You Are Defended - Chapter 638



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Episode 638

[Choi Jong-hyun: It’s been two hours since I heard the news that an arrest warrant for Ko Sang-jun was issued, but I still can’t get over my emotions.

Jo Bong-jun: Hahahaha me too

Jo Bong-jun: I’m more excited than when Tae-young was at the top

Cho Bong-jun: The rich are arrested side by sideㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Heo Min-woo: Are you that excited?

Jo Bong-jun: Are you kidding me? Then I have to keep saying “ㅋ” until I die.

Choi Jong-hyun: When the breaking news came out, I was in a video conference with IAIJ reporters. But since I couldn’t concentrate, an Indian reporter asked me if I was listening to him.

Choi Jong-hyun: So I said sorry, sorry, and then he asked what happened.

Choi Jong-hyun: So I said that I was so happy that I couldn’t calm down because of Ko Sang-jun’s arrest, and he smiled brighter than me and said he was congratulating me.

Choi Jong-hyun: Special Prosecutor Cha, open your mouth and wait. I’ll soon go to the special prosecutor’s office and bring the bank account that Ko Sang-joon buried in the Virgin Islands and the paper company database. There’s not much time left.

Kang Min-jae: Give it to me quickly. Ko Sang-jun keeps saying he doesn’t know, so I feel like using violence.

Choi Jong-hyun: By the way, I’m worried about Sang-jun…

Kang Min-jae: Aren’t you busy? When you don’t have much to do, you worry about Ko Sang-jun.

Choi Jong-hyun: I guess I’ll have to adapt well in the detention center…

Kang Minjae: What is it all of a sudden?

Choi Jong-hyun: Then you can adapt well in prison… You have to live there until you die…

Kang Minjae: Hahahahahahahahahahahaha]

I headed to the special prosecutor’s office and checked the conversations piled up on Messenger.

I spoke to them on the phone after hearing the news of Ko Sang-jun’s arrest, and I think they were talking excitedly until dawn.

I also slept quite comfortably last night.

This was a first for him, as in the previous life, no matter how many arrest warrants he requested for Ko Sang-jun, they were all rejected.

There was some joy in seeing Ko Sang-jun suffer, but what struck me more was the sense of helplessness he felt.

It’s the feeling of helplessness, of being locked in a prison cell and not being able to do anything about your life being shattered.

It’s nothing compared to what the victims who were exploited by the gods felt.

We must take advantage of this momentum and push ourselves even harder in the future.

So Kang Min-jae and I woke up at the crack of dawn and arrived at the special prosecutor’s office around 7:30.

“This is the real deal.”

“I didn’t even know something like this existed.”

“I saw it in a drama, but I didn’t know it was a real technology.”

When I arrived at the office, Lee Ye-jin and several investigators were gathered in front of the computer.

“What are you talking about?”

Kang Min-jae also seemed curious and naturally blended in with them as he checked the monitor.

“Huh? The special prosecutor is here too. Special prosecutor, the shredded document recovery program is really no joke. It’s already matched 53 sheets.”

Shredded document recovery programs are a technology that has been around for about two years as of now.

I had a shredded document recovery program in mind from the time I brought a bunch of shredded materials from the search and seizure scene.

I heard that there are specialized companies overseas.

So I asked the NIS about this.

There is no need to restore the entire document, you just need to check the account number, depositor name, and bank name at the top.

The NIS checked the size of the fragments and said that it was possible if the document format was the same and the scanner’s performance was very good.

As a result, several of the special investigation team’s computers are currently running recovery programs.

“good morning.”

As 8 o’clock approached, the special prosecutor’s office began to fill up.

“Special Prosecutor, do you have any outside schedule today?”

As I was about to enter my room, I heard a voice behind me.

When I looked back, I saw Lee Min-gyu from the National Tax Service looking at me with his eyes wide open, holding a cup of coffee.

“No, not today.”

“Then later… … .”

He checked his watch for a moment, then continued speaking.

“I’d like to report to Special Prosecutor Nam Chang-wook and Investigation Team Leader Park Young-gi regarding the accounts in the unshredded documents at around 9:30. Geumjeong Bank sent it to me the fastest, so I processed it first. I’ll have to compare it with other bank accounts, but there’s something unusual about the accounts opened at Geumjeong Bank’s Woosin branch offices. I’ll report on that first.”

The processing speed was amazing.

It was a good decision to ask for Lee Min-gyu to be dispatched.

The number of unshredded fictitious accounts we found in the search and seizure was 572.

Among them, there are 311 Geumjeong Bank accounts.

The fact that Geumjeong Bank’s stake was that large, even though domestic first-tier financial institutions, second-tier financial institutions, and securities firms were all mixed together, is evidence of their collusion.

