I am a super cop

Chapter 318 Commercial Espionage 【Seeking Monthly Pass】

In the bathroom, Huang Liang and Gu Chen each washed their faces before standing face to face.

The two were about the same height, standing in the small bathroom and looking at each other, Huang Liang felt a little embarrassed.

Gu Chen looked as usual, and said: "Mr. Huang, if you need help, tell me."

"I don't really like discussing issues in crowded places. It's just the two of us here, so I'll just say it straight." Huang Liang smiled embarrassingly.

Gu Chen turned his head to look at Huang Liang, nodded slightly, and said, "Tell me, as long as our police can help, we will definitely help you."

Both of them are here, Gu Chen obviously sees that Huang Liang has something to ask for, but Huang Liang has been hesitating.

"The thing is like this." Huang Liang walked to the mirror, looked at Gu Chen in the mirror, and said, "Earlier this morning, after our company's senior management had a confidential meeting, when they were cleaning up the scene, they discovered that someone had put a piece of paper under the conference table. Recording pen."

"Recorder?" Gu Chen was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Could it be that this recorder is used to record your meeting?"

"That's right." Huang Liang turned to look at Gu Chen, with an ugly expression on his face, "We played the live recording, and all the records of the meeting were recorded by this recorder. You know, this is a confidential meeting about the company. , except for a few high-level partners, we didn't even bring a secretary."

"Then you mean... someone wants to eavesdrop on your meeting?" Gu Chen asked.

"Yeah, that's what I think." Huang Liang anxiously walked up and down in front of Gu Chen a few times, and said, "I suspect there is an insider in the company."

"If there is no ghost, then it is impossible for this recording pen to be put into the company's conference room. Although this time the danger was saved, there is still a next time. What should I do next time? So I must find the ghost, otherwise It will be a huge loss to our company."

Looking at the young Gu Chen, Huang Liang asked curiously: "By the way, Officer Gu, the male police officer who went in just now, is it your leader?"

"That's right, that's the person in charge of our third criminal investigation team." Gu Chen said.

"Oh." Huang Liang groaned, and asked weakly: "Then I will call the police now, can you help me go to the company to investigate and find out this ghost?"

Fearing that Gu Chen would not agree, Huang Liang directly added: "If we don't find out the insider, then our company may lose hundreds of millions of dollars."

Gu Chen fell silent...

Indeed, the situation mentioned by Huang Liang belongs to the category of commercial espionage.

If it is true as Huang Liang said, it will cause a major loss to the company's business security, and the police can file a case for investigation.

"Where is the recorder?" Gu Chen suddenly asked.

"In the company, my office is locked." Huang Liang briefly explained, and then said: "To be honest, this happened early this morning, and I was depressed. Now that the bidding is coming, I suspect it is a competitor. An undercover agent was arranged around."

"If this is not found out, all the core businesses of our company will not be able to develop in the future, and it will easily cause mutual distrust among high-level partners."

"That's right." Gu Chen also agreed with Huang Liang's remarks.

As far as this move is concerned, it is really cruel to Huangliang Company.

After the incident of commercial espionage, it is possible to alienate the top management of Huangliang Company, so that everyone in Huangliang Company is in danger, and they are all guessing who is the spy.

In this way, any core content is not dared to discuss in the company, so it is no wonder that Huang Liang is worried.

"How about this, you take us to your company to see the situation, we need to have a preliminary understanding before we can better investigate." Gu Chen also readily agreed.

"That's good." Seeing Gu Chen speak, Huang Liang suddenly regained his confidence and said, "Then follow me now, and we'll go to the company right away."

"I'll call my partner, you wait for me by our police car at the gate." Gu Chen said.

After the two exchanged in the bathroom, they left separately.

Gu Chen walked into the treatment room of the pet hospital. The pet doctor was treating the panther further. Officer Wang stayed there, looking at his former "old comrade in arms".

