My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 326

326. Dirty Money Attracts Dirty Business

“Why the Daegumryong Clan [a Chinese-Korean organized crime syndicate] of all groups?”

“Did you call a busy man just to ask that?”

Park Do-joon frowned at Bae Deok-gi’s words and asked.

“Busy with what? Just playing around.”

“Knowing that, why do you just watch?”

“It’s amusing. From my perspective, it looks like they’re just trying to impress me by trying to take you down.”

“From my perspective, it doesn’t look like amusement.”

“I know.”

“Yes, I’m sure you do. That’s why I know too.”

“What do you mean?”

“Even if you leave it alone, I won’t come here.”

“I can’t say anything to you.”

In fact, if Park Do-joon said just one word to Bae Deok-gi, he could resolve the unfair situation he was currently facing in an instant.

Team Leader Lee Chang-man? It wouldn’t be difficult to not only have him fired but also to move his address to a prison [implying imprisonment]. Nevertheless, Bae Deok-gi is just letting it happen. That’s because if Park Do-joon quits the police force, he wants to bring him in as his own man.

Of course, Park Do-joon knows this, so he doesn’t ask Bae Deok-gi for help.

‘If I bow down here, it will never end.’

Unless they are at least on equal footing, exchanging benefits with each other, he can’t fight Hong Woo-jong in the long run. No matter how powerful Bae Deok-gi is, he wouldn’t want to fight a politician like Hong Woo-jong.

“So you’ve been keeping quiet, knowing all this.”

“Yes.”

“It’s a shame. Other guys come whining to me when they’re just a little bit stressed.”

“All favors come with a price.”

And that has to be paid someday.

“So you’re going to take care of Lee Chang-man yourself?”

“It won’t take long. By the way, why did you ask why it had to be the Daegumryong Clan?”

“I did.”

There are many other violent organizations. Of course, it was Hyunseong Group that passed the information to them. It’s not difficult to use people to secretly pretend to be attacked and pass it on.

However, Park Do-joon chose the Daegumryong Clan from among the many violent organizations.

“First of all, the biggest reason is that they don’t get along with the Sinjongno Clan.”

“Just for that reason?”

“Of course, that’s a secondary reason. There’s actually a bigger reason.”

“Bigger?”

“The Daegumryong Clan is a Chinese organization. If necessary, they can just flee to China. In fact, they did that in the last fight.”

If the Sinjongno Clan is receiving support from the Korean police, the Daegumryong Clan is a violent organization receiving support from the Chinese Triads [Chinese transnational organized crime syndicates].

“The two can’t coexist.”

Because their interests overlap.

The Daegumryong Clan has to send money to the Triads when they earn it, and the Sinjongno Clan has to bribe the police. It’s impossible to ambiguously divide it and manage the future.

Because, from the Korean police’s point of view, if the Daegumryong Clan takes over the area, public safety becomes too dangerous.

At least the Sinjongno Clan seems to avoid crossing the line externally.

There are victims, but they are mainly victims who have used private loans, and unless they report it directly, it doesn’t seem to be a social problem.

“But the Daegumryong Clan, on the other hand, is not operated in such a sophisticated way.”

The Sinjongno Clan creates money. They make people take out private loans and then extort interest, or they use it to exploit their weaknesses and make women sell their bodies.

‘They might even harvest men’s organs.’

The important thing is that they don’t do anything that is socially criticized or even targeted. If they did, the police would have to crack down on them.

“But the Daegumryong Clan is not like that.”

They don’t use such sophisticated methods but earn money by beating people up and taking it away. It’s an old-fashioned method, but it’s efficient. Since the perpetrator can just be sent to China, the cleanup is neat.

“Due to the nature of Chinese organizations, it’s not easy to have a corporate form in Korea.”

“What does that have to do with this?”

“Therefore, the Daegumryong Clan would threaten but not think about replacing.”

“Replacing?”

“If it were a Korean organization, they would go to them and ask for money or ask for work in their organization. In other words, they would make a kind of deal.”

“Aha!”

By doing so, they can receive some of the profits, or if they are lucky enough to replace the Sinjongno Clan, they can earn a lot of money.

“But the Daegumryong Clan can’t replace them.”

In other words, they have no choice but to fight the Sinjongno Clan.

“Seeing you ask that, I guess you have something in mind.”

“Yes, the Sinjongno Clan is in turmoil.”

“What’s the situation in Shingal-dong?”

“Well, they don’t seem to be doing anything on the surface.”

“Sometimes that’s more suspicious.”

“That’s right. That’s even stranger.”

Shingal-dong is a greedy guy. He likes to suppress people with power, and at the same time, he actively shows his desire to increase his connections to increase his power. But Shingal-dong hasn’t been doing anything lately.

He goes to work at Shinguk Broadcasting, but other than that, he doesn’t do anything? That’s suspicious.

‘Even CEO Cha Ji-seung said that he hasn’t heard from Shingal-dong recently.’

Before, they would send someone or call him at least once every three days to pressure him to provide sexual favors, but recently they have been quiet and still, which is strange.

