Liao Wensong's face hardened, and he rebuked him without ceremony. "Zhao Yongbin, behave yourself! Being a People's Congress deputy is not a shield that lets you commit crimes with impunity! While public security officers were searching for evidence against the suspect Zhao Xuanwen, you used violence and threats to obstruct their duties and attempted to destroy evidence. We are therefore taking criminal coercive measures against you in accordance with the law."
Fuck!
Zhao Yongbin's eyes widened in disbelief. You bastards can do that?
Under the regulations, as a People's Congress deputy, unless he was caught committing a crime or immediately afterward, the police had to obtain permission from the Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee before detaining or arresting him. That delay would have given him a chance to escape.
Now he was finished. They had slapped a trumped-up charge on him and cut off his last chance!
"Stop struggling. These ledgers and discs were found inside the Buddha statue. I'm sure you know better than we do what's recorded in them."
"This is the statement your daughter Zhao Qiushui gave after turning herself in and reporting your crimes."
"This is the statement your eldest son Zhao Xuanwu gave when he voluntarily cooperated with the police, confessed his crimes, and reported yours."
"And this is your second son Zhao Xuanwen's full confession to the major arson case. He also admitted that Tang Guohua, Fang Rong, and the others 'turned themselves in' on your instructions, and detailed your criminal attempts to cover up the truth through your protectors, Wang Haidong, Chen Bin, and others!"
As Liao Wensong produced one piece of evidence after another, Zhao Yongbin stood frozen as though turned to stone, not moving for a long time.
At that moment, he truly understood what it meant to be betrayed and