You Are Defended - Chapter 635



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Episode 635

Kang Min-jae said that he thought the backup team would go because they needed additional manpower on site, and that he would check to see if I could go with them.

I saw Kang Min-jae disappear and ran to the bathroom.

I locked the bathroom door and went into the last stall.

There I locked the door once more and knelt down in front of the toilet.

“Ugh!”

Liquid mixed with stomach acid poured out through the esophagus.

Then again, my stomach started to rumble, and then my stomach acid started to reflux.

Tears formed from vomiting and flowed down my cheeks.

The arm that was supporting my body while leaning on the toilet was trembling.

Immediately after meeting Ko Sang-jun, there was definitely some disturbance in consciousness, but there was no sign of that during the investigation.

So I thought there would be no problem, but after the investigation was over and the tension was relieved, I got a response right away.

“eww…….”

I tried to calm my breathing as I had been practicing.

I closed my eyes tightly and slowed down my breathing.

It was like that for about 5 minutes.

I felt the discomfort gradually subside.

I took a handkerchief out of my pocket.

“ah.”

When I held the handkerchief, I felt a tingling sensation in my palm.

I stared at my palm quietly.

I used to stab my palm with the nib of a fountain pen to hide my violent fit, but I didn’t realize it would be this messy.

Blood was running down his fingernails, or was dried on his palm.

‘I don’t think anyone has seen it.’

No one would have seen my palm, because I had my fist clenched slightly as I left the interrogation room.

I flushed the toilet and stood in front of the sink.

Then I turned on the water and just put my palm underneath it.

“Ugh.”

The pain became more intense when water touched the wound.

At first glance, the wound didn’t seem deep, but it looked a little torn.

During the investigation, the bleeding had stopped, so I rubbed the dried blood off my palm and opened the bathroom door that had been locked.

* * *

As I headed to Ko Sang-jun’s house with the investigators, I checked the article.

[Go Sang-jun heading to the detention center while waiting for the warrant review]

[Go Sang-jun’s investigation ended in 2 and a half hours… For health reasons?]

[Attorney Koh Sang-jun: “The elderly Koh Sang-jun cannot endure the long investigation”]

[Attorney Koh Sang-jun sighs, “Even being imprisoned in a detention center is worrisome.”]

[Special Prosecutor Cha Joo-han, Directly Commanding the Search and Seizure Scenes]

[Special investigation team heading to Ko Sang-jun’s house]

It seems that the lawyer, who would have kept his mouth shut and pushed Ko Sang-jun in a wheelchair, opened his mouth in front of reporters as if he was trying to somehow get the arrest warrant rejected.

The reporters were curious about the contents of the investigation, but they never answered those questions.

How can I resist, say I don’t remember, make up excuses that don’t make sense, and then say I asked him to stop because it hurts?

The farce they couldn’t tell will be revealed by Ko Il-gook at a regular briefing soon.

“We have arrived.”

Before we knew it, the car had stopped in front of Ko Sang-jun’s house.

The investigators rushed through the open door, carrying a folded box.

“… … .”

When I entered, my eyes met with Yoon Seong-hee’s, who was standing with her arms crossed and a complicated expression, watching the search and seizure scene.

As soon as the search and seizure order came out, he was standing with two lawyers.

Some investigators began unrolling a blue box in one corner of the living room and taping it up, while others sprang into action.

“Look this way too!”

The voices of investigators could be heard from all directions.

As is well known, Ko Sang-jun’s house was very spacious.

There were so many places to see that I was glad I had applied for a warrant that allowed for nighttime execution.

There was even an elevator inside the house, and Kim Jong-seok was getting on the elevator with the door open, as if he was about to go down to the basement.

“Did the special prosecutor come in person?”

“I followed,” Kim Jong-seok asked with a voice filled with admiration.

“It just so happened.”

“This is the first time in my life that I’ve lived in a house with a 15-person elevator.”

Kim Jong-seok muttered while going down to the basement.

Since I had already received the design drawings from Kim Chan-young, I had a rough idea of ​​the structure of this house.

On the first basement floor, there was a warehouse to store Ko Sang-jun’s collection and high-end liquor, as well as a bunker for emergencies.

The bunker is a suitable space for hiding evidence, but it is a space that can be confirmed on the drawings submitted to public agencies.

So I got off right on the second basement floor.

“What kind of house is this?”

The young detective muttered unconsciously, looked at me and Kim Jong-seok, and then closed his mouth.

It is quite possible that that could be said.

