Chapter 038: Calm
Ding~噹...... Ding~噹......
The doorbell was still ringing, and the door of Room 3104 had already been opened, and it was not as long as the previous two times.
Standing outside the door was a bald and slightly chubby middle-aged man and a big-eyed beauty with long eyelashes. When Xu Jingjia saw the two of them, the expectation in her eyes faded a lot, and she asked vigilantly, "...... of you?"
"I am a staff member of the Housing Department, and now we are doing a routine household check, please open the door and let me go in to count the number of people in the house, and ask all the people to prepare their identity cards." As he spoke, the man put the ID card of the Housing Department staff in front of Hui Ching-jia and asked her to peruse it.
Due to the shortage of public housing supply in Hong Kong and the frequent abuse of public housing flats, staff of the Housing Department (HD) conduct surprise inspections on the use of PRH flats from time to time.
Xu Jingjia couldn't stop looking at the two, and with the man's movements, Xu Jingjia's eyes turned to his ID. Xu Jingjia looked at the big-eyed beauty who was dressed a little formally, and felt that her dress did not look very similar to the previous staff of the Housing Department, so she saw a flat-headed man wearing a shirt and trousers coming out of Granny Zhang's house opposite the door. After the flat-headed man left Granny Zhang's house, he stood behind the two of them, as if he had just completed the household registration check for the opposite door.
Xu Jingjia was not afraid of fraud, and while opening the iron gate, he asked suspiciously, "Didn't you just check it last month?" Why are you being checked so often all this time?"
I saw that the staff of the Housing Department who was the leader smiled and said nothing, took Xu Jingjia's ID card, and carefully compared it with the information in the folder in his hand.
The other two entered the house, but they did not stop, and opened the door of the house one by one in two directions to inspect. Outside, Granny Cheung did not close the door with the departure of the Housing Department staff, but looked into Hui Jingjia's house.
Xu Jingjia was about to say something, so her mother came out of the kitchen with an apron and asked, "Are you here to check your household registration?"
Hui Ching-ka was paying attention to a man and a woman who were exploring the house, and before she could answer, she heard the Housing Department staff standing in front of her reply, "Yes! Routine checks." Then, the man turned to Xu Jingjia and reassured, "Don't worry too much, they are testing whether you have illegal renovations."
It is true that during household checks, the staff of the Housing Department will inspect the alterations in the house. However, the staff's words could not appease Xu Jingjia.
The pair of men and women who were patrolling the house were in a hurry, and the leather shoes under their feet knocked on the wooden floor at the same time, but also on Xu Jingjia's heart.
Xu Jingjia thought for a while, strode towards the two of them, and said, "You haven't shown me your documents just now, have you?" Xu Jingjia's eyes scanned the two from top to bottom, and the formal attire of the two and the Bluetooth headset hanging on their ears made Xu Jingjia even more suspicious.
The two looked at Xu Jingjia in response, and their originally serious expressions eased. The flat-headed man glanced at Xu Jingjia and said, "Boss, Erxi has noticed it."
Later, I saw the woman tapping the Bluetooth headset in her ear and said, "Ah Tao, according to my preliminary observation, the partition in this room is no different from the previous assessment, with two bedrooms and one living room, a toilet and a kitchen. At present, there are only two people involved in the visual inspection room, and the computers and mobile devices are concentrated in the living room, with two desktop computers and four mobile devices."
Looking at the posture of these two people, it is obvious that since Xu Jingjia has noticed it, there is no need to hide it anymore. The room was not big, and the two of them moved slightly, and the position where the two of them stood seemed to be guarding Xu Jingjia and her mother.
"Miss Xu, Mrs. Xu, hello! I am Senior Inspector Fu Leung-to, Operations 2D of Operational Unit 1 of the Technology Crime Unit." Fu Liangtao's voice came from outside the door, and as he spoke, he walked between Xu Jingjia and her mother and showed them his warrant and search warrant.
Pang Jitong and Qin Xiangwen followed Fu Liangtao into Xu Jingjia's home, and the Housing Department staff who first introduced them into the house did not know when he had left the space, which was gradually becoming a little crowded.
Xu Jingjia's mother slowly approached Xu Jingjia and held Xu Jingjia's hand, as if she wanted to calm the tension brought to her by these uninvited guests at home. And Xu Jingjia herself was already relaxed the moment she saw Fu Liangtao.
I saw Xu Jingjia supporting her mother to retreat, Luo Mengning and Brother Cong were on guard because of their actions, but the two did not resist, they just sat on the sofa and did not make any other movements.
Fu then explained, "We suspect that Miss Hui Ching-ka and the two ......."
"No need to explain, you can do it yourself! We're waiting for dinner!" Fu Liangtao was halfway through his words when he was interrupted by Xu Jingjia. Although it was an interruption, Xu Jingjia's tone was not angry, and she seemed to know very well that this search was inevitable.
Fu Liangtao looked at Xu Jingjia's expression, and Xu Jingjia's reaction was not what he expected. Fu Liangtao thought that Xu Jingjia would at least resist and struggle, instead of being as well-behaved as she is now.
Fu Liangtao waved his hand and asked Luo Mengning, Qin Xiangwen and others to start the work of collecting evidence, while he and Brother Cong personally took care of Xu Jingjia's mother and daughter, ensuring that Xu Jingjia's mother and daughter were physically separated from all the devices in the house, as well as inquiring about the basic information, all the various devices in their home and the passwords of related devices.
In this forensics operation, Luo Mengning and Qin Xiangwen served as mobile device and computer forensics experts respectively, and Pang Jitong served as a recorder.
Fu Liangtao quietly observed Xu Jingjia, who looked calm, and Xu Jingjia's cooperation made him feel a trace of uncertainty in his heart. From leaving Xu Ningzhi's shop to getting the search warrant in his hand, Fu Liangtao spent more than two hours.
Electronic evidence is no different from other evidence, and its fragility and volatility have always been a major challenge for forensics. After all, it is extremely easy to alter and destroy electronic evidence, both before and after evidence collection. The slightest carelessness can lead to irreversible consequences.
During the two hours, was Xu Jingjia promptly notified to destroy the relevant evidence? For Fu Liangtao, this is all unknown. It's a pity that before finding Xu Jingjia's borrowing and returning records, Fu Liangtao was not sure enough. After all, the records of the ISP are the most critical, and there is no evidence in them that can be used to incriminate Xu Jingjia.
Then, after the inquiry, Fu Liangtao began to pace in Xu Jingjia's house, observing the furnishings in Xu Jingjia's home.