The two-hundred-plus pound Mei Dayong never dreamed that one day the police would come to his door.
All along, Mei Dayong felt that his mother was a person of great ability, and that she had a way to make a lot of money in the United States, while he only needed to exchange her dollars for Chinese currency at home, and then enjoy the glory and wealth.
As for whether his mother’s money came from the right place or not, and whether it was illegal for him to exchange money privately, he didn’t bother to worry about that at all.
So he asked the police officer with a surprised look on his face, “What do you mean by that? What do you mean by suspected money laundering? What kind of money am I laundering?”
The policeman said in a cold voice: “We have ample evidence to prove that all the a*sets you and your brother have are illegal proceeds obtained through illegal exchange of money! And we also have proof that you are laundering money for an offshore criminal organisation!”
“What?” Mei Dayong said with a disdainful expression, “Every cent of our family’s money was hard earned by my mother, how come it’s illegal income in your mouth?”
The policeman frowned and asked him, “Don’t you have any knowledge of the law?”
Mei Dayong immediately said in a loud voice, “How can I not understand? I’m a law-abiding citizen! I don’t gamble, I don’t cheat, I don’t steal, I don’t rob, so who are you to say I’m breaking the law?”
The policeman knew he couldn’t communicate with him, so he said to his men, “Take him away! Also go in and see if Mei Eryong and Zhang Fugui are here, if they are, arrest them and bring them back for trial!”
Several policemen quickly rushed into the villa, and within five minutes, they brought out a dumbfounded Mei Eryong and a shivering Zhang Fugui.
Zhang Fu Gui is Mei Yu Zhen’s husband. When he was poor, Mei Yu Zhen went to the United States with someone else, so he stayed home to raise his two children.
Zhang Fu Gui had been a poor man all his life, but at that time he had just relied on Mei Yu Zhen to live a rich life and felt the benefits of being rich, so he did not want to go back to his poor life.
Over the years, although Zhang Fu Gui’s marriage to Mei Yu Zhen had died in name, he was able to live the life of a rich man with the wealth she had earned.
The more this happens, the more nervous he becomes when he sees the police.
Zhang Fugui’s two daughters-in-law, seeing that both their father-in-law and father-in-law had been arrested by the police, were frightened and rushed out to inquire about the situation.
The eldest daughter-in-law, who was a bit spirited, ignored the fact that she was still holding her baby in her arms, and sat down on the ground, spilling her guts and saying, “Who are you to come to our house and arrest people? Are you unhappy because our family is doing well? Tell me, who told you to come here?”
The policeman in charge said coldly, “I’m warning you, the three of them are all suspects now, we’re taking them away for investigation, you’d better not interfere with our law enforcement, otherwise you’ll be obstructing official duties, and obstructing official duties is liable to the law!”
The eldest daughter-in-law did not relent and cried, “Don’t bully me, a woman who doesn’t know anything! You just can’t take my family away in front of me today!”
The police officer in charge said with a serious expression, “Let me tell you, the three of them are now suspected of money laundering, and according to the evidence we have, they are involved in a very high amount of money and the case is very serious, according to the criminal law, they should be sentenced to at least five years and less than ten years in prison!”
“Not only that, all the deposits, cash, houses and cars in their names, according to the evidence we have, are all illegal proceeds, and we will subsequently seize these a*sets in accordance with the law. This is punishable by up to three years’ fixed-term imprisonment, detention or control!”