Chapter 2 1. False reporting by foreigners

Have you ever seen a burglar who even stole wine bottles? Lao Hou has seen it before. Who is Lao Hou?At that time, he was the head of the Criminal Investigation Section of the Second Foreign-related Criminal Division of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau.This case was taken by him in the early 1990s, and the crime took place at Beijing Agricultural University. It was a German expert from the school who reported the loss.This gentleman returned home from Dongtu for a month's vacation. When he came back from driving a cloud and entered the dormitory, he thought he had gone to the wrong door—whose house is this? It's a rough house.When he looked at the unit number on the door again, this man was immediately dumbfounded.

Dare to love, this rough house is my house! Needless to say, the security department, report the crime, report to the Public Security Bureau, Laohou is in the foreign criminal department, of course it is his duty to go to the police... Strangely, when talking about this case, I noticed that Captain Hou smacked his lips first, and glanced ambiguously at the plate of braised pork on the table. "There is nothing better than eating that case." Lao Hou said as he took a bite of the braised pork, shook his head and put down his chopsticks, with disdain in his eyes. Sa subconsciously felt that Lao Hou's statement was contradictory - the master who did it even took away the wine bottle, and could he still leave you with braised pork?

It was only later that I realized that the person who entertained Lao Hou to eat braised pork was his own person, because the identity of the owner who lost things was too special. At that time, China and Germany had just signed an intergovernmental agreement, and the German side funded cooperation with China on an agricultural project. The German expert who lost the thing was the liaison officer for the implementation of this intergovernmental agreement.The German experts are conscientious and have chosen the practice of resident supervision for the implementation of the agreement.Because the specific executor of this cooperation in China is the Agricultural University, which specially allocated an apartment for the German God of Wealth.

The height of the problem immediately rose to the issue of the relationship between the two countries and the international image.Because this agreement is very important to my country's agricultural development, the matter even alarmed the State Council. In this way, the detection work is naturally stressful, but the leadership of the university is even more stressful. Under pressure and without the ability to solve the case, the leaders of the university were quite self-aware and did not jump up and down. They just allocated a special car for the investigators and provided them with better food and treatment.

It was enough to configure a special car. At that time, the police were handling cases on motorcycles with buckets, which was naturally a rare convenience.The improvement of food and treatment is still fresh in the memory of the brothers.The colleges and universities in Nongkou have their own farms for scientific research and student practice, and there are many good things in supply.When it was said to improve the food, a pig was killed immediately, and two chefs, a man and a woman, were assigned to serve Lao Hou and the others—it was later learned that these two were both cooking for the minister.

San Niang also worked in the scientific research unit of Nongkou. At that time, she could buy cheap Inner Mongolia butter, Tibetan yak bone tea, Northeast soybeans and other agricultural products that were not seen in the market almost every month. Got it. Lao Hou recalled that the two chefs hung the slaughtered pigs on the kitchen beams, and put the vegetables and seasonings on the ground.The life of the police handling cases is irregular, and the two chefs cook whenever they are there, and they will never miss anything.And it means that you can cut any piece of meat, and the service is extremely attentive.The pork that was eaten at that time had layers of fat and layers of thinness, and it was astonishing that there were as many as seven or eight layers.It is estimated that it is a product of a pork quality improvement project in the school.

However, when they went to the scene to investigate, the police were a little dumbfounded. The door locks showed no signs of damage, the windows were closed, and the house was empty except for a few pieces of clumsy furniture. It was cleaner than the moving company had been there.Even so, the police judged based on the traces that within a month, someone had indeed entered the dormitory, and this person had stayed in the dormitory for at least three days! If this is a thief, it must be considered audacious. Afterwards, it was proved that the judgment of Lao Hou and the others was completely correct. The thief did stay in the house for three days, smoked out half of the German expert's 35 cigarettes, and took away the cigarette case.

