Chapter 18 Chapter 16 Fees

Akasaka Police Station Investigative Section Chief Yamamoto and Section Chief Sakai returned from the hotel.Nabeya refused to say who the handbag was given to, and repeatedly stated that the handbag had already been given to someone else, and it was impossible and unnecessary to tell its whereabouts.The two got nothing, so they had to retreat.When leaving, the head of the class repeatedly told me: "I'm sorry, please don't tell others about the handbag. If you think of anything, please call. We will be there right away, so I bowed and left."Nabeya was still sitting on the sofa in the car lobby, crossing his arms and meditating.

——Where did Satoko Oribe get 20 million yuan early in the morning?From a lover?No!If it is a lover, it will be sent to her home. There is no need for a woman to get up early in the morning to get a huge sum of 20 million yuan.So, did Satoko come home early the next morning after spending the night at her lover's house the first night?No!People who can spend the night in a lover's house dignifiedly don't need to sneak back early in the morning.So, could it be that she acted as someone's messenger and was robbed on the way to send 20 million yuan?It's not like, in that case, a safer and more reliable method will be adopted, which is really suspicious.If Mr. Cun knew that the million-dollar handbag he gave Zuo Dengzi had become a twenty-million-dollar packing box, he would stamp his feet with regret.No, no, not only Kawamura, but also me!Who actually lives on Nanqingshan Road?Is it her lover?

No one knows who Oribe Satoko's lover is, but everyone agrees that he is a big entrepreneur.Nabeya sat on the sofa in the lobby, resting his elbows on his knees, resting his chin in one hand and meditating.The young man sitting next to him seemed to be waiting for someone.There were several foreign men and women standing and talking in front of them, and the men laughed out loud from time to time. Collusion between big businessmen and politicians is nothing new.But can politicians give huge sums to entrepreneurs?No, on the contrary, "political donations" are made by entrepreneurs to politicians.If Satoko Oribe received money from a politician, it seems that the payment relationship between the two parties has been reversed!Why is that?What kind of money is it?Assuming that Oribe Satoko received the money for his lover, it would be concluded that it was not the politician (assumed to be a politician) who took the bribe, but the politician bribed the entrepreneur.

Weird thing! "The leaves sink, and the stones float up..." Nabe House rested his chin on one hand, staring at the front in ecstasy.At this time, a man came out of the elevator.He was a square-faced, broad-shouldered man.His characteristic face is Nobuyuki Doi.He was asked to write a speech by Masaaki Kawamura before.Nabeya wanted to say hello to him, but Doi didn't pay attention to Nabeya sitting on the sofa in front of the pillar, and hurried across the hall towards the revolving door.It seems that Doi's ghostwriting business is booming day by day. Nabe House fell into deep thought again: "Politicians hand over money to entrepreneurs, what does this mean? Those politicians who often accept political donations from enterprises and continue to collect money by various means, why do they do this?..."

Simply inexplicable!Nabeya felt a headache, so he left the lobby of the hotel.He walked up to the Sanno Shrine on the high ground not far away, where there is a vermilion shrine hall. View of the Akasaka area from the high ground.In this bustling urban area, many slender and tall white buildings stand up like yokan.These buildings are bars and hotels. The bar business here is up and down, some are closed, and some are booming.Business thrives on finding ways to attract customers who socialize with company money. Nabeya had heard of such a thing.The trick to attracting such customers is that the boss secretly gives him kickbacks.That is to say, the bar sends false bills to the company, and the company's accountant sends money to the bar through the bank according to the amount of the bill, and then the bar owner takes the falsely reported money as a reward and secretly sends it to the bar. To someone who treats guests on behalf of the company.These company employees, because of kickback benefits, often come to this kind of bar to engage in social activities, and the bar business is more and more prosperous.

Nabeya walks down the stone steps in front of the shrine.At this time, I saw a brown building.This is a building-style courtyard for members of Congress.Because the assembly hall is very narrow, and there are many petition groups visiting from time to time, so the congressmen set up the second office here, and some put up the sign of "Political Economic Research Institute" or XX company. Nabeya looked at the brown-colored "Parliamentary Building," and thought: ——If Satoko Oribe visited a politician in the early morning, would the 20 million yuan in cash brought back in his handbag be the handling fee paid by the politician to the person who provided the donation? !

If the handling fee reaches 20 million yuan, the problem becomes serious.Assuming that 20 million yuan is 20% of the donation amount, then 100 million yuan has passed from enterprises to politicians.An enterprise that can donate 100 million yuan must be a large enterprise, a Concern-style enterprise group. This kind of enterprise provides a large amount of money to political party activities, and the head office usually apportions the money to related companies and enterprises to which it belongs.Because the whereabouts of this "political donation" cannot be stated in the account expenditure item: I have to do some tricks on the account, often setting up a false name, or reimbursement in the name of other expenses. I have paid taxes to the tax office in the "unknown" expense item.

