"Why would the rat choose to steal that famous painting?" Huang Jiu has never been able to figure out this question.

"Why do you ask?" Poirot's desk was full of materials, and since he came to Hedao, he immediately devoted himself to the investigation, thinking that he was just an ordinary forensic expert, but after actual contact, I realized that he was also an excellent anti-money laundering expert.

"Generally speaking, the most direct purpose of stealing valuable art is to sell it for money, right? But the Mona Lisa's level of artwork is not something that ordinary people can sell. In other words, even if it is a national treasure worth 5 billion yuan, if it can't be sold, it's just an ordinary poplar plank, isn't it? ”

"That's true."

"And if you just want money, wouldn't it be more straightforward to steal cash from the bank vault?"

Poirot put down the work he was doing, raised his head and found Huang Jiu looking at him seriously, it seemed that she was not just chatting, but really thinking about it seriously.

Looking at her appearance, Poirot couldn't help but laugh: "Honey, all this will be known after the mouse is caught." ”

There has been a great disagreement within the task force on the direction of the investigation, and it is inferred from the way ordinary theft cases are handled that the first thing criminals will do after stealing property other than cash is to sell the stolen goods. Most of the similar cases also start from the channels of selling stolen goods, step by step, and finally arrest the thief.

For items of high value, they may also hide them for a while and then sell them when the limelight passes. In any case, the stolen items end up in the market and turn into cash.

For a national treasure like the Mona Lisa, the selection of sales channels has become very strict, and the average collector cannot afford to buy this kind of national treasure-level art, Poirot and Huang Jiu suggested from this perspective that the search should focus on the largest import and export companies on Hedao to detect whether they have abnormal actions. Regardless of whether they are direct sales channels or not, if the rat wants to recover such a large amount of money, he is likely to use the import and export trade to launder money. After all, as long as you have lived in Hedao, you know about the extraordinarily large smuggling case more than ten years ago.

But this proposal was not approved by everyone, Lin Tianxiong for some reason, insisted that the mouse was connected to the Qingyu Group behind the Hedao apartment, and proposed to devote most of his energy to the investigation of Qingyu; Shi Luo only cared about scribbling in his notebook, and when asked what he thought, he only said that there was someone he cared about, but there was no result to share yet.

Such a meeting naturally ended in nothing, and the team leader Lei Wensheng had to divide everyone into three groups and cast a wide net to let everyone investigate in the direction they decided, which was also a way out of the way.

"But judging from Lin Tianxiong's reaction today, I guess he should have found something." Poirot looked at the air in front of him, as if he was talking to Huang Jiu, but it didn't.

Huang Jiu's eyes widened when he heard Poirot say this.

Poirot glanced at Huangjiu and winked playfully: "But since he is unwilling to say it, it should not be conclusive evidence, at best it can only prove a certain possibility." This does not prevent us from investigating, after all, whether it is a mouse or a green jade, the only way to get rid of that famous painting is through these channels. ”

"And ......" Poirot deliberately sold off.

"And what?" Huang Jiu asked anxiously.

Poirot pushed the laptop and stack of materials in front of Huang Jiu at the same time: "And we don't get nothing. ”

"I found several unusual cash flows, although in terms of the size of the funds, they are still far from the value of the Mona Lisa."

"Maybe the rats can't find a suitable buyer and sell them at a very low price in order to get rid of them as soon as possible." Huang Jiu put forward his own idea.

"It's a possibility, and there's a possibility, that these people want to test our reaction with a smaller amount of money first. After all, the goal is a huge sum of 5 billion, and it is impossible to be too cautious. Poirot added.

After a while, Huang Jiu's eyes dimmed again: "However, it may also have nothing to do with this case at all, this may be another money laundering case, right." ”

Poirot scratched his hair: "It's better than no clue at all." ”

The computer shows a very complex cash flow trend, first using the offshore financial center to set up an anonymous company, through the registration of a large number of leather bag companies to carry out virtual transactions, after the legalization of unknown property, through investment and import and export trade to transfer the money, and then immediately in various names into small deposits remitted to thousands of personal accounts in dozens of banks, and then it is completely impossible to trace the whereabouts of the money.

Huang Jiu counted for a moment, there are as many as hundreds of companies involved in virtual transactions alone, but the amount of money involved is so small that it is simply sorry for the elaborate design of such a complicated process - it is no wonder that Poirot suspects that the other party is just doing tests now.

The paper materials handed over were the customs declaration forms of the history of the companies involved in the case borrowed from the customs, and Huang Jiu looked at them with interest.

All the documents look fine on the surface and can even be described as seamless. But that's precisely the most problematic point.

There is a word called "too much", which means that doing anything, whether it is over or below the limit, will have the opposite effect. The stack of materials in Huang Jiu's hand was too perfect, but it showed his feet.

How can there be a company that has no flaws at all from the beginning of its establishment? Even if there really is such a company, it is still unknown to this day, neither bankrupt nor bigger and stronger, which is simply too contrary to common sense.

Poirot discovered a problem that he hadn't discovered in the past few years in just a few days, and no matter whether it was proved that there was a connection between this matter and rats, it was undeniable that Poirot's ability in this field was far above Huang Jiu.

The one that appears most frequently in the information is a handicraft trading company called "Gonow Import and Export Trade". Judging from the past records, it should be a company engaged in the export of imitation handicrafts. Compared with other companies, it is the earliest established and the most outstanding one.

"Oh, do you think there's something wrong with this company too?" Poirot didn't know when he walked around behind Huang Jiu, and almost spoke with the action of lying on Huang Jiu's shoulder.

He seems to be very fond of physical contact with people, both men and women.

Huang Jiu tried his best to endure the dissatisfaction in his heart, and responded calmly: "It's just a feeling. ”

"We have the same feeling, is this what is called fate?"

Officer Poirot...... This kind of behavior of yours is commonly referred to as 'sexual harassment' in our country. ”

Poirot immediately bounced off and made a very hurtful move.

Huang Jiu ignored him and continued to look at the information in her hand, when suddenly a familiar name came into her eyes.

"Bai Yao?" Five months ago, the material of the Gonow Import and Export Trading Company's customs declaration column prominently displayed this name.

"Is it someone you know?" Poirot sensed that Huang Jiu was a little distracted.

"No, I just think it's a special name." Huang Jiu also didn't know why he was lying.

Poirot didn't dig deeper, looked at his watch, and it was already time to get off work.

"It's already here, why don't we find a place to have a drink and discuss the case by the way, of course, if you want to talk about topics other than work......" As he spoke, Poirot's hand was already reaching behind Huangjiu.

"I'm sorry, I've already made an appointment with Haiyan, goodbye."

"Ah...... Ran away. ”