My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 411

“Aren’t there a lot of judges from prestigious backgrounds there?”

Even Lee Ji-soo had heard of its notoriety.

“Tons. Just getting in there is a huge advantage.”

“What’s funny is that one of the dreams of judges and prosecutors is to go to the Strategic Planning Office. Because it gives them that much power and authority.”

The fact that the Jindo Group could secretly commit murder if they wanted to also meant that you could secretly commit murder through that line if you wanted to.

“But that’s strange.”

“What is?”

“The Jindo Group’s Strategic Planning Office has disappeared.”

“It’s just talk. Do you think it really disappeared? They probably just changed the name.”

“That’s what I mean.”

Park Do-joon found it strange. In reality, the Jindo Group’s Strategic Planning Office had officially disappeared. Its reputation was so infamous, and it made a bad choice in a moment. They sided with the wrong group when the government changed.

Of course, that happens all the time. When it comes to election season, each company has to choose its side, so it’s only natural. But even so, the reason why the Jindo Group’s Strategic Planning Office disappeared was not just because they chose the wrong side, but because they thought they would lose the election and secretly attacked the candidate.

Giving political funds to one side is a completely different issue from attacking the other side. The side that seizes power will acknowledge political funds to some extent. No one knows the outcome 100%.

Of course, there is no free forgiveness. If you give more compensation than you gave to the other side, you will be forgiven.

‘But the Jindo Group wasn’t like that.’

They attacked the opposite side to prove their loyalty. Because they were sure that power would not change. But power changed, and the Jindo Group’s situation became critical.

In the end, the Jindo Group poured out a lot of money, accepted disadvantages, and at the same time, passed the responsibility to the Strategic Planning Office and purged them all.

“Officially, that is.”

“That’s right. Officially, that’s what happened.”

But unofficially, most of the Jindo Group’s Strategic Planning Office survived. A few years after the Strategic Planning Office disappeared, the government changed again, and after that, the people in charge at the time gathered again under the name of the Future Information Team and re-entered the Jindo Group.

Of course, for the four years that power did not change, they were mostly working for Jindo Group’s subcontractors.

“But why wasn’t he called in?”

That’s what Park Do-joon, who knows that, is curious about. In order to belong to a place like the Strategic Planning Office, you need tremendous talent and ability. It’s not just a fancy name, but you actually have to be capable of executing it.

Belonging to a place like the Strategic Planning Office in a group is like proving that you are in the top 0.000001%.

“Could it be that he didn’t want to go? Selling drugs makes money, right?”

Park Do-joon shook his head at that.

“Ah, the Jindo Group’s Future Information Team was created six years ago.”

Of course, at that time, the Vanilla guys didn’t exist, or even if they did, they were small-time. Because it’s not in the police’s investigation records.

“Does that mean that a small drug organization approached him and asked him to work together, and he gave up the Jindo Group and went to the drug organization? That’s going to be tough.”

The difference in size between the Jindo Group and a small drug organization is completely different.

“Could it be that he was high on drugs and came voluntarily?”

“No way.”

The guys who work in places like the Strategic Planning Office are usually not ordinary people. A person like that gets fired and gets high on drugs? No. That can’t be.

“They were all fired and went to Jindo Group affiliates. Is that a coincidence?”

Affiliates are just subcontractors. Of course, the money they give will be ridiculously small, and their authority will also be small.

“People with that kind of ability don’t want to go to such places.”

Other companies will try to take him. Even if they don’t go because they are aware of the government’s eyes, they don’t go to their subcontractors. Because it hurts their pride.

“In other words, it’s closer to meaning that they should lie low until they call later.”

“Hmm……”

But he jumped out of there and went his own way?

“Something went wrong. Or something came into contact.”

“Contact?”

“Was the place he was at before coming here the Strategic Planning Office?”

“No, he worked at a place called Wonang Cargo.”

“Wonang Cargo?”

“It’s a subcontractor of Jindo Shipping.”

In short, Jindo Shipping is a cargo shipping company that uses ships to transport cargo, and Wonang Cargo is its subcontractor, which handles container and cargo loading.

“Cargo and drugs, isn’t that quite interesting?”

Park Do-joon could feel it intuitively.

# Caught the tail

Jindo Shipping is a large company. It occupies the last seat among Korea’s four major shipping companies, but Korea’s cargo transportation volume is by no means small.

“Large quantities of drugs and cargo ships. That’s more compatible than you think.”

Park Do-joon said with a bitter smile.

Numerous containers would be coming and going at Pyeongtaek Port, and many people were working there.

“But drugs have never been found at Pyeongtaek Port, have they? Of course, they were found in Pyeongtaek, but the amount is not large.”

“They’d want to avoid it here.”

“But they’ll still do strict drug tests, right?”

Joo Kwang-won said with a sullen expression at Park Do-joon’s words. The method of importing drugs disguised as cargo is so common that it has almost become standard. Of course, ports that handle such cargo have a separate team that constantly searches and monitors for drugs.