The "political donations" collected in this way are handed over to political parties or politicians by representatives of the head office.After these people accept donations, they never disclose their own accounts, especially the money received by individual politicians and various factions, and never issue receipts, so even the amount is ambiguous. Newspapers have also published the annual political donations of each political party published by the autonomous province.This is only the part of the donation that the autonomous province has received a routine report with a receipt.The number of unreported items is much higher than the number reported.This is what a newspaper commentary pointed out: "The amount of political contributions published by the autonomous province is the 'tip of the iceberg'."

The Constitutional Party organized the so-called "Political Friends Association" as a window for receiving donations.The Constitutional Party issued a receipt in the name of the "Political Friends Association" for the donations it accepted, and reported it to the Autonomous Province.The amount accepted by the Constitutional Party is therefore clear in the accounts.But the whereabouts of the money is not clear, because the political parties never disclose the party's expenditures. The right to use the donations of the Constitutional Party is in the hands of the top leader of the party, and it is the secretary-general of the party and the manager and bureau chief under his leadership who handle specific affairs.How to distribute the money raised in this way is of course the leader's final say.

As common sense, Nabeya also knows these situations.But it was unexpected for Nabeya to think that the 20 million yuan received by Oribe Satoko was a handling fee from politicians to entrepreneurs. Due to the large amount, the payment of the 20 million yuan service fee cannot be decided by a politician alone, but is likely to be paid according to the pre-established agreement between the provider and the recipient. This kind of political donation without a receipt can only be paid in cash.To pack bundles of 100 million yuan banknotes, you need a cardboard box.Most of them use people like the secretary or director to secretly pack the cartons in the car and send them to the other party in the middle of the night.For the sake of confidentiality, after the politician accepts the donation, he will not immediately hand over the handling fee to the president.But a few days later, according to the secret agreement between the two parties, the president sent someone to collect the money from the politician.The people selected are often not from the company.This is because there are factional struggles within the company, and I don't know when it will become an anti-president faction.There are also many people in the company who are double-faced and have ulterior motives, even the president's confidant is no exception.

