"Does the organizer know that their jewelry robbers are targeting them?" Instructor Hu was a little excited.
Among the one hundred distinguished guests, they were either the second-generation wealthy people from Xiangjiang, members of parliament, consuls or big stars, all of whom were prominent figures.
If so many people were kidnapped, the impact of the case would definitely be greater than the Wan Chai murder case that occurred the day before yesterday.
Although more than a hundred people died in the Wan Chai murder case, gangsters are gangsters. No matter how many people die, no one except their family and friends will shed tears for them, and even news reporters will not pay attention to them.
Otherwise, the police department would not have suppressed the news so easily.
There are also too few clues about the Wan Chai murder case. Although we have the identity of the murderer and can arrest the person based on the picture, we don't know the murderer's last name or whereabouts. Today, when I was handed over to the Regional Crime Team.
Lu Qichang lamented that the case seemed simple, but in fact it was difficult. Without knowing where the murderer was, all the task force could do was issue a wanted warrant, and the rest was to let nature take its course.
This made Instructor Hu, who was dedicated to meritorious service, very disappointed.
Now it's better, if there is no light in the east, there will be light in the west. If a robbery occurs at the Cointreau Hotel, just like the Sands Villa, killing the robber without hurting the hostages will definitely be a great achievement.
Even if Lei Weidong takes the lion's share, he can still get a lot. Although it is not enough to be promoted to chief inspector, he can still add to his qualifications.
"I don't know, I probably don't know, but the organizers are very confident in their security. They only reported it to the Central Police Station, which is the Central District, and the police will not be involved in anything else. The designated security company is responsible for all security work. "Yezi replied.
"Is the security company very strong, stronger than our police?" Zhu Huabiao, who had been silent, asked.
"It's hard to say. Many of the security guards in the security company are retired from the police or the army. They should be better than ordinary police officers.
But it is definitely much worse than the robbers.
Especially the robbers who purchased so many weapons. If their target is really the Cointreau Hotel, the security company will definitely suffer a big loss, just like the last Sands Villa Jewelry Exhibition.
A dozen security guards were killed by the robbers without making any difference. "Hui Yinghong shook her head and was not optimistic about the security company.
"There are two biggest difficulties in the current case." Meiko continued.
The first choice is the Cointreau Hotel in Central. Our intervention is a cross-district handling case. Especially in the absence of conclusive evidence, it is difficult for us to act on a large scale. The most we can do is send people in to inquire about the situation.
Second, the organizer was uncooperative. For an event with hundreds of people, they just filed a case at the Central District Police Station and did not even ask for police dispatch. We estimated that it was the same in the past. Unless there was an invitation, you would not be able to get in. And if you invite Post! "
Yazi looked at Lei Weidong and did not continue.
"Tou, you're the only one to take action." Inspector Hu complimented in a flattering tone, "Please find a few more invitations, and then we can all go in and prepare."
"It's a little late to look for invitations at this time. I can just add a few, but I can give it a try." Lei Weidong shrugged, picked up the phone and dialed.
"Hey, who is that?"
"Mr. Shen, it's me, Lei Weidong!"
"Lei Weidong, oh, it's you, why do you have time to call me?" Shen Bi's laughter came through the phone.
"I just want to ask about the Cointreau Hotel, the hotel in Central that holds the Czar's Jewelry Exhibition. I want to know his specific situation. Please don't bother me."
"No trouble. You are a VIP customer of our HSBC Bank, so it is your duty to serve you. Wait for me for ten minutes and I will investigate." Shen Bi said.
"Okay." Lei Weidong hung up the phone.
"Tou, who did you call?" Ma Jun couldn't help but ask.
"Shen Bi from HSBC Bank." Lei Weidong replied.
"Who is Shen Bi?"
Everyone here at HSBC knows that it is the first bank in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong dollar is printed by him, and he has the title of the uncrowned king of Hong Kong.
But they don't know who Shen Bi is. After all, their identities are too far apart. Let alone contact, they have never even heard of him. They only know that A Tou has money, a lot of money, but they don't know how much money he has. .
About eight minutes later, Lei Weidong's phone rang.
