My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 419

Of course, the person who reported this referred to it as the internet. However, the information they found isn’t accessible through a simple internet search. Could someone really find something that even professional police officers struggle to uncover?

“In that case, we should assume it’s some kind of group connected through the internet.”

They can’t just advertise ‘Organs for sale’ without knowing who needs a transplant. Eventually, they have to specifically target individuals and bring up such topics.

And these groups are mostly closed off and secretive spaces where desperate people gather. Naturally, they aren’t groups the police can easily find.

“Usually, they join and obtain information through introductions.”

Because they operate secretly, the police often can’t even access the information.

“Have you ever heard any rumors about this?”

“Haa~!”

At those words, the doctor pondered for a long time before finally speaking.

“There is one condition.”

“Please, tell me.”

“Don’t touch the other people who are members there.”

“Understood.”

Park Do-joon spoke so naturally that the doctor looked at him suspiciously. Park Do-joon then said with a straight face.

“There is no such thing as attempted organ trafficking. Of course, we can’t punish them just for being there.”

Of course, if they go to China and have illegal organ transplants, they are subject to punishment, but the problem is that China will not provide any related evidence.

From the start, one of China’s main sources of income is illegal organ transplantation, so there’s no way they would investigate it, and even if they did, they wouldn’t hand it over to Korea.

In other words, even if Park Do-joon wanted to deal with them, there would be limits to what he could do on an international level.

“Alright. I have heard rumors.”

“If you’ve heard rumors, what kind of rumors?”

“I’ve heard that it’s run under the name of an organ club. I don’t know the details, but I heard it’s a member-recommended club, so ordinary people wouldn’t know about it. And it can’t be found through searches.”

“Can’t be found through searches, huh……”

Park Do-joon smiled wryly at those words. Certainly, if it’s an organ club, it won’t be revealed if they block searches. Even if it is revealed, people won’t suspect it.

“No, are they doing organ trafficking so brazenly? And the police don’t know about it?”

Lee Ji-soo, who had been quietly listening next to him, asked in surprise, and Park Do-joon looked at Lee Ji-soo with a ‘what are you talking about’ face.

“That’s why they call it an organ club to hide it.”

“Such a brazen name.”

“What’s so brazen about it?”

“Calling it an organ club so openly is too blatant.”

Park Do-joon realized what she meant. He thought that perhaps young people these days might not know about it.

“You don’t know ‘Janggi’ [Korean chess]?”

“I know. You mean the parts in a person’s body are called organs.”

“No, not that organ, I mean the Janggi when you say, ‘take away the chariot and the cannon.’”

“Take away the chariot and the cannon……? Ah!”

Lee Ji-soo’s face turned red at those words. She never thought it would be that Janggi.

“No, I thought it wasn’t…… that.”

“Yeah, they used their heads well.”

Organ club. Internally, they would talk about organ trafficking secretly, but externally, it would look like a club discussing Janggi.

“Moreover, the number of Janggi players in Korea has almost dried up.”

Janggi is not popular in Korea.

At least Baduk [Go, a strategy board game] is somewhat known and enjoyed among young people because it’s said to be good for brain training, but Janggi is almost extinct among young people.

‘When I think about it, the last time I played Janggi was when I was in the military.’

Even that, he wouldn’t do now. Because everyone is holding a cell phone.

He himself didn’t want to do it, but he played it while facing the executive warrant officer because he liked Janggi.

‘Even Baduk centers are disappearing.’

Moreover, the Baduk Association is still running smoothly, but the Janggi Association has been a mess due to infighting for a long time, so there are almost no Janggi players in Korea, and professional Janggi games have disappeared from broadcasting for a long time.

“So it’s easy to hide themselves.”

People won’t even look for it, and even if they accidentally find it, there will only be Janggi stories.

“You can’t even join by chance because it’s by recommendation.”

“Yeah.”

From the police’s point of view, they want to go there, but they can’t.

‘I guess that’s why they’ve been able to operate in hiding for so long.’

Park Do-joon frowned and said.

“However, I don’t know the address. I can’t know either.”

According to the doctor, he found out about it when a patient wanted an illegal transplant, and he found out about it while consulting with him about it.

“Then what about that patient?”

“I can’t tell you personal information.”

Even if his attempt was a scam, and even if he went to China and died, the doctor firmly drew the line, saying that he couldn’t tell him without a warrant.

“That’s all I can tell you.”

“That’s enough.”

Park Do-joon smiled.

# The Choice Between Survival and Crime

“Detective, is this really enough?”

“It’s enough. The patient probably contacted them through that place.”

“Yes, but we don’t even know who the patient is?”

How can he know how the patient contacted them in a situation where he doesn’t even know who the patient is?

“Well, you can tell by looking at the power at play.”

“The power at play?”

“Yes, he wants to investigate without revealing his identity. Considering his condition, it’s likely revenge.”

“That’s right.”

“But why would he do that?”