Gu Chen also discussed the matter of the bathroom with Police Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei, and Officer Wang decided to take the two of them to have a look together.

The police car followed Huang Liang's BMW and parked in an underground parking lot in the CBD of Jiangnan City.

The three of them walked in with Huang Liang, only to realize that Huang Liang's company was quite large, and it could be seen from the atmosphere of the office that it was a powerful construction developer.

Huang Liang didn't stay idle, and brought the three of them directly to his office.

"Officer Gu, Officer Wang, Officer Lu, this is the recorder we found from the meeting room." Huang Liang opened the drawer with a key, took out a recorder and put it on the table.

"How did you find out during the meeting?" Gu Chen put on white gloves and held the recording pen in his hand.

"It was a senior executive of the company. During the meeting, he accidentally dropped the writing pen on the ground. He bent down to pick it up, but unexpectedly discovered that there was a device suspected to be a recording pen, which was stuck under the table with tape. .” Huang Liang said.

"Are there any fingerprints?" Lu Weiwei asked quickly.

Huang Liang shook his head: "It stands to reason that there should be fingerprints, so this is the strength of that commercial spy. He must have worn gloves to paste it."

"It may be so." Gu Chen also nodded, agreeing with Huang Liang's point of view.

"But since there are no fingerprints on the tape, it's a bit difficult to find this person." After thinking for a while, Lu Weiwei asked Gu Chen who was beside her, "Junior Gu, what do you mean?"

"Listen to the recording." Gu Chen looked at Officer Wang and asked him, "What do you think, Senior Brother Wang?"

"Listen." Police Officer Wang had been observing the decorations in Huang Liang's office, and just echoed in agreement.

Gu Chen clicked on the recorder to play.

It could be heard that what was recorded in the recording pen were the various discussions of several high-level men, including Huang Liang.

It involves some important data and reference quotations.

Gu Chen pressed the pause button, and asked again: "What are you discussing about?"

"Engineering quotation." Huang Liang said.

"Then who are the competitors this time?" Gu Chen asked again.

Huang Liang immediately raised his head, counted with his hands, and said after a while: "There may be 10 competitors, and the opponents are all very strong."

Seeing that Gu Chen took out his notebook and began to record, Huang Liang explained the situation in more detail: "If you look at the bid winning rate, only our company and the other three companies are capable. If it is a commercial espionage, it may It was sent by one of the three companies."

"There's no rush for this." After Gu Chen finished recording the core content, he said, "What we need to do now is to find out the commercial spy, and which company he belongs to... let's talk about it."

"Okay...Okay." Huang Liang nodded: "Just listen to your police, as long as you can find out this commercial spy, everything is easy to talk about."

Huang Liang also knows now that an important bidding meeting is coming soon, and there are commercial spies hiding around him, which makes it difficult for Huang Liang to use his hands and feet.

Coupled with the fact that the bidding project is a fragrant bun, many competitors are determined to win, so the pressure on Huangliang is even greater.

After listening to the transcript, Gu Chen walked to the door and said, "Mr. Huang, can you take us to the conference room?"

"When... of course, I'll show you the way." Huang Liang was so enthusiastic that he quickly walked up to Gu Chen and brought the three of them into a spacious and bright meeting room with floor-to-ceiling windows. .

"The three of you, please come in and sit down." Huang Liang moved out a stool for the three of them.

But Gu Chen refused: "Mr. Huang, let me find out where the recorder is hidden first."

"Okay." Huang Liang didn't hesitate, pointing directly at the bottom corner of a conference table and said, "When we found out, this recording pen was here."

Gu Chen quickly squatted down and searched with a bright flashlight, but found no obvious finger marks.

In addition, there was no trace of fingerprints on the previous adhesive tape, so Gu Chen can conclude that this industrial spy may have used gloves for his work.

Avoid leaving marks on the tape...

"There is no clue, right? Junior Brother Gu." Lu Weiwei said anxiously from the side.

