A full 15 billion US dollars, along with two transnational criminal organizations, the DOA Group and the JC Group.
They were more than enough to give Zhou Quan an opening to advance his plan and further upgrade the National Security Department's establishment.
Of course, there was one prerequisite: the illicit funds had to be successfully seized, and the criminal organizations successfully dismantled.
Otherwise, however perfect the ideas in Zhou Quan's mind might be, they would remain nothing more than plans on paper.
For that reason, Zhou Quan had also been considering how to gain the greatest benefit from this case lately.
Yet before he could put his plan into action, the men under his command brought him a surprise.
Ever since Lau Bo-keung and He Wenzhan became involved and took the lead, the case involving the DOA Foundation had been destined to deviate from the course he remembered.
He had anticipated that long ago.
What he had not expected, however, was that Mr. Gao's younger cousin, Ma Latang, had not taken the DOA Group's enormous pool of liquid funds to protect himself.
Instead, he was preparing to hand the 15 billion US dollars over to the Hong Kong Island Police Force to lessen his older cousin's culpability.
For the time being, Zhou Quan had no suitable way to handle that astronomical sum.
After all, he was now a public servant of the Hong Kong Government, not a colonial police officer under the former foreign rulers.
However impeccable his political roots, he could not simply bypass Hong Kong Island and contact the senior leadership in Mainland China directly.
National interest came above all else, but Hong Kong Island was also part of the country and likewise could not be overlooked.
Striking the right balance would be a rather thorny problem for