You Are Defended - Chapter 608



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Episode 608

“Oh my, Attorney. How long has it been?”

When the broadcast ended and I went to Daebak House, it was around 8:30 PM.

It was an hour earlier than what Choi Jong-hyun and Jo Bong-jun had aimed for.

They said they would finish up and clean up the studio before coming, so Kang Min-jae, me, and Manager Oh arrived at Daebak House first.

As soon as I entered the entrance, the manager greeted me.

“Hello, how are you?”

“What about your friend? You have a doctor, right? How are you?”

“I am doing well.”

“You used to come here often. It’s a good thing you came. Today, I’ll serve you all. Hehe.”

“Service?”

“Yes. Just eat as much as you want and go. I owe you a favor anyway, but I don’t have your contact information, so I’ve been waiting to see when you’ll come.”

When did I ever do the owner of Daebak House any favors?

“Don’t you remember what you told me a few years ago? Don’t trust your children too much and don’t give them too much.”

Now that you mention it, I remember.

It was not long after I started this life.

It was a passing remark, as I remembered the time when I had ended up handing over a fortune to my sons to fill the business they had ruined.

“I think it was last year when my kids started a business and made a fuss about a great item, so I was thinking about helping them, but then I suddenly remembered what the lawyer said. That’s why I didn’t help them, but it turned out to be a scam. It was also a big news story a while ago.”

“I didn’t even tell you what the business was, I just said it in passing. The service is fine.”

“No. If the lawyer hadn’t said that, I would have honestly helped him. I heard that the lawyer was good at investing, everything he touched went up, and he was very smart, so I listened to him and thought there would be no harm in listening to him. If the lawyer hadn’t said that, I would have lost hundreds of millions of won.”

If you had told me specifically what kind of business my son would do, I could have gotten a raise, but isn’t that something anyone can say?

Rather than standing here and attracting attention, I think I should sneak out and leave the cash later.

“The hyungs haven’t left yet. I guess there’s a lot to sort out. Minwoo hyung, will you come first?”

Kang Min-jae said while checking his cell phone.

It was right after the broadcast, and we all didn’t want to be seen for no reason, so we purposely took a room seat.

So I contacted Heo Min-woo to see if he could come too, and fortunately, he seemed to have some time and said he would come.

“I’m here.”

At that moment, Heo Min-woo opened the door and came inside.

“You are not worthy of being called a nobleman.”

Oh, the manager smiled as he watched Heo Min-woo sit down next to him.

“Were you talking about me?”

“I was saying that you would come first. But, hyung, why do you feel like you’re half-dead? Have you been eating poorly lately? Do you eat two meals a day?”

“Food? These days, the distinction between days has become so vague that I don’t even know how many meals I eat in a day. There are many days when I just fill up on cup ramen… … .”

“You must be so busy, but luckily you have time today.”

“The manager always checked my work log every time I came, wondering why I seemed to be there, and then told me to go home.”

“That’s Chief Superintendent Hyun Byeong-ju. Is that him?”

“yes.”

“Still, I guess you take good care of me.”

“I think you’re looking at me with favor. Let’s order quickly. I’m starving.”

Heo Min-woo said as he opened the menu.

We were contacting Heo Min-woo today, but we thought there was a high chance that he wouldn’t be able to come.

Police said in the briefing that they are investigating to find out who NP and BB1 are, and we broke the news today on air.

“Inspector, please have a bowl of rice. It’s a bit strange to put oil on an empty stomach. Let’s have some gopchang stew together.”

Chief Oh seemed to be particularly concerned about Heo Min-woo, perhaps because he was reminded of his time at the prosecution.

“I wonder.”

After Kang Min-jae skillfully finished ordering, he started distributing the glasses the employee had brought.

“I won’t drink. I think I’ll be super busy tomorrow after blowing up something big on the show today. I’ll just have a cola.”

“But even if we revealed on the broadcast that NP and BB1 are Ko Sang-jun and Ko Yoon-soo, we can’t immediately summon them as suspects, right?”

Oh, the manager asked, pouring beer into a glass.

Heo Min-woo also nodded.

“Yes. This is not enough to call them as suspects. They should be called as witnesses. I think they will send out a summons tomorrow. They are busy tracking the medical staff’s accounts, so if Ko Sang-jun and Ko Yoon-soo are caught there before the summons is sent, they could be called as suspects right away.”