Gu Chen nodded, continued to turn on the recorder, and listened to the whole process from the start of the recorder over and over again.

Second time, third time.

Minutes passed by...

Over there, Police Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei were also in the conference room with a simple structure, but they couldn't find any useful clues.

But here, Gu Chen still listened tirelessly and took notes until he finished recording the contents of the recorder.

Now, Gu Chen's mind is full of a black shadow, sneaking into the conference room without a trace.

After quietly installing the recording pen, he hurriedly left the company.

Not long after, Huang Liang walked in with several senior partners of the company.

After that, as Huang Liang said, a high-level executive accidentally discovered the recording pen while picking up the pen.

After looking at the surrounding layout, Gu Chen asked Huang Liang, "Is your conference room not monitored?"

"No." Huang Liang vetoed it straight away: "Because meetings sometimes involve confidentiality, we didn't install it."

Seeing Gu Chen's puzzled expression, Huang Liang asked again: "Officer Gu, are you... all right?"

"I'm fine." Gu Chen retracted his thoughts, and asked again: "Then before the company's senior management finished the confidential meeting, did anyone come in?"

"This... there are a few." Huang Liang suddenly recalled, and said: "I remember, there are three, one is a new intern, she prepared coffee for everyone before the meeting, and One was the manager's secretary, and she came in to prepare materials for the manager before the meeting started."

After thinking about it, Huang Liang said again:

"In addition... There is another one, that is, one of the company is a cleaner. She cleaned up before the meeting."

"Then Mr. Huang, please call them all over here." Gu Chen said.

Police officer Wang also said: "I think the suspect should be among these few, and it can't be wrong."

"I agree too." Lu Weiwei also stood by Gu Chen's side.

Huang Liang nodded and said, "Wait a minute, I'll go right away."

Not long after, an intern dressed in a casual style and a woman in a beautiful business attire walked in.

And the cleaner, after dawdling for a while, also entered the conference room.

After closing the door, Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang sat on the sofa in the office after finishing the characters.

Seeing the police here, the three asked Huang Liang in surprise.

"Mr. Huang, what... what's going on?" The intern felt a chill at first.

"It's okay, the police will ask you for questioning, just tell us the truth."

"But we didn't do anything, why did you come to us for questioning?" The manager's secretary was a bit tempered, and seemed unwilling to accept such an arrangement.

And everyone's last gaze was on the cleaner at the same time.

The cleaner is an old lady around 60 years old, standing quietly at this moment.

Since all kinds of dust in the office have been cleaned up, the work clothes are not too clean.

The old lady seemed to understand this too, so she had no choice but to stand behind a few people, then raised her head silently, watching the three policemen's questioning.

"You two can go back first." Gu Chen pointed at the intern and the manager's secretary.

The two froze, and looked at Gu Chen at the same time.

"I... can we go back?" The intern said in a daze, "You asked us to come here just now, and you asked us to go back?"

"That's right." Gu Chen echoed, "You and her can go first."

Lu Weiwei was also manipulated by Gu Chen, so she couldn't understand it, so she hurriedly asked, "Junior Brother Gu, what are you doing? Three people called in, you should ask questions first, and then let these two leave? Come and you..."

Thinking of Gu Chen's handling of cases, there is always his uniqueness, Lu Weiwei presumably Gu Chen also found some small problems, so he made this decision.

Officer Wang was also dumbfounded: "Let's let them go, Gu Chen, do you think they're okay?"

Gu Chen shook his head, and then said: "Listen to me."

Police Officer Wang was very embarrassed. He was most afraid that Gu Chen would listen to him, but if he wanted to listen to Gu Chen, Officer Wang should at least know why.

But not this time...

Although Huang Liang couldn't understand the affiliation between the three policemen, but Gu Chen said so, of course he had no choice but to cooperate, so he said: "You two stay outside the door first, and I will call you in if there is any problem." .”

