Chapter 668: Old Acquaintance
After everyone greeted each other, Qiao Changling took the initiative to pull Xu Zheng to sit down beside him, and briefly talked about the case.
It turned out that their Yangzhou detachment was targeting a criminal gang that dumped antiques from abroad, which was actually the return of cultural relics, but they did not follow the regular procedures, and those antiques were not stolen by them.
After using illegal means to succeed, he fabricated several dozen identities for antiques, and returned to China after being laundered.
How to return to it, it is also very simple, that is, Chinese people go abroad to buy this antique at a low price in a foreign flea market, and then go through customs with art and purchase receipts.
When the antiques return to China, the formalities have been laundered, and the next step is to send them to auction houses or conduct underground private transactions.
Generally speaking, these antiques involving illegal gains fall into the hands of wealthy businessmen or officials, and no one reports them, and the police will not know about them, but such antiques cost a hundred dollars abroad.
Bring it back and send it to the auction house or trade it to a private boss, and sell it for 10 million or even 100 million, how much profit must be there.
So this kind of illegal antique repatriation operation has always existed.
It's just that the police are not easy to investigate, after all, it is a transnational transaction, and some of the antiques have various disguises such as counterfeiting, old, and veneering, and no one dares to guarantee that the antiques traded in China are stolen by a wealthy foreign businessman or museum.
In addition to these, there are also people who disguise domestic counterfeit or unearthed antiques as cultural relics and sell them back.
In short, cultural relics and antiques are difficult to check and do.
In addition, the domestic laws in this regard are also a bit difficult to understand, for example, the smuggling of cultural relics from abroad to the territory constitutes the crime of smuggling ordinary goods and articles, but does not constitute the crime of smuggling cultural relics, and the crime of smuggling cultural relics refers to the smuggling of domestic cultural relics abroad.
This has invisibly encouraged those gangs that have dumped antiques and returned them, after all, the value of smuggled cultural relics is not up to their own people.
After being arrested, the customs began to set the price, which was originally worth 100 million US dollars abroad, but the customs insisted that it was just a handicraft, worth at most 100 US dollars.
In addition, it is the first time to participate in smuggling, and the things are so cheap, smugglers will only be warned or fined.
Of course, this artifact must be compulsorily handed over to the state.
The case handled by the Qiao detachment was the illegal repatriation of cultural relics, and the repatriated cultural relics were all genuine, and the cultural relics they seized were compared with the prices of the cultural relics circulating in the market.
The total is no less than two billion yuan.
One of the pieces of porcelain is a Qianlong imperial kiln enamel color entwined flower pattern garlic vase, and there was a similar type of porcelain before, which was a large bowl, which was auctioned at Christie's for 150 million yuan.
Xu Zheng looked at the photos, and only thought it was good-looking, in addition to porcelain, there were some ancient paintings and codexes of celebrities, and what interested him the most was the jade seal of the Qianlong Dynasty.
He originally thought that there was only one jade seal for each emperor, but Qiao Changling told him that this jade seal was one of the 25 sides of Qianlong, and His Majesty the emperor had collected 1,800 jade seals in his life.
Sure enough, he is the emperor who can play the most.
"Detachment Qiao, you guys are missing a person who hasn't been arrested now, right?"
Qiao Changling nodded and shook his head in denial, "At present, there is only one foreigner in the list of criminal gangs we have found in China, and it is not clear whether there are other ones that we have not found."
As for their criminal gangs of dumping cultural relics, foreign countries are their base camp, and we can do nothing but hand them over to Interpol. β
Xu Zheng was surprised, "A foreigner, it's white, right?" It stands to reason that it should be easy to find such a person in Yangzhou City. β
The corners of Yao Ke'er's mouth twitched, "How can it be so easy, let's not talk about how difficult it is to find someone, let's just say how old this person is, whether it is white or black, we haven't decided yet."
We arrested someone in the early hours of this morning, but we left out this foreigner, and he is also one of the main culprits.
No one had ever seen his real face, the man was wearing a mask and hood, and all of his calls were through multiple voice changers, making it impossible to identify his original voice or locate it.
We can only determine his height and approximate weight now.
We didn't find anyone by the usual search methods, otherwise we wouldn't have asked Director Xu for you, an expert in chasing fugitives. β
Xu Zheng was a little ashamed in his heart, he was able to find the suspect so quickly, most of them were helped by the system, but now let him find a foreigner hiding in Yangzhou City.
