"Officer!" The haggard Li Mengqi said dejectedly, "I'm already in this state, why would I joke with you? Even if I can't be a witness, I have no reason to lie! I've checked three times, and the most valuable Qing Dynasty calligraphy and a pearl necklace from the Republic of China are still there. We're only missing a stamp album! "
Zhao Yu and Miao Ying looked at each other. Receiving such an answer was naturally out of their expectations.
"Stamp album?" Zhao Yu did not know anything about stamp collection, so he quickly told the detectives behind him to find Liang Huan.
"It's a stamp album, that's right!" Li Mengqi pointed at her list and said, "I bought it myself, there's no mistake! Officer, I admit that most of the items here are stolen goods, but this stamp album is different! I bought it through legal means! "
"Hmph!" Zhao Yu pulled a chair and sat in front of Li Mengqi, "What's legal in the black market? No matter how many hands it's been through, stolen goods will always be stolen goods! You've been in this business for so many years, don't tell me you don't know this? "
"You?" Li Mengqi looked at it seriously. In her eyes, the police would not know so many secrets of the black market.
"Tell me!" Miao Ying said, "The sooner you tell us the truth, the sooner we can catch the robbers! Catching the robbers will definitely be beneficial to you! "
Miao Ying's words were similar to Zhao Yu's, and Li Mengqi was surprised. She calmed herself down, and then told him the ins and outs of the stamp album.
It turned out that the stamp album came from the hands of an amateur collector. The collector put the precious stamps that he collected into the album. Every plastic bag was specially made according to the size of each stamp, and it was very detailed.
Unfortunately, after the collector passed away, the collector's son got into the gambling habit. In order to pay off his huge gambling debt, he took out the stamp album to pay off his debt.
The debt collectors were not sure of the value of the stamp album, so they called Li Mengqi's team over.
Li Mengqi said that according to the expert's estimate, the stamp album's market value was around one million. However, there were several sets of stamps that had the potential to appreciate. If he hoarded them, he would be able to double his value in the future.
Therefore, Li Mengqi took advantage of the situation and bought the stamp album at a price of five hundred thousand. Since then, it had been stored in Qinshan Bank's safety deposit box.
Now that five years had passed, the value of the stamp album had increased by several times. Now, it was worth at least three or four million!
Three or four million!?
Zhao Yu looked at Miao Ying again. Miao Ying raised her eyebrows. Although three or four million wasn't a small amount, in their opinion, it wasn't worth robbing a bank for just three or four million!
What was going on?
Five bank robbers risked their lives to steal a stamp album? Did Li Mengqi make a mistake, or was there some other reason?
"You …" Miao Ying thought for a moment, then asked Li Mengqi, "Do you still have the stamp album or the pictures of the stamps?"
"Yes! Li Mengqi said, "I know where it is! But, police comrade, I still hope to be a tainted witness. I'm willing to cooperate with the police to find the criminal! "
"That's not a problem!" Miao Ying agreed. "Hurry up! There's no time to lose. From now on, your performance has been recorded by us. During the trial, we'll help you get points! "
"Yes, yes, yes!" Li Mengqi thanked her profusely, then told them the exact location of the hidden pictures.
Then, Zhao Yu and Miao Ying interrogated Li Mengqi on the spot. They asked if they had any other safe deposit boxes that stored stolen goods, and if they knew about the dead bodies in the safe deposit boxes.
In the end, Li Mengqi claimed that she did not have any other safe deposit boxes. Also, she had never heard of any safe deposit boxes or vacuum sealed corpses.
In order not to miss any clues, Miao Ying even showed Li Mengqi the photos of Gong Xiuzhen and the other victims. Li Mengqi did not know these people either.
Zhao Yu felt that things were back to square one. The bank robbery case and the Safe Deposit Box Corpse Case did not seem to be related at all.
The robbers had only accidentally opened the safe deposit box with the dead bodies when they were trying to break into the safe deposit box.
But without concrete evidence, everything was just empty talk. They had to find the person who had robbed the safe to confirm this matter.
But when it came to catching the robbers, things became more and more bizarre.
Did the robbers really come for the stamps? Were they stamp collectors? They even dared to rob a bank for the stamps. Weren't they a bunch of lunatics?
The calligraphy from the Qing Dynasty that Li Mengqi had mentioned was worth at least eight million. If they took the painting, it would be easier to explain, right? If they went back and sold the painting, what stamps would they not be able to buy back?
What the hell was going on?
With strong curiosity, Zhao Yu and Miao Ying returned to the police station and waited for the results of the stamp pictures. Although Li Mengqi's black market did not fall under the jurisdiction of Rùyang, because it was related to the Bank Robbery Case, the higher-ups had ordered the case to be handled by the Rùyang Branch.
This undoubtedly increased the workload of the Rùyang Branch. Luckily, the crime of buying stolen goods was considered an economic crime, so Li Mengqi and the others were temporarily handed over to the Economic Investigation Unit for investigation. This slightly reduced the pressure on the Key Case Investigation Unit.
But all the detectives in the Key Case Investigation Unit knew that when the Economic Investigation Unit found out about some major theft or robbery group, the case would eventually return to them.
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was already eight o 'clock at night. The photos of the property hidden on Li Mengqi's computer had been successfully retrieved by the detectives.
In order to better understand the robbers' intentions, Liang Huan personally invited two experts from the Postal Association to help.
The stamp pictures were enlarged on the high-definition electronic screen, and Liang Huan and the two experts did a detailed identification of the missing stamp album.
Although Zhao Yu did not know much about stamp collecting, he was quite interested in it, so he stayed to observe.
"This is Cao Guojiu!" When they flipped to the first page of the stamp album, one of the experts recognized it immediately. He pointed at one of the stamps and said, "In 1985, when the TV series' The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea 'was aired, the post office released a set of stamps of the Eight Immortals. But when it was released, because of the slow design, it was not released as a set, but one by one. This lasted for a few years.
"Because it was not released as a set, very few people were able to collect all of them! This picture of Cao Guojiu should be from the earliest issue! "
"I remember too!" The other old expert smiled and said, "I even collected them back then! He Xiangu offered the least. Only by buying He Xiangu could we possibly collect all of the Eight Immortals! "
"Then … how much is this one worth?" Liang Huan pondered and asked.
"Fifty to sixty thousand! The quality is not bad, and it's well preserved! "The old expert smiled and said," But if we could collect all of the Eight Immortals, that would be amazing! The starting price would be at least two million and above! "
Oh?
Hearing this, Zhao Yu could not help but think. Could it be that the robbers really had a motive for stealing this stamp album?
Just like Cao Guojiu, the robbers had the other seven immortals. If they could get Cao Guojiu, would they be able to collect all of the Eight Immortals?
But two million was still too little, wasn't it?
As they spoke, the experts flipped to the second page of the stamp album. On this page, there was a set of colorful stamps. There were four stamps in a set, and there were ten sets in total. Every stamp had a small person doing gymnastics.
The set of stamps looked very old, and were probably from a long time ago.
"Wow! Amazing! "The old expert sighed." It's complete. This is the Radio Calisthenics from 1952! "
"Cough!" Liang Huan shook his head and said, "I thought it was some kind of amazing treasure! This set of Radio Calisthenics is sold on Taobao for ten thousand yuan a set! Back then, the country issued a total of 1.25 million sets. This is too low! "
"Yo, Liangzi is amazing!" The other expert complimented. "You know quite a lot! Hehe … "
Unexpectedly, before the expert finished laughing, the old expert's face suddenly froze! He seemed to be shocked by something in the stamp. After a few seconds, he raised his trembling hand and pointed at the screen.
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