"Lai Seng, Cointreau Hotel was jointly invested by a European tourism group and local wealthy businessmen in Hong Kong. It was built in 1979 with a total investment of 2 billion Hong Kong dollars.
It's a pity that it happened at the wrong time. After the construction was completed, before the business started, we encountered negotiations between the ancestors and the mainland. The real estate market collapsed and the economy was in recession. Investors could say that they were riding a tiger, and the business was worried about losses due to the poor operating environment.
For sale, a 62-story skyscraper with a cost of 2 billion has been offered for 700 million and no one has taken it. "
"What about the jewelry fair?" Lei Weidong asked.
"It would be a waste to keep the hotel there unopened, and it would cost money to maintain. Finally, the European investor XX Travel Group made a bold move and got three treasures from the Tsarist period, put them in the Cointreau Hotel, and invited celebrities from Hong Kong to come and browse.
I hope to build the reputation of the hotel and have a good start after opening.
Lei Sheng, you ask so many questions, do you want to buy the hotel? If you want, I can help you negotiate the price. You can buy it for less than 700 million.
If you use US dollars, it can be even cheaper, and you can get it for 100 million. "
"One hundred million U.S. dollars is too expensive. Everyone knows that the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar can no longer be maintained. It may plummet one day, not to mention breaking through seven or eight, or even nine or ten."
"How much are you willing to pay?" Shen Bi asked.
"Seventy million dollars is a very reasonable price."
"Seventy million is too little, at least 90 million is needed."
"Seventy million is a lot. Don't look at it. Now one US dollar can only be exchanged for five Hong Kong dollars. But that is official. There is a price but no market. The exchange rate on the black market has already exceeded 7. It can only be exchanged on a small scale. The exchange rate on a large scale is Lower.”
"Leisheng, you are right, but 70 million is too low. Add another five million. If you add another five million, I will help you get it."
"'For Mr. Shen's sake, I can pay 75 million, but I request that the contract be signed and the owner changed today."
"It's a bit tight for one day, but it doesn't matter. You can do it if you push it."
"That's troublesome, and Mr. Shen, I would like to ask, does the Cointreau Hotel have insurance?"
"Of course there is insurance. People come and go when you open a hotel, so you must buy insurance just in case. Cointreau Hotel's price is quite high. When it was bought last year, it was insured for HKD 2.5 billion.
It can be said that the premium is a big expense, otherwise investors would not think of selling it. "
"I'll ask Salena to contact you right now, and I'll go to the hotel in the afternoon to check it out."
"Okay, I'll wait for your news." Shen Bi hung up the phone.
"Tou, you bought the hotel." The conversation between Lei Weidong and Shen Bi made everyone confused. They knew every word, but they didn't know what it meant when they were put together.
"Ask me later." Lei Weidong raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet and dialed Salina's number.
"Brother Dong, are you calling me about the new sister?" After the call was connected, Salina's somewhat jealous voice came over.
"We will talk about my sister later. You immediately send someone to see Shen Bi at HSBC. I have just negotiated with him to purchase the Cointreau Hotel in Central for US$75 million."
"Seventy-five million dollars to buy a sixty-two-story building that is fully renovated. The price is not expensive, but Brother Dong, why should we buy the Cointreau Hotel? It doesn't match our business." Salena was a little confused. asked.
"I have definite information here. A group of robbers will go to Cointreau Hotel tomorrow night to steal jewelry. They have heavy weapons and will cause serious damage to the hotel..."
"Understood, I will go to HSBC Bank to see Shen Bi and secure the hotel before the afternoon..." After several years of experience in shopping malls, Lei Weidong just started, and Salina knew what he meant.
After hanging up the phone, he immediately called his secretary over.
"Notify the legal department, put down everything you are doing, and go to HSBC with me. We have a big deal to do. We also need to contact the top ten insurance companies in Hong Kong and tell them that I have a big deal for them. Do you want to take it or not?"
Compared to Lei Weidong, Salina was more ruthless. She wasn't going to cheat just one insurance company. If she wanted to cheat, she would cheat several more. Maybe the cost of purchasing the hotel would be paid back through compensation.
"Okay, if you have any questions now, just ask." Lei Weidong put down the phone in his hand and looked at the people who were still stunned.
