Chapter 151 - Game Over (1/2)

”I spoke to Everett Pang last night. I thought I'd catch him off guard before he contacted his little scapegoat and told him what to do. But, that guy is pretty useless and sloppy. I'm surprised he hasn't been caught already. Why don't we just swoop in and arrest him instead of putting on this entire act?” Alexander asked impatiently.

”Because Everett Pang's not the one we are after,” Jackson explained.

Sean looked at Jackson and nodded his head, ”That's right. During my investigation, I discovered that this entire operation is like an onion with multiple layers. Thomas may be the scapegoat for Everett, but Everett's every move is actually being orchestrated by his wife, Carol Pang. Meanwhile, Carol Pang is taking orders from her godfather, Rawson Zhang, a gangster that was released from prison a year ago. And, it just so happens that Rawson was actually Jackson's gangster boss in Shanghai...”

Alexander looked at the two men in confusion. This case was a lot more complex than he originally thought. No wonder they had to fly him all the way from France.

”So, my mission is to lure Rawson Zhang into a deal with me and capture him?” Alexander concluded.

Sean began to nod his head, ”Y--”

But, before he got to say yes, Jackson suddenly cut in, ”No.”

Everyone turned and looked at the man in confusion. Even Halia, who had been working on the case all along was puzzled by his response.

”If it was that simple, don't you think they would have been caught by now?” Jackson asked.

He then pulled out his phone and showed the group some photos he had taken. They were photos of the case files he had been studying the day before. Before he returned the wooden box of files to Trisha that morning, he had taken photos of a few particular pages of interest.

”This is a case that Hong Kong Interpol has been working on for the last 5 years,” he explained. ”It was actually stemmed off Marcus' work in Beijing.”

”Marcus? Marcus Chin?” Halia questioned. She hadn't heard this name for a while. How was this case related to Jackson's dead undercover friend from the anti-corruption bureau?

”Initially, Marcus was investigating an anti-corruption case in Beijing, but he didn't realize that he had actually uncovered an entire 'triangle' of corruption between China, Hong Kong and Macau. Of course, Marcus only had jurisdiction in China, so when he began to find leads to Hong Kong and Macau, the ACB (anti-corruption bureau) had to contact Interpol for help. After Marcus died, the entire case was handed over to Interpol,” Jackson explained. ”But, as they began to look further into the case, they dug up suspicious activity that traced as far back as 15 years ago! In fact, they found 25 incidences in total that could be related.”

”Which brings us to this money laundering case. We have reason to believe that Everett, Carol and Rawson haven't been caught because someone in the police force is helping them,” Jackson frowned. ”And, we believe that this person is involved in an organization of corrupt police officers that are linked to a series of crimes around China, Hong Kong and Macau, including forgery, fraud...and even murder!”

”It's this organization that we are ultimately after!”

Halia glanced at Jackson. She remembered him mentioning that there were some confidential files related to his mother's death. Were these the files he was talking about? Did that mean, his mother was murdered and covered up by an organization of corrupt police officers? But why?