Just then, however, the criminal investigators suddenly discovered that the deceased Tan Yuming had not only worked in the Shanhai Group's planning department, but was also the younger brother of Deputy General Manager Yang Xin's wife.
That naturally led them to a very obvious conclusion!
When Rong Jinxiu learned the results of the investigation, she fell into a profound silence.
Was the very thing she feared really coming to pass?
Was it somehow predestined that she would face this calamity?
An ominous premonition stirred in Rong Jinxiu's heart. The network of connections she had painstakingly cultivated in Chuanhai, the defenses she had built with her own hands, might suffer an unexpectedly devastating blow because of Zhou Yi's car accident. They might even collapse entirely!
People always said a woman's intuition was the most accurate.
A week later, on the first day of 2009, under instructions from Provincial Party Committee Secretary Hou Xiangyang and Provincial Governor Lan Kun, the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission, Procuratorate, Public Security Department, Audit Department, and Tax Bureau formed multiple investigative teams. They launched a comprehensive, coordinated, in-depth investigation into the Shanhai Group's suspected embezzlement of state-owned assets, disruption of financial administration, offenses against tax collection and administration, and collusion with local officials, as well as suspected crimes committed by its leading members, including intentional injury and kidnapping.
Some cases could never be investigated, exposed, or cleared up, not because certain groups and individuals had particularly sophisticated criminal methods, but because they were so powerful that no one dared provoke them, touch them, or hold them accountable.
But that power was not all-purpose. Once another force resolved to mobilize the machinery of the state to deliver a devastating blow, all resistance and struggle became futile. Every crime would inevitably come to light, leaving nowhere to hide.
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