"They did spot checks, but they might as well not have."
Qu Hongying sneered. "Ma Gangyao and Rong Jinxiu are partners in crime. What could those checks possibly uncover?"
The Ma Gangyao she mentioned was the deputy director of the Linhai Province State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and one of the targets in the next stage of her investigation.
"What are you planning to do next, Sister Qu?" Zhou Yi asked.
"What do you think I should do?" Qu Hongying deliberately turned the question back on him.
"I think you'll start with the falsified asset valuation at Xinguang Factory, then summon Wang Qing, Tian Yanbin, and the others for questioning," Zhou Yi answered without hesitation.
It really wasn't hard to guess.
Case after case had shown that blurred boundaries between officials and businesspeople, exchanges of power for money, and collusion between state-owned enterprise executives and buyers were the main causes of losses of state-owned assets.
Among those practices, falsifying asset valuations was one of the most common and crucial methods.
In his place, after Dou Guozhong had provided important leads about the factory director, deputy director, finance manager, and other senior executives colluding with the Shanhai Group to deliberately undervalue state-owned assets, along with a photocopy of the factory's internal asset inventory and verification report from that time, he would certainly have chosen to strike hard at the falsified valuation. He would quickly force an opening, expand his gains through deeper investigation, and ultimately use that single breakthrough to destroy the enemy's entire line of defense.
In other words, as long as they could establish that Xinguang Factory's asset valuation had indeed been falsified, they would expose the criminal scheme behind the Shanhai Group's malicious appropriation of state-owned assets while also fundamentally undermining the legal basis of its acquisition