It turned out that the Tianyang Coal Group, a subsidiary of the Lei brothers, had greatly increased its strength by relying on the large sums of money in the past few years, and in recent years, it has expanded vigorously with the support of local policies, and has contracted almost the entire mining area.

In order to get the most efficient returns, they also subcontract some of the area to downstream miners while mining themselves, so that they can easily earn a difference in price without investing in manpower and equipment.

According to Lei Zhenye's description, Lei Zhendong has always been in charge of taking the lead in this work, "because he has more social resources, many people buy his account, generally speaking, they will not come after the contract, and the occasional cross-border theft is not large."

But this time, the situation is different!

"Through feedback from some of our regular customers, in recent months, some people have been selling them low-priced coal, and they also claim to guarantee that the supply is sufficient!"

Lei Zhenye said that in the case that the mines in the city are almost monopolized by them, it is almost certain that someone is stealing on a large scale!

Therefore, he quickly ordered the group to organize manpower and launched a round of surprise investigation of the mine.

Strangely, the investigation went on to be vigorous, but in the end it yielded almost nothing – with the exception of small cross-border excavations by individual contractors, no large-scale violations were found.

Lei Zhenye was worried about this, suspecting that someone had leaked the news, so he pretended to announce the end of the investigation, but in the following time, he used his most trusted henchmen to launch a secret investigation.

"This investigation has finally paid off!" he lamented, "a contracting company named Hongfa has exposed its feet, and they actually took advantage of the holiday to carry out illegal construction and directly sealed a stolen mining shaft with explosives!"

Hearing this, Ma Fei couldn't help but interrupt and asked, "Is this an attempt to destroy evidence? What did you do at that time?"

"At first, I thought they were just afraid that they would be caught stealing, and we would take them to court and be awarded a sum of damages. So I sent someone to interview Zhou Jun, the boss of Hongfa, and wanted to negotiate a private solution to the problem. Everybody's in business, there's no need to be so ugly......"

Lei Zhenye shook his head and sighed: "But after looking for it several times in a row, this Zhou Jun is either on a business trip or on vacation, it's like absconding in fear of crime!"

In desperation, Lei Zhenye had no choice but to find manpower, wanting to dig up the sealed mine to find out, record the ironclad evidence of Hongfa's theft, and then sue them in court, so as to prompt Zhou Jun to come back and solve the problem.

That's when the amazing surprise happened. In the depths of the mine, they found the bodies of three miners, who had been buried deep underground for months, and the bodies had long since decomposed and could not be identified.

Was this a victim of a mining accident, or was there an accident while the mine was closed?

In other words, is Hongfa's move to close the mine just to cover up the evidence of illegal mining, or is it to take the opportunity to destroy the corpses?

Realizing that something was wrong, Lei Zhenye immediately found Qin Hao for help.

"Why don't you call the police directly?" Ma Fei asked curiously.

Lei Zhenye showed an embarrassed look and exchanged glances with Qin Hao on the side.

"Brother, you don't know about this. Speaking of which, it's still my fault, I have a deep friendship with Xiao Lei, and sometimes I will inevitably brag a little bit, telling him that it is more useful to find me in a situation than to call 110......"

Qin Hao explained: "But then again, after I learned about this incident, I also advised him not to call the police immediately. ”

"Why?" Ma Fei was full of question marks: Aren't you a policeman? Why did you even say not to call the police in a big case of three lives?

Qin Hao smiled helplessly: "The specific reason is a bit complicated to say......

As he spoke, he began to fold his fingers to analyze the reason for Ma Fei.

Ma Fei summed it up according to his own understanding, it is nothing more than these points: first, Hongfa Company deliberately did it, it must be to cover up people's eyes, if the police carry out an investigation after the police, the relevant personnel of the other party are easy to be startled, which is not conducive to the collection of evidence; second, the other party is so bold and reckless, there may be a protective umbrella behind it, in case it involves police personnel, calling the police is tantamount to giving them a message......

Saying that, Qin Hao also asked Lei Zhenye for advice with his eyes, and after getting a nod of approval, he continued with a tacit understanding: "We are all our own people, and we won't say anything outside the door behind closed doors! There is also a more personal reason that the person in charge of managing the contracting enterprise is Xiao Lei's brother, and it is not clear whether he is also involved. ”

After listening to Qin Hao's narration and recalling the scene in the KTV that night, Ma Fei tasted something tasteful.

It seems that the relationship between Brother Hao and this Xiao Lei is not ordinary! Thinking about them like this, he doesn't look like a qualified policeman!

"Since you didn't call the police, why did you want to find me again? Isn't it still impossible to get around your concerns by exposing this matter through the media?"

Lei Zhenye smiled indifferently: "Since we have found Mr. Ma, of course the current situation is not the same! Brother Tuo Hao's blessing, our investigation has made key progress, in order to arouse the attention of the relevant departments, so that such a tragedy will not be repeated, we decided to start with media exposure after discussion!"

Qin Hao also echoed: "This is the same as the previous case of Tianyang No. 2 Middle School, with the early intervention of the media, the police will also have the pressure of public opinion supervision to ensure that the follow-up investigation of this case will not be out of shape!"

The two have a point, but what are their so-called key developments?

Under Ma Fei's questioning, Qin Hao smiled quite proudly: "We have found out the identities of the three victims, and they are all missing people in the mountainous areas around Tianyang since the beginning of this year! They have different degrees of mental retardation, and they were obviously deceived into working in the mines, which also explains why after they died, no family members went to the police......

"Hehe, in this way, the case has added the plot of human trafficking, and the nature has become even worse! After our secret visit, we finally found a breakthrough in Hongfa Company -- an anonymous whistleblower came up with ironclad evidence, these are three transfer and remittance deposit receipts, and the payee is the family of the three deceased!"

This remark almost confused Ma Fei: "In this case, Hongfa Company 'bought' from the family of the deceased?

Qin Hao spread his hands: "According to this person's confession, this is the idea of Zhou Jun, the boss of Hongfa Company, who bought long-term laborers at a low price, and instructed his family members to report the disappearance of the person, in fact, it is to hide people's eyes."

"Objectively speaking, it is not uncommon for people with mental retardation to go missing, and it is difficult for the police to track down the mountainous area where the crime occurred. In this way, they went to the mine to do the most dangerous work, and even if something happened, Hongfa could rest easy - after all, these lives were just a small price for them, which was obviously much more cost-effective than the huge claims after the accident......"