You Have Been Defended [EN]: Chapter 471

You Guys Are Vindicated – Episode 406

#406

We took as many pictures as we could from outside the window.

Although the window had iron bars, it wasn’t difficult to take pictures inside by sticking our phones through the bars.

The only problem was that the window was dirty, so the inside pictures looked a bit blurry.

“We can’t go inside, can we?”

“Hmm.”

At Kang Min-jae’s words, we returned to the front of the house.

We had only knocked before, but we grabbed the doorknob, thinking that maybe the door wasn’t locked.

“It doesn’t open.”

“Maybe it’s a push door.”

Kang Min-jae seemed to want to get inside no matter what.

But whether we pushed or pulled, the door wouldn’t open.

“I’ll try.”

It wasn’t like Kang Min-jae had a special trick, but I readily stepped aside.

Kang Min-jae stood in front of the door and shook the doorknob roughly.

The already warped door, poorly maintained, creaked every time Kang Min-jae moved it.

“It’s going to break.”

Crack!

It sounded like that.

Kang Min-jae was holding the fallen doorknob in his hand, and the twisted door opened slightly.

I stared at Kang Min-jae in disbelief.

I told him to open the door, not break it.

“Well, won’t they just think a cow came and rammed it?”

Kang Min-jae looked at the doorknob in his hand and pointed to the herd of cows across the road.

“A cow crossed the fence and the road too?”

“Looking for tasty grass…….”

Kang Min-jae pointed to the grassy field around the log cabin.

To the field overgrown with weeds up to a person’s knees.

“Well, it’s not like this place is properly managed, so it won’t be a problem if the door is broken.”

Looking around the log cabin, it didn’t seem like there were any surveillance cameras.

I strode inside.

And soon regretted that brave step.

The dust accumulated inside the log cabin relentlessly assaulted my airways.

I coughed non-stop.

Kang Min-jae, who followed me in, did the same.

I felt like my eyes were stinging, so I covered my face with my sleeve and scattered the surrounding dust.

“There’s really nothing here.”

As we saw from the outside, there was only one chair and one desk at an angle we couldn’t see from the outside.

There wasn’t even a common shelf or bookcase.

There were some papers scattered on the floor, but they were blank.

“Ugh, dust! Dust!”

Kang Min-jae was busy waving his hands and coughing.

I had become somewhat accustomed to it, so I was able to take a closer look inside the log cabin.

Thinking that I should examine everything, I went to the desk and opened the drawers.

As expected, it was an empty drawer filled with dust.

I think I saw a bug for a second, but I must have imagined it.

“Kang, come here.”

I gestured to Kang Min-jae, who was fighting with dust in the middle of the log cabin.

While rummaging through the drawers, I suddenly noticed a hole in the floor under the desk.

“Oh, what’s that?”

“It looks like there’s space under the floor.”

I stomped around the hole with my shoes.

It definitely sounded different from the rest of the floor.

It meant that the space below was empty.

“Let’s move the desk. We need to open that.”

Kang Min-jae and I lifted the corners of the desk and moved it to the side.

Our hands were covered in dust, but if we could find something inside, it didn’t matter.

As we moved the desk, the area around the hole was more visible under the light shining through the window.

There was definitely a small door disguised as the floor.

“Gasp, could they have hidden something here?”

“If they hid it under the desk, they must have hidden something.”

I put my finger in the hole and lifted it up.

Then, with a creak, the floor panel was lifted.

“There’s a file.”

It was a file packaged in a plastic bag to prevent dust from getting on it.

I took out the file.

And took off the plastic bag and put the file on the desk.

“Kang, check this one. I’ll check this one.”

“Isn’t it written in German? I don’t know German…….”

Kang Min-jae muttered and opened the file.

I opened the file at the same time.

Fortunately, the contents were in Korean.

“Kang, look at this. It seems to be KDL Company’s rental business data. And this seems to be L&B company data?”

“Oh, I have the same thing. It must be a copy.”

Kang Min-jae and I stood side by side in front of the desk and checked each file.

I know that investigators visited this place in my previous life, but why couldn’t they find it?

Was it because there was no data here at that time in the distant future?

Whatever it was, what we found was a jackpot.

* * *

Kang Min-jae, me, Choi Jong-hyun, and Jo Bong-joon gathered again a week later.

Choi Jong-hyun and Jo Bong-joon, who had been to South Sudan, were tanned dark in the meantime.

“It feels so good because the air conditioner is blasting. Let’s lower the temperature a little more.”

