My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 712

“Even if Kim Song-rim testifies, the prosecution will quickly punish her for defamation and spreading false information, and then there will be no solution.”

Moreover, she is currently being pursued for crimes. So, the prosecution can simply say, ‘She threatened her former lover under the pretext of past ties to escape her own crimes.’

It’s not like that didn’t happen, and people won’t trust a woman being investigated for prostitution when they have a sitting member of the National Assembly and the prosecution to believe.

“So, we need to detonate other methods first.”

“Other methods?”

“Hong Woo-jong’s hands and feet have been cut off. That means he doesn’t have the cards he wants to play.”

“That’s true.”

“Furthermore, it’s impossible for him to move directly at this point.”

As a presidential candidate, he is under constant public scrutiny. All information about his vehicles is known, and the police and prosecution are aware of it.

“And he will never use his own vehicle.”

Wasn’t the biggest reason he was identified in the past because his own vehicle carried the victim?

He claimed he dropped her off later, but there was no evidence of that, so he was identified as a murder suspect.

Because of that trauma, he won’t use his own vehicle.

“It’s also awkward to use a ghost car [a vehicle with false or stolen license plates].”

Reporters and police know the license plate numbers, so driving around in a car with an unfamiliar number will inevitably attract attention.

And if they check it and find out it’s a ghost car?

That becomes a serious problem for a member of the National Assembly.

“Of course, it’s not impossible for him to make time, but the important thing is what happens afterward.”

Not being able to avoid people’s attention? That’s not a big problem. There’s a saying from a movie: ‘We will find a way, as always.’

And no matter how much of a presidential candidate and a sitting member of the National Assembly he is, reporters don’t follow him 24/7. In reality, they use such secret times to receive bribes, lobby, and meet people in extramarital affairs.

In such situations, the key is not ‘not getting caught now’ but ‘not causing problems later.’

In fact, no one would make an issue of him having some free time now. Politicians are people too, and they have private lives.

However, if it becomes a problem later, the story changes.

If the question ‘What were you doing?’ arises later, and that time becomes significant, politicians must answer, no matter how private it was.

Of course, if he rested at home during that time or met a close personal friend, there would be no problem.

Even if he met a businessman, he could somehow make excuses.

Instead of saying, ‘I received a bribe,’ he could say, ‘I met a businessman to hear about the company’s situation and reflect it in policy.’ Unless there is evidence of bribery, it’s hard to refute.

But if he met someone in an extramarital affair or did something he can never talk about, like murder, he has no choice but to keep it a secret, and that itself proves to people that ‘that guy did something wrong at that time.’

“Hong Woo-jong knows that. So, he will choose another card.”

“Another card?”

“The police, or the prosecution.”

Lee Chang-man’s face hardened at those words. But he couldn’t deny it. It’s not publicly known, but cases of police or prosecutors being murdered while investigating sensitive cases happen every year.

And the prosecution and police are completely silent about those cases. Considering that the prosecution and police usually retaliate mercilessly against those who harm their own people, it’s quite unusual, but they never investigate such cases.

“The world is full of crazy people.”

Are there no murderers within the police and prosecution?

No. There are.

Especially in modern police and prosecution, the sense of duty and responsibility has been degraded to just a job.

There are even police officers who run away because they forgot their athlete’s foot medicine while assault is happening inside, and there have been times when police officers screamed and ran away when a murder occurred.

If that’s how they react with just a lack of duty, wouldn’t there be people who commit murder for their own benefit?

‘Of course, there would be.’

And those guys are the perfect people to avoid being tracked for murder. Because they are police officers, they know better than anyone how to investigate, and because the order came from above, they unconditionally cover up the case.

“There have always been murderers within organizations, and they have always been protected.”

“In the worst case, you could be in danger too.”

“Not the worst case, but I’m probably 100% going to have problems too.”

As long as Park Do-joon is alive, they will continue to think that they will have problems. Park Do-joon has caused problems before.

Getting rid of a police chief is not a problem for their power, but this involves a current Prosecutor General.

Then it’s better to kill Park Do-joon for good.

The Daeguk Group and Hyunseong Group are on Park Do-joon’s side only when he’s alive; once he’s dead, there’s no reason to support him.

“Hong Woo-jong will probably want to use that line within the police.”

“Whether he likes it or not, Pyo Ki-il will agree to it.”

Then the operation will be executed.

“Then who first?”

The question of whether to kill Park Do-joon first or Kim Song-rim first.

Park Do-joon said as if it were obvious.

“Kim Song-rim.”

Park Do-joon is a police officer, so it’s not easy to target him directly, and he has succeeded in self-defense several times.

So, the priority is to kill Kim Song-rim, who is easy to target directly and won’t cause problems later.