He didn't know the bottom in his heart, "Detachment Qiao, otherwise you will discuss it first, and I will take a look at your layout today first and find inspiration." β
Qiao Changling naturally had no opinion, and said in a low voice: "This foreigner has the money they traded, and we learned from the interrogation that their transaction this time was not cash and overseas account transfers.
Rather, the domestic buyers used the top jade for trading, there are the top Laokeng glass imperial green jade, a total of more than 800 grams of raw materials, it is said that one gram in China is worth 500,000.
In addition to jadeite and mutton fat jade, they are all top-notch.
They take it overseas and sell it to those Chinese who are very rich, at least ten times as much, if they are processed into finished products, heh. I can't imagine it. β
Xu Zheng was a little strange, "Since jadeite and mutton fat jade are so expensive and still luxuries, why do buyers still use this thing to trade repatriated antiques?" β
Qiao Changling smiled when he heard this, "Yangzhou has been a rich and gentle township since ancient times, with a waist of 100,000 yuan, riding a crane on the adopted daughter of a thousand families in Yangzhou to teach music first, and planting flowers for ten miles is considered farming. A rich Yangzhou dream, two prosperous and gentle townships
These are all descriptions of Yangzhou's huge wealth, and in the Qing Dynasty, it was a famous gathering place for salt merchants, and even Jia's mother in the dream of Red Mansions once said that their Jia family's wealth was far less than that of Yangzhou salt merchants.
Therefore, many big bosses here are not short of gold, silver and jade, they like to take antiques as a faΓ§ade, and now there are fewer and fewer domestic antiques in circulation, no wonder they take risks.
Don't look at the fact that we arrested some buyers this time, in fact, they are all agents, and there is no evidence to find the people behind them. β
Xu Zheng had to admire Qiao Changling's erudition and knowledge, and said with a smile: "So this mission to catch people is not the most important thing, but these jades, right?"
Qiao Changling nodded, "This is indeed the case, but Xiao Xu, these jade stones are precious and fragile, you should be careful when performing the task, this thing can be worth 100 million when it is broken, and if it is broken, it is estimated that it is not worth 50 million." β
"Don't worry, I'm here as a consultant this time, and I won't make a move." Xu Zheng hurriedly assured that according to Qiao's detachment, these jades were worth more than a billion yuan, and he would definitely not do it.
Next, Qiao's detachment held a meeting to continue to discuss this hiding place for foreigners, Xu Zheng listened while watching their day's arrangement, from the airport, highway, railway, waterway and other intersections of the police have set up cards.
It stands to reason that even if this foreigner is disguised or wears a 3D hood, or changes his identity, it is possible to leave Yangzhou City.
In response to this situation, Qiao's detachment applied to the higher authorities to set up cards in these places at the airport to focus on inquiring about 185 foreigners, but unfortunately until now, nothing has been found.
Xu Zheng looked at the only photo of the suspect's back, which was taken secretly by the informant during the transaction, which was not very clear, and it really did not have much effect, this person was wearing a black mask and hood.
It's not the kind of stockings that stick to the scalp, plus he still has long hair, you can't see from the photo what this person's head shape looks like.
After thinking about it, Xu Zheng felt that he could use a computer 3D scanning program to give it a try, take three positioning points on the suspect's photo and his black hood, and then calculate the size of the suspect's head according to the distance between the location of the photo and the suspect.
With the size of the skull, then zooming in on this photo can generate a 3D skull model based on the arc.
Of course, whether he can or not, he has to try it, but he can't do it himself, he has to find a professional computer 3D modeling expert.
At this time, Qiao Changling answered a phone call, talked on the side for a while, and then told Song Jianchuan, the captain of the serious crime brigade who was present, that he would go out for a while, and Xu Zheng hurriedly stopped him and said that he could try 3D modeling.
Qiao Changling was not familiar with this aspect, and as soon as he heard Xu Zheng's complicated words, he asked him to contact the expert first to see if he could succeed, and then explained that Song Jianchuan cooperated with Xu Zheng throughout the process.
When Qiao Changling left in a hurry, Xu Zheng and Song Jianchuan glanced at each other, smiled and greeted each other.
Xu Zheng waited until Song Jianchuan sat down, drew a sketch for him, and drew the photographer and the suspect, "Brigade Song, that's the case, I want you to send someone to find the person who took this photo and measure how far away from the suspect where he was standing where he took the photo."
There is also the approximate height of the camera, preferably with an error of no more than one centimeter.
With this data, the size and shape of the suspect's skull can be calculated, and the next step is computer 3D skull modeling."
