Official Career Storm
Chapter 445

Chapter 445: Chapter 445

"Secretary Lu, here is the company information."

Director Wang jogged over and handed over the mobile phone.

Secretary Lu glanced at it and tossed the phone to Director Qin, "Director Qin, immediately arrange for someone to go to the provincial branches of these banks and ask them to cooperate in freezing all the accounts of these companies."

"Okay, okay."

Director Qin’s mind was spinning; there were too many things he had to deal with, to the point where his phone screen was almost sparking from his touch.

Secretary Lu then found the phone number for the Vice Mayor of Tianhai City, "Mayor Yu, hello, could you help me get in touch with the Chief of Tianhai City Police Department?"

"There’s a case that requires cooperation from Tianhai City."

Mayor Yu said, "Secretary Lu, you’re putting me in a difficult position. I’m just a Vice Mayor; I don’t have that much influence."

Secretary Lu asked, "Is Mayor Yang busy right now?"

"Mayor Yang has gone to conduct inspections below, he is not in the city."

Mayor Yu said, "Secretary Lu, you should let Lingjiang Police Department contact our side directly, it’s best if they could come over, coordinating a joint case over the phone is certainly inconvenient."

Once you cross to another city, you lose a lot of power.

No matter how urgent your situation is or how serious the incident, it’s none of their business.

Whether they’ll help or not depends first on how good your relationship is, and secondly on whether they are too busy.

If they’re not busy and the matter is not serious, helping you isn’t a big deal.

If they are busy, then you’ll just have to wait.

As for how long you’ll have to wait, it’s up to them to decide.

If you really can’t wait any longer, fine, come over yourself.

But even then, the local police have to accompany you, it’s not possible to let you fully handle the case on your own turf.

In summary, it’s quite troublesome.

Secretary Lu knew the procedures were complex, but he hadn’t expected the other party to be so unaccommodating.

The key was that he couldn’t talk about this matter.

Family disgrace is not to be spread abroad.

Right now, only the people in the conference room knew about it, and it had not spread. He wouldn’t let it spread for the time being.

He had to first confirm whether it could be handled.

If it could be handled, it would be kept within the city, definitely not to be leaked.

If not, then that would be another matter.

Seeing that Tianhai City was not going to be of any help, Secretary Lu didn’t persist and hung up the phone, then said, "Director Qin, arrange for someone to go to Tianhai City immediately. Before tonight, bring me back all the heads of these companies and their financial officers!"

Director Qin asked, "Secretary Lu, do we need to report to the Tianhai City Police Department?"

"Report your mom!" Secretary Lu suddenly erupted in anger, leaving Director Qin so stunned he couldn’t react.

Secretary Lu took a breath and calmed down again, "Special cases require special handling, no need to report! The priority task right now is to retrieve the financial funds from Dujiang City! Just go and make the arrests. If the local police intervene, call me, and I’ll handle it!"

"Yes."

"Remember, do not disclose this case to the public!"

"I understand."

Secretary Lu then swept his gaze over the people in the conference room, "Today’s matters are not to be disclosed!"

Everyone immediately tensed up and nodded hastily.

Song Guanchao chuckled internally, thinking you’d need to catch the people first.

I have them all under control now.

Secretary Lu was agitated and frustrated. As his gaze swept over those present, it suddenly landed on Song Guanchao.

He remembered Wu Qiangwei’s recent suggestion to have Song Guanchao join the high-speed rail project.

He suddenly regretted it a bit.

Had he known such an annoying issue was going to arise, he would have agreed right away.

Once Song Guanchao joined, the current situation would involve not only him and Mayor Zheng, but Wu Qiangwei would be dragged in as well.

Having one more person to share the burden would mean less responsibility for him.

But there are not so many what-ifs.

Time passed by every second.

At eleven-thirty, Director Qin’s phone rang.

Seeing the name "He Kang" on the caller ID, Director Qin’s heart suddenly started pounding.

Why was He Kang calling at this time?

Could it be related to Hou Wen?

Pretending it was a call from a policeman below, he answered it in front of everyone, "Hello? What... you say what!"

Director Qin abruptly stood up from his chair, eyes wide open in fury as if he had heard something unbelievable.

"Are you sure?"

"Did you look for him? Did you check the restroom? Could he be in the smoking area? Did you search everywhere?"

Nobody knew who he was talking to on the phone, nor did they know the content of the conversation.

But it was clear that it had something to do with Hou Wen.

Secretary Lu and Mayor Zheng were very anxious, what exactly was said during this call?

Director Qin was on the phone for several minutes before finally hanging up.

As soon as he hung up, Mayor Zheng couldn’t help but ask, "What happened?"

Director Qin clutched the phone, opening his mouth several times but said nothing.

Mayor Zheng urged, "What is the matter, exactly?"

"Hou Wen..." Director Qin said in a deflated tone, "he has disappeared."

"What?"

Mayor Zheng pressed, "What do you mean disappeared? Shouldn’t he be on the plane at this time?"

Director Qin replied, "He didn’t board the plane, he, he disappeared at the airport."

Hou Wen was scheduled for the 11:13 AM flight.

The person arranged by He Kang had been watching him from a distance all along.

At 10:50 AM, Hou Wen went to the restroom.

After coming out of the restroom, he walked toward the boarding gate and then vanished.

The person monitoring him searched the entire airport but couldn’t find him, and when they went to ask the airport staff to check the surveillance, they were completely ignored.

You aren’t a police officer, who do you think you are to request surveillance footage on a whim?

Even for police officers, a request has to be made to the airline for surveillance access.

Secretary Lu’s palms were sweating.

He felt very uneasy inside.

At this moment, Hou Wen suddenly disappearing...

No, this was most likely not just a disappearance, but an escape!

Hou Wen, he might have run away!

Secretary Lu actually didn’t care at all if Hou Wen had run away or not.

What he cared about was the implication of Hou Wen’s escape!

Before fleeing, he funneled the Finance Bureau’s funds into his own pocket.

Unless the money was transferred out of the country, Hou Wen would not have made any rash moves.

Now that he is missing, it signifies that there’s a high probability that the 7 billion has already been transferred out of the country by him.

Secretary Lu slumped into a chair, feeling a sense of powerlessness like never before.

Tu Zhaorui had informed them early on about taking action against Hou Wen.

But they didn’t take it seriously.

Who could have imagined that a minor county chief who had been in his position for over a decade could run circles around them.

"Disappeared?" Song Guanchao’s eyebrows furrowed.

This wasn’t a disappearance, it was a flight!

He knew Hou Wen would flee within these few days.

But he thought that Hou Wen would first return to Dujiang City.

Instead, he chose to escape from Fucheng Airport!

This was far beyond his expectations.

He thought about Hou Wen’s sudden visit to Fucheng University to lecture.

Though the lecture had been scheduled in advance, his sudden visit was still somewhat suspicious.

Song Guanchao hadn’t thought much of it at the time because the Finance Bureau’s funds hadn’t been transferred out yet.

But now it seemed that Hou Wen had planned his escape route long ago.

Going to Fucheng University to lecture was a smokescreen.

His real purpose was to take the opportunity to flee!

This old fox, his mind was indeed meticulous enough.

Song Guanchao thought he had made foolproof preparations, but now it looked like he had still underestimated Hou Wen’s plans.

At this moment, his phone suddenly vibrated.

Looking down, it was a call from Liang Jianfeng.

He answered the phone and put it to his ear without saying a word.

From the phone, Liang Jianfeng’s voice emerged: "Hou Wen has run away."

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