If only Kim Song-rim dies, everything will disappear into the darkness.

“Should I assign police to Kim Song-rim? No, that’s meaningless.”

All of this is just speculation; there is no evidence that Kim Song-rim is being threatened.

“Should I monitor Kim Song-rim and arrest them if they approach?”

“It’s not easy.”

From the moment they start monitoring, they will inevitably know that they are being watched. Because reports have to be made.

Even if they clash on the scene, they can just say they came to check the scene.

“There is no possibility of arresting them for witnessing a murder scene.”

“Ugh!”

“So, we need to dig into the other side.”

“The other side?”

“The murderer itself.”

“Itself?”

“Yes.”

“Who do you know?”

“I don’t know who it is. But the methods are almost the same.”

I don’t even know if it’s one person or two. In fact, it could be dozens of people. There are more than one or two guys with vested interests, and they can use different people.

“But how?”

“You can tell by looking at the past murder methods.”

Park Do-joon smiled.

“In the end, a criminal is just a criminal.”

# Prohibition of Concurrent Employment

“So, Hong Geun-jong is investigating that case?”

Pyo Ki-il met Hong Woo-jong and asked with a serious face. It had been a long time since he had sided with Hong Woo-jong, a potential presidential candidate.

No, there was no choice in the first place. They shared secrets with each other.

Of course, Hong Woo-jong is not the type to bite. It would only hurt himself.

But Pyo Ki-il thought Hong Woo-jong was the most likely. Moreover, he knew Hong Woo-jong’s fatal weaknesses, so he could exploit him the most, so of course, he joined hands with Hong Woo-jong.

But the situation was not good.

“Yes, Chief. Hong Geun-jong keeps meeting that woman, Kim Song-rim.”

“What are they doing when they meet?”

“I don’t know; my people can’t get in there. But he met Kim Song-rim a while ago and met other bereaved families…”

“Not good. Not good.”

Pyo Ki-il’s face became bitter at those words.

From his long experience, he knew that Hong Geun-jong was trying to persuade them. And meeting the bereaved families means one of two things.

Either he’s almost persuaded them and is driving in the wedge, or he’s already persuaded them, and Kim Song-rim is apologizing to the bereaved families.

Either way, it’s a disadvantageous situation for Hong Woo-jong, and if this gets bigger, even he will be in danger.

“Have you contacted that woman?”

“I haven’t. If I contact her now, they might catch me.”

“Yes, well done. That’s definitely a high possibility. Moreover, if she’s already gone over to Hong Geun-jong, she’ll pass on the conversation she had with you to him.”

“Chief, we can’t just let this go.”

“Ugh.”

Pyo Ki-il knew that too.

He certainly succeeded greatly after that incident, but it was also a serious weakness.

‘If that explodes…’

He had sided with the current president’s line early on and was lucky enough to rise to the position of Prosecutor General.

He became Prosecutor General half by luck.

The current president doesn’t have strong support around him, and he sided with him early on, not later, so they knew each other well enough to have private meetings.

‘But…’

The problem is that if the current president finds out that he covered up a murder, he will not protect him but will instead rage and demand aggravated punishment.

It’s not that he doesn’t protect his people, but murder is crossing the line too much. Moreover, the timing was also bad.

He ate the money he received alone, but it was a timing when people outside could say that it went into the current president’s political funds.

In that situation, the president has no choice but to order severe punishment for him to prove that it’s not true.

‘I’m just terribly unlucky…’

It would be fortunate if it ended with just taking off his clothes [being dismissed from his position]. He can just go out and become a lawyer, and as a former Prosecutor General, he can easily earn 10 billion won every year.

The problem is that the president’s personality won’t end with just resignation. He will definitely go to jail, and if he goes to jail, he certainly can’t be a lawyer. Legally, if a sentence of imprisonment or more is confirmed, he can’t be a lawyer, and this is a crime that will inevitably result in a prison sentence.

“Who is digging into that?”

“Hong Geun-jong and Park Do-joon.”

“Park Do-joon? That guy again?”

“Do you know him?”

“I’ve received several reports. Several prosecutors have lost their jobs because of him.”

Even if something happened, it was usually a problem within the police, so it usually ended with the police chief or police officers being fired, but in cases where things blew up, especially in cases like the salt farm slaves, the prosecutor who was in the area had to take off his clothes due to bribery.

“He’s a daring guy.”

Anyway, he had never seen him and was not related to that low-level prosecutor, so it didn’t matter to him, but conversely, the fact that he had touched a prosecutor caused an outcry within the prosecution.

How can a mere cop touch a prosecutor?

“But why did you just leave him alone?”

If there is no crime? Then just create a crime and throw him in jail. That’s what we’ve been doing so far.”