There is no way for the thief to come in and out, and with the characteristics of the crime, the case points to two directions: either, this is an inside thief who is familiar with the situation; or, this is a burglar like "Swallow Li San". . Snitch?Are there any snitches these days? That's hard to say. A few years ago, there were two burglars in Dongcheng District who stole the gates of mansions, and they were arrested and killed. So, should we check for the thief first, or the snitch first? The thinking of this policeman is different from that of ordinary people. They neither search for thieves nor snitches, but go to the German experts—first check whether his report is a false one.The reason is also very simple. The German expert couldn't tell what was missing in their home.

According to Lao Sa, this is an unreasonable way of thinking, Comrade police, if you really remove all the things in your house, and then ask you to tell me what was lost, no one will be able to explain it. But Lao Hou listened a lot and said that you don’t understand how the police handle cases. For example, Noriko Sakai ran away two days ago in Japan.Moreover, in those years, there were not a few foreigners who reported false cases.This sentence aroused Lao Sa's curiosity, and he couldn't help asking, why did this foreigner report a false case to us for nothing? False report by foreigners?

Isn't it true that when the reform and opening up was just started, our police have fooled foreigners many times. At that time, more foreigners came, and problems arose.The Beijing police received reports one after another, either that the watch was lost, or someone robbed the camera, and so on.This incident annoyed the police very much. You must know that the law and order in Beijing at that time was very proud. Although it did not reach the 95% detection rate before the "Cultural Revolution", it would not be full of people robbing foreigners, right? Premier Zhou Enlai said that foreign affairs are no small matter.Although the police were a little confused, they still handled the case seriously.There are also those who really solved the case. For example, Lao Hou solved such a case.

A foreigner at the Beijing Hotel reported the loss of several US dollars.Lao Hou appeared on the scene, and after inquiring about the time and location of the incident, he quickly locked down several suspects.The scouts noticed that one of the waiters was living a luxurious life, which did not match his income, so he was listed as a key detection target.After continuing the investigation, the den was found, and it was found. The case was not complicated, but Laohou was impressed by three points: First, this waiter is quite smart. He doesn’t smoke non-Dahua when he gets home, but he only smokes the cheapest golden leaf when he smokes in class.Everyone in the work unit said he was honest, and it was inconceivable to hear that he had been arrested. Second, the method of committing the crime coincides with psychology, and it is found that the target is never exhausted, and each time he only gets less than one-third.In this case, even if the foreign guests find that the money has become less, most of them will think that they have misplaced it, and seldom suspect that it has been stolen.He committed dozens of crimes, and the police only received one such report. Then I have to ask, why is this foreigner so unusual? It's not surprising at all, this person packed 2,000 dollars in cash in an envelope and was about to pay the room fee. After the waiter took a few bills away, he didn't have enough money to settle the room bill, so he had no choice but to report to the police. Third, when searching the waiter's den, it was found that he had installed six luxurious wall clocks in a small room of 12 square meters. Let the money burn.Lao Hou said. Speaking of which, this guy was also helpless—at that time, Beijing didn’t have many places for consumption, and there wasn’t much supply of luxury goods. He couldn’t think of anything else to buy if he didn’t buy a clock with this kind of gray income. However, such cases are rare, and more often they cannot be solved.The foreigner who reported the case didn't seem to be very interested in solving the case, which is very abnormal.It took a long time to discover that these foreigners were only interested in the stolen certificates issued by the police.After the investigation, the truth came to light: it turned out that these guys either sold their cameras and watches, or poured foreign exchange to "scalpers". These things were registered when they entered the country. They can use the stolen certificate issued by the police to obtain compensation from the insurance company. These gadgets were scarce in the Beijing market at that time, and they were very popular. After selling them at a high price and then getting insurance, foreigners were too smart.In the future, when a foreigner reports a crime, the first thing the police do is to determine whether the report is a false one. In this case, the German expert was a China hand and cooperated very well with the police investigation.The problem is, he really can't tell what he lost-you said you lost a Persian rug, but can you prove that you had it, sir? Fortunately, there is no unparalleled road. During the investigation, the expert slapped his thigh and said, there is a way.