My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 603

“That’s why so many people pay over 5 million won [approximately $3,700 USD] in subscription fees every year.”

“But how do you know these guys, Oppa [an honorific used by a younger woman to address an older brother or male friend]? They don’t seem to have anything to do with the police.”

“It just happened.”

Park Do-joon shrugged. He couldn’t exactly say he knew them from before his regression. In fact, the ‘Jirashi’ [private intelligence networks or rumor mills] are a strange presence even to the police. Most want to get rid of them, but some officers make a good amount of money by passing information to them.

Of course, only those in the know understand how to contact these ‘Jirashi’.

“So, are they coming?”

“They’ll be here.”

After waiting for a while, a man suddenly sat down right in front of them.

“Are you the seller?”

“Are you the buyer?”

“We’ve never met before?”

The man looked at Park Do-joon with a wary expression.

“Let’s just say I’m new to this.”

The man subtly sized him up at those words. Park Do-joon calmly said to him,

“If you’re thinking of running, you should give up. Boss Bae won’t like it.”

The man frowned at that. Then, he said firmly,

“I must have overheard something…”

“I also know that Boss Bae is a woman.”

“……!”

The man’s eyes widened at those words. Park Do-joon smirked as he looked at the man.

“It would be troublesome for both of us if the address were to be revealed.”

“Ugh, I usually don’t meet unless it’s an introduction…”

“Then let’s say PD Jo [Production Director Jo] from S Corp introduced me. Ah, of course, PD Jo doesn’t know me, but I know him.”

The man flinched at those words. A cop who knew everything about them was a truly troublesome opponent.

“What do you want from us? Seeing as you came with two people, it doesn’t seem like you’re trying to take us down.”

“This is Attorney Jung Yi-yeon. Strictly speaking, she came alone.”

“An attorney? A cop and an attorney? That’s a strange combination.”

Park Do-joon chuckled at the man’s words. It was certainly an unusual combination.

“So, what information do you want to sell me?”

“The real culprit behind the Unicorn Group.”

The man flinched at those words. Then, he looked around. He lowered his voice.

“What nonsense are you talking about? The real culprit is dead, isn’t he?”

“If you believed that, you shouldn’t be saying it in a lowered voice.”

The man couldn’t say anything. He stared at Park Do-joon for a while before asking,

“Are you sure?”

“If you’re looking for certainty, you should go to a daily newspaper reporter, not me.”

“I guess that’s true too.”

The man scratched his head and asked,

“So, how much do you want?”

Park Do-joon showed him three fingers.

“300?”

“Hey, are you kidding me? Should I pay a visit to Boss Bae with my colleagues?”

“No, but even so, 3,000 is a bit much.”

“If this blows up, you won’t just earn 30 million won [approximately $22,000 USD], will you?”

“Ugh……!”

The man hesitated, then got up from his seat.

“Wait here.”

The man went outside and came back a short while later with a small bag.

“3,000 [3,000,000 won, approximately $2,200 USD]. Don’t do anything stupid like counting it here.”

“I believe you won’t deceive me since you know my address.”

Park Do-joon smiled and took the bag. Then, he said leisurely,

“The real culprits are Park Tae-woon, the Daegu District Prosecutor, and Jo Han-seop, the Daegu District Court Judge. Park Tae-woon is the main culprit, and Jo Han-seop is the accomplice.”

“What?”

The man’s eyes shook at the mention of the prosecutor and judge.

“Their children are planning to get married. That’s the beginning. It’s a blood alliance to prevent betrayal.”

“A blood alliance?”

“Yes, that’s why they’re trying to frame Jo Han-seop’s daughter, Jo Ah-min, for rape after a one-night stand. Because she’s afraid of being abandoned.”

The man looked like he couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

“So, Park Tae-woon knows where that 850 billion won [approximately $630 million USD] is?”

“He probably knows. That’s why he desperately processed it as ‘no right to prosecute.’ If the prosecution and police stop investigating, it’s impossible to track down where the money is.”

The families have already been ruined, and the accomplice has fled to China. Even then, they didn’t take much with them. In the end, the only way to track down the money is to use public power.

However, ‘no right to prosecute’ can be seen as a will not to investigate further because there is no benefit in the public power investigating.

“So, who is the owner of the 850 billion won?”

“Evidence? What’s the evidence?”

“Hehe, evidence.”

Park Do-joon smirked at those words.

“I told you, if you want evidence, go to a daily newspaper reporter.”

“You can’t post something like this without evidence. Do you not understand what this means?”

If this blows up, the prosecution will try to destroy the ‘Jirashi’. To survive, they need evidence that the prosecution can’t escape.

“Are you working on this alone?”

“What?”

“It seems like the prosecutors under Park Tae-woon have been spending more lavishly lately…”

The man realized something at those words.

“Okay. I’ll look into it.”

The man got up from his seat and ran outside. Jung Yi-yeon, who was left behind, widened her eyes.

“Oppa, why did you hand that over?”

“I told you. ‘Jirashi’ hardly have any verification.”

“That’s not what I mean. Do you think there will be any impact from saying this?”

“There has to be. You can’t just extort over 900 billion won [approximately $670 million USD] from ordinary citizens.”