However, the reason why it was the first financial institution to send information is probably because it had already been revealed that there were accounts under Go Yoon-soo’s name at Geumjeong Bank.

It seemed like he wanted to give the impression that he was cooperating faithfully with the investigation.

“If that shredded document recovery program completed 53 in less than two days, should we assume it will take about two weeks to fully understand them?”

Lee Min-gyu asked the investigator sitting in front of the computer where the recovery program was running.

“At the current rate, it seems likely.”

“Then I guess I’ll have to figure out the remaining 261 accounts within that time. Okay.”

And then Lee Min-gyu disappeared again with his eyes wide open.

* * *

“First, we reviewed copies of the depositor’s identification cards held by Geumjeong Bank to confirm whether the accounts in the seized and searched files were accounts under another person’s name.”

He pointed the laser pointer at a copy of his ID card displayed on the screen.

“When you open an account, the bank is supposed to receive the original and make a copy for you to keep. But as you can see here, the font quality is a bit poor.”

He circled the laser over the name and part of the social security number.

“This is a phenomenon that occurs because it is a copy of a copy. It is a typical characteristic of accounts in someone else’s name. This means that when opening an account, a copy of the ID was brought instead of the original. In principle, this is a situation where an account should not be opened. Therefore, I will report this under the assumption that it is definitely an account in someone else’s name.”

Lee Min-gyu moved to the next screen.

This was a table listing the branches where accounts opened under another person’s name were opened at Geumjeong Bank.

“As you can see, out of the 311 accounts opened in Geumjeong Bank, 207 were opened at the Woosin branch office. Also, out of these 207, 98 accounts were opened in the names of the strategy office employees, and the remaining 109 were opened in the names of executives of Woosin affiliates.”

“Is the building you’re talking about the Jongno building?”

Nam Chang-wook asked.

Then Lee Min-gyu shook his head.

“The accounts of the Strategy Office staff are in the Jongno office building, and the accounts of the other executives are in the Geumjeong Bank branches located in each affiliated company’s office building. Since there are also affiliated companies located in the Jongno office building, if you count only those created in the Jongno office building, there are a total of 129. I think more will come out when the shredded data is restored. There are still some links that I can’t see.”

“Didn’t the investigation headquarters summon the Geumjeong Bank branch manager located in the Jongno building once? At that time, it was to confirm that he withdrew cash from a borrowed account under the name of a strategy office employee in order to murder Cheon Jong-nam… … .”

Nam Chang-wook said this and then looked at me secretly.

It seemed like he remembered that Cheon Jong-nam was a hired killer who had been mobilized to kill me.

When I didn’t respond in any other way, he cleared his throat and continued speaking.

“Anyway, at that time, the investigation headquarters asked about the secret accounts used by the strategy office staff of Ko Yoon-soo, and the branch manager admitted it. At that time, the branch manager said that there seemed to be about 10 secret accounts used in that way. But now, aren’t you saying that it wasn’t 10, but more than 129?”

At that time, the branch manager was intensively questioned about Go Yoon-soo’s account in another person’s name.

When asked if he knew anything about the accounts used in other people’s names by Ko Sang-jun and Woo Shin at the corporate level, he answered that he did not know.

But, looking at the list of accounts in another person’s name, it is impossible not to know.

They even say that the account holder’s identification cards were all copies of copies.

This means that the branch manager received a bunch of copies from Wooshin and opened the account mechanically.

It is highly likely that even the account owner is unaware of the existence of the account in another person’s name.

There have already been countless cases like that.

If you said you only knew of about 10 accounts in someone else’s name in this situation, that would be an obvious lie.

Even if he admits to a few accounts under someone else’s name, the disadvantages to him are not that great, but if he were asked to admit to hundreds of accounts, the problem would get bigger, so he appears to have understated his statement.

“I will summon the branch manager.”

As Nam Chang-wook spoke, Hong Seung-ho, who had been dispatched from the Western District Prosecutors’ Office and was sitting next to him, began writing a summons.

“The route through which the slush funds were deposited into the borrowed-name accounts confirmed by the investigation headquarters so far was through false insurance payments from Wooshin Fire and Wooshin Life Insurance. So, first, we checked the deposit details from Wooshin Fire and Wooshin Life Insurance.”

When Lee Min-gyu clicked the remote control, the insurance payment details among the deposit/withdrawal details were highlighted in yellow.

“There are 244 cases in total. But it’s a relatively small amount of money. It’s from a few hundred to a few thousand, hundreds of millions, and at most 200 million for things like fire insurance. I think I just received this little by little to fill up my pocket money.”

“At that time, the investigation headquarters asked the Wooshin employee who received the insurance money to explain, but the data hasn’t arrived yet? Wooshin Life and Wooshin Fire said they couldn’t give it to us because it was personal information.”

