regularly transfers profits to an offshore company through fictitious transactions, and that offshore company is disguised in several layers and controls a family trust fund."

"The trust fund regularly makes payments to certain sub-accounts. Is this fund controlled by the Chen family?"

Hou Liangping asked in a cold voice.

"Director Hou, I don't understand what you're talking about."

Gu Beilou changed his previous attitude of admitting guilt, but this only confirmed Hou Liangping's suspicions.

"Chen Qunfang said that because you were a bad influence in your youth and led your brothers astray, your adoptive father, Chen Guohua, severed ties with you?"

Hou Liangping's tone underwent a complete transformation from calm to vehement questioning, with each step precisely hitting the other party's sweet spot:

"Are you ashamed and unable to face Old Chen, who raised you?"

"Or are you saying that all your actions were actually carried out under Chen Guohua's instructions, and that you were protecting him?"

you fart!

"Who do you think you are, you surnamed Hou?"

Gu Beilou's expression was ferocious, with veins bulging on his neck, and he was furious. "Old Chen is a senior figure who has come through the storms of Handong. He has shed blood and tears for the development of Handong, and he is also a retired senior cadre at the ministerial level."

"I admit I haven't studied well and I'm ashamed of Mr. Chen's teachings, but how dare you!"

"A mere anti-corruption bureau chief dares to use me as a scapegoat to attack Old Chen!"

"I'm going to the capital to sue you!"

"I'm going to report you to the Supreme People's Procuratorate!"

Angry roars echoed endlessly in the quiet interrogation room.

"Look at you, always in such a hurry!"

Hou Liangping, who was being scolded, felt no shame or anger, but rather a sense of pleasure. Yes, that's exactly how he felt!

Listen to the beautiful sounds of the desperate cries of the rotten.

Even the frustration and anger from being brutally attacked by Lü Liang in the face became insignificant amidst these mournful cries.

"As a cadre cultivated by the organization, I always uphold the morality and qualities that a director of the anti-corruption bureau should have."

"The speculation about Mr. Chen is entirely based on your close relationship with Chen Qunshan. After all, the photos clearly show Mr. Chen's grandson, Chen Qunshan, hosting a banquet for the head of the urban construction company with you."

"Therefore, my inference is reasonable."

"If this has negatively impacted Mr. Chen's reputation, you, as the culprit, should reflect on your actions."

"It is your actions that have tarnished Mr. Chen's reputation."

"Old Chen raised you, a wicked person, during those difficult years. He should have raised a piece of barbecued pork instead."

Gu Beilou was so angry that his whole body was trembling.

"If you don't want to ruin the clean reputation that Mr. Chen has built up over a lifetime, then you should honestly confess your illegal acts."

Hou Liangping first stepped on it and stomped it into the stinking ditch, then judged it as an absolute righteous person.

"Director Hou, can we trust Gu Beilou's testimony?"

The interrogation room door was closed.

Hou Liangping and Zhang Tianyi, the deputy director in charge of investigating Gu Beilou, left one after the other, and in the end, Gu Beilou took all the blame alone.

"Oh!"

Hou Liangping scoffed and retorted, "How could an orphan who truly left the Chen family, with no connections, no capital, and no education, build a real estate company to such a scale? Would the heads of three state-owned enterprises abandon such a large bidding project because of a private real estate executive?"

"Director Hou is wise."

Zhang Tianyi sincerely offered flattery.

"Stop with the empty talk."

Hou Liangping paused slightly and instructed, "Go and do a few things."

"Get all the information about the Chen family, including Chen Guohua, including their jobs, income, living standards, etc. Don't let anything slip by."

"This 'everyone' should include Chen Guohua's adopted sons, and even the adopted sons of Chen Guohua's children."

Zhang Tianyi seemed to understand something, then quickly nodded. "Director Hou, do you suspect the Chen family is involved in family-style corruption and crime?"

"It's hard to say."

"Go and take care of it first."

Hou Liangping shook his head. "I'll go find Sha Shu... I'll go report to Deputy Chief Prosecutor Lü first."

Lüliang was mentioned again.

Hou Liangping's expression darkened again. Secretary Madesha had given him the power to investigate the case, but without Ji Changming's protection, this power was becoming increasingly difficult.

He had no doubt that if he dared to bypass Lü Liang and report directly to Secretary Sha, Lü Liang could use his disobedience to his superiors as grounds to report to Gao Yuliang or even the provincial party committee.

Damn it!

This is so frustrating!

Hou Liangping was in a very bad mood, and since credit was taken from every step that went through a certain stage, it would be taken away from him.

Damn it!

The case you painstakingly investigated might have all the credit going to someone else.

Day n of missing Xiao Ai…

Boom!

Despite his displeasure, Hou Liangping had no choice but to knock on Lü Liang's office door.

"Did you find anything?"

Lü Liang raised an eyebrow and asked the question directly.

"Gu Beilou confessed to bribing the head of the state-owned urban construction company and took full responsibility for the overseas accounts, offshore companies, and trust funds."

"Prosecutor Lü, this is his testimony and signature."

Hou Liangping handed over the interrogation records, but Lü Liang didn't even look at them.

This thing…

Even a dog wouldn't believe it.

Tell me your plans.

Lü Liang said directly.

"I would like to request Secretary Gao and the Provincial Party Committee to initiate an investigation into Chen Guohua, the former chairman of the Provincial Association, and his children."

Hou Liangping hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"I support it in principle."

Lü Liang readily returned the interrogation record and said calmly, "But now Chief Prosecutor Ji and Deputy Chief Prosecutor Lin are both under investigation and unable to preside over the work. I have many other matters to attend to and need to cooperate with Director Li and Team Leader Huang's investigations, so I am truly powerless to do so."

"How about this!"

"Go directly to Secretary Gao or Secretary Sha."