‘Are they more scared than I thought?’

Perhaps the Daegumryong Clan threatened them, and Shingal-dong is taking it more seriously than he thought. That’s why he’s acting like that.

“It’s time to counterattack.”

“Didn’t you achieve your desired goal?”

“You already know?”

“It’s Hyunseong, my friend.”

Well, with Hyunseong’s power, it wouldn’t be difficult to get any information. Even Hong Geun-jong didn’t know that Shingal-dong and Shinguk Ilbo [a fictional media company] were big players in the private loan market, but Bae Deok-gi knew.

“I’m looking at it in the long term.”

“In the long term?”

“Yes, in the long term, if this incident is covered up, Shingal-dong will do the same thing again.”

Of course, the interest may shift to another group at that time, or they may just leave Seven Days alone. But that doesn’t mean that Shingal-dong’s crime of raping celebrities and aspiring celebrities using his power will disappear.

“Of course, it’s impossible to punish him now without a report.”

First of all, the victims won’t speak up. If there is a report, rape by coercion or intimidation would be established, but with the power of Shinguk Ilbo, they can not only prevent celebrities from working but also kill them in this world, so I can’t say, ‘Risk your life and report it.'”

“So we have to solve it in a different way.”

“How?”

“We have to take down the Daegumryong Clan.”

“Really?”

“I already achieved my goal, but the chairman hasn’t achieved his yet, has he?”

Bae Deok-gi clearly wanted to hit Shinguk Ilbo and Shinguk Broadcasting hard for threatening to extort advertising fees from him without knowing their place.

However, they can’t expose it because the problem will get bigger if they do.

“So we have to expose it.”

“Will it work?”

“It will. It would be impossible if it were a Korean organization instead of the Daegumryong Clan.”

No matter how much a Korean organization reports to the media, there is no media that will expose it. And even if they post it on the internet, Shinguk Ilbo’s power can easily make it false information.

“But the Daegumryong Clan is based in China, not Korea. And China doesn’t like Shinguk Ilbo. In fact, they hate it.”

“Aha! Is that what it was? Haha. You’re amazing. So you’re going to attack them indirectly like that.”

It’s natural that China hates Shinguk Ilbo. Because the line that Shinguk Ilbo pursues is anti-China and anti-communist.

Regardless of whether they receive money or not, Shinguk Ilbo’s political flow is anti-China from the beginning, so the two can never get along.

Of course, they sometimes maintain the same tone depending on the situation, but China and Shinguk Ilbo have extremely negative sentiments towards each other.

“The Chinese media will probably talk about it extensively according to the party’s orders.”

And if they talk about it like that in China, will the Korean people not know? They can’t not know. Korea is a democratic country with freedom of the press and freedom of communication.

Of course, freedom of the press has long been thrown into the gutter by owners and conglomerates, but no matter how much Shinguk Ilbo is, it is impossible to control the entire internet media of Korea.

“But how are you going to make them attack it?”

“Didn’t I tell you? The Daegumryong Clan is a Chinese organization. Of course, they don’t know much about the inside of the Korean police.”

Of course, it’s possible, but they can’t know about the top-level line. At most, it would be information limited to the Incheon area.

From the beginning, the Daegumryong Clan is an organization based in Incheon, and due to the nature of Chinese organizations, they have no relationship with high-ranking officials.

“And what do you think they will think if the police attack them?”

Of course, they will look for a reason to attack them. But if there are no particular problems recently, there is no reason to attack them.

“Except for one thing.”

That is the Shinguk Ilbo threat incident. Of course, Shinguk Ilbo will not be able to move the police rashly. Because their weakness has been caught.

“But there’s no way the Daegumryong Clan can know that.”

Realistically, the only ones who have a reason to attack them are Shinguk Ilbo and Shingal-dong. Of course, they can only think that it was Shinguk Ilbo who ordered them to attack.

“That’s right.”

If they move, it will go down from the Commissioner General of the Police, and it is unlikely that a local violent organization will know that. Even if the Triads are behind them.

“We’ll just sit back and watch the two groups fight.”

“This is usually called a divide and conquer strategy.”

The Shinguk Ilbo side, which was threatened, will be dumbfounded, but the Daegumryong Clan will also be dumbfounded if they try to crack down on them by mobilizing the police after threatening them.

Of course, they will flee to China, and they will look for a way to get revenge.

Since there is no way to attack directly, there is only one way.

“We just have to wait and watch the show. Hehehe.”

It’s not difficult to tell the police to crack down on violent organizations. In fact, most violent organizations are operated in collusion with local police. It’s not like the police don’t know about them from the beginning.

In particular, violent organizations that distribute dangerous items such as drugs or firearms or engage in illegal activities almost 100% manage local police or media. But no matter how hard they try, the level they can manage is only the level of the local police.

“Are you talking about the Daegumryong Clan?”

“Yes, there’s a rumor that those bastards are touching the upper echelons these days. Go and take them down.”

The Incheon Police Chief was sweating at the Commissioner General of the Police’s words.

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