Chapter 337 The mastermind appears
With the arrival of investigators from the Holy Land and the Divine Palace, the progress of the investigation has been significantly accelerated.
At the same time, after repeated interrogations, the confessions of Zhao Jian, director of the Provincial Department of Land and Resources, and others were finally obtained, and they confessed to two other people in the case.
One of them is Wei Minzhou, secretary of the Chang'an Municipal Party Committee, and the other is Chen Liqun, chairman of the Chang'an Municipal CPPCC.
When Qi Tongwei learned the news, he immediately ordered people to arrest the two men.
However, they were still a step too late.
When Li Chengyang and others arrived, they found that Wei Minzhou had "committed suicide" in his apartment.
"Suicide?" Qi Tongwei frowned and asked in confusion.
"Well, according to the forensic findings, it was confirmed that Wei Minzhou died from swallowing a large amount of sleeping pills, but I always feel that things are not that simple." Li Chengyang replied in a low voice.
He was suspicious about the cause of Wei Minzhou's death and always felt that there was an unknown secret hidden in it.
"Let's go and see Wei Minzhou's body together." Qi Tongwei said solemnly.
He had a bad feeling in his heart, as if there was an invisible hand behind the scenes manipulating everything and trying to interfere with their investigation process.
The forensic report clearly pointed out that based on certain characteristics of the body, it can be determined that Wei Minzhou did die from an overdose of sleeping pills.
However, Qi Tongwei always had an indescribable strange feeling in his heart, feeling that things were not that simple.
So he decided to conduct a detailed examination of the body himself.
Suddenly, he noticed that there were obvious signs of beating in Wei Minzhou's cervical triangle area (i.e. the carotid sinus) (once this place is hit, it will inevitably lead to coma).
Qi Tongwei immediately wrote down this detail calmly and continued to check other parts.
Although no abnormalities were found in other places, based solely on the abnormal conditions in Wei Minzhou's cervical triangle area, Qi Tongwei could conclude that the cause of Wei Minzhou's death was by no means as simple as it seemed.
For fear of alerting the enemy, Qi Tongwei did not point out this discovery on the spot.
Afterwards, he quietly took a small blood sample from Wei Minzhou and prepared to send it to the Security Department for testing and analysis.
"Secretary Qi, have you noticed anything unusual?" Li Chengyang asked when he saw Qi Tongwei being so cautious.
"Well, Wei Minzhou was hit in the cervical triangle area before his death, so I don't think it's as simple as suicide." Qi Tongwei expressed his judgment.
Li Chengyang came from the public security department, so he naturally understood what changes would occur if this place was hit.
"Cheng Yang, take a few soldiers to the Ministry of Security and ask Minister Kuang to have this tested." Qi Tongwei was not planning to send the things to the Ministry of Public Security.
He was worried that the other side also had people in the Ministry of Public Security, and the security department was the safest.
"Yes, Secretary Qi." Li Chengyang took the blood sample solemnly.
After returning to the hotel, Qi Tongwei called the company commander of his direct subordinate company, Qiao Pengfei.
"Captain Qiao, send soldiers to guard Qianjiang River, our water source and kitchen 24 hours a day. Everything should be done in secret, and everything should remain the same on the surface." Qi Tongwei warned solemnly.
He suspected Qian Jiang was the murderer's next target and planned to use Qian Jiang to lure the murderer out.
"Yes, Secretary Qi." Qiao Pengfei saluted.
After everything was arranged, Qi Tongwei decided to take action himself and prepare to meet Chen Liqun, but before he could make any move, Chen Liqun had already given instructions.
"Secretary Qi, I really don't know who is behind this, I just took the money and did the job.
The only people with a slightly higher status that I know of are Wei Minzhou and Qian Jiang.
The others are leading cadres of the same level as Luo Yaming, director of the Chang'an Environmental Protection Bureau.
As for people at a higher level, I have never met them!" After hearing the news of Wei Minzhou's suicide, Chen Liqun was so frightened that he answered all the questions he asked.
Qi Tongwei believed his words without a doubt. If Chen Liqun really knew more, he would probably be dead now and would have gone to the underworld to accompany Wei Minzhou.
However, Qi Tongwei still held on to a one in ten thousand hope and continued to ask: "Think about it carefully, when you were drinking and chatting with Wei Minzhou or Qian Jiang before, did they reveal any important information?" Qi Tongwei reminded him.
Chen Liqun closed his eyes and tried hard to recall every detail of the past.
After a long while, he spoke uncertainly, "I vaguely remember that when we first received the demolition instructions, Wei Minzhou seemed to have said something like this, telling us not to worry too much because Master Fang is here!"
"Mr. Fang? Can you tell me in detail what's going on?" Qi Tongwei asked anxiously.
Chen Liqun said uncertainly: "At that time, we had just received instructions to demolish the villas and restore the vegetation environment. Everyone was worried and didn't know what to do, so we gathered together to discuss it.
Wei Minzhou believes that those who buy villas are either rich or noble. If forced demolition is really adopted and the money is not returned to the owner, it will probably cause big trouble.
I said at the time that the leader's instructions must be implemented without compromise, but Wei Minzhou said not to worry, Master Fang is here?"
"Mr. Fang, that Mr. Fang?" Qi Tongwei asked.
Chen Liqun shook his head and said, "I don't know either. I was about to ask more questions when Qian Jiang interrupted me, and Wei Minzhou didn't continue talking."
Qi Tongwei secretly kept this matter in mind. He planned to ask his father-in-law about the origins of this mysterious "Mr. Fang" after he returned.
He also wanted to meet a big shot who could make Qian Jiang willing to take all the blame and instantly shut up Wei Minzhou.
"You have built a total of 1192 villas, and the price of each one is at least or million. Where did all that money go?"
Qi Tongwei was secretly calculating in his mind. According to his estimation, the total value of these thousands of villas was at least hundreds of billions of RMB.
Facing Qi Tongwei's question, Chen Liqun answered honestly: "Excluding costs, we made a total profit of 318 billion yuan this time.
Among them, 88 billion was given to the higher-ups. As to who it was given to, Wei Minzhou and Qian Jiang did not say clearly, but I think it should be that Mr. Fang.
Another 124 billion was divided up by our officials, big and small, and the remaining 106 billion went into the fiscal accounts of the city and county levels. "
Although Chen Liqun was not sure how many people were involved in the money sharing, and had no idea who those who took the biggest share were, he was quite clear about the overall profitability of the entire project.
Hearing this, Du Jing couldn't help but sneer and said, "I didn't expect you guys would actually pay some of the money to the treasury!"
Her words were full of sarcasm.
Chen Liqun hurriedly explained in a low voice: "We do this to deal with possible accountability from our superiors.
At the time, I thought that if our superiors really investigated us in the future, we could use our lack of understanding of environmental issues as an excuse to defend ourselves, claiming that we only focused on economic development and ignored environmental protection. "
"Chen Liqun, when you go down, think carefully about the details of what happened in the past. If you have anything you want to say, find our staff." Qi Tongwei finally reminded.
"Yes, Secretary Qi." Chen Liqun quickly agreed.
Chen Liqun's explanation made the situation of the whole case clearer.