Chapter 282: The Disappearing Philatelic Album
"Officer!" Li Mengqi, who had a haggard face, said dejectedly, "I'm like this, how can I joke with you? Even if I can't apply for a tainted witness, I have no reason to talk nonsense! I checked it three times, and the most valuable Qing Dynasty calligraphy and a pearl necklace from the Republic of China period were not lost, but a stamp album was missing!"
Zhao Yu and Miao Ying glanced at each other, and when they got such an answer, they naturally surprised them. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Philatelic albums?" Zhao Yu didn't know anything about stamp collecting, so he hurriedly told the detectives behind him and asked them to quickly find Liang Huan.
"It's a philatelic album, that's right!" Li Mengqi pointed to her list and said, "I bought it with my own hands, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it!" Officer, I admit that most of them are stolen goods, but this stamp album is different! I bought it through legal means!
"Hmph!" Zhao Yu took a chair and sat in front of Li Mengqi, "What is legal in the black village? No matter how many hands you have poured down, stolen goods will always be stolen goods! You have been doing it for so many years, you won't not understand this truth, right?"
"You?" Li Mengqi glanced at seriously, in her eyes, the police would not know so many industry secrets of Heizhuang at all.
"Let's talk about it!" Miao Ying said, "The sooner you can tell us the truth, the sooner we can catch the robbers! Catching the robbers will definitely be good for you!"
Miao Ying's words were similar to Zhao Yu's, and Li Mengqi was very surprised. She steadied herself, and then she made the ins and outs of the stamp album clear.
It turned out that the stamp album was from an amateur collector. Collectors put the precious stamps they have collected into the philatelic album, and each plastic bag is specially made according to the size of each stamp, which is very fine.
However, unfortunately, after the death of the collector, the collector's son became addicted to gambling and took out this stamp album to pay off his huge gambling debts.
The debt collector was not sure of the value of this philatelic album, so Li Mengqi's team was called.
Li Mengqi said that according to experts' estimates, the market price of the stamp album at that time was about 1 million. However, there are several sets of stamps in it that have the potential to appreciate in value, and if you stock them up, they will definitely be able to double them in the future.
Therefore, Li Mengqi took advantage of the fire to rob and finally bought the stamp album at a price of 500,000 yuan, and has been stored in the safe of Qinshan Bank since then.
Now five years later, this stamp album has indeed multiplied several times, and now it can be worth three or four million!
Three or four million!?
Zhao Yu glanced at Miao Ying again, and Miao Ying also raised her eyebrows. Although three or four million is already a lot, in their opinion, for the sake of three or four million, it is really impossible to rob a bank!
What the hell is going on?
Five bank robbers, risking their lives, snatched a stamp album? Was Li Mengqi mistaken, or was there some other reason?
"Are you ......" Miao Ying thought for a while and asked Li Mengqi, "Do you still have that stamp album, or the picture of the stamps in it?"
"Yes! This must be there!" Li Mengqi said, "I know where it is! But, comrade policeman, I still hope to be able to be a tainted witness, and I am willing to cooperate with the police's actions to find the criminal!"
"That's no problem!" Miao Ying agreed, "Say it quickly! Without further ado, from now on, your performance has been recorded by us, and when it comes to trial, we will help you get points!"
"Yes, yes!" Li Mengqi thanked again and again, and then said the detailed location of the hidden picture without any subtlety.
Subsequently, Zhao Yu and Miao Ying interrogated Li Mengqi on the spot, asking them if there were any other safes for storing stolen goods, and whether they knew that the safes contained corpses.
As a result, Li Mengqi claimed that she no longer had any other cabinets. Moreover, she had never heard of a safe vacuuming corpse.
In order not to lose any clues, Miao Ying also showed Li Mengqi photos of Gong Xiuzhen and other victims, and Li Mengqi also didn't know these people.
As a result, Zhao Yu felt more and more that things seemed to be back to square one, and the bank robbery and the safe case did not seem to be related.
The gangsters were just prieing the safe when they accidentally opened the cabinet where the body was stored.