"Shouldn't you say it sooner?" The secretary of the manager had a little temper, turned around and left in a clatter.

Seeing this, the female intern hurriedly yelled "wait for me" and then left.

The old lady cleaner stayed where she was, and said in embarrassment: "Comrade policeman, why can they leave but I can't?"

"The reason is very simple." Gu Chen looked at the old lady and asked, "Do you know that Mr. Huang's high-level meeting was bugged?"

"Know some." The old lady spoke in a Buddhist way, not salty or plain: "This matter spread in the morning, and everyone was panic-stricken. They were afraid that colleagues around us would suddenly become employees of a competitor's company one day. Spies are scary."

"But you don't have to worry about it now." Gu Chen stood up directly, walked up to the old lady, and said, "Because the person who kept the bugging device is you."

"I?"

"she?"

"No...impossible? How is this possible?"

"Is this old lady a commercial spy?"

"Gu Chen, did you make a mistake!"

Hearing this kind of words, it is impossible for everyone to react in unison.

The old lady is honest and responsible in the company. If Gu Chen said that the intern who just joined her company was a commercial spy, maybe Huang Liang would still believe it.

Maybe Huang Liang would believe that the manager's secretary was recruited by a competitor to steal the company's high-level confidential documents, and then directly jumped to a competitor's company.

It may be unacceptable to instigate a cleaner who has worked in the company for many years.

"I...how did I become a commercial spy? Am I wronged?" The old lady looked at Gu Chen aggrievedly when she was named, and said, "I said, young man, you have to tell evidence in everything, right? You slander me so much Not good."

"Yes, Officer Gu, Aunt Liu has worked in our company for many years, so she shouldn't be the kind of person you said, right?" Seeing that Aunt Liu, the cleaner, was angry, Huang Liang spoke well for her.

Officer Wang said, "Gu Chen, tell me your opinion."

Gu Chen held the recording pen in his hand and said: "I have listened to the content here several times. It can be said that this kind of sound recording is very effective. Any movement, even a cough or a slight collision of a glass can be heard. It was recorded very clearly."

"So?" Lu Weiwei widened her eyes.

"So?" Gu Chen took the recording pen, turned to look at Huang Liang beside him, and asked, "Mr. Huang, when you found this recording pen, was the recording pen always working?"

"That's right." Huang Liang didn't deny it: "When I found this recorder, it was still on."

"That's right." Gu Chen looked at Aunt Liu again, and said, "Before your meeting, the only people who came into the conference room were these three people, right, Mr. Huang?"

"Yes." Huang Liang affirmed again: "Before the meeting, people outside the meeting room saw the three of them entering the meeting room one after another."

"That's right." Gu Chen looked at the rubber shoes on Aunt Liu's feet, the cleaner, and said, "Aunt Liu, right? If I'm not wrong, you should be the last one to enter the meeting room among the three Right?"

"I..." Aunt Liu was taken aback for a moment, and then said lightly: "So... so what? I don't know anything, I just go to help these bosses, clean tables and stools, etc. These are my daily routines work."

"Stop pretending." Gu Chen smiled: "There are no obvious footsteps in the recording, but the secretary and interns are wearing high heels, and you can hear them walking."

"Yes." Hearing Gu Chen say this, Lu Weiwei suddenly realized: "Why didn't I pay attention? The sound of those two people walking just now was really loud. If you turn on the recorder and leave, then in this recorder, There must be the sound of high heels, but there is no sound, right Junior Brother Gu?"

Gu Chen smiled: "Senior Sister Lu, you are right, because the movement of the secretary and intern walking was not recorded, so it is unlikely to be them."

Glancing at Aunt Liu's rubber shoes, Gu Chen said again: "Besides you, Aunt Liu, I really can't find anyone else who can leave quietly after turning on the recorder, so... "

"So that commercial spy hiding in the company... is your Aunt Liu?" Huang Liang looked at her in disbelief.

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(End of this chapter)