The Bourne Counterattack

Chapter 295 Feeling powerless
"Xie Xiaochu, please be honest with me. We both know who these counterfeit 500,000 French currency bills belong to. If you tell the truth honestly, you can avoid this physical pain. If you resist stubbornly, the consequences will be on you." You know it yourself.”

"Officer Xu, I told you that the half-million counterfeit bills I deposited into Jucheng Bank were genuine, and the counterfeit $500,000 was dropped by Jucheng Bank. No, didn't you seize my deposit slip? "

"The monthly interest is five cents, and the monthly interest is eight cents for more than three months. That's okay. Xie Xiaochu made more than one hundred thousand in three months. This money is really easy to make!" Xu Qinghe said with a smile.

"This is the current market trend for saving money. If I invest this money in the stock market, I will earn more." Xie Xiaochu shook his head and said.

"Tell me, where did you get the five hundred thousand?"

"Earned from doing business."

"what kind of business?"

"This is my personal privacy, Officer Xu, you can't control it, right?" Xie Xiaochu said.

"If you don't say anything, you will be suspected of tax evasion. Do you want the patrol room to help the tax committee audit the accounts?"

"Cotton yarn."

"Counterfeit banknotes must be spent before they can be useful. These fifty or one hundred banknotes must be circulated as bulk transactions, so they must be able to hide them from the bank, otherwise they will be discovered once they are circulated. Cheng Mo said, "On the contrary, if small-denomination banknotes enter the circulation area directly, they will not be easily discovered."

“Where do you get the cotton yarn from and who sells it to you?”

"This one was given to us by Shanghai Savings Bank, and this one was just returned from Jucheng Bank. Guess what?"

"Boss, these two French coins?"

"I don't need to tell you the police information, it's a business secret."

"Sorry, no comment."

"I want to see my lawyer. You are illegally detaining me," Xie Xiaochu said.

"Did you find anything?"

"Boss, Xie Xiaochu is uncooperative and won't tell the truth." Xu Qinghe reported to Chengmo's office, "He still wants to see his lawyer."

"Such a large amount of counterfeit money appeared in the concession and was deposited directly in the bank. This is obviously a test of whether the counterfeit money can be detected by the bank?" Xu Qinghe said, "For the first time, it was discovered by people from the Shanghai Savings Bank. "You deliberately didn't let them tell you the truth. They thought they were successful, so they came a second time and chose a small bank?"

"No matter the paper, ink, or printing batch, they are exactly the same, and even the numbers are consistent, what do you think?" Cheng Mo sneered.

"Wait." Xu Qinghe put away the interview transcript, stood up and closed the door and went out.

"You can earn half a million yuan, which means that this batch of cotton yarn is quite large. And if you earn so much, do you know how much tax you should pay?"

"It's expected. He wants to see a lawyer. This is his right, arrange it!" Cheng Mo nodded slightly and gave an order.

"Okay, you earned half a million, then who did you earn this money from?"

"Yes..." Xu Qinghe agreed and saw Cheng Mo comparing two French coins under the light with concentration.

Xu Qinghe finally understood that Xie Xiaochu was a slippery man. He was always talking nonsense and not a single word was true.

"You don't want to say it, do you?"

……

"My business is not in the concession, so I don't need to pay taxes to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in the concession!" Xie Xiaochu snorted coldly.

"Then there must be small-denomination counterfeit banknotes circulating on the market?"

"I don't know. Even if small denomination banknotes are found to be fake, some people will still use them. As long as they don't try to verify the authenticity and can buy something, they are genuine banknotes. But if the amount is large, it will also cause serious inflation and bring negative consequences. The country’s credit is lost, the economy is in disorder, and people’s livelihood is in ruins,” Cheng Mo said.

"Then what to do with these two people?" "Xia Cheng can ask him to pay a bail and let him go back." Cheng Mo said, "Xie Xiaochu, lock him up. After 48 hours, let the lawyer pay the bail and take him away. "

"Let them all go?"

"Xie Xiaochu can be free as long as he can provide the source of his banknotes. After all, you can't ask an ordinary person to be able to identify such realistic counterfeit banknotes, right." Cheng Mo said.

"But this counterfeit money is obviously his?"

"As long as Xia Cheng can give me evidence that the counterfeit banknotes we collected were deposited by Xie Xiaochu in Jucheng Bank, then we can naturally capture him again." Cheng Mo said, "So, we have to deduct these 48 hours. "

"You released Xia Cheng just to ask him to go out and find evidence for you?"

"Otherwise, we know that the counterfeit money was not exchanged by him at all, but we locked him up. Do we have other ideas?" Cheng Mo said, "Do you think I want to blackmail Xia Cheng for a sum of money?"

"Hehe..." Xu Qinghe laughed sheepishly.

"Do I look like someone who is so short of money?"

"There are so many detectives in this concession, so your money is the cleanest." Xu Qinghe said. He didn't say this to compliment Cheng Mo. In fact, it was true.

"Go to work quickly."

Cheng Mo had to report the counterfeit banknote case to Tony Kaiziwei personally. Some people could understand things that others couldn't understand.

In the Shanghai Concession, such a large amount of counterfeit legal currency was handed out at the first hand. It was said that it had nothing to do with the Japanese. No one would believe it.

In name, Cheng Mo has full authority to handle the case, but in fact, how to handle this case is still in the hands of the British.

If he makes the decision without authorization, wouldn't it make the British jealous of him?

He personally drove to Jardine Matheson and explained the ins and outs of this case to Tony Kaiziwei, clarifying his position.

If the Japanese do this, they are destroying the financial order in the concession. If the British can tolerate it, then there is nothing he can say.

The concession was originally a small closed society. The British obviously did not want this social order to collapse, which would not be of any benefit to them.

Of course, other powers have the same idea, and maintaining the current situation is the best choice.

Tony Kaiziwei naturally hated the Japanese for using such despicable tactics, but his ability and power were limited.

The army is surrounding the concession. If you really take over the concession desperately, you really have nothing to do.

If it weren't for the fact that Japan and the United Kingdom still have trade relations, Japan in particular would need to import a large amount of industrial raw materials from Europe and the United States.

This is profitable and Japan is not yet ready to be enemies with Europe and the United States. The Japanese will not keep the concession.

Sooner or later, the Japanese would occupy the concession, which Tony Kaiziwei had predicted.

It’s just about how long this time will be, one year, two years, or three years. As long as he can maintain his tenure, it will have nothing to do with him when he leaves.

But we can’t ignore the counterfeit money issue.

Apart from asking major banks to pay more attention when collecting cash, and publicizing it to remind the public to be aware of counterfeit banknotes, there is actually no better way.

Of course, the checkpoints for entering rental properties can be more stringent, but this is only a temporary solution, not the root cause. Moreover, the checkpoints and checkpoints have already been bribed and infiltrated, and it is nothing more than tightening them for a while and then loosening them.

It's more about being powerless.

(End of this chapter)