Chapter 16 Chapter Fourteen Surrender

On the afternoon of May 19th, the furniture store clerk who lived in the apartment in Shibuya surrendered himself to the Akasaka Police Station.His name is Akio Hirata, twenty-two years old.The young man unpacked in front of the reconnaissance class.It was a large handbag filled with one million yuan bills.The surrendered person said that there was 17.5 million yuan in the bag.The class staff took the young man to the small room, and the class head interrogated him. "What's going on, let's talk about it in detail." "It happened eight days ago. At six o'clock in the morning on the 11th, I rode my bicycle across Nanqingshan Road." Akio Hirata stuttered. "I ride my bike every morning to keep fit. I met a woman with this handbag on the road that day."

"Draw a map." Hirata drew a sketch.The section chief compared it with the map of the district. "The area in the middle is a cross street where the avenue and the small road intersect. There are signal lights on the north and south sides, and the distance between them is about 250 meters." The young man gestured with his finger on the sketch he had drawn. "When I was cycling from south to north, I saw a woman crossing the road on Cross Street with a black handbag in her hand. At this moment, a red light was on on the south side of the road, and all vehicles stopped. I was , about 50 to 60 meters away from her, she was the only one, and there were no other pedestrians. That big black bag aroused my evil thoughts, and I suddenly had the idea of ​​taking it away."

"Did you know that there is a huge sum of money in the handbag?" "No, I never thought of it in my dreams. I think there might be a wallet of 30,000 to 50,000 yuan in it, because I had nothing to do to repay the usury and was in distress." "What do you do next?" "When the woman came down from the sidewalk and began to walk on the road, I was only about ten meters away from her. I immediately stood up straight, pedaled hard, and accelerated the speed desperately. The woman wanted to avoid the bicycle when she saw it, but I aimed at it. I hit her, and the woman fell on the road, and I fell down with the bicycle. At this time, the woman let go of the handbag, and I reached out to grab it, and ran away on the bicycle."

"Which way did you escape after you snatched the handbag?" asked the head of the reconnaissance section. "When the woman fell down, I picked up the bicycle, grabbed the handbag with one hand, and rode into the alley next to it. I went back to the Shibuya apartment through this road." Akio Hirata pointed to the sketch. "Tell me more about the circumstances of the woman's fall." "The woman was hit by a fast car and lay face up on the side of the road, unable to move. The woman covered her face with a black turban, and wore a sweater and trousers. I can't remember the color. At that time, I was also extremely panicked. ah."

"What is the woman's age?" "I took a look when I lifted the turban, and it was a person who was less than forty years old." "What about the features of the face?" "I didn't see it clearly either. Because when she fell down, the woman covered her face with her hands, but I think she is a very beautiful woman." "Did the woman say anything as she fell?" "I didn't say anything, I seemed to be knocked out." "Didn't there be any cars passing by at that time?" "As I said just now, the flow of traffic was blocked by a red light one hundred and fifty meters ahead. I ran away before those cars came."

"Has the woman been lying on the road all this time?" "She didn't move, as if she couldn't stand up. I was worried about the concussion caused by bumping her head, but I didn't dare to go back and read it. I wanted to know how the newspaper reported this incident. I read the newspaper every day, but the newspaper Nothing is listed on the Internet. If you know anything about that woman, Mr. Police, please tell me!" "Maybe it doesn't matter." The reconnaissance section chief replied vaguely. A handbag containing 17.5 million yuan was snatched.It stands to reason that the victim or related persons would definitely report the case to the police station, but the section chief has never heard of such a case.

"You snatched the handbag containing the huge sum of money eight days ago, why did you turn yourself in now?" "Because of fear!" Hirata told the chief of the reconnaissance section why he surrendered himself eight days after committing the crime. "Tell me why you are afraid." "To tell you the truth, there were twenty bundles of one million dollar bills in this bag." "What? It turned out to be 20 million yuan?" The head of the section opened his eyes wide. "Yes, I spent 2.5 million of it, returned 400,000 to usury and 300,000 to my friend, and spent the remaining 1.8 million as pocket money. In pocket money Here, one and a half million yuan was lost in a horse race." The young man scratched his head.

The head teacher checked the handbag.Like Hirata's confession, there were only seventeen bundles of banknotes bound with rubber bands inside.In addition to the bundle of banknotes, the handbag contained cosmetics, a wallet and five handkerchiefs.Cosmetics and wallets are imported, and linen handkerchiefs are also high-end.It can be presumed that the standard of living of the victim was very high.That was all that was in the bag, and there were no other clues to her identity. "Are you afraid because you got a huge sum of 20 million yuan?" "There are reasons for that too. But it's this Osterridge bag that really scares me."