Choi Jong-hyun and Jo Bong-joon returned from South Sudan today.

Originally, I was going to give them a day off to rest and then meet, but they said we had to meet today, so I called them to my house, and they came to my house without even unpacking.

They stood in front of the air conditioner for a long time.

“Shall I lower the temperature?”

“It’s cold.”

At my words, Choi Jong-hyun snorted and said.

“What’s cold about 23 degrees [Celsius]?”

They seemed to have forgotten that summer was coming to an end.

I took out a cardigan from the dressing room, put it on, and came out to the living room.

Jo Bong-joon and Choi Jong-hyun were checking the photos they had taken.

“How was Liechtenstein?”

“It was great!”

Kang Min-jae said.

Originally, it was a one-night trip, but Kang Min-jae whined, so we stayed in Switzerland for three more days, so Kang Min-jae had no choice but to be happy.

I like to relax comfortably in a resort during vacation, but Kang Min-jae likes to wander around, so I don’t know how much he dragged me around.

I was exhausted and half out of my mind, just following Kang Min-jae.

If I had a child, I would feel like this when I went to an amusement park with that child.

“It must have been good. It’s Europe. We only suffered and came back. Wow, it was really hot. Especially the road to the gold mine there wasn’t paved at all, so it was bumping and shaking a lot, and I thought I was going to die from motion sickness.”

Choi Jong-hyun blew his bangs back with his breath and said.

“Didn’t Reporter Choi say he would go first?”

At my words, Choi Jong-hyun closed his mouth like a clam.

“If I had known it would be so hard, I would never have followed Jong-hyun *hyung* [older brother/male friend]. I would have followed Liechtenstein even with my own money. Kang and Cha must have eaten delicious food and rested well there. I’m jealous. We only had a hard time.”

Jo Bong-joon said, sounding fed up.

How could he not have thought it would be difficult?

South Sudan is a newly independent country, and it is not yet a safe country to travel around.

Of course, there are good hotels there, but to get to the gold mine, no matter how much you bring a local coordinator, the road to hardship is obvious.

“Anyway, take out what you found.”

Choi Jong-hyun said, taking out his DSLR.

Kang Min-jae and I also took out a few printed photos and the files we brought from there.

We left the copies in the secret space of the log cabin and only brought the originals.

Anyway, they probably don’t even know it’s gone.

Isn’t it a house with a door that breaks when an outsider shakes it a few times?

It seems that they neglected management because they thought that no one would come directly to the KDL Company address.

Even so, I can praise them for their preparedness in burying the documents on the floor.

“KDL Company was a farmhouse in a rural village in Liechtenstein. It wasn’t properly managed, so Kang broke the door after shaking it a few times, and we were able to find this file after entering.”

I pushed the file towards Choi Jong-hyun and Jo Bong-joon and said.

Jo Bong-joon received the file and looked through it for a while, then his eyes widened.

“Page 1 is a list of real estate owned by KDL Company. And page 2 is evidence that they are leasing that real estate to the House of Angels. They are receiving a considerable amount of money as rent.”

“After receiving a call from Cha in South Sudan, I stopped by the gold mine and went to all the places on page 1, and they were all wastelands. The site where they were supposed to build the hospital and school is that gold mine site.”

That’s why I said it was a jackpot.

The money that came into the Wooshin Welfare Foundation under the Wooshin Medical Center flowed into the House of Angels under the pretext of building schools and hospitals in South Sudan.

The House of Angels has been paying huge rents under the pretext of building schools and hospitals on land owned by KDL Company.

The problem is…….

“There were no schools or hospitals anywhere. There was nothing being built either. Just temporary buildings or tents? The mine was a closed mine, let alone a gold mine. It’s completely blocked off.”

The fact that no hospitals or schools were built.

It has been a long time since the House of Angels announced that it would carry out the project, and it has been a long time since the rent was paid, so it should have at least raised the building frame by now.

“20% of the money that flowed into the House of Angels went to Lee Jeong-chan through KDL Company, and 75% went to a shell company called L&B. The total amount of rent that Wooshin Welfare Foundation and the House of Angels have paid to KDL Company so far is over tens of billions [of Korean won, approximately millions of US dollars].”

We captured the scene of Wooshin’s money laundering.

In addition, we also captured the situation of political-business collusion by Lee Jeong-chan owning 20% of KDL Company’s shares.

“L&B is not a shell company.”

“Then what is it?”

I put the last file on the desk.

And I opened the paper containing L&B company information and said.

“It is an investment company owned by Go Sang-joon. Of course, it’s a paper company.”