“I guess I won’t get caught, right?”

Heo Min-woo nodded to Manager Oh’s question.

“That’s right. Lim Hyeon-il and Oh Jun-hong received the money in the form of dividends. It doesn’t seem likely that the names of Ko Sang-jun and Ko Yun-su will come up.”

“If it’s a dividend, from RND?”

“No. To be exact, it’s a paper company that owns shares in RND. Oh Joon-hong and Lim Hyeon-il share the shares in that paper company. So it’s a dividend of a dividend. It’s complicated, right?”

“That’s right.”

“At KDL, the shareholding structure was simply divided into Lee Jung-chan and L&B. So this time, it got a bit complicated. It was a bit of a headache for us too… …. But it was fortunate that something came out of Oh Jun-hong’s foreign exchange transaction history.”

“What came out?”

“I received the dividends from a paper company that owned RND stocks in an overseas account. Then I converted that into Korean Won through a domestic bank and purchased real estate. It turned out to be a building owner. Anyway, I was relieved that I had confirmed the cash flow through RND.”

In short, it was revealed that RND was not only the landowner of Ribbon Medical Center, but also paid a bribe to Oh Jun-hong and Lim Hyeon-il.

Even if it were revealed that RND was a company owned by Ko Sang-jun, I was worried that he would make excuses like, “I only lent him the land, and I didn’t know he would do long-term trading there.”

At least this method has become impossible.

“However, the task of identifying the real owner of RND remains.”

Heo Min-woo added.

There is evidence elsewhere that Koh Sang-jun and Koh Yun-su directly directed organ trading, but our goal is not just organ trading.

Finding the massive slush fund created by Ko Sang-jun is also an important goal.

L&B and KDL Companies alone would be enough to prove his embezzlement and tax evasion, but aren’t those two corporations currently closed?

In order to prove that they moved to RND and are still repeating the same thing, it must be revealed that the actual owner of RND is Koh Sang-jun.

Besides, there’s probably a lot more money sleeping in RND than in L&B and KDL Company.

They say that even if a rich man goes bankrupt, his fortune will last for three generations, so even if they extort some of that money, Go Sang-jun will not become poor.

But shouldn’t we try to get as much out as possible?

“Reporter Choi is currently looking into the information he received from IAIJ, so something will come out of it. Don’t worry too much.”

Heo Min-woo sighed at Chief Oh’s words.

“I would appreciate it if they could provide conclusive data, but they might not. I feel it would be a bit difficult to just rely on that and sit back and do nothing.”

In his previous life, Ko Sang-jun was not included in the list of beneficial owners of bank accounts and paper companies in the British Virgin Islands obtained by the IAIJ.

It is the first time in my life that Ko Sang-jun’s name has been included on that list.

But I know how big the data is in that list.

This is because I read all the related articles without fail and met with people involved, wondering if there might be a Ko Sang-jun name in it in my previous life.

So I can say with certainty.

It is clearly proven that Ko Sang-jun owned RND.

… … I wish I could say that.

“I think that if we investigate Ko Sang-jun, the Wooshin Welfare Foundation, and the financial managers, we will find a connection to RND. It has already been revealed that the Wooshin Welfare Foundation paid hundreds of billions of won in land rent to KDL, and that L&B is a paper company under Ko Sang-jun’s name. Reporter Choi has also filed an accusation that RND is the successor to KDL Company.”

“Even if we can’t make Ko Sang-jun a suspect for organ trading, we can make him a suspect for creating slush funds and embezzlement.”

“Yes. But if the link is not found, the investigation will be separated. Our investigation headquarters was established to investigate organ trading. The investigation into Ko Sang-jun’s embezzlement and tax evasion will be transferred to a separate department. So we need to find it quickly before it is separated.”

“But will there be a connection? L&B and KDL were covered on a broadcast before. That’s why we quickly sorted out everything and transferred it to RND. Didn’t we sort it all out at that time?”

Oh, the manager asked with a worried expression.

“I think the same. I’m sure that there will be no connection between RND and KDL Company, so I think that’s why they made such a big statement when they announced their position that the long-term trading was not done at the foundation level. But if we dig into the people involved, won’t something come out?”

No matter how perfectly a system is created to avoid legal punishment, it is ultimately humans who manipulate that system.

The reason why numerous economic crimes that have passed through South Korea have surfaced is the same.