The only people the president can trust most are those in his own family.It is absolutely safe to send family members to collect the handling fee, and the company will never know.The 20 million yuan in Oribe Satoko's handbag is probably money of this nature!Zuo Dengzi was robbed of 20 million yuan and dared not report the case because once he reported the case to the police station, he would have to explain the reason for the money and the name of the payer. Whenever Nabeya passes by here, it is necessary to look at a newly built house in Matsubara Town.This is the home of the president of Shinko Chemical Industries.Nabeya has always wondered why a staff president has so much money?The position allowance of the president is also limited, and the communication expenses are also subject to certain restrictions.How on earth did he manage to build such a luxurious residence and spend a lot of money to let his lover open a restaurant and bar?Now one of the sources of money that Nabeya suddenly realizes is this handling fee. The management of political donations is the "President Authority". Once the position of President is lost, this "authority" will be lost.That's why the president's luxurious life and his status live and die together.Losing his position as the president not only ended his luxurious life, but also left him with money and women, and it was even inconvenient to use the company's car. "It's Masaki Teranishi! Yes, yes!" Nabeya snapped his fingers happily. The next president of the Constitutional Party will also be the next prime minister.It has been determined that Sixi will accept the throne of Prime Minister Conggui this fall.For this reason, it is natural that political donations will be concentrated in the hands of the next Prime Minister and his faction. Masaki Teranishi is also desperately collecting funds for activities.Although the deal of "giving up" the prime minister's throne has been finalized, a large amount of money is still needed for the election of the president. Teresi is currently in great need of someone to provide him with a donation. The more the better. Of course, the party who provided the donation is waiting for the next Prime Minister to "reciprocate" him.When they provide political donations, they generally do not discuss specific terms of exchange, but they always hope that politicians will find some convenience for their own companies.Entrepreneurs, for example, hope for lenient licensing rights, or even amend statutes or enact new laws. What happens if political contributions are not made?Then there is no protection from politicians anymore.Whether business operators have the protection of politicians in the competition is related to the survival of the enterprise.In this sense, providing political donations is negatively regarded as paying an "insurance premium", and positively regarded as an investment for greater returns. Nabeya returned to Adam Hotel from Sanno Shrine, and took a taxi to Minami-Aoyama. Naoya got off the taxi a hundred meters in front of Sixi Mansion.This is a quiet high-end residential area, surrounded by green zelkova trees.Nabeya Kenzo pretended to be a pedestrian and walked on the quiet street.Because it was too close to the Sixi mansion, Nabeya was afraid of meeting a familiar congressman or secretary, sometimes turned his face away, and sometimes moved slowly with his head down.At this time, he saw the police station on the left side of the road, and Sixi Mansion was diagonally opposite it.In front of the mansion, a muscular young police officer stood there with his hands behind his back, his legs spread apart, and his eyes wide open. There are almost all police stations stationed in front of important politicians' mansions.This is not necessarily set up at the request of politicians, mainly because the Metropolitan Police Department has the task of guarding the residences of "national important figures". There are four black cars parked by the walls on both sides of the main entrance of Sixi Mansion, which looks like a first-class hotel.Nabe House looked in, and there was a circular bush planted in front of the entrance hall of Lier, with pink rhododendrons blooming under the bushes, and there were three or four black cars nearby.Members of the Terashi faction and members of other factions, as well as business people and other petitioners, continued to visit.It's really busy and full of guests.Because Si Xibai was often not at home, often he hadn't gotten up early in the morning, and the living room and reception room were already full of people. Wouldn't it be more attractive for a woman like Oribe Satoko to come to Teranishi's mansion early in the morning?Isn't this a secret messenger?The doubts in the pot house cannot be explained.Guoya came to the end of the brick wall of Sixi mansion.The mansion occupies about one-third of the entire street.When Nabeya walked to the front of the mansion, a car drove out of the door. Nabeya quickly turned his head around and hid by the side of the road.The moment the car drove past him, he seemed to see the upper body of a woman wearing glasses and a suit in the car. "It's Mrs. Terashi!" Nabeya had seen her a few times, sometimes at official party rallies, sometimes at receptions.It's just that Nabeya is the private secretary of Senator II, and he has never spoken to her, but he is very familiar with her round and happy face.She doesn't have the airs of the congressman's wife, and she speaks easy-going, sincere and straightforward. Among the countless congressmen's wives, she is regarded as one that everyone likes.However, it gave the impression that the noble pair of thin silver-rimmed glasses did not match the overall shape of the face. Where is madam going alone?The gray dress she was wearing was not particularly good going out clothes, it was more appropriate to say that it was simple casual clothes.Apparently, she wasn't visiting the homes of important people.Maybe a trip to a department store?It is four o'clock.Going to the department store alone without an entourage also shows that this lady does not put on airs as an official wife. Nabeya walked to the second intersection in Minami Aoyama.Walking forward, three small children are playing softball on the road.The ball flew into the middle of the wall, and the child went to pick it up.Because the alleys are narrow, it is difficult even for children to walk.The pot house accidentally discovered that the walls on both sides are very old. At this time, Nabeya remembered what the Chief of the Investigative Section of the Akasaka Police Station said about Osterridge's handbag with "marks that seemed to have been rubbed by something".The young man who turned himself in said in his confession that not only were there scars on the handbag, but there was also "white powder like cement that was rubbed off and stuck to it".Does it mean that the old cement powder is peeling off? "Child!" Nabeya smiled and asked the child who came out of the narrow path with a ball in his hand: "Can I go in there?" "Yeah!" The child nodded. "Where does it go?" "The back of that house." "Whose house is it?" "Mr. Teranishi's house." "What, Mr. Teranishi's house!" Nabeya was taken aback.I knew this path was south of Sixi's house, but I never thought that such a narrow alley could lead to the back of Sixi's house. "So, uncle wants to go this way?" "no." "why?" "Because Uncle is as big as an elephant, he can't get in." "Yes, it is true." Nabeya surveyed the distance between the alleys with his eyes and said: "Give it a try!" Then he leaned into the alley. The child stood there, watching Nabeya tottering with wide eyes.Nabeya clings to the wall in a crawling posture like a gecko or an inchworm, and walks forward in a narrow gap. There are many bumps on the old concrete wall, which shows that people often come and go in this narrow alley.The child said that the end is the back door of Sixi's house.It seems that some of the visitors to Tera Nishi's house also took this path. Nabe House walked forward against the wall while inspecting the scars on the concrete wall. "Yes!" Halfway through the alley, I found it on the cement wall, which was probably the trace of the collision.It is paler than the old and blackened marks, and new stubble can be seen.Careful comparison reveals that the old traces are thinner lines as if scratched by fingernails, while the new traces are wider, some are concave, and there are three horizontal stripes arranged at intervals.If the corner of a heavy handbag containing 20 million won bills touches it, it will leave such marks! The bag mystery solved!The head of the investigation department may not have discovered this secret yet! Nabeya had a hard time getting back from the alley to the original main road.The three boys were still there waiting for him. "Ah! ah! out, out!" The children saw the fat elephant-like man crawling out of the hole, and they made a noise. "thanks!" Nabeya smiled while stroking the children's heads.In order to see the house numbers of the two houses clearly, he walked in front of these houses."Fukushima" is written next to the door, and "Kato" is next door. Naoya arrived at Nanqingshan Main Road and hailed a taxi. "Where are you going?" the driver asked Nabeya. "what……" He hasn't decided where to go yet. "Let's drive to Akasaka." The driver drove off without answering. Nabeya thought: Due to his own carelessness, he did not connect Satoko's hospitalization with what the investigation chief said.Zuo Dengzi was only hit by a bicycle and suffered minor injuries. When he went to visit him, he didn't realize that Bozi was lying! Has Oribe Satoko been discharged from the hospital?Nabeya wants to find out about the situation.Nabeya got off the taxi in Akasaka, went into the public phone booth, and called directly to Aobadai Satoko's house, and the maid came out to answer the phone. "I'm Nabeya, Kawamura's secretary. If mom is at home, I want to say a few words and ask her to answer the phone!" The maid immediately replied: "Madame went to Hawaii to recuperate four or five days ago."