Deng Yan wasn't some clueless rookie. She said with some hesitation, "But tracing the flow of cash will probably be difficult. It must involve a lot of people."
Wang Yue smiled. "Actually, it shouldn't involve that many. When cash first leaves a bank, someone either withdraws it from an ATM or, in most cases, takes it out of a company's account.
"If you take the money to a bank, they can figure out which bank's ATM it came from, or which company withdrew it, can't they?"
Deng Yan thought Wang Yue made a good point, so she immediately had the police take the money around to other banks and make inquiries.
This kind of investigation took a lot of effort, since the banks had to check a great deal of financial data. Normally, they wouldn't go out of their way to do something like that.
But Linshan City had recently launched a major crackdown, and oversight from other departments was also particularly strict. So the local banks' staff had no choice but to cooperate fully.
Although this created a lot of extra work, they really did manage to trace the money: which bank it had last come from, and whose pocket it had ended up in.
The money came from two sources: a corporate account belonging to Jiji Trading, and a sole proprietorship that ran a yoga studio. They couldn't determine where it went after that. Once the money left the bank, it was passed from person to person.
After getting the news, Deng Yan immediately visited the two businesses. Unfortunately, on the surface, both were legitimate operations, and her investigation turned up nothing.
Wang Yue was keeping a close eye on the matter, too. After calling Deng Yan to ask about it, he decided there were things he would