Unlike Go Yoon-soo, Go Sang-jun rarely went to work at the office building and received most of his reports from home, so the second basement floor looked like one of the office buildings had been moved there.

There were rows of office desks and chairs, PCs, and cabinets for storing documents.

As a Strategy Office employee who was being investigated by the police mentioned it in passing, it must have been high-level information.

They will seize and open the electronic records, but it won’t mean much since the hard drive has been replaced.

Still, investigators turned on the PC and began checking the hard drive.

“Even if Ko Sang-jun had destroyed all the evidence in advance, the investigation period was long, so there would be traces of documents he had brought into the house to receive various reports. If he left them as data, they would come out in forensics, so he must have received them on paper.”

Kim Jong-seok said, placing his hand on the shredders placed here and there.

“Special Prosecutor, this is really hot.”

And then he looked back at me and snickered.

I deliberately did not inform Ko Sang-jun that a search and seizure warrant had been issued, and the investigators arrived at the house before Ko Sang-jun’s summons for questioning was even completed.

It took investigators only about 15 minutes to get from the special prosecutor’s office to Ko Sang-jun’s house.

But if it was so hot that it was changed, it means that information was leaked at the same time as the warrant was issued.

“The inside of the shredder is empty.”

These were probably documents that he had to report to Ko Sang-jun, or documents that were being processed here because it was difficult to work on them at the Ushin building.

The only good thing is that the shredded materials could not be taken outside because so many reporters were camped out in front of it.

It’s probably still hidden inside this house.

Of course, it’s possible that it was burned, but if the shredder is still this hot, it means that it was ground up just before the search and seizure.

There would have been no time to burn it.

“This is empty too.”

“This too.”

Investigators opened the shredders placed here and there and shouted.

I didn’t expect it from the beginning.

Instead of answering, I moved closer to the wall.

And then I started knocking on the wall quietly.

Tick ​​tick.

This is a load-bearing wall.

Tick ​​tick.

This is also a load-bearing wall.

“The hard drive is completely empty.”

“Some data is still alive! I’m searching by keyword right now, but nothing comes up.”

“Whether the hard drive is empty or alive, we have to do all the forensics.”

As I was knocking on the wall, I heard the voices of the investigators who were checking the PC.

Of course.

It was done the same way when the Usin building was searched and seized.

Thanks to this, it was acknowledged that he had attempted to destroy evidence, and an arrest warrant was issued for Go Yoon-soo.

Based on his experience at that time, Go Sang-jun would have known that the results of this search and seizure would have an impact on the substantive examination of the warrant to be held tomorrow.

However, judging from the fact that he turned on the shredder, it seems like he was just trying to get his detention suspended on the pretext of health reasons after being arrested.

Empty.

When I knocked on the opposite wall, it sounded different from the existing load-bearing walls.

It was a wall behind a pillar.

“Sir.”

I called Heo Min-woo, who was sitting in front of the PC.

Heo Min-woo left it to the investigator standing next to him and ran to me with a surprised expression.

“When did you come?”

“I just got here. I can’t spread out the drawings here right now, so I checked them from memory.”

I lowered my voice and spoke at a volume that only Heo Min-woo could hear.

“It looks like there’s a secret space behind here that I saw on the blueprint. The location is roughly right.”

If it’s something that can’t be taken out or burned, wouldn’t it have been hidden here?

When the police raided Ribbon Medical Center, they found secret rooms and secret passageways, so Wooshin must have calculated that the secret rooms in this house might not be safe.

So, the key evidence that we absolutely want to find, such as overseas accounts or paper company materials related to RND, would have already been stolen.

But it doesn’t matter.

It’s better to keep as much evidence of Ko Sang-jun’s crimes as possible.

There will definitely be something, even if it’s trivial, that can serve as a clue.

“It seems like the secret space location is right here.”

Heo Min-woo also nodded.

“Please bring Mr. Ko Sang-jun’s agent over here!”

Heo Min-woo shouted at the investigator.

While Yoon Sung-hee was coming, I recalled the location of the secret space entrance door that I had seen on the blueprint.

“I think it’s behind those big cabinets.”

Heo Min-woo seemed to be thinking the same thing as me as he pointed to a place where five cabinets were placed in a row.

I grabbed the cabinet door handle and pulled it open once.

Of course, it doesn’t open.

“What’s going on?”

Suddenly, the elevator stopped at the second basement floor, and Yoon Seong-hee and the lawyers appeared.

“I want to look inside this cabinet, but it’s locked. You’ll have to open it for me.”

I said.

Then, Yoon Seong-hee sighed and answered.

“I don’t know the password because I’m not the one using it. I don’t even come to this floor.”