“Yes?”

“If a person with power tells the police to take revenge openly, the police have no choice but to do it. Does it matter if the story gets out? What’s important is that he’s been wronged.”

Park Do-joon scoffed and said.

“Looking at that, you can tell one thing: that story must not be leaked to the public. That means whoever inherits his power is someone who has a close relationship with the public.”

“There are more than one or two such people?”

“That’s right.”

From congressmen to high-ranking government officials, or even chaebols [large family-owned conglomerates], these days have a very close relationship with the public.

“But if you think about their tendencies, it’s not difficult to classify them.”

“Tendencies?”

“Yeah.”

For example, in the case of chaebol families, most of their identities are quite well known, so if they collapse and become comatose, it will be in the news. And if there is something to take revenge on, chaebols don’t use their own hands directly; they are reluctant to use the police.

“You saw it in the last case.”

“Well, that’s true.”

Because chaebols hire gangsters to push away those who threaten them.

And due to the nature of China, there are plenty of violent organizations that can kill dozens of people.

“And there is no one in the chaebol family who is in critical condition recently. Then what about high-ranking officials? Unfortunately, high-ranking officials don’t have much connection with their children.”

High-ranking officials, especially those who can put pressure on the police, have limitations in passing on what they have achieved to their children.

“Of course, you can push your child to some extent.”

But there is a line. For example, let’s say someone becomes the Minister of Foreign Affairs. But how much power can he give to his child? In fact, it can be said to be meaningless.

Because the minister’s position is where the head flies when the regime changes.

Moreover, even if you want to pass it on to your child, the authority to appoint is with the president, and there are more than one or two people aiming for that position.

In fact, even if the father is a minister or vice minister, the child is mostly a high-ranking public official.

Because they are not capable, or other people are focusing on checking them.

“But congressmen are a little different.”

“Yes, why?”

“In the case of constituencies, there are often groups of loyalty to a specific person.”

In fact, there are many cases where the party kicks him out, and he runs as an independent and gets elected.

“And it’s easier than you think to pass on the position to your child.”

If you introduce your child to the forces that support you and continuously push him as a successor, they will not go anywhere and will pass on to your child even if you retire next time.

“That’s possible?”

“Do you think the election is fair? Unfortunately, the election is not that fair.”

One person, one vote is the principle of democracy, but manipulating the external factors that determine where they vote is not difficult.

“Then there are three conditions. First, a powerful person who must not let this incident be known to the outside world. Second, something bad must have happened recently. Third, there must be someone to inherit it.”

“But? I don’t know who it is?”

Park Do-joon shook his head at Lee Ji-soo’s words.

“The chief didn’t say he was an incumbent.”

Certainly, the chief said he was a high-ranking official, but he didn’t say he was an incumbent.

“In the flow of the case, he can’t be an incumbent. To have surgery, you have to go on a business trip to China; do you think that’s easy?”

“Ah!”

If he is a congressman, every move is subject to surveillance. An incumbent congressman went abroad to have a kidney transplant? From the next day, the opposing party or rival will bite him like crazy.

“So he must be a former congressman.”

How many former congressmen have passed on their power to their children and have recently had bad details?

“Looking it up, there was only one person. Former Congressman Joo Chang-soo. He is the father of current Congressman Joo Man-won.”

And Joo Man-won inherited his father Joo Chang-soo’s constituency and is currently active as a congressman.

“I guess they tried to cover it up somehow, but it’s no use.”

“That’s natural.”

“How did you know?”

“Isn’t it natural?”

Park Do-joon said as if he was dumbfounded.

“They act like they’re the victims, but strictly speaking, these guys are also criminals.”

They are the ones who tried to do organ trafficking, which is prohibited by law. Of course, they tried to prevent their actions from being caught.

“Is it because they’re criminals?”

“It’s true that he’s being killed, but in the end, it’s just the result of a crime’s failure.”

Of course, you have to think about whether that’s a crime worthy of death, but at the same time, you have to take that into account when analyzing them.

And while listening to those words, Lee Ji-soo felt like she had learned something. In fact, she was unknowingly thinking of them as victims.

“And that hospital is the hospital that Joo Chang-soo goes to.”

“Yes, but you didn’t access the patient records, did you?”

“That’s right. But Joo Chang-soo’s house is near here.”

And the hospital with the best facilities around here is this one.

“People who are high-class want to be comfortable in expensive places.”

They don’t want to be stressed and be in a multi-person room.

“Especially those who once held power and wielded it are even more so.”

They don’t want to show the image of themselves collapsing. They don’t want to show the image of dying as a human being who is not a powerful person.

“They want to be treated specially in a private space with plenty of time.”

And this hospital provides such services.

“Hmm.”

“And did you see the doctor’s reaction?”

“I saw it.”

“What did we say?”

“We asked for information.”

“No, before that. We said we came about organ trafficking, but we didn’t say we came about anyone.”