Duan Kangming and the others had to admit that, despite their thorough preparations for today's interrogation, they had clearly underestimated Director Zhou Yi's sharp tongue and exceptional ability to think on his feet.
This couldn't go on!
"This is the organization's decision. Your personal opinion is irrelevant!" Duan Kangming's tone grew increasingly stern. Yes, sometimes the organization's decisions were simply that unreasonable.
Take Zhou Yi's assault, for instance. The organization could gloss over it with a token warning, or it could use the incident as a pretext to impose a severe punishment.
"Besides, no one can corroborate your stated reason for hitting him!" Liu Jianbo added.
Zhou Yi smiled and raised the documents in his hand again, saying calmly, "These contain testimony from only four people: Deputy Secretary Gong Li, Deputy Mayor Sun Yi, Department Head Zuo Hongwei, and Deputy Director Kang Jie. But Finance Bureau Director Wan Dean, Construction Commission Director Liu Yi, and the flower shop owner, Li Ruoyun, were also present. Oh, leave Li Ruoyun out of it-she's Xie Bingyi's sister-in-law. Where are the other two people's statements, then?"
"Since they were all witnesses, why leave two of them out?"
"I'm not very familiar with the Discipline Inspection Commission's investigative procedures, but we in public security have always insisted on rigor and thoroughness when collecting evidence. I believe Secretary Liu should know that better than anyone!"
Facing the young Public Security Director's openly mocking gaze, Liu Jianbo felt a pain in his chest. That verbal jab had landed hard!
"According to Ding Gang and Zou Qunbiao's confessions, you ordered your criminal investigators, Li Linsen and Zhao Xin, to torture them into confessing and induced them to identify Xie Bingyi as the mastermind behind the contract killing. What do you have to say about that?"
Duan Kangming decided