"Brother Dong, did you just buy the Cointreau Hotel?" Bai Kailun, who still knew Lei Weidong's worth, recovered quickly and returned to normal in a few seconds before asking.
"I bought it and it is guaranteed by HSBC. If nothing else, I will be the owner of the Cointreau Hotel this afternoon. This will make it much easier for us to handle the case. It is almost the same as going home.
It doesn't matter if there is no robbery in the end, just treat it as a live-fire exercise. Lei Weidong nodded and said.
"The words are good, but buying the hotel directly for the sake of the case is a bit too much." Lei Weidong's words made Instructor Hu and others grin, and they completely understood the meaning of big dogs.
But that's okay. If the hotel owner is the boss, let alone any equipment, it's easy to get in. Even the entire police station can go there to work. I don't know if the gangsters will dare to come after knowing this situation.
"Entering the hotel is no longer a problem. Now we need to formulate a detailed combat plan. The robbers have strong firepower. They may have mines, grenades or even rocket launchers. I don't want to lay a wreath for any of you."
"The director is right. Since there is preparation time, the plan must be made in detail." Meiko stood up and said,
"I hope that everyone will wear body armor during the operation, and all the pistols will be replaced with powerful ones. The Overlord Flowers will gather together and replace them with standard equipment."
"I will report to the director about the weapons, and we will get the equipment this afternoon." Lei Weidong pointed at the conference table with his finger, indicating that it was up to him to figure out the weapons.
"There is also the hotel's control room. If a robbery occurs, the robbers' first target must be the control room. In order to prevent the enemy from being alerted, we will set up another master control room in the hotel.
Even if the robbers take down the surveillance room, the images they see are the ones we want to show them. "
"Prepare the necessary equipment. We will go to the Cointreau Hotel in the afternoon and try to get it done overnight." Lei Weidong said.
"besides……"
"besides……"
Everyone spoke to each other and made the plan more and more detailed, so that the doctor didn't even know he fell into the trap.
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Director's office!
"Weidong, come on, sit down quickly. Come here at this time. Do you have any clues about the Wan Chai murder case?"
Huang Bingyao was sitting in the office with his legs crossed and scratching his itch with his gun, very comfortable.
Seeing Lei Weidong knocking on the door and coming in, he subconsciously shrank his legs and sat down, picked up the glasses cloth on the table and wiped the gun, and said while wiping it back.
"I've been a friend for decades, and I feel uncomfortable if I don't wipe it for a day."
"Director, we are all on our own, so stop acting like this. No one in the entire police department knows that you are just a kind-hearted gun. You haven't fired a bullet in decades. You probably won't be able to fire it now. "
Seeing Huang Bingyao seriously cleaning his gun, Lei Weidong smiled and said,
"That's right." Huang Bingyao threw away the glasses cloth in his hand and said, "But you are right about one thing, this gun and I have been in love for more than thirty years.
He has been following me since the first day I joined the police force, and he was about to be turned in. I really couldn’t bear to let him go. "
"If you don't want to bear it, you can apply to retire with a gun. You are the director, and Gui Lao should give you this face." Lei Weidong suggested.
"Maybe." Huang Bingyao nodded and said, "I really hope this gun can accompany me for a lifetime. After I die, I don't want anything else but this gun."
By the way, Wei Dong, why did you come to see me? Is there really a clue to the Wan Chai murder case? "
"I don't have any clues. I'm here for something else. There is a case that requires a large amount of weapons. I'm here to apply for weapons." Lei Weidong handed over the application form he had prepared. Because the amount is too huge, the director needs your signature. .
"Weidong, do you want to fight a world war? You need so many arms and a full set of Flying Tigers equipment." Looking at the number of weapons requested in the report, Huang Bingyao's eyes darkened and he couldn't help but ask.
“The enemy’s firepower was powerful, not only fifty high-powered pistols, but also forty long guns, as well as an unknown number of flamethrowers, rocket launchers, grenades and landmines.
If we use .38 to deal with it, our entire police station will not be able to fill it, and we must change our clothes. "Lei Weidong said helplessly. It was not because he was the lion, but because the enemy was too powerful.