When Xu Zheng finished talking about his method, Song Jianchuan and the scouts present were all in their minds, they had heard of this 3D modeling, but it was calculated using the triple integral of advanced mathematics.
They all shook their heads, they didn't understand, they didn't understand when they went to school.
But if you don't understand, it's no problem, Song Jianchuan directly ordered the two subordinates to take the informant over to measure the data.
Xu Zheng didn't wait long, and in less than fifteen minutes, a copy of the data measured with the laser measuring instrument was put in front of him, and with the data, he passed this data to Liu Linlin in the magic capital.
Please ask her to find the mock portraitists in the magic capital.
These simulated portraitists in the magic capital are different from Xu Zheng, they not only have a certain strength in simulated portraits, but also are more proficient in the use of computer drawing and 3D modeling programs.
When the eldest sister in her thirties heard that it was Xu Zheng asking for help, she directly took the task, and in less than half an hour, she gave Xu Zheng a photo of her skull.
It also came with a voice, "Director Xu, we have calculated many times, and the accuracy of this picture is as high as 78%, you are a master of simulated portraits, and I did not use a computer to generate the original image."
If it's not convenient for you, I can help, just a few minutes. β
Xu Zheng immediately sent her a word of thanks, and asked her to send another computer-generated original image, put down the phone, he found a pen and paper, pointed at the 3D skull, and drew a white foreign face in five minutes.
And the eldest sister in the magic capital was more efficient, and sent a photo two minutes earlier.
When the two photos are compared, the error is almost zero, but Xu Zheng's picture is not colored.
The others were amazed, looking at the two photos, not sure that this was the real suspect.
And Xu Zheng, looking at the photo in his hand, was shocked in his heart.
Unexpectedly, this foreigner turned out to be an acquaintance, and two years ago, he once arrested an international S-class wanted criminal named Jason. Doug, he has passports from multiple countries, and Interpol can't find out which nationality he is.
I arrested him because of an antique painting back then, but I didn't expect to meet this person again because of antiques this time.
It's just that Xu Zheng felt strange that after catching this Jason two years ago, he was escorted away by people from the provincial department, saying that it was handed over to Interpol, but he didn't expect that it was only a long time before this person was released from prison.
Isn't he an international S-class wanted criminal?
Is it a jailbreak?
Or did the boss behind him spend money on him?
It's a pity that Xu Zheng has never been in contact with Interpol, so he doesn't know what the outside world is like. Doug can see that there should not be many people abroad who abide by the law.
Others are holding Jason. Doug's photo was checked on the Interpol website and found that this person was not an internationally wanted criminal, and they immediately muttered, thinking that this person was Xu Zheng mistaken.
Otherwise, this person has a clean file abroad and has no previous criminal record.
Or a new identity.
Xu Zheng also noticed this situation, he took the photo and pondered, this time he can draw Jason. The main reason for Doug's photo is by measuring the size of his skull.
There is definitely a difference, but it's not huge, and the computer-generated photos are also the same as those of Jason two years ago. Doug is slightly different, but he is recognizable.
The resulting photo shows Jason. Doug is no longer an S-class wanted criminal, which means that he has changed his identity again, or his identity has been whitewashed, and there is even a possibility.
He had plastic surgery before coming to the country of flowers this time.
Xu is thinking that he could catch Jason two years ago. Doug, the main reason is that he made a mock portrait of Jason. Doug's looks.
So if Jason. Doug knew the main reason why he was arrested, and he would definitely feel that plastic surgery alone would not work, so he put on this black hood mask.
"Director Xu, what are you thinking?" Song Jianchuan interrupted Xu Zheng's thoughts, "I checked it just now, and there is no record of the person in this photo, and there is no movement track of this person on the Tianyan system."
Also, there is no such person on the internationally issued wanted notice.
Look, is this a mistake in computer modeling? β
Xu Zheng shook his head in his heart, Team Song had something to say, he should have wanted to say if he was mistaken, looked at the others, except for Long Chuchu who was present with a look of trust in him, even Yao Ke'er was suspicious.
"This photo was generated by a computer program on the basis of skull data, so the photo is his original appearance, maybe he came to China after plastic surgery, maybe he was smuggled when he came over.
In short, the computer has errors, but it can't be mistaken.
Well, I can't go wrong with it! β
After a pause, he pointed to the photo and said: "I personally arrested him two years ago, an international S-class wanted criminal, and he also has an identity, that is, an international cultural relics thief."
The specific case involves the principle of secrecy, as long as you know that he has been to China to commit crimes. β