Chapter 832 Anatoly’s Story
At 10:30 am, the office area of the special investigation team.
“The location of the safe is not generally hidden.”
In the conference room, the agents were sitting on chairs. Winslow distributed a dozen photos to everyone, and introduced with a pained expression:
“There is a bathroom on the first floor of Campbell-Hank’s house.
Campbell remodeled the structure beneath the toilet, where the safe is hidden. "
“…”x5
Hearing Winslow's words and seeing the scene in the photo, Chenelle and Mona looked strange, as if they could smell the smell of the scene through the photo.
"Thanks a lot."
Luo An’s eyelids twitched, he simply praised Winslow a few words, then shook the photo and asked:
“What happened to the ancient gold coins you mentioned before?”
“It’s these gold coins.”
Winslow turned around and took out several transparent evidence bags from the cardboard box nearby.
In the evidence bag, there were some gold coins that were dim in color, engraved with some simple patterns on the surface, and were about the size of ordinary watch dials.
"Wow."
Everyone took the gold coins with surprised expressions on their faces. There are few people who don't like gold. This simple gold coin is more eye-catching.
Winslow took the photos back one by one and said:
“A total of 9 gold coins have been found. The Trace Inspection Section is investigating the origin of these gold coins based on the patterns on the gold coins.”
“OK.”
Luo An nodded, put aside the gold coin issue for the time being, and then asked:
“How is the situation with counterfeit banknotes?”
“Counterfeit bills with a face value of twenty dollars and a total of three hundred thousand dollars were also found.”
Winslow replied:
“After identification by the Trace Inspection Section and several currency experts, it was determined that these counterfeit banknotes belong to the same batch as the super counterfeit banknotes we discovered before.”
"very good."
Luo An then looked at Cheniel and asked:
“How is Anatole doing now?”
“The doctors at the headquarters have treated Anatoly’s wounds, and his mental state has stabilized a lot with the help of the psychiatrist.”
Chenier quickly put down her gold coins and replied seriously:
“He is now in a temporary prison and can be interrogated at any time.”
“Then take him to the interrogation room.”
Luo An stood up and ordered:
“And the pursuers who were caught yesterday, please prepare yourself. We also need to talk to them.”
"no problem!"
Chenelle reached out and patted Lacey on the shoulder, and the two of them left the conference room and headed to the prison.
Half an hour later, in the interrogation room on the far left, Anatoly’s hands were cuffed, and he was sitting on a chair with a nervous look on his face, unconsciously rubbing his fingers.
“Good morning, Mr. Anatoly.”
Across the interrogation table, when Mona turned on the computer and got ready, Luo An pushed a folder in front of Anatoly and said in a solemn voice:
“Is there anything you want to say?”
Anatoli was even more panicked when he saw the photos of counterfeit banknotes and ancient gold coins in the folder. After a few seconds of silence, he lowered his head as if resigned to his fate and said:
“I’m sorry, I didn’t expect things to turn out like this.”
“Elaborate.”
Anatoly took a sip of coffee and said:
“I picked up the fake money, and my colleagues and I found the gold coins at the bottom of the sea.”
Anatoly said that he was a crew member of a treasure hunting ship. The treasure hunting ship was not big, and there were exactly ten people including him. Not long ago, after their treasure hunting ship drifted in a certain area of the Carolinas for more than a month, they successfully found a sunken ship on the seabed and salvaged a small amount of gold bars, silver coins and other items from it.
Limited by technical problems such as the vessel being too small and insufficiently equipped, everyone on the treasure hunting boat was so excited that they immediately decided to return to the shore and prepare to change to a larger boat.
“Not long after we left the ocean and returned to the surface, the news that we found gold leaked out for some reason, and then we were targeted.”
Anatole lowered his head, fear flashed in his eyes, and continued:
“That night, a group of people rushed into the house we rented... Bob and Oban were all dead, and only me and two other people escaped..."
Because of some mental problems, Anatoly stumbled or stuttered here and there, causing great difficulties for Mona, who was responsible for recording.
Fortunately, Luo An confirmed that the other party was not lying through "emotional perception". Seeing that the other party's mental state was getting worse, Luo An quickly stepped forward to change the topic and comforted the other party in a low voice.
A few minutes later, Anatoly's mood stabilized a little. Roan poured him a cup of coffee again, and then asked in a low voice:
“What happened after that? Where did the three of you go after you escaped from the rented house?”
“I don’t know, I’ve been following Leon...”
Anatoly stuttered and said that he was frightened at the time and didn't know what to do.
Fortunately, his colleagues Leon and Benson did not abandon him. They threw a backpack containing gold coins to Anatoly and asked him to keep it. The two began to shoot back.
However, there were too many enemies, and Leon and Benson quickly decided to retreat. The three of them "find" a car and started to escape.
“That group of people kept following us, and Leon couldn’t get rid of them at all.”
Anatoly trembled and explained:
“Then Leon and Benson had an argument. I didn’t hear the specific content clearly, but I just felt that they were very excited.
Then Leon drove the vehicle around a corner and broke into a factory near the suburbs. There were also several people in that factory, and they started firing at us with guns.
Leon and Benson fired back, and within a few seconds, the group of people who were chasing us also broke into the place, making the scene even more chaotic..."
Mona frowned slightly, and the sound of typing on the computer keyboard did not stop. She had already understood what Anatole said:
That is, Leon and others discovered a sunken ship containing gold at sea, but the news of returning to land was leaked, and a group of people appeared who wanted to take advantage of it.
Leon and the others could not defeat this group of people, so during their escape, they drove into the territory of a third party, hoping to divert trouble to the east.
Roan also understood Anatole’s story, but there was still a question he didn’t understand, so he asked:
“Those fake money, where did they come from?”
“Benson gave it to me.”
Anatoly explained in a muffled voice:
“There are many machines in that factory, and there are many packages behind the machines, and the packages contain the money.
As the men were shooting each other, Benson found a backpack containing the money.
He handed me the backpack, asked me to leave the factory first, and asked me to go to New York to find Campbell. He and Leon would arrive later. "
Anatoly was very obedient and took advantage of the chaos and left the factory with a backpack containing fake money and a backpack containing gold coins.
On the way, Anatoly wanted to eat, but he had no money in his pocket, so he had to take out the fake money to buy food to fill his stomach.
Going all the way north, Anatoly arrived in New York successfully, and successfully found Campbell-Hank according to the contact information given by Benson.
“Benson said Campbell was absolutely trustworthy.”
Speaking of this, Anatoly's eyes flashed with a hint of imperceptible jealousy, and he whispered:
“Because they went to jail together and slept with several women together. They are half-brothers with no blood relationship.”
“…”x2
Mona paused while typing, and Luo An twitched the corner of his mouth, suppressing the complaints in his heart, and then asked Anatoly a question.
Twenty minutes later, Roan and Mona walked out of the interrogation room. Winslow quickly came up to them, shaking the document and saying:
“Luo An, the trace inspection department has found out the source of the gold coin.”
(End of this chapter)