The speaker was Deputy Department Director Gou Hongtao. As Tian Zhengbing's two right-hand men, he and Gan Yongsheng had always served as Tian's spearheads at Party Committee meetings.
"The Chuanhai City Public Security Bureau has already sent over the relevant evidence, including testimony from Zhou Xue's uncle and aunt and statements obtained by questioning Zhou Xue and Lin Zhu. All of it proves that Zhou Xue and Lin Zhu did indeed have illicit sexual relationships with Song Tianlin!"
Hearing this, Yan Li, who sat nearby, could not keep his expression from changing drastically.
The Chuanhai City Public Security Bureau had actually taken Zhou Xue and Lin Zhu into custody!
How else could these so-called statements have appeared? What worried him even more was that, if the statements really existed, then Zhou Xue and Lin Zhu had undoubtedly been subjected to torture they could not withstand to force those statements out of them.
Bang!
No sooner had Gou Hongtao finished speaking than Deputy Department Director Zhou slammed the table in fury.
"Song Tianlin's case is being investigated by the provincial department's Criminal Investigation Corps. What right does the Chuanhai City bureau have to interfere? And what right does it have to summon two victims for questioning as suspects?"
Zhou Yi glared angrily at Gou Hongtao and Gan Yongsheng and demanded again, "Not only did you fail to stop these illegal violations of procedure, you're now using them as evidence to overturn the original statements. Director Gan, Director Gou, what exactly are you playing at?"
Executive Deputy Department Director Tian Zhengbing spoke up at just the right moment. Looking at Zhou Yi with a cold smile, he countered, "I authorized the Chuanhai City bureau to assist with the investigation. Do you have a problem with that?"
True, Zhou Yi oversaw the Criminal