I asked you to pursue a career, but you turned out to be a scumbag

Chapter 429: Crime of huge amount of property with unknown source

"Yeah, nothing was accomplished!"

Zhang Hao shrugged.

Xu Dong said smugly, "In that case, then let me go. Next time, don't arrest people without any evidence, or you'll end up in trouble."

Zhang Hao nodded. "That's true, but before I let you go, you have to explain to me where those gold bricks worth hundreds of millions of dollars hidden in the walls of your house, as well as the antiques, watches, and famous cigarettes and liquor you hid in your hometown, came from."

Xu Dong's smug expression froze on his face, and then panic and fear followed. He subconsciously said, "How did you know I hid the gold in the wall?"

Zhang Hao smiled slightly: "Now you admit that all the gold in the wall is yours?"

Xu Dong knew that he had spoken out of turn. After all, he had said before that he rented the house, and he could have denied it to death.

Just say that you are not aware of it, and that the owner of the house might have embedded the gold bricks in the wall, and it has nothing to do with you.

If I say this now, I am just admitting my guilt.

But now that he has said it, it is useless to deny it. He just can't understand how Zhang Hao knew it?

He embedded the gold bricks into the wall with his own hands, and also repainted the wall white with his own hands.

In order to avoid being discovered, he went out and learned how to paste wallpaper himself, pasting it up one inch at a time.

Unless you spend a lot of time and energy searching the entire house inch by inch, you may not be able to find any clues.

But it only took Zhang Hao more than an hour from the time he went out to the time he came back.

"How do you know that the gold is embedded in the wall?" Xu Dong asked.

Zhang Hao smiled and said, "You have to thank your good wife. After all, I never thought that you would use all the money you embezzled and accepted bribes to buy gold bricks and then embed them in the wall. It was your wife who took the initiative to tell us."

Xu Dong's face turned black, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Li Yanling, you ungrateful bastard, you actually betrayed me."

Zhang Hao shook his index finger and said, "You can't blame your wife for this. It was you who flirted with other women outside and made brushes out of the hair of all the women you had sex with and kept them at home. That broke your wife's defenses. Otherwise, she wouldn't have taken the initiative to expose you."

Xu Dong never expected that it would be such a small habit of his that would cause him to fail. He was so angry. If he had known this, he would not have kept those brushes at home.

Zhang Hao continued, "District Chief Xu, no, now that we've found stolen money in your home, it's no longer appropriate to call you District Chief. Xu Dong, now you can tell me where all this money came from. You've committed all sorts of illegal and disorderly acts during your tenure."

Xu Dong knew that this amount of money alone was enough to convict him of the crime of having huge amounts of property of unknown origin, even if he said nothing!

The sentencing standard for the crime of huge property of unknown origin is more than five years but less than ten years.

If I confess, it won't just be a crime with a sentence of less than ten years.

So he took a deep breath and said, "Zhang Hao, I won't say anything."

Zhang Hao curled his lips and said, "Xu Dong, do you think it will be useful if you don't say anything? You forgot that you have a good wife. I believe she must know the source of most of your stolen money. Even if you don't say it, she will tell us."

Xu Dong's eyelids trembled slightly. Yes, his prodigal wife knew a lot about him, but he still didn't want to sit and wait for death, so he lowered his voice and said, "Zhang Hao, I advise you not to seek death. You don't think that I can embezzle so much money by myself, do you? I have someone behind me, and he is not someone you can afford to offend."

Zhang Hao laughed disdainfully when he heard this: "The person you're talking about is Xiang Mingzhi, isn't he?"

Xu Dong's eyelids twitched slightly when he heard this: "How did you know?"

Zhang Hao scoffed, "You don't need to know that. And if I'm not mistaken, a lot of the money you embezzled was given to you by Han Tianhai, right?"

Xu Dong's pupils shrank slightly. He originally thought that Zhang Hao suddenly arrested him because of Yang Kaiqi's report, but now it seems that he did not do it on a whim at all, but had planned it for a long time, otherwise how could he have investigated it so clearly.

Zhang Hao saw that Xu Dong had broken down and lost his mind, and said: "Now tell me, what illegal things have you done in these years?"

Xu Dong said, "Zhang Hao, you are just a small deputy section chief. You know too much and are courting death."

Zhang Hao said slowly, "You don't need to worry about this. Just tell us what happened. This might reduce your sentence. Otherwise, let me investigate everything myself. Then, based on what you've done, you won't be able to escape the death penalty."

Xu Dong also knew that his wife was the traitor behind all the things he had done over the years, so it was not difficult to investigate the matter thoroughly.

So he stopped resisting and started to confess everything one by one.

Just when Zhang Hao was interrogating Xu Dong.

Ji Chang and He Jiahuan also rushed to the procuratorate.

After arriving at the procuratorate, he first went to find Shen Hongcai.

When Shen Hongcai saw Ji Chang coming, he showed a look of surprise on his face and said, "Ji Chang, you really came?"

Ji Chang said sincerely, "Old Shen, we've known each other for so many years. Look, I'm here in person, so just leave Xu Dong to me!"

Shen Hongcai said, "Ji Chang, I've already told you that it's useless to come to me about this matter. Go and discuss it with Zhang Hao. As long as he agrees to hand the person over to you, I have no objection."

"Where is Zhang Hao?" Ji Chang asked.

Shen Hongcai said: "They should be interrogating Xu Dong."

After listening to this, Ji Chang didn't waste any words and took He Jiahuan straight to the interrogation room.

As soon as he arrived outside the interrogation room, he was stopped by Su Mengxue who was guarding the door.

Zhang Hao specially arranged Su Mengxue to guard the door, saying that no one could disturb her during his interrogation.

After being stopped, Ji Chang said to Su Mengxue, "Young comrade, I am Ji Chang, the director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau. I want to see Zhang Hao, Director Zhang."

Su Mengxue shook her head and refused, "Our Director Zhang said that during his interrogation, no one can see or disturb him."

Ji Chang frowned and said, "I really have something urgent to do."

"That won't work either!" Su Mengyao still refused.

"Then please ask for me and tell Zhang Hao that I'm here and want to see him." Ji Chang discussed.

Su Mengxue hesitated for a moment. After all, Ji Chang was the director and a deputy-department-level cadre. If she kept stopping him and came to see Zhang Hao in person, it wouldn't make sense, right?

So he said, "Let me give it a try."

Then he knocked on the door and said, "Director Zhang, the director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, Ji Chang, wants to see you."