"Why are you afraid of it?" "Sir, this is a premium product made in France. I showed this handbag to my girlfriend, and that's what she said. At that time, she opened her eyes and said in surprise, she had never seen such a premium product before." Woolen cloth!" "Are you a bachelor?" "I'm only 22 years old, and I live alone in an apartment in Shibuya. The furniture store I work in goes to work at 9 am and ends at 7 pm. It's tight!" The head of the reconnaissance section put on gloves and picked up the handbag to observe carefully.Travel bag-shaped handbag, the patterns protruding from the leather surface are beautiful and neatly arranged.Sure enough, it is a high-end product, and it is still new.

"Have you been hiding the handbag with the bills in the apartment house?" "Wrapped in old newspapers and put under the junk in the closet. I have nothing in the house, and thieves wouldn't get in, and if they sneaked in, they wouldn't think that such things would be hidden under the junk." "Why are you so afraid of handbags?" "If you hide the money and spend it skillfully and slowly, you won't be noticed, but there's no way to dispose of this high-end handbag. My girlfriend said it might be worth 800,000 yuan!" "Is this handbag worth 800,000 yuan?"

The head of the reconnaissance section was a layman in women's products, so he couldn't help but carefully looked at the handbag again. "My girlfriend is knowledgeable about women's products, and what she says is generally correct. I think that if you keep something that doesn't suit you, you will be discovered. If you send it to a pawn shop, it will arouse suspicion from others. If you give it to your girlfriend, it will show your feet from here. It would be a pity to throw it far away. It is really difficult to deal with, so I made up my mind and surrendered." The young man smiled wryly. The class head put the handbag in front of his eyes and stared at it for a while, then pointed to the side with his white-gloved fingertips. "There are scars here!" "There are scars." "Is this your bruise?" "No, it was there. When I went back to the apartment and took a closer look, I saw the scratch." "The handbag is still quite new. It's a pity to have this scar. You see, here it is, here it is." "There are three places in total." "The scratches from the handbag on the road when the woman was hit by your bicycle?" "Maybe. But if that's the case, there are too many scars. At most, it will be one on the road." "Well……" "Also, this scratch is a bit long. If the handbag was thrown on the ground when a woman fell, it wouldn't leave such a long mark." "..." The head of the class felt as if he had become a student listening to the robber's lecture. "Also, Mr. Section Chief, there used to be white powder on this trace. I wiped it off at the time, so I can't see it now." "White powder?" "Yes, it seems to be cement powder. If you drop it on the asphalt road, it won't be stained with cement powder. I have already wiped off these." "Then where did the cement powder stick?" "This can only be known by asking its owner. Mr. Section Chief, how did that woman report the crime?" The class member whispered in the class head's ear that no one in the area came to report the crime. It is a strange thing that a high-end handbag containing 20 million yuan was snatched away, and no one came to report it after eight days.Chief of the Investigative Section of the Akasaka Police Station Yamamoto temporarily detained the furniture clerk who surrendered, and reported the case to the First Investigative Section of the Metropolitan Police Department by phone. Section Chief Yamamoto did not tell the reporter of the police station about the robbery, and also prohibited the class members from disclosing the case to the public.Section Chief Yamamoto came to the Metropolitan Police Department to meet with the Section Chief of Investigation 1.The unanimous opinion of the two section chiefs is that the reason why no one reported the crime was that the victim had suffered unspeakably.In this case, if you rush to expose in the newspapers, there may be some fake "victims".In order to avoid this disturbance, they decided to keep it secret for the time being. Although no one reported the crime, there was a way to ascertain the identity of the victim, which was to investigate the stores that sold Osterridge's handbags one by one.There are not many shops in Tokyo that sell French-made handbags worth 800,000 yuan, and the handbags will not be sold for a long time, and the clerk will still remember this. Two investigators from the Akasaka Police Station took the stolen item to women's stores and specialty stores at department stores in the Ginza area.In the end, the one I met was not in Ginza, but in Nihonbashi's department store.The director of the selected product sales office nodded immediately after seeing the stolen goods brought by the investigators. "It was indeed the handbag we sold." "What kind of person bought it?" The saleswoman was called by the head of sales. "The man who bought this is a man over forty years old," said the saleswoman. "What! A man? A man bought this handbag?" The investigator looked at the face of the female clerk. "He was talking about gifts for women." "Yes, yes! What is the residence and name of that man?" "I didn't ask. It's the first time a customer came. He didn't even ask for a receipt. He just asked to write 'coarse product' on the package. But he didn't allow him to sign on it." "What about the price?" "It's seven hundred thousand yuan." "Quite expensive!" "Yes, it's the best Osterridge handbag," boasted the sales director. "So, when was it sold?" "I think it was two weeks ago, please wait a moment." The director