However, without solid evidence, everything is empty talk. The culprit who robbed the safe must be found in order to confirm the matter.
And when it comes to catching gangsters, things are getting more and more bizarre.
Are the gangsters really here for the stamps? They are all philatelic enthusiasts? Even the banks dare to rob the stamps, this is ...... Isn't this a bunch of crazy people?
Li Mengqi said that the Qing Dynasty calligraphy is at least 8 million or more, if this painting is snatched away, it seems that it is better to explain, right? Go back and sell the painting, what stamps can't be bought?
What's going on here?
With a strong curiosity, Zhao Yu and Miao Ying returned to the police station, waiting for the results of searching for the stamp picture. Although Li Mengqi's black village does not belong to the jurisdiction of Rongyang, because this matter involves a bank robbery, the higher authorities ordered that the case should also be handled by the Rongyang Branch.
This has undoubtedly increased the workload of the Rongyang Branch. Fortunately, this crime of purchasing stolen goods is an economic crime, and Li Mengqi and others were temporarily handed over to the economic investigation team for investigation, which also slightly reduced the pressure on the serious crime team.
However, the detectives of the Serious Crime Unit all knew that if they went back to the investigation team to find out any major theft or robbery gangs, the case would sooner or later be transferred back to them.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it has reached eight o'clock in the evening, and the photos of the property hidden on Li Mengqi's computer have been successfully retrieved by the detectives.
In order to better understand the intentions of the gangsters, Liang Huan also invited two experts from the Postal Association to help in his private capacity.
The picture of the stamp was enlarged on a high-definition electronic screen, and Liang Huan and two experts worked together to conduct a detailed appraisal of the missing philatelic booklet.
Although Zhao Yu didn't know how to collect stamps, he was very interested in it, so he stayed at the scene to observe.
"This is Uncle Cao Guo!" When turning the first page of the album, an expert recognized it at a glance, pointed to one of the stamps and said, "When the TV series "Eight Immortals Across the Sea" was broadcast in 85, the post office once issued a version of the stamps of the Eight Immortals. However, at the time of release, due to the problem of sluggish design, it was not released in sets, but one by one, and it lasted for several years.
"Since it is not a complete set of releases, few people in the people can put it together! This Uncle Cao Guo should be the first issue to be released!"
"I remember it too!" another old expert said with a smile, "I still collected it back then! He Xiangu has the least, and only by buying He Xiangu can it be possible to collect all the eight immortals!"
"That'...... How much is this one worth?" Liang Huan asked ponderingly.
"Fifty or sixty thousand! The condition is good, and the preservation is very good!" the old expert smiled, "However, if you can get together the eight immortals, it will be amazing! The starting price will be 200 million or more!"
Oh?
Hearing this, Zhao Yu couldn't help but think, could it be that the gangsters really had the purpose of robbing this stamp album?
Just like Uncle Cao Guo, the gangsters have another Seven Immortals, and if they grab Uncle Cao Guo, they can let the Eight Immortals gather?
But if it's only 2 million, it's still a little less, right?
As they spoke, the experts turned to the second page of the album, which showed a set of colorful stamps, four of which were in a group of 10, each of which depicted a small figure doing gymnastics.
This set of stamps looks very old, and it should be quite old.
"Wow! awesome!" the old expert sighed, "It's complete, it's 52 years of radio gymnastics!"
"Ahem!" Liang Huan shook his head and said, "What kind of awesome baby should I be! This set of radio gymnastics has to be sold on Taobao, 10,000 yuan a set! The country issued a total of 1.25 million sets that year, which is too inferior!"
"Yo, Xiaoliangzi is amazing?" another expert praised, "I know a lot......!"
Who knows, before the expert finished laughing, the old expert's face suddenly froze! He seemed to be shocked by something in the stamp, and after a few seconds, he raised his hand tremblingly, pointed to the screen and said:
"This ...... This one...... It's not '52! It's '51, it's ...... Oh my God!" the old expert's eyebrows twitched, "This is a mistake of 51 years......! Oh my God, my God, how could it be--here?"