Even though they succeeded in managing the system, they failed in managing people.

“Some executives would submit overseas bank accounts if asked to do so. The Special Act is so heavy.”

The majority of people who commit crimes have a vague belief that they will not be caught and will not be punished.

But when the moment of punishment actually comes, they panic.

It is common for people to decide that they will survive if they all keep their mouths shut, but then when they start being investigated, they open their mouths in order to survive on their own.

What’s interesting is that in that situation, he wasn’t the only one who thought, ‘I have to survive.’

“Or, you could try to help the prosecution expand the scope of the investigation. It’s been a while since you spoke to the President, right? Why not give him a call to ask for his regards and a favor?”

Heo Min-woo made a shape of a receiver with his hand and shook it next to his ear.

When I didn’t answer for a moment, he laughed loudly and added.

“Haha, just kidding.”

[untruth]

It wasn’t a joke at all.

“Even if it doesn’t come out in the investigation, it will be in the IAIJ database.”

Kang Min-jae, who had been keeping his mouth shut at that time, added a word.

His gaze was strangely directed at me.

“Right, lawyer?”

It’s been quiet lately, but it seems like the alien theory that Cha Ju-han had been stirring in Kang Min-jae’s mind has been rekindled.

Of course, there’s no way Kang Min-jae didn’t have doubts.

I, who was uncomfortable with belonging to any organization, recommended that Choi Jong-Hyeon join a certain organization, and it just so happened that that organization had the data we wanted.

To be honest, I was secretly glad that Kang Min-jae kept his mouth shut when Choi Jong-hyun returned from meeting Kirihara Sachiko that day and started making a fuss about “Cha Byun is not just a shaman, he’s a god!”

I guess I was convinced that it was my design all along.

dripping.

Just then, a knock was heard.

The staff brought the prepared food and began placing it on the grill.

The timing was good.

It was fortunate that I didn’t have to answer.

“We will bake it.”

Kang Min-jae received the tongs and scissors and sent the employee out again.

And Heo Min-woo continued speaking.

“Anyway, at this stage, the briefings and press releases are focused on long-term trading, as instructed by the higher-ups. We are also diligently tracking paper companies and overseas accounts. We are not neglecting them.”

“I don’t think the police were being negligent.”

In any case, when investigating organ trading, it becomes important to know who paid and who received the money.

Because it is the most decisive evidence.

“I will do my best to find out about the paper companies and accounts, and then pass it on to the special prosecutors. Isn’t this the special prosecutors’ specialty anyway?”

“Tosranyo. Inspector Heo, you should also come to the special investigation team.”

“Oh, I don’t like it. I’m already so exhausted I could die.”

Heo Min-woo closed his eyes tightly and waved his hands.

He muttered as he moved the grilled intestines to his plate.

“I’m tired of living a life where I only eat cup ramen.”

Jiiing.

The moment Heo Min-woo put the sauce on the large intestine, his cell phone rang.

It seems like he tried not to answer the phone as he was trying to have a proper meal for once.

He checked his phone screen with indifferent eyes, sighed, and answered the phone.

“Uh, why? … … What did you say?”

His expression suddenly distorted.

Kang Min-jae and Manager Oh also turned their gaze towards Heo Min-woo.

“Okay. I’ll go now. It’ll take about 20 minutes.”

“What’s going on?”

As soon as the phone call ended, Kang Min-jae asked.

Instead of answering, Heo Min-woo put down his chopsticks and stood up abruptly.

And he spoke to us.

“Kim Soo-chan, do you remember Park Won-ho? I mean, the people from the strategy room who were caught at the scene.”

“Yes. You haven’t stated anything yet, have you?”

“Yes, that’s right. But then you opened your mouth.”

“Suddenly? At this late hour?”

“… … Yes. I got a call.”

He answered the office manager and put his arms through the outer garment he had left behind.

The voice was lowered.

It was not long after the broadcast that NP and BB1 revealed that they were Ko Sang-jun and Ko Yoon-soo.

In this situation, if the two people who were Ko Sang-jun and Ko Yoon-soo’s right-hand men were to say something now, isn’t it obvious?

“They confessed that they instigated the long-term trading. I’ll go there quickly. I’ll get to the bottom of the situation first and then contact you.”

Heo Min-woo left the room in a hurry, and we didn’t say anything as if we had planned it.