Conan's New Police Story

Chapter 220 Unless He Didn't Die
"It seems that the statue of Guan Gong in the section chief's house should not be hungry."

Miwako Sato, who followed the man's line of sight, tilted her head slightly, and teased with a smile.

She has been to Uehara's house, so she naturally knows what kind of treatment the gods in this man's house are treated.If there is really such a thing as "a spirit in the sky" in this world, then Uehara Katsumi's guilt is probably too numerous to write down.

To let the lazy donkey pull the mill, you have to hang a carrot by its mouth.

"Generally speaking, gods don't eat these things. What's more, our class chief is obviously the kind of person who can't even do superficial skills. He hasn't wiped off the dust on the statue."

After putting on the gloves, the man pushed away the incense altar and the offering plate, then reached out and lifted the ashen-stained Guan Gong statue to the side, carefully checking whether there was anything hidden inside the shrine.

Regrettably, after fumbling for a long while, Uehara Katsumi had nothing to gain other than bumping himself into ashes.

"Uehara Police Department, found something."

Just as he was returning the statue to its original position, a policeman's greeting immediately attracted his attention——

"We found a secret secret compartment in the bedroom closet of the section chief's son. This is something placed in the secret compartment. Judging from the records above, it should be a ledger."

"His son's wardrobe?"

Katsumi Uehara raised his eyebrows in surprise, took over the ledger and opened it. The line-by-line records fully explained how much money this old section chief, who was about to retire, had made with his power over the years——

In other words, a power-for-money deal.

"No, no, this ledger seems to be only for the last five years." The tip of Sato Miwako approached her partner's ear just a step away from her partner's ear, but she didn't realize it. She quickly reached out and flipped to the record time on the last page of the ledger. The amount and various assets recorded by the firm shocked her——

"Huh? Wait a minute, if I remember correctly, the actual controllers of these companies are also Kenzo Masuyama?"

After turning the page and seeing a few impressive company names, Miwako frowned: "Isn't the acquaintance between the section chief and Kenzo Masuyama because of Counselor Uno's matchmaking? From the above records Judging from the time, the communication between them is earlier than what we found."

"Blindfolded."

Katsumi Uehara narrowed his eyes slightly, and subconsciously figured out the answer: "The arrest of Ginjiu and his party was an accident. If there was no such accident, our attention might be completely ignored by the discovery of clues. , and instead devoted himself to arresting Counselor Uno. In this way, Saburo Wada naturally did not have to expose himself to suicide."

"That's not the right question. Why did he commit suicide? It's come to this point. Isn't it good to be alive? If you are alive, even if you are caught, you still have the hope of escaping."

Chiba Kazunobu, who followed closely behind, also looked through the ledger, somewhat puzzled.

"No, on the contrary, his death is the best ending."

Hearing the words, Uehara Katsumi shook his head: "If he is not dead, this winery will also try every means to kill him, even if he was exposed for rescuing Gin and others, and may even be implicated His family. He died so simply now, there is a high probability that he died voluntarily in exchange for the safety of his family."

"Is this criminal organization you speak of so honest and trustworthy?"

Miwako Sato is obviously skeptical about this: "If I were a senior member of this organization, I might be a bit wary of the section chief if he was still alive, but he is dead. I just killed his family just in case. , there is no obstacle at all."

"Good question, where is the head's family now?"

"Don't you know? He was taken back to the Metropolitan Police Department by Takagi and interrogated by Superintendent Odagiri—"

Before the words fell, Miwako Sato's tone froze, and she suddenly understood the key point.

Seeing her like this, Uehara Katsumi bit his lip unwillingly, and sighed: "The winery should be sure that Wada Saburo's family has no or little knowledge of the organization, so they made this kind of abandoned car. Bao Shuai's decision."

Is Saburo Wada important?
Of course it matters.

Search for the head of the first class, even though he is about to retire, he is still the head of the first class.But compared with Qin Jiu and others, this section chief hiding in the shadow of the Metropolitan Police Department seemed not so important.

"Wada Saburo knows that the Metropolitan Police Department has been investigating who the inner ghost is, so he began to arrange for the Counsellor of the Criminal Department Tadashi Uno to be his scapegoat.

"For this reason, he contacted Kenzo Masuyama and performed a double reed with him."

After receiving the ledger from Chiba, and looking at the transaction between Saburo Wada and Kenzo Masuyama's actual holding company, Katsumi Uehara continued to combine all the information he had so far:
"First of all, Kenzo Masuyama became friends with Tadayoshi Uno, and after gaining trust, Saburo Wada, who was always willing to be a matchmaker for his old subordinates, introduced Saburo Wada, who was about to retire, to Kenzo Masuyama. The logic chain of Uno Zhongyi's suspicion;
"Secondly, creating further evidence for Uno Zhongyi's undercover identity is the money transactions that we worked hard to find;
"In the end, although all those money transactions have nothing to do with Uno Tadayoshi himself, but his wife was implicated. Husband and wife are natural interest groups and it is difficult to separate them.

"At this point, Uno Zhongyi can no longer clear his suspicion. Because as a high-ranking police official, his ass is really not clean. If he confesses his criminal facts together, it is very likely that the consortium behind him and others will be involved. Senior officials, in order to protect their families in the end, had no choice but to suffer this dumb loss secretly.

"Even, I suspect that Saburo Wada has arranged some conclusive evidence that Tadashi Uno is an insider waiting for our police to discover.

"And the interest group behind Tadashi Uno, in order not to expose his own interest chain, is very likely to let him be identified as a suicide by being shot eight times under the guard of the police.

"Here, the suspicion of Wada Saburo's inner ghost will be completely ruled out, and Uno Zhongyi will become his scapegoat..."

Katsumi Uehara, who was slowly turning the gears in his mind, narrated the speculation he had connected to, and Miwako Sato and Kazunobu Chiba were taken aback for a while.

"The truth is true, but if this is the case, why did Gin kill that Masuyama Kenzo? If it was just a frame, then there is no need to kill—"

Wait a moment? !

Miwako's voice stopped suddenly, and her pupils shrank suddenly: "Unless Masuyama Kenzo is not dead!"

If Masuyama Kenzo's death was only for setting the blame, just for the police to find out about Uno Tadyoshi, the scapegoat, then he didn't have to die at all.

Katsumi Uehara nodded: "That's right, we never found Kenzo Masuyama's body from the beginning to the end, what we found in his villa was just a pile of bones that were so burned that it was difficult to even test them.

"With regard to the death of Kenzo Masuyama, we have no conclusive evidence, and there are only two indirect clues, the bones were found in the fireplace in the basement of the Masuyama villa and the side testimony of vodka."

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(End of this chapter)