Chapter 257 - An Honest Lawyer (1/2)

Officer Huang took a deep breath and quickly jumped in front of the two women.

The secretary looked at her father in surprise. ”What are you doing, Dad?”

”You're still young, you shouldn't have to take responsibility for my mistakes,” the man said.

Halia looked at the middle-aged man. His mistakes? She knew things weren't as simple as they appeared. Judging by Officer Huang's reaction, it seemed, she was right.

At that moment, Captain Tang walked in through the doorway and suddenly latched a pair of handcuffs on Officer Huang's wrists, ”Clinton Huang, you are under arrest for corruption and facilitation of fraud.”

Halia looked at the Captain in surprise.

”Dad!” Cindy Huang gasped. ”Let my Dad go, he's innocent!”

The secretary tried to run over to her father, but Halia held onto her tightly.

”You did all this to catch me, didn't you?” Officer Huang asked as he glanced at Captain Tang.

Captain Tang looked at the middle-aged officer and nodded his head. He had suspected corruption for a long time, but he couldn't determine who it was, so he sent Halia undercover to catch the fraudsters at the law firm, while he kept a close eye on the officers in the fraud department. Sure enough, he caught Officer Huang staying up last night to investigate Halia.

A normal officer wouldn't question their superior's orders nor would they try so hard to uncover a potential undercover officer; it was too dangerous for their colleague and there was no benefit in knowing. So, as soon as he noticed the man was acting weird, Captain Tang started investigating him.

That was when he discovered that Officer Huang's daughter was Morton Meng's secretary.

He also discovered that the officer's daughter, Cindy Huang, had suffered from heart disease since she was a child and had to undergo a heart transplant the previous year. Although the salary of an SPU detective was decent, all the years of hospital visits and the exorbitant costs of a heart transplant, wasn't something that he could afford. His family even had enough money left over for a car and a house, and his daughter was sent to law school.

Of course, the man was smart; he had been working in the fraud department for years and found some loopholes to explain his family's wealth. His wife was an artist, not a very famous one, but for some reason, her paintings always sold for an unbelievable amount. And her buyers were all lawyers and businessmen. A couple of which had coincidentally been caught for fraud and/or embezzlement. There were too many coincidences for Captain Tang. As soon as he started investigating the man, he knew he had caught the right person and his plan had worked.

On the surface, everything made sense. But once someone focused on the officer and dug deeper, they would discover a lot of suspicious activity.