Chapter 655 - 599: Unsealing
Jiang Yuan, leading a group of more than thirty people, arrived at the Zoumadao Police Station and within just a few days, had delivered dozens of talents to the detention center.
The main reason was that the operating patterns of various units were similar and, over the years, had almost solidified into a fixed method of defrauding money. As soon as one problem was grasped, it could lead to a whole string of them.
Among them, there was a fugitive who had once been imprisoned for three years due to economic crimes. During his incarceration, he honed his skills on a sewing machine, but when he committed another crime, he escaped. This time he was caught again, and with the two cases combined, he was looking at upwards of 10 years in jail. It was estimated he would be able to develop a foundation-level mastery of the sewing machine.
The other cases’ participants seemed pale by comparison, with very few being able to be sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment.
Especially a few young people in the tourist shops who had just graduated and found employment as salespersons in the company. They sang and danced, lively and cheerful, but didn’t earn much money. They probably only performed for dozens of busloads of tourists. These people were very likely to receive probation.
Running this round of cases took another three days, which was even more exhausting than the investigation phase.
The main cost stemmed from taking statements from tourists. Most tourists visiting Ningtai would only stay for a day, some arriving by train in the morning and leaving by bus in the evening.
To pinpoint these tourists, the police officers had to wait on the inevitable path of the tour buses, stopping them to take statements as soon as they saw the confirmed license plates.
Some tour buses led by guides were full of complaints on the return trip, and both sides had already started hurling insults at each other. In such cases, taking statements proved very effective.
But some guides were really good at managing people. On the return trip, the tourists would be singing and dancing, potentially seeing the police as meddling and delaying their meals.