"Such criminals are not something we, the police, should deal with at all. Why not apply for help from the Flying Tigers? What our police deal with are petty thieves and gangsters. We can just leave the big gangsters to the Flying Tigers."
Looking at the weapons on the list, Huang Bingyao didn't want to approve it because there were too many.
"The key is that we don't know whether the robbers will come, so we can't apply in advance. We wait until the robbers come before applying. I'm afraid my brothers will be disappointed before the Flying Tigers arrive, so I'd better prepare in advance."
"What case? The gangsters' firepower is so powerful. Are they going to carry out a terrorist attack in Xiangjiang?" Lei Weidong's words gave Huang Bingyao a toothache.
Does he have the plague effect?
Before Lei Weidong came to Wan Chai, there were more gangsters in Wan Chai and the law and order was more chaotic. Although he was scolded by the director all day long, he could still get by.
After Lei Weidong came, life was completely different.
Fortunately for Xiaosha, those were cases accumulated in the past, and it would have happened if Lei Weidong didn't come.
But the Wan Chai murder case was too much. In Huang Bingyao's entire life, he had never seen a murder case in which more than a hundred people died, and it was still committed by one person.
Fortunately, the ones who died were all small gangsters, so the impact was not big. In addition, without them, Wan Chai's public security has improved a lot, so it can be suppressed.
Now another criminal gang with powerful firepower has arrived. I just want to retire quietly. I have not thought about promotion and salary increase, and becoming an assistant deputy director at the headquarters.
"It's not a terrorist attack, it's a robbery. Director, do you know about the Tsar's Jewelry Exhibition at the Cointreau Hotel tomorrow night?"
"I know, when I was on the phone with Lin Meng just now, Lin Meng complained that a jewelry exhibition was held in his jurisdiction and a hundred invitation cards were sent out, but he, the director, did not receive it. It is intolerable."
Thinking of Lin Meng's resentful tone, Huang Bingyao wanted to laugh, but finally saw the old fox deflated.
"It's not easy to get an invitation. I'll give it to the director tomorrow and you ask Director Lin to send it to you. You can get as many as you want, but I don't recommend you go. Something big will happen tomorrow night." Lei Weidong had a smile on his lips.
"A big thing has happened. Could it be that the three royal jewels you mentioned were the gangsters' targets? That's right. Jewels worth hundreds of millions of dollars are worth fighting for, and they are worth so many weapons and ammunition."
Huang Bingyao mourned in his heart for those who participated in the jewelry exhibition. Although the main target of the gangsters was jewelry, it was normal to kill a few people along the way, so it was hard to know who was the unlucky guy.
"Weidong, you just said that the invitations are as much as you want. Do you own the Cointreau Hotel?" Huang Bingyao asked, thinking of what Lei Weidong had just said.
"It wasn't before, but it will be soon. I have entrusted HSBC to acquire the Cointreau Hotel. It will be completed in the afternoon. By then, I will be the owner of the Cointreau Hotel."
"For no reason, why did you buy a hotel?"
"Of course it's to solve the case. The Cointreau Hotel is very strict about the entry and exit management of people. You can't get in without invitations. Although I can get a few, considering the firepower of the gangsters, a few people are just delivering food.
We can't break in like robbers, so we have no choice but to resort to this strategy. Lei Weidong spread his hands and said helplessly.
"The next best thing is to buy the hotel. You really have too much money." Like Instructor Hu and others, Lei Weidong bought a five-star hotel in an understatement.
Huang Bingyao's first reaction was tooth root pain.
It was better for him to retire early, otherwise he would be depressed to death if he was with Lei Weidong every day.
"Director, you'd better approve the weapons first. We're going to the Cointreau Hotel in the afternoon to arrange them. We're in a hurry." Lei Weidong pointed at the application form with his right hand and asked Huang Bingyao to sign.
"Weidong, I just want to ask, what if the gangsters don't come, your money will be wasted." Huang Bingyao couldn't help but ask when he signed the application form and returned it to Lei Weidong.
"If you don't come, it will be a live-fire exercise. As for the hotel, the loss is due to the current environment. It will be fine after this period of time. It doesn't matter whether the hotel makes money or not. As long as the building is there, if the property market improves in two years, you can make hundreds of millions by changing hands." More than a billion.”
