"You...don't look at me like this. I'm really not a murderer. I just did it all..."
Facing the scrutinizing gazes of Officer Megu and the others, the middle-aged man had no power to resist and hurriedly told what he knew.
The middle-aged man in front of him, his name is Yamashita Saburo, is the secretary to the general manager of Changben Company.
Last month, the general manager discovered that the company's reserve funds had been secretly misappropriated. In order to find out the criminal who had embezzled public funds, the general manager ordered Yamashita Saburo to investigate the matter secretly.
Therefore, Yamashita Saburo found the detective Nakajo Katsunori and asked him to help find the criminal who embezzled public funds.
The eighth to eleventh floors of the building where Suzuki Seimei and the others were located were owned by Tsunemoto Company, so Yamashita Saburo invited Nakajo Katsunori to meet at a nearby coffee shop.
According to the previous agreement between Yamashita Saburo and the others, Nakajo Katsunori will hand over the criminal evidence to him as soon as possible after finding the criminal evidence. At that time, he will hand over the balance to Nakajo Katsunori.
But what Saburo Yamashita didn't expect was that this Nakajo Katsunori not only had no professional ethics, but was also very greedy for money.
After finding the criminal evidence, Nakajo Katsunori did not hand over the criminal evidence to Yamashita Saburo immediately. Instead, he found the criminal who had embezzled public funds.
When the criminal who embezzled public funds learned that his crime was exposed, he wanted to pay double the price to buy back the criminal evidence.
The greedy Nakajo Katsunori was still dissatisfied. He in turn called Yamashita Saburo and told him that the prisoner was going to spend double the price to buy out the criminal evidence.
Because Yamashita Saburo had already boasted to his boss that he would catch the criminals who embezzled public funds today, so after receiving the call from Yamashita Saburo, he directly increased the commission fee by four times.
Although Nakajo Katsuno is greedy for money, he is not a fool.
If Nakajo wins and chooses to make a deal with criminals, he may be able to earn more money in the short term, but in the long run, it will be a very loss-making thing.
First of all, the criminals' money is often stolen money, which can easily cause unnecessary trouble to Nakajo Katsurinori.
Secondly, in order to earn more commission money, choosing to make deals with criminals will only worsen Nakajo Katsunori's reputation, and gradually no one will entrust him anymore.
Therefore, Nakajo Katsu no really wanted to make a deal with the criminal from the beginning. He just wanted to use the criminal's proposed transaction as an excuse to force the client to actively increase the price of the commission!
It's a pity that Nakajo Katsu forgot one truth, that is - a dog jumps over the wall in a hurry!
Knowing that the evidence of his crime was in the hands of Katsunori Nakajo, and that he was about to hand it over to Saburo Yamashita, the criminal who embezzled public funds, he finally chose to take the risk.
Nakajo Katsunori also did not expect that the criminal would dare to kill someone in public, and he was stabbed in the abdomen with a kitchen knife without any defense.
Although Nakajo Katsuno fought hard, the criminal evidence contained in the document bag was still snatched away by the criminal, leaving only a torn document bag.
"In that case, the murderer of Mr. Nakajo should be the employee who embezzled public funds of your company."
After Officer Megure learned the cause and effect of the incident from Yamashita Saburo, he couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Yamashita, do you have any suspects? There should be no one in your company who is qualified to embezzle public funds.
Would it be too much?”
According to Officer Megure's thinking, since employees can embezzle the company's public funds, they should at least be middle- and senior-level figures in the company, so that a large number of suspects can be eliminated.
"Well... actually a week ago, Mr. Nakajo made a list for me of employees in our company who are more suspected of embezzling public funds."
After Yamashita Saburo finished speaking, he took out a list from his briefcase and handed it to Officer Megure: "This is the list he gave me. There are a total of fifty-eight people's names on it."
"Fifty-eight people?!"
When Officer Mumu and the others heard this, the corners of their mouths twitched, and they all showed speechless expressions.
"This detective is too stupid!"
Suzuki Seimei couldn't help complaining: "Fifty-eight suspects, could he have written all the names of your company's employees on this list?"
Listening to Suzuki Seimei's complaints, Conan and Mao Lilan couldn't help but shake their heads.
I have to say, Nakajo Katsunori is really a rip-off!
Perhaps it was because it was Saburo Yamashita's first time entrusting a detective for help and he didn't know much about the private detective industry, so he was deceived by Katsuno Nakajo.
For example, the list of suspects brought out by Saburo Yamashita has a total of fifty-eight suspects. It looks like they are very powerful, but in fact it is used to fool laymen.
You must know that the total number of employees in Chang Ben Company is only more than 300 people.
Excluding the cleaning staff, security personnel, and low-level employees who have no contact with the company's reserve funds, there are only a few dozen suspects left.
Therefore, the list of suspects that Katsuno Nakajo gave to Saburo Yamashita is actually useless. Anyone can easily get a similar list of suspects by just looking for someone to investigate.
A professional detective like Nakajo Katsunori, if he really wanted to give Yamashita Saburo a list of suspects, the number of people on the list would not exceed five at most.
Judging from Nakajo Katsunori's behavior of raising the price after finding the criminal evidence, Suzuki Seimei has reason to suspect that he deliberately did not give Yamashita Saburo a useful suspect list in order to prevent Yamashita Saburo from finding the real criminal, so that he would not be able to find the real criminal.
It's better to sit down and raise the price.
To a certain extent, Nakajo Katsu was brutally killed, and it was entirely his own fault.
If Katsuno Nakajo hadn't had the intention of raising the price, he could have told Saburo Yamashita the name of the criminal first when he called Saburo Yamashita, and then waited until the two met before handing over the evidence of the crime to Saburo Yamashita
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If Nakajo Katsu had told Yamashita Saburo the name of the criminal in advance, even if the criminal was forced to jump over the wall, at most he would have chosen to flee the country or simply surrender instead of risking killing someone.
However, in order to get a better position and raise the price, Nakajo Katsu not only did not tell the name of the criminal to others, but also only prepared a manuscript of the criminal evidence. Didn't that force the criminal to kill him and silence him?
Nakajo Katsu died tragically at the hands of the murderer, which may be somewhat sympathetic, but is not unjust.
Even if a detective with no professional ethics like Nakajo Katsunori does not die at the hands of criminals this time, he will die at the hands of other criminals sooner or later.
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