Chapter 351: The Magical Use of Power, Money and Influence

Chapter 351: The Magical Use of Power, Money and Influence

In just one night, the underworld gang that had been entrenched in Changhe County for more than 30 years was completely destroyed, and Qi Tongwei and his men achieved a major victory.

As the underworld gangs were dismantled, the protectors behind them were also arrested one by one.

As the saying goes, a fellow Taoist would rather die than be alone. In order to gain merit, Wang Jinxiong and others confessed many problems and completely exposed the corruption in the political and legal system of Qiongzhou.

"What did you say? Life imprisonment, suspended death sentence, and even death row prisoners are still alive and well out there?" Qi Tongwei asked in pretended surprise. He had already guessed about this situation.

He had encountered this situation in Luteng, and Sun Xing (Gao He) was in the same situation back then.

"Yes, there are indeed death row prisoners still active outside, and there are quite a few of them." The speaker is Liu Hao, the warden of Shanqiong Prison in Qiongzhou Province.

He was also implicated by Wang Hongfa.

At the beginning, Wang Hongfa had a younger brother who took the blame for him and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In order to make his younger brother live well in prison, he asked someone to find Liu Hao and gave him 500,000 yuan.

Liu Hao was not a very courageous person. Before Qi Tongwei could even interrogate him, he took the initiative to reveal a lot of shocking information.

Qi Tongwei asked: "Tell me the details, how did you do it?"

"Secretary Qi, this matter has nothing to do with me. My ability is only to make the prisoners' lives better. At most, I can give them a reduction in sentence. I cannot release death row inmates or prisoners serving life sentences." Liu Hao hurriedly denied it.

"Okay, I believe you. Tell me in detail and I'll consider it as meritorious service for your crime." Qi Tongwei said gently.

"Thank you Secretary Qi, thank you Secretary Qi!" Liu Hao said excitedly.

Qi Tongwei waved his hand, signaling him to start.

Liu Hao organized his words and said, "Secretary Qi, I also found out about this incident by accident. I first learned about it in the summer of 05, but I never dared to tell anyone."

Qi Tongwei did not interrupt him, but listened carefully. He also wanted to see how these people did it and whether their methods were sophisticated.

Following Liu Hao's narration, Qi Tongwei finally understood these people's methods. It turned out that they used fake deaths to release prisoners from prison.

In Liu Hao's words, most of the prisoners with backgrounds will not be imprisoned, and most of them will be acquitted during the investigation stage.

It would be best if the problem could be solved during the investigation stage.

If they encounter an upright investigator or a case that attracts national attention, they will find a way during the trial if they are unable to do anything else.

There is only one purpose, and that is to prevent the death penalty from being imposed.

As long as the death penalty is not immediately executed, the purpose is achieved and there is room for maneuver.

Take a criminal who commits intentional homicide for example. During the investigation and prosecution stage, there is a lot of attention and many people working on the case. He will always encounter upright staff members, so it is very difficult for him to get away with it.

But it is much simpler when it comes to the trial stage. There are only a few people involved, and the presiding judge has great power, but there are also many people watching at this time.

If the crime committed by the criminal is really serious, they will sentence the criminal to a suspended death sentence.

Generally speaking, in such cases, both the victims and the public will be satisfied with the verdict and there are rarely any objections.

But this gave them the opportunity to manipulate the sentence, and two years later the suspended death sentence was changed to life imprisonment.

After two years, not many people are paying attention to this criminal anymore, so it's time to take action.

The families of criminals found the warden of the prison and said that as long as the money was in place, all problems would be solved.

Under the command of the warden, they need to find a corpse in advance as a backup. Any dead corpse can be used. It is not difficult to get a corpse as long as you are willing to spend money.

After finding the body, the rest is left to the warden.

The warden has several prison guards under him who are responsible for "special tasks". They will inform the criminals in advance and ask them to pretend to be sick.

At this time, the prison doctor will come to check and say that the criminal's illness is very serious and needs to be sent to the hospital for treatment.

Then they also have people in the hospital who will carry out emergency rescue and finally declare the criminal dead.

Then they would put makeup on the criminal and take photos to preserve evidence, and from his appearance, he would indeed look like he was dead.

To ensure that everything is foolproof and there are no loopholes, the criminal will be pushed directly into the operating room for plastic surgery.

At the same time, the body prepared in advance was quietly transported to the crematorium and cremated in the name of the criminal.

Just like that, everything seemed perfect, and all the information seemed to indicate that the criminal was indeed dead.

After the plastic surgery is completed, the criminal will obtain a new identity, live openly in the sun, and start his new life.

No one would have thought that he would be a death row inmate.

This was also the first time that Qi Tongwei had heard of this method. Previously, Lu Teng Gao He (Sun Xing) had also used various false information to gain meritorious service in order to reduce his sentence. Although he was finally released and was active outside, he was still serving his sentence in prison in name.

In Qiongzhou, the situation is even more severe. Death row prisoners can live in the sun with a new identity after serving only two or three years in prison.

Even though Qi Tongwei is the Public Security Department Chief, he has never heard of this method.

"Is this phenomenon common?" Qi Tongwei asked in a cold voice.

Liu Hao quickly replied: "Not much. It is very troublesome to release such a death row prisoner. The prison, hospital, and funeral center all need to be involved. Once there are too many participants, the cost will be very high.

It would cost a lot to release such a person, and ordinary people don’t have the ability to do so.”

Qi Tongwei knew that the prison system was dark, but he didn't expect it to be so dark that even death row prisoners could be released. It was just like what his nephew said, the law was only made for ordinary people.

He and Qi Tongwei talked about why the inheritance tax has not been implemented since it was put on the agenda in 1993. Just look at the procedure for amending the law to understand.

The threshold for inheritance tax is very high and has nothing to do with ordinary people or the middle class. It is mainly aimed at wealthy people with assets of more than 10 million.

As we all know the situation in our country, there are very few poor people serving as representatives. Most representatives are people with high status in society, and their other identity is that they are rich.

Don't even think about expecting them to come up with amendments to the inheritance tax themselves. Unless there is a very prestigious leader to enforce it, this tax will still not be introduced 100 years later.

The situation Liu Hao reported made Qi Tongwei understand everything completely.

Of course, it also reflects to a certain extent that Qi Tongwei is still essentially a small peasant in mindset and does not consider himself a member of the powerful class, even though he has become one.

Qi Tongwei also had a guess that many people should know this news, but they just don't want to expose it. Anyway, it has nothing to do with ordinary people, and they don't have the ability to do so.

On the contrary, powerful and wealthy people need this kind of method, so that if one day their relatives commit a capital crime, there is still a chance to save them.

"Ducheng, you and Liu Hao prepare a formal conversation and send it to me. I'm going out for a walk." Qi Tongwei's mind was confused at the moment. He didn't know what to do.

At this point he has basically confirmed that this method must also exist in other places, but no one has exposed it. This is a tacit result among everyone.

He knew that if he revealed this method, he would offend many people, but if he didn't do so, he felt that he was failing his conscience.

Having climbed to where I am today, I would be lying if I said I didn’t covet the top spot.

From any perspective, Qi Tongwei has certain competitiveness, but as long as he dares to expose this matter, he will probably offend a large number of powerful people. No one can guarantee that his relatives will not commit crimes.

Once he offends too many people, many people will try to trip him up.

Thinking of this, Qi Tongwei decided not to report it for the time being, but to discuss it with his father-in-law and listen to his opinion.

All content is fictional, please do not associate it with reality!