Becoming a Phantom Thief from the World of American Comics

Chapter 32 Recording (Please collect! Please follow up!)
"About two days ago, someone sent me a tip, which showed that Ethan International Shipping Company had recently been remitted to a large amount of assets from unknown sources, the amount exceeded 5000 million US dollars, but no relevant records were found in the public accounts."

After straight-to-the-point revealing the real man behind the scenes, Vicki sorted out the context of the whole thing from the beginning.

"The person who sent the informant claimed that the $5000 million was black money. The real source was the leader of a criminal organization in Gotham. For unknown reasons, the organization wanted to launder the money as soon as possible."

"Everyone in Gotham knows there's only one place to go to launder dirty money here, and that's the Iceberg Club."

"As we all know, the Penguin never refuses door-to-door business, so he planned to launder the black money at this auction by auctioning a low-cost counterfeit diamond at a high price, and he decided to use Ethan International Shipping Company to accomplish this task."

"Because this company, which appears to have clear accounts on the surface, is actually nothing more than a white glove company of the Penguin!"

At this time, Vicky turned to look at the handcuffed Grey Tad Ethan.

"Grey Tad Ethan, the general manager of Ethan International Shipping Company, is just a puppet of the Penguin, and he specializes in criminal activities of money laundering for him!"

"'Pink Dream' was apparently brought by Huiletard to be auctioned, but in fact he is only an agent in charge of auctioning diamonds, not the owner of 'Pink Dream'!"

"Once 'Pink Dream' is auctioned at a sky-high price of close to $5000 million, then the client of the Penguin will get the laundered money."

Immediately afterwards, Vicky turned to look at Lark again.

"In order to ensure that 'Pink Dream' can get the ideal bid, the Penguin also asked one of his confidantes, the manager of the Iceberg Casino, Lak Finn, to participate in the auction as a bidder."

In this way, everyone's division of labor is very clear.

The client hoped that Penguin could help him launder money, so he sent 5000 million illegal assets to Penguin's white glove Huiletard, and then Huiletad auctioned the fake diamonds instead of the client, while Lark was responsible for the normal auction of the fake diamonds. In this way, the original 5000 million illegal assets of the client will become legal proceeds from the auction.

Cicero's role in it was to ensure that the fake diamond was successfully brought to the auction.

If any unlucky rich man just fell in love with this 'Pink Dream' and planned to bid higher than Lark, then Lark would naturally not bid with him, and let this lucky person bid for the diamond, and Penguin won 5000 million for nothing.

As for how to launder the 5000 million illegal assets remitted to Ethan International Shipping Company, this is too simple for Penguin's power. He has countless ways to turn the money into legal ones.

In the whole process, the penguin did not appear in any link, but at the same time, there were penguins everywhere.

"It turned out that the pink diamond was actually a tool used to assist money laundering. Seeing that there are so many man-made gemstones in Cicero's office, there is still a huge illegal transaction hidden in it..."

After listening to Vicky's narration, every bidder present suddenly realized, and couldn't help but gasped, feeling terrified.

"I really thought about buying that pink diamond before, because the quality is so good, if I actually spend more than 5000 million yuan to buy a fake diamond... I dare not think about it, I dare not even think about it!"

"Humph!"

At this moment, a cold snort sounded from the side, and Grey Tad Ethan stared fiercely at Vicky Road with an expression of righteous indignation on his face.

"Vicki Weir! What you said sounds reasonable, but do you have evidence? I swear to God that Ethan International Shipping Company has no so-called illegal remittances at all. Our company's accounts have always been open and transparent, and investigations are always welcome!"

"You still slander me as a white glove for criminals to launder money? I have nothing to do with Penguin. Do you know this is slander? It's an insult to my personality!"

"And why do you say that 'Pink Dream' is fake, just because a hotel manager has a bag of beautiful glass balls? The current situation is that Kaito Kidd stole 'Pink Dream', and I lost the world's largest pink diamond. Obviously I was the victim, why was I the one who was handcuffed by the police and charged? GCPD, is the taxpayer's money handed over to you to wrong good people?"

"Vicki Weir, and Jim Gordon, wait to receive my lawyer's letter!"

Greyletard was obviously trained and experienced, and insisted that Vicky was slandering him, and it was impossible to convict him without direct evidence.

Such a tough attitude caused everyone in the audience to murmur again, what Greetard said was correct, and Vicky did not come up with actual and effective evidence.

Ethan International Shipping Company has never had any negative news, why did it suddenly become Penguin's white gloves?

Guaranteed that Huiletard was really wronged...

"I can't see that you, a fat man, are quite intelligent. You asked that bitch right away."

Beside him, Lak whispered to Gray Tad, with a sneer on his face.

"Speak less at this time."

Gray Tad whispered back.

"Do you think I have no evidence? Grey Tad, look what this is!"

However, Vicky's attitude was not soft either. She put down the bag of fake gems, took out a black object from her bosom and held it up high.

It was a long and thin box, which was the tape recorder thrown to her by Kaitou Kidd just now.

"what?"

Grey Tad couldn't see the big screen from his perspective, and he wasn't close to Vicky, so he didn't see what it was.

But it didn't matter if he couldn't see, because he heard it very well.

"Today's auction has been completely messed up. It is almost impossible for Mr. Penguin's transaction to proceed normally... It was Ogilvy, the Penguin sent him to negotiate this business with me..."

A recording was played, and it was Cicero who confessed that he had a deal with Penguin and was coerced.

"How dare you betray us!"

Gray Tad and Laque turned their heads in an instant, and looked at Cicero at the same time, with fierce eyes and ferocious faces, especially Laque, who had an expression of wanting to kill Cicero.

Cicero, who seemed to have lost his soul for a long time, hadn't said a word since he was dragged in by Robin, his face was expressionless, his eyes were empty, and he didn't feel the glaring of the two Greyltards.

Just then, another recording played, this time a woman's voice.

"It's been a long time since that fake stone came out... Don't forget that I've been working under the boss for a lot longer than you... As long as I don't want to, no one can hear me."

Lak's face froze when he heard the voice.

Gray Tad looked at Cicero, then at Lark, and fell into silence.

(End of this chapter)