of the sales office left the rejection desk, opened the ledger and checked the date. "That's right! It's the seventh of this month." According to Akio Hirata, a furniture store clerk, he snatched the handbag on the eleventh day, the fourth day after it was sold.It can be concluded that the man who bought the handbag during these four days gave it to the woman, and the woman who received the gift later went out with the handbag. "Do you remember what the man who bought the bag looked like?" "He was a fat man with a round face, almost crimson, thick black eyebrows, a bulbous nose, and thick lips." The saleswoman remembered it clearly. "Has anything happened with handbags?" asked the head of sales to the two investigators. "No, it's not a case yet, it's just a small accident." The investigator faltered vaguely. "Please show me!" The director of the sales office took the large handbag and looked at every place carefully. "Ah, there are scars in three places!" After watching from the side, the saleswoman also said: "Oh, what a pity. It's brand new!" "When it was sold here, it didn't have these scars, did it?" "Of course." The head of the shop opened his eyes and argued as if he had been insulted: "All the goods we buy here have been carefully inspected, let alone such expensive high-end products!" "If there is such a trace of rubbing, the customer will not buy it. This scar must be caused by the party receiving the gift. It is too disrespectful to spoil this high-end product." The saleswoman was as indignant as if she had broken her bag. "We want to know who the woman who received the handbag is. To know her, we first need to know the name of the giver. Is there any way to know the name of the male customer?" Seeing the anxious look of the investigator, the female clerk said to the director of the sales office: "Ah! I remembered something, sir! Did a male customer buy a crocodile leather handbag at the same time? These two customers seem to know each other." The investigator paid close attention to what the saleswoman said. "Please explain this in detail." The clerk recalled: Just as the fat man was buying an Osterridge handbag, another middle-aged man bought a crocodile leather handbag for a woman.The male customer who bought the crocodile leather handbag spoke Kansai dialect, and the male customer who bought the Osterridge handbag spoke Kyushu dialect. It seemed that the two were very close. "A customer who speaks Kansai dialect bought a crocodile leather handbag worth 1.05 million yuan," said the female shop assistant. "What! A handbag worth 1.05 million yuan?" A handbag worth 700,000 yuan is already expensive enough, so there are even more expensive ones!The investigator compared his salary with the price of the bag and sighed. "Yes, that's the most expensive crocodile leather handbag. But he insisted on reducing the 1.05 million yuan to a million yuan. We think this is a shrewd Kansai guy. Because of this incident , so it left an impression on me." "Is there an official receipt for that crocodile bag?" "No, I only gave an invoice without my name on it." "Is there any way to know the identity of the customer who speaks the Kansai dialect?" "Ah, I remembered!" The saleswoman called out. "Customers who buy crocodile leather bags wear a chrysanthemum badge on their chest." "Oh! Could it be a Member of Parliament? A ring of mauve or black velvet with a badge of a little gold chrysanthemum in it?" "No, it's red and black chrysanthemums with white tinges." "Ah, that's the badge of the congressman's secretary!" Women are always careful to observe the dress of others.After hearing what the investigator said, another clerk said: "By the way, that gentleman sent the secretary's business card." The director of the sales office returned to his desk, flipped through the card book, took out one of them, and went back to the investigator. "That's the gentleman." Members of the National Assembly Secretary Union Chairman Member of the House of Representatives Secretary Koichi Maruyama Masao Arikawa At nine o'clock in the morning, Kenzo Nabeya received a call from the Akasaka Police Station at his apartment in Matsubara, Setagaya Ward.His wife invited him to speak. "I'm Nabeya Kenzo." "I'm sorry to bother you this morning. I'm the chief of the investigation section of the Akasaka Police Station." He said politely. "I would like to ask you something, is Mr. Nabeya familiar with Mr. Masazo Kawa, the secretary of Mr. Maruyama Koichi, member of the House of Representatives?" "I know you." Nabeya replied, "I'm not very familiar with them, but they are both the secretaries of the parliamentarians of the Constitutional Party. We usually chat with each other when we meet." "Is there a little thing I want to meet with you? It just takes up a little bit of your time." "Time, it's nothing, but..." Nabeya pondered for a while and asked: "You said just now that you were the Chief of the Investigative Section of the Akasaka Police Station?" "It's the Chief of Investigative Section, Yamamoto Police Department." "You said it was about Arikawa Masao? What happened to Arikawa-kun?" "No, there's nothing wrong with Mr. Arikawa, so don't worry about that. I just want to ask you something." "Well, are you coming here?" "I can go to your place. If you come to the city center, I will go to the place you specify. As you like." Nabeya thought that the apartment he lived in was not ostentatious enough, and the other party might have mentioned something that his wife should not hear. "I'll be waiting for you in the lobby of the Adam Hotel in Akasaka at two o'clock this afternoon." "It's the lobby of the Adam Hotel in Akasaka, two o'clock in the afternoon!" The section