No matter how hard ordinary people try, they can’t push that much money into a company called Unicorn Group.

“In the end, a significant amount of that money was put in by wealthy people. How many of those people watch ‘Jirashi’?”

“Quite a few, I suppose.”

“Right. And what kind of case do you think gets the most certain punishment in Korea?”

At those words, Jung Yi-yeon’s face turned gloomy. Even if she wasn’t a profiler, she knew the answer.

“Touching the wealthy.”

“That’s right.”

In fact, Korea used to impose very lenient punishments for voice phishing in the past, so it couldn’t really be considered punishment.

Even if caught, they would get 100% suspended sentences, and knowing this, anyone and everyone jumped into voice phishing and moved money around as they were asked without hesitation.

But when a judge’s wife was a victim of voice phishing, the punishment was so severe that the prosecutor even appealed to lower the sentence because it was too harsh.

The way to impose proper punishment in Korea is simple. Make them realize that they touched the wealthy.

“But those people aren’t the main culprits, are they?”

“I don’t care.”

“What?”

“I told you. ‘Jirashi’ is 90% lies and 10% truth.”

It’s rare for some to be all lies and some to be all truth. Rather, they are often mixed up.

For example, celebrity A and celebrity B have dating rumors, but later it turns out that the dating itself is real, but the partner was not B but C.

“The important thing is that even with such suspicion, Park Tae-woon can no longer touch the case.”

If that weren’t the case, he would try to touch it by any means.

“Why did the prosecutors under him cling to it?”

“Park Tae-woon has as much power in the legal community in the Daegu area as the president. If this case is made public and public criticism pours in, who will investigate it?”

Of course, it’s the prosecutors in the Daegu area. So, we need to involve the local prosecutors to restrict them so that prosecutors from other areas, not the Daegu area, can investigate.

“But they don’t know what they did?”

“I don’t care. In fact, it’s not uncommon for prosecutors to spend more money than their salary.”

I don’t know if they’re taking bribes or embezzling investigation funds, but it’s true that prosecutors live a prosperous life. In fact, a prosecutor’s salary, especially a junior prosecutor’s salary, is not enough to live such a prosperous life.

“If they have to prove the money they spent, will they have time to be loyal to Park Tae-woon?”

In the end, no matter how strong Park Tae-woon’s power is in the Daegu area, he can’t do anything once his hands and feet are cut off.

“What about me? Why did you call me here?”

“Who will these victims come to now? Will they come to me? There’s no way.”

Park Do-joon went out anonymously, and even if the man knows Park Do-joon’s identity, he will pretend not to know. But they will know that Jung Yi-yeon, or rather, Moonlight Law Firm, is involved. Because she is in charge of the Nam Ji-sung case.

“How much do you think the retainer fee for the 850 billion won recovery lawsuit will be?”

“Huh? Uh…….”

“Don’t they usually receive about 3% of the winnings?”

Criminal lawsuits no longer receive success fees, but civil lawsuits still receive success fees. And 3% of 850 billion won is about 22.5 billion won [approximately $16.7 million USD].

“I can’t work for free.”

Park Do-joon said with a smirk, and Jung Yi-yeon could only stick out her tongue at Park Do-joon’s words.

# Only 10% of the Truth is Enough

Not many people watch ‘Jirashi’. But the people who watch ‘Jirashi’ wield the most powerful power in Korea.

Because there are few people who watch the feast of all kinds of nonsense that costs more than 5 million won [approximately $3,700 USD] a year for the sake of 1% of the information.

And they are people with that kind of ability. Watching ‘Jirashi’. That doesn’t just mean that they are curious about 1% of the information, but that they must be able to verify the information and confirm it.

If they can’t interpret it or filter out fake news, they will be deceived by fake news and end up miserably ruined. In fact, a lot of stock information is overflowing in ‘Jirashi’. Those who know how to do it properly pick out the fake ones and invest, but those who don’t have the skills are bound to collapse and fall apart.

1% who can verify information and confirm its truth.

And Jeon Mi-so was one of those top 1% figures. But she is now completely bedridden.

“Ugh. Ugh!”

“Oh, Mother, you’re going to die like this.”

“Just let me die.”

“Mother.”

The daughter-in-law was worried to death looking at Jeon Mi-so, but Jeon Mi-so wished she would just die.

“What am I going to do alive? When I think about the damage I’ve done to those around me…….”

“But you still have to live.”

“No. Just let me die.”

Jeon Mi-so was a well-known matchmaker in Gangnam [an affluent district in Seoul]. Now is an era when the name ‘matchmaker’ is unfamiliar, and the meeting place for the rich has changed, but Jeon Mi-so’s influence, who was once well-known in Gangnam, was still there.

She knew some well-known people around her and introduced them to a virtual currency company called Unicorn Group, thinking that she would maintain a good relationship with them.

It was a good company that made steady profits and never delayed payments.

But only later did she realize that it was a Ponzi scheme.

She herself had poured in tens of millions of dollars out of greed, and those around her had trusted her and poured in money, but it all disappeared in an instant.

For Jeon Mi-so, who had lost her lifelong connections and money, she no longer had any desire to live.

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