Chapter 750: Hard time
Police station.
Ran Jing was having a headache on where the case was at when someone from Li Chao’s team knocked on her office door.
“Chief, good news. We have caught the key smugglers during training. Everything from the source to shipping channels and the selling platform have been uncovered and arrested!”
Ran Jing stood up. “Are you sure? Who arrested them?”
“Our team leader, Li Chao. He organized our undercover investigation, and they are on their way back with the suspects while he’s heading to arrest Liu Xianming.”
“That wealthy man Liu Xianming? Arrest him for what?” Ran Jing asked curiously.
“No one would have thought that the source of the goods actually came from his yacht. He’s playing with fire.”
“No wonder he got rich this fast. His rise in Shangcheng was quite surprising within that short amount of time. Come on, take me to your team leader.”
Li Chao was at Liu Xianming’s home trying to arrest the suspect.
Liu Xianming’s lawyer was giving Li Chao and the others a hard time. Li Chao had come over first to prevent Liu Xianming from running away.
However, he didn’t have the arrest warrant, and Liu Xianming was not an ordinary person. His company was a prestigious enterprise in Shangcheng, and he himself was a corporate celebrity. It was already alarming to the public that groups of police had surrounded his house, and if he was to be taken away, then his reputation and business would suffer a great hit.
Moreover, no one would want him to be arrested!
Why?
Because Liu Xianming was the only person who knew the list of people who participated in this collaboration, and if he was taken into an investigation, he would confess all the names; so, the lawyers would not allow him to be taken away.
That was why Li Chao was given a hard time.
“What are you still doing here? Since you have no right to arrest me, go back. Are you waiting for me to invite you to stay for dinner?” Liu Xianming glanced at Li Chao who refused to leave.
Li Chao and the others had blocked the villa gate with their police cars.
He couldn’t let Liu Xianming slip away today, he expected that those at the frontline were all in the shallow water and they wouldn’t know any in-depth list of insiders. So Liu Xianming must be arrested and taken away today as a breakthrough point in this case.
Li Chao lit a cigarette on the balcony, Liu Xianming’s words made him feel very annoyed.
He made a phone call to the subordinate who he sent to relay a message to Ran Jing.
Probably only Ran Jing would have a high enough rank to proceed with the arrest, as his rank simply didn’t allow him to do so. The wealthy group of people behind Liu Xianming could easily get Li Chao in trouble and make him lose his job.
Only Ran Jing could confront them.
Ran Jing received a call from her superiors on the way there.
The wealthy group of forces behind Liu Xianming was quite strong as they managed to directly speak to Ran Jing’s superiors to pressure her.
He asked bluntly over the phone, “Do you think arresting Liu Xianming can end this case?”
Ran Jing did not actually have much of an idea, but she felt that detaining Liu Xianming should be the normal procedure.
“Boss, I’m just following the protocol to arrest him.”
The superior: “That does not work. In the absence of certainty that he was at the scene on that yacht, and before we ensure he was involved in drug trafficking, you cannot arrest him. Tell your team to not block his doors and quickly retreat. Investigate the suspects you’ve arrested already and don’t touch Liu Xianming for now.”
“How could we not arrest him? His yacht was the drug manufacturing site, so he must have something to do with it,” Ran Jing said.
“Yes, there’s a connection but you don’t have any evidence. We won’t get much out of him even if we arrest him, and we’ll just end up in deep waters. You know he’s working on the riverside project, and if the project gets put on halt because he was arrested, are you going to take responsibility for it?”
Ran Jing: “Then are we investigating this case or not?”
The superior: “Yes! But first, do not touch Liu Xianming until you have solid evidence. By then, you can feel free to do whatever and I won’t stop you.”
Ran Jing: “Alright, I know.”
She hung up the phone after she said that.
Her car just happened to arrive at Liu Xianming’s home as well.
Liu Xianming was ready to head out when Ran Jing’s car pulled over, blocking the front door.
Liu Xianming was a little angry.
His bodyguards got out and were ready to make a move, but they all froze after seeing Ran Jing get out of the car.
Ran Jing didn’t rush to talk to Liu Xianming first, but she instead asked Li Chao, “Didn’t you come to arrest someone? Where is that person?”
Li Chao saw that the chief had arrived, and he felt a lot more confident.
Liu Xianming rolled down the window and looked at Ran Jing outside the car as he smiled and said, “Chief Ran, what do you mean?”
“Nothing. Just the yacht under your name was where illegal drugs were being manufactured, and that is very bad. I’m sure you know which crime it would fall under, so come with us for an investigation.”
“Sorry, I don’t know about this at all. My yacht has been handed over to a third-party company for most of the time to operate as a trustee agent, so I’m afraid this matter has nothing to do with me. You can go talk to my lawyer if you have anything else to say about this, he is responsible for this matter. I still have a meeting to attend, please move your car out of the way. In addition to that, you have one minute to leave my property or else I will file a complaint on police trespassing my property.”
“Regardless of whether you know about this matter or not, there’s a possibility that you’re involved. So Mr. Liu, please go with us to cooperate on this investigation. We will not wrong any good citizen, but we will also not let go of any suspect, including you Mr. Liu!”
Liu Xianming looked deeply at Ran Jing and said, “I have a meeting for the riverside project and I’m afraid that it will be difficult to proceed on this project without me overseeing it.”
“If you have been suspected of making illegal drugs for sale, then the project you’re responsible for must have something behind it as well. So, you should come with me.”
Liu Xianming froze and looked at Ran Jing for a while before he said, “Let me make a phone call.”
He rolled up the window; the luxurious business car isolated the sounds well.
He called for about five minutes before rolling down the window again as he handed the phone to Ran Jing.
“Please talk to your superior.”
Ran Jing’s phone was turned off, so her superior couldn’t call in and could only call Liu Xianming to be then transferred to Ran Jing.
After taking a deep breath, Ran Jing picked up the phone without a good feeling.
The superior on the other side sighed and said, “Little Jing, you have to calm down. I know you are anxious about this case, but have you thought about it? If you arrest him now and you don’t get anything out of it, your position in the police department would become more awkward. I’ve watched how you climbed up here to this position. Endure it for now and don’t be used as someone else’s gun.”
Ran Jing took a deep breath and said, “Okay, I got it Boss.”
She hung up the phone and handed it back to Liu Xianming.
“Feel free to interrogate those people on that yacht, because I can prove that I am innocent,” Liu Xianming said with a smile and waved his hand. “I heard that Chief Ran works very hard, but you should balance work and rest. So how about let’s find time and get together for a cup of afternoon tea one day?”