“That’s right. But, among the money that came in from Wooshin Fire and Life Insurance, there was money that was not paid as insurance money but as commissions. There’s a lot of details, but if you add them all up, it’s about 500 million won. It wasn’t the head office executives’ accounts, but the branch managers’ accounts. I’ve seen this case many times, and I’m sure they’ve deceived the insurance company employees into thinking that the insurance was sold by the branch or a recruiter there, and then the commissions were paid. It’s a typical case. There were even branches that didn’t actually exist.”

Lee Min-gyu brought up an article about a related case on the screen.

“And as I looked through the data, I was impressed by the fact that tens of thousands to hundreds of millions of won were deposited into 20 accounts on the same day. All 20 of those accounts were in the names of executives of Woosin Trading. A similar phenomenon occurred in the accounts of executives of Woosin Automobile. That kind of money was deposited into 15 accounts.”

“Are those the only two cases?”

Lee Min-gyu shook his head at my question.

“There are countless cases processed this way. In terms of amount alone, it is 13.1 billion won from Wooshin Material and 4.8 billion won from Wooshin Automobile. Since the bank statement retention period is 5 years, this is only the transaction history from the past 5 years. If you include other banks and shredded documents, it would be more. And even if you add it all up, it is likely that only the money that can be conveniently used in Korea was left and put in a borrowed-name account. The total amount of money taken would be much larger. They would have saved that money separately and put it in overseas banks.”

“Generally, the biggest profits are in construction, trade, and manufacturing. Manufacturing inflates the contract amount to subcontractors, and the subcontractors pay all the corporate taxes and return the difference in cash. Is there a way to continue receiving work? And when it comes to making money, construction is the best.”

Park Young-ki raised his thumb.

“Even if you just calculate the labor cost, it’s a huge amount. Since the laborers receive the money in cash anyway, there’s no record. They just stamp the seals on the stamps, pay the laborers, and write a ledger, and then send the money back in cash.”

If the prosecution is determined to find it, the slush funds will inevitably be stolen.

As such, Park Young-gi, who had worked in the prosecution for a long time, knew their methods well.

This is why big companies are anxious because they can’t give money to prosecutors.

“There’s nothing I can do about this.”

The scope of the investigation also includes the creation of Wooshin’s illegal slush funds.

If we ask them to submit all the relevant information, won’t they destroy the evidence and refuse to give it to us?

I have no choice but to take this forcibly.

“The places confirmed so far are Usin Fire, Usin Life, Usin Automobile, and Usin Materials, right?”

“Yes.”

“Should we first issue a search and seizure warrant in those four locations?”

“Even if you file a claim against Wooshin Automobile and Wooshin Materials, it is highly likely that it will be rejected. There is only circumstantial evidence that the money went into the executives’ accounts.”

“Then, let’s divide it into two: Ushin Fire and Ushin Life.”

“I will include the Strategy Office. There are many accounts in the names of Strategy Office employees, so there is sufficient justification.”

“The search and seizure conducted during the investigation headquarters period also did not yield any proper results. Is this okay? Furthermore, isn’t it a time when a lot of time has passed? Wooshin had too much time.”

Nam Chang-wook expressed his concern.

Following Kim Mi-ja’s testimony that the Strategy Office personnel actively participated in the operation of the Fairy, the investigation headquarters also conducted a search and seizure of the Strategy Office.

Needless to say, their systematic concealment of evidence left us with nothing useful.

“Even after a long time, when Ko Sang-jun’s house was searched and seized, it was still found. I don’t know what will happen.”

Park Young-gi supported my opinion.

“Then, there are three places including the strategy room… … What are you going to do about Wooshin Automobile and Wooshin Materials?”

“If evidence comes out of the strategy room, it will be possible to seize that place as well.”

“So, are you saying we should attack all three places at the same time?”

“Yes. The special investigation team will notice the seizure once the vehicle leaves. So, we will enter the Wooshin Life and Fire Department buildings first, and if the strategy room lets its guard down, we will raid it right away.”

“Should I file a warrant right now?”

“Just write it down and wait. I will decide the timing for filing it in court.”

First, we need to meet Kim Chan-young and get some information.

He, too, as a member of the strategy room, would have participated in concealing the evidence.

“Please keep the entire contents of today’s meeting to those in this conference room only.”

“I will keep it a secret.”

Heungseungho answered.

When the special prosecution team asked him to answer questions about maintaining security on the day of the official investigation, he was the one who was found to be truthful.

“I will do that too.”

Then Lee Min-gyu answered.

As expected, the word [Truth] appeared above both of their heads.

I left the conference room and called Kim Chan-young.

It’s possible to legally raid Ko Sang-jun’s garden and steal evidence.

This is the taste of an investigative agency.