chief wrote it down while repeating it. "yes." "thanks!" After putting down the earphones, Kenzo Nabeya began to think deeply.He thought that something might have happened to Masao Arikawa.Recently, Arikawa seems to have a lot of money.He remembered that he had met Masao Arikawa after the gathering to support Kawamura.At that time, he staggered away with his arms around the waitress.Once again, we met at the Nihombashi department store's special selection counter.Arikawa was actually able to buy a 1.05 million crocodile handbag for his companion woman.At that time, I was amazed that there are even richer rich men among the rich!The woman he was with was dressed very young, thirty-six or seven years old, and the real age may be older.Flat nose, high cheekbones, unflattering.At that time, I thought, Arikawa has no ability for women, otherwise how could he fall in love with such a woman.But these things are irrelevant, the problem is the good luck made by Chuanchang. Arikawa may have found a way to make money.Although the representative Maruyama Koichi he was serving had been elected six times and served as the head of the Environmental Agency, he was not good at making money.Arikawa wanted to rely on the old man's blessing to get oil and water, but it was completely impossible.So, where did Arikawa get so much money?Nabeya suddenly thought of Arikawa's title of "Chairman of the Diet Secretaries League".Arikawa likes this title very much, and once showed off his business card at the special product counter in a department store. The name "Alliance of Congressional Secretaries" can scare people in society, making timid entrepreneurs pay for it.On the other hand, this title is more powerful to the petitioner than the title of MP.In fact, most of the issues raised by the petitioners are dealt with by the secretary.Sometimes, the secretaries set up members of parliament and directly hook up with companies.If you have the title of "Chairman of the Congressional Secretary's Alliance", you will be able to make full use of this ability possessed by the secretary. Arikawa collected less than 50 or 60 secretaries, and then played the signboard of "Secretary League".I became the chairman of the committee myself.For him, the existence of the "Alliance" is not relevant. In order to make money and win over people, he needs the title of chairman of the committee. Nabeya took a taxi and set off from the apartment.When the car passed through the residential area of ​​Songyuan, the original wooden wall of the construction site had been demolished, revealing the whole picture of the brand new house.It's a modern East-West wall-to-wall home.Guoya was still muttering: Would a salaried president have so much money? Nabeya parked the car at the First Member of the House of Representatives Hall before it was time for an appointment with the Chief of the Investigative Section of the Akasaka Police Station.In front of the reception room next to the gate, there are still a sea of ​​people today, and most of them come to petition the congressmen.Nabeya arrived at Kawamura's office.As expected, Kawamura was not in the office, only the first and second secretaries were there.Those who come to the council hall to petition may know that it will not be of great benefit to petition the young councilor of the second generation.Kawamura doesn't have many acquaintances in Kasumigaseki (the location of the various provincial departments), and he lacks the ability to handle affairs. Moreover, the leader of his faction, Itakura, has retired and is now a non-mainstream faction, so of course there is not much to do. Nabeya arrived at Representative Maruyama Koichi's office on the second floor.He thought that if the first secretary had Chuan Masao in his office, he could learn from him why the Investigation Section of the Akasaka Police Department asked him.Arikawa's desk is neatly arranged, and the bookcase is full of notebooks and folders.Almost all of these documents are about petitions.Most of the petitions wanted to find a back door to work in the company, and some of them asked for a business license.Unlike the young Kawamura, Koichi Maruyama has been elected to the National Assembly six times and once served as the head of the Environmental Agency. For this reason, he is the object of attention of the petitioners.Representative Maruyama, you can introduce about three employees to work in state-owned enterprises.He uses this power in elections, and it can also be used in political transactions between congressmen.The congressman's office stinks of such "deals." "Is Arikawa-kun not here?" Second Secretary Yoshimi Shiro raised his pale face from behind the stack of "petition registers" and said: "He called and said that he had a headache and asked for leave today." "Where's Mr. Maruyama?" "The old man went to a party meeting." Nabeya relaxed and sat down at Yoshimi's table. "What's the situation with the Congressional Secretaries Alliance organized by Mr. Chuan?" Nabeya wanted to know about Arikawa before meeting with the investigation chief. "We don't know much about this matter." The young Ji Jian was smiling. "Oh, you're not in the League?" "I quit." "why?" "The participants are all senior secretaries. For a novice like me, let's talk about it after a while." It could be seen from his sneering face that he didn't seem to trust Arikawa's secretary alliance.If the secretary of the same congressman is like this, the future of this secretary alliance can be imagined.Nabeya further confirmed this view: Arikawa made a fortune by taking advantage of the title of Chairman of the Secretary League. The female clerk was about to make tea, and Nabeya waved her hand and walked out.