“Then who knows the password?”

“… … I will ask you to check it out.”

“Is that person at Mr. Ko Sang-jun’s house right now?”

“I think I should check that too.”

“So that means it’s not possible to make a promise. Can I break it?”

As soon as I finished speaking, the lawyer shouted.

“It violates the principle of proportionality. I cannot consent to destruction unless there is evidence that the confiscated items are inside this cabinet.”

The more serious the crime, the more the principle of proportionality becomes weaker.

But if it’s someone who’s willing to spend tens or hundreds of billions on a defense team, they’ll probably get caught somehow.

“Really? Then I guess I’ll have to find a way to open it without breaking it. First, I’ll call an expert and wait for him to take a look. Is it okay if I lay the cabinet down? There might be a way to open it without breaking it.”

At my words, Heo Min-woo and the investigators approached the cabinet.

I leaned against the wall, pretending to get out of the way.

“hmm?”

“Why are you doing that?”

Heo Min-woo asked.

I banged my body against the wall once more so that Yoon Sung-hee and the lawyers could hear.

“This sounds like a wall. Structurally, there doesn’t seem to be any reason for this place to be a wall.”

As soon as I finished speaking, the lawyers exchanged glances.

It seemed like they knew there was a secret space behind it.

He probably received instructions from the lawyer who was present with Ko Sang-jun.

“Ms. Yoon Seong-hee. Why is there a partition here? Is there any space behind it? I don’t see anything like a door.”

Then, Yoon Seong-hee answered with a slightly annoyed voice, as if she didn’t understand.

“I don’t know.”

I felt like I didn’t even want to waste time arguing, so I just wanted to tear down the wall.

Even if it is a search and seizure, it cannot be done like the scenes often shown in the media.

“One, two, lift it up and lay it over there!”

At that moment, three investigators gathered in front of the cabinet shouted.

At the same time, the lawyers’ faces hardened, and one of them hastily left the room.

It seemed like he was going to make a phone call.

thud!

As the investigators lifted the cabinets one by one and laid them on the floor, the lawyer who had remained there shut his eyes tightly.

I looked at the wall where the cabinet had disappeared.

“There’s a door. I guess there’s space behind it.”

When I spoke while fixing my gaze on Yoon Seong-hee, she bit her lip and responded.

“… … This is my first time seeing this place.”

“Is that so? Isn’t the owner of this house your husband, Sangjun Ko? How could he not have known that there was such a space in his house?”

“I didn’t check all the blueprints one by one. It’s not my place to write.”

“I see. Then you don’t know the password for this door either.”

I pulled the doorknob and pointed to the password input device installed on the wall next to the door.

“I don’t know.”

“Break it.”

I said to the investigator standing nearby.

Then the lawyer shouted.

“The principle of proportionality must be applied just as it is with the cabinet! There is evidence that the seized items exist within it… … .”

“I understand that a cabinet is an object that cannot be repaired if broken, but what difference does it make if you break this lock? First of all, Article 120 of the Criminal Procedure Act clearly states that in the execution of a search and seizure, a lock can be opened or other necessary measures can be taken. Surely you are not saying this out of ignorance.”

At that moment, the lawyer who had disappeared as if he had finished the call returned.

The two lawyers talked quietly, then turned to me and protested.

“It is open to interpretation whether breaking the lock on this door constitutes any other necessary action.”

Where is there any room for interpretation here?

Seeing him talking nonsense, I guess he was trying to stop me somehow or buy time.

“Defense attorney. Why do you keep blocking with inappropriate logic? Does this seem like a voluntary submission? Search and seizure is a compulsory investigation.”

“… … .”

“Isn’t this room Mr. Ko Sang-jun’s house? It’s included in the search area. The agent and the defense attorney are not opening the door to the special prosecutor’s office, even though they are going to search the inside of the room. They are not saying they will break down the wall, but they are saying they will remove the lock. Are you saying that this is not a necessary measure?”

When I asked, the lawyer bit his lip.

“In addition, the shredders on the second basement floor were extremely hot. There was not a single shredded item in the shredder, but it seems that they had been busy destroying evidence before the search and seizure began. There is a high possibility that the shredded item is inside here. The shredded item is also included in the items to be seized. Considering the importance of the evidentiary value and the suspicion of evidence destruction, the principle of proportionality is also satisfied. Even if you stop them by throwing yourself at them now, they will call in an expert to take it out. As you can see, this is a warrant that can be executed at night. There is no use in stalling for time.”

I spoke to the investigators again.

“Take off the doorknob.”