Chapter 295
“Xie Xiaochu, be honest with me, who owns this half a million dollars in counterfeit bills, you and I both know it in our hearts, if you give an honest account, you can still be spared the pain of this flesh and blood, if you resist, the consequences are clear to you.”
“Officer Xu, I have said, I deposited into the Jucheng Bank is five hundred thousand real banknotes, that five hundred thousand fake banknotes is Jucheng Bank dropped the bag, no, you are not searched away my deposit slip!”
“Monthly interest rate of five cents, more than three months monthly interest rate of eight cents, can ah, Xie Xiaochu, three months to earn more than one hundred thousand, this money is really good ah!” Xu Qinghe said with a laugh.
“This is the market for saving money right now, if I invest this money in the stock market, then I’ll earn even more.” Xie Xiaochu shook her head and said.
“Tell me, where did you get this half a million dollars?”
“Earned from doing business.”
“Doing what business?”
“This is my personal privacy, Officer Xu, you can’t care, right?” Xie Xiaochu said.
“If you don’t tell me, you’re suspected of tax evasion, are you asking the patrol room to help the tax committee check the accounts?”
“Cotton yarn.”
“Where did you get the cotton yarn and to whom did you sell it?”
“I don’t need to say anything about this police report, it’s a trade secret.”
“You can make half a million dollars, which means that this batch of cotton yarn is quite a lot, and you earn so much, how much tax should be paid, do you know?”
“My business is not in the Concession, I don’t need to pay taxes to the Concession Ministry of Public Works Bureau!” Xie Xiaochu snorted coldly.
“Fine, you made half a million dollars, then from whom did you make this money?”
“Sorry, no comment.”
Xu Qinghe sort of understood, this Xie Xiaochu was a slippery person, he was full of words and none of them were the truth.
“Don’t want to talk, do you?”
“I want to see my lawyer, you are illegally detaining me.” Xie Xiaochu said.
“Wait.” Xu Qinghe put away the interrogation transcript and directly got up and closed the door to go out.
“Chief, this Xie Xiaochu is not cooperating, not saying a word of truth.” Xu Qinghe processed Mer’s office to report, “He also wants to see his own lawyer.”
“Expected, he wants to see his lawyer, it’s his right, arrange it!” Cheng Mo gave a slight nod and commanded.
“Yes ……,” Xu Qinghe agreed, looking at Cheng Mo who was under the light, concentrating on comparing the two fiat currencies.
“Chief, these two fiat currencies?”
“This one was given to us by the Shanghai Savings Bank, and this one was just taken back from the Jucheng Bank, so guess what?”
“You have found something?”
“No matter the paper, the ink, and the printing batch, it’s exactly the same, and even the numbers are consistent, don’t you think?” Cheng Mo let out a cold laugh.
“Such a large amount of counterfeit banknotes, appearing in the Concession, and taking them directly to the bank for deposit, this is obviously a test to see if the counterfeit banknotes can be recognized by the bank?” Xu Qinghe said, “The first time, it was discovered by the people from the Shanghai Savings Bank, you deliberately didn’t let them send out the real thing, they thought they succeeded, that’s why they came for the second time, and picked a small bank?”
“To make counterfeit banknotes, they must be spent to be useful, and this kind of fifty, one hundred large banknotes, must be circulated as a large purchase and sale, so it must be able to conceal the bank’s people, or else they will be found out as soon as they are circulated.” Cheng Mo said, “On the contrary, small bills go directly into circulation, that’s not easy to be discovered.”
“Then there must be small circulating counterfeit banknotes on the market?”
“I don’t know, even if the small amount of banknotes are found to be fake, there will still be people using them, as long as they don’t go to be more serious and can buy things, it is real banknotes, but a large amount of them will also cause serious inflation, and the bad consequences will be the loss of the country’s credit, the economy will be out of order, and people’s livelihoods will wither away.” Cheng Mo said.
“Then what to do with these two?” “Xia Cheng can make him pay a bail and let him go back.” Cheng Mo said, “Xie Xiaochu, lock them up, lock them up for enough forty-eight hours, and have the lawyer come and post bail to take them away as well.”
“All released?”
“Xie Xiaochu can be freed as long as he can provide the source of his banknotes, after all, you can’t ask an ordinary person to be able to recognize fake banknotes that are counterfeited and made so realistically, right?” Cheng Mo said.
“But this fake banknote is clearly his?”
“As long as Xia Cheng can give me proof that the counterfeit banknotes we recovered were the ones Xie Xiaochu deposited into the Jucheng Bank, then we can naturally bring him back again.” Cheng Mo said, “That’s why we’re withholding these forty-eight hours.”
“You released Xia Cheng just to let him go out and find evidence for you? ”
“Otherwise, we know that the counterfeit banknotes are not switched by him at all, hard to lock him up, is not another idea?” Cheng Mo said, “Do you think I want to extort Xia Cheng for a sum of money?”
“Hehehe ……,” Xu Qinghe laughed in embarrassment.
“Do I look like someone who is that short of money?”
“Of all the detectives in this rented world, you’re the one with the cleanest money.” Xu Qinghe said, his words were not compliments to Cheng Mo before he said it, in fact, it was true.
“Hurry up and get to work.”
The counterfeit money case, Cheng Mo had to find Tony Kai Ziwei to report personally, what others couldn’t see, some people did.
In the Shanghai Concession, one shot was such a large amount of counterfeit fiat currency, saying it had nothing to do with the Japanese, the ghosts would not believe it.
Nominally, Cheng Mo has full authority to handle the case, but in reality, what to do with this case is still in the hands of the British.
If he took the liberty of making the decision, would he not make the British suspicious of himself?
He personally drove to Jardine Matheson and explained the whole story of the case to Tony Kai Ziwei, clarifying his position.
The Japanese did this, this is to destroy the financial order in the Concession, if the British can tolerate, then he can not say anything.
Concession originally is a small closed society, the British obviously do not want to let this social order collapse, that is not half good for him.
Of course the other Powers also think the same way, to maintain the current situation is the best choice.
Tony Kai Ziwei naturally hated the Japanese for using such a despicable trick, but his ability and power were also limited.
Other people’s troops surrounded the concession, really reckless takeover of the concession, you really can not do anything.
If not for the fact that Japan and the United Kingdom still have trade transactions, especially Japan needs to import a large number of industrial raw materials from Europe and the United States.
This profitable as well as Japan is not yet ready to be an enemy of Europe and the United States, the Japanese will not stay in the Concession.
Sooner or later, the Japanese will occupy the Concession, this point Tony Kai Ziwei has this prediction.
It’s just a matter of how long after this time, one year, two years, or three years, as long as he can maintain in office on the line, and when he left, then it has nothing to do with him.
But the matter of counterfeit banknotes cannot be ignored.
In addition to having the major banks pay more attention when collecting cash, and then publicizing and reminding the public to pay attention to recognizing counterfeit banknotes, there is actually no better way.
Of course, the checkpoints in and out of the Concession can be a little more stringent, but this is a symptomatic rather than curative measure. Moreover, the checkpoints have long been bought and infiltrated, and will only be tightened for a while, and then loosened again.
More than anything else, it’s just a matter of having the heart to do it.