“That’s right. So usually they can’t find it. But I had another thought. What about ships?”

“Ships are also searched, right?”

“But there are so many places to hide.”

“People aren’t stupid… most people know.”

The people who search know where to hide on the ship. They even receive drawings related to the ship and carefully check inside.

In fact, a cargo ship blocked off a space of about 1 meter and piled up a lot of drugs inside, but they tore it down and found it.

Those guys were trying to use their brains to create a space and pile things in front of it to prevent access to the inside, but a sharp-eyed enforcement team discovered that the space was subtly short, and when they removed it, a poorly made wall appeared.

“I know. But I still suspect something else.”

“Where?”

“Ballast.”

“Ballast?”

“Yes.”

Ballast is a space filled with water to balance the ship. And that space is filled with water and then drained later. All cargo ships are built on the condition that they carry a certain amount of weight.

Predicting that is important because it is necessary to maintain the balance of the ship. In fact, ships load cargo on the way to their destination, but they also load other cargo there and come back. It is safe to say that cargo ships rarely travel completely empty.

“But that weight is not constant.”

Some cargo is heavy and some cargo is light. Of course, the people who load the containers weigh them all and put the heavy ones down and the light ones up.

“Still, the total amount can’t be the same.”

If you go with scrap iron and come back with teddy bears, the weight can’t be right.

“That’s what ballast is used for. It fills the ship with water to match the weight.”

Weight is very important to maintain the resilience to withstand waves, so it is an essential process.

“But people don’t go in there. No, to be exact, you can’t go in there to search.”

The space is large enough to fill an enormous amount of water, but when the cargo is unloaded, the weight naturally decreases. Of course, there is no possibility of encountering large waves in the port, but still, the decrease in weight is a dangerous time for the ship to balance.

“Moreover, there are no lights in there.”

It’s a space full of water, and if you put electrical equipment in there, the ship’s power will all be short-circuited.

“Also, as far as I know, it’s illegal to discharge ballast in coastal waters.”

“Why?”

“Ah, because of the creatures inside.”

The creatures that live in Korea are different from the creatures that live in other countries. Of course, in order to prevent that from coming in, the government has created related laws that people don’t know well.

“The amount of water that goes into the ballast is at least tens of tons.”

Of course, they don’t put purified water or tap water in there, they just suck up seawater, and in the process, the creatures in that area are sucked in and may be released later in the transferred location.

“Then is there no way to get inside?”

Joo Kwang-won was surprised at that.

“No, no. Still, you have to manage it. That’s how the ship lasts a long time. Of course, there is a hatch that goes to the ballast.”

Of course, it’s on the upper part for safety. The lower part receives the weight as it is, so there is a risk of it breaking.

“But they don’t go there to crack down.”

First of all, you can’t drain the water, so you have to go in with diving equipment, and because it’s a closed space, there’s no light, so there’s no lighting, and even if you take that lighting and search, it takes a long time to search that wide space.

And the price of a scuba diver with that level of skill is enormous. And it’s so dangerous that one person can’t go in. At least two people have to go in.

“Even if there is, considering the number of cargo ships that come in every day, it’s almost impossible to search inside.”

No matter how fast it is, it takes at least two hours to search inside, and such ballasts are on both sides of the ship, so it takes at least four hours per ship.

However, such dangerous underwater work is also very physically demanding, and for safety reasons, you can’t do it for eight hours a day.

“Realistically, you can’t touch the ballast.”

“How do you know that, Senior?”

‘I saw it on the news.’

To be exact, it’s not this life, but the last life. It wasn’t a case he was in charge of, but in the future, a group that transported drugs by ballast was caught.

Considering the danger, it seems like crazy짓 [crazy짓 is a Korean slang term for ‘crazy짓’, which means ‘crazy act’], but it’s not crazy짓 because they prepared powerful portable underwater lights and then connected guide lines to the hidden location with tough fishing lines.

When the ship entered the port, they secretly boarded the ship, entered the ballast, and sent dozens of kilograms of drugs up at once.

It wasn’t difficult because just filling the pocket with air would make it rise in the water.

The drugs that were hidden in this way were secretly taken down to the opposite side and smuggled out at night when people weren’t watching.

‘That was a big deal.’

Fortunately, it was just something he saw on the news because it was a case, but Park Do-joon was not investigating or involved, so it seemed to be treated as simple information.

He didn’t know the story of the people involved or which ship it belonged to.

“Is that possible? How did you know that?”

“I just heard rumors that the US is using that method.”

And since the company is suspected of being a US-based organization, it’s not impossible.

“There’s a ballast on the ship?”

“I just found out.”

‘Actually, I had completely forgotten about it.’

Park Do-joon didn’t know the relevance because it wasn’t important information for living in the world. But as soon as he heard that he was once in the area of managing ships, it naturally came to his mind like a lightning bolt.