103: When you are out, your identity is given by yourself.

Upon hearing Director Ge's words, Zhou Yun's face immediately lit up with a smile: "Director Ge, thank you so much! This certificate is incredibly important to me."

"Otherwise, people would always slander me for no reason. How could a lawyer like me have mental problems, right? If anyone dares to say that about me in the future, I'll show them this certificate!"

"When you're out and about, your identity is what you make it."

On the other side, Director Ge's face twitched slightly. He actually wanted to say that Zhou Lawyer, your examination results show that you are very normal…

But with mental issues, if the person themselves feels very energetic, then there's no problem. In a way, it's also a good thing.

This was what Director Ge's leader said, so he directly decided to issue the certificate.

Normally, if someone came here asking for such a certificate, they'd be told to get lost. Do they really think the Mental Health Center isn't busy? They are very busy.

About half an hour later, a certificate was produced.

Zhou Yun took it and quickly looked it over. It was similar to a "no criminal record certificate."

It stated: "This certifies that Zhou Yun, a lawyer at Zhengtian Law Firm, has no mental illness."

Below were the date and the unit's seal, everything was very official.

"Director Ge, I won't say thanks again. Let's see each other in action. If you have any legal problems in the future, like murder, robbery, or div... *cough cough*, anyway, you can all come to me. I'll give you a discount!"

Although Director Ge's face twitched, he still nodded.

Doctors and lawyers are pretty similar professions. Although the words might sound a bit unpleasant, like "you can come to me if you get cancer."

But, who wouldn't want such a friend?

Who can guarantee that they won't encounter legal problems or get sick their entire life?

So Director Ge was still very happy. Many people now want to hire Zhou Yun for lawsuits, and even more are willing to pay. He's the kind of lawyer you can't hire even with money.

Zhou Yun put the certificate in a wallet. In the future, if he encountered any doubts, he could just pull out this certificate like showing an ID. It was perfect!

He returned to the law firm in high spirits, without any hesitation, went directly to the director's office, and then pushed the office door open!

Old Zhuang was on the phone in his office. He looked up when he heard the sound, and what met his eyes was a large certificate.

"See, Director? My mental state is excellent. There's absolutely no way I'm sick. If you slander me again, be careful, I'll sue you!"

Old Zhuang rubbed his eyes hard when he heard this. Holy moly, it really was that certificate! The big red seal of Jiangdong Province Mental Health Center was visible. That thing couldn't be forged.

"No, what's going on? Are the doctors at the Mental Health Center crazy? They actually issue this kind of certificate?" Old Zhuang muttered.

Zhou Yun naturally didn't care about these things. He laughed heartily and said, "Alright, Old Zhuang, hurry up and help me contact the prison management department."

"I'll be taking this document to see Manager Ma then."

Old Zhuang nodded silently. It wasn't until Zhou Yun had left the office that he suddenly realized something.

What did Zhou Yun call him just now? Old Zhuang?

He's not even calling him Director anymore? He changed too quickly!

Next was the waiting game.

Not all labor intermediaries are sentenced. It's still the same saying: criminal law has a principle of restraint.

Theoretically, the crime of illegal business operations is a conduct crime, meaning that as long as you commit a prohibited act, you have violated criminal law.

However, it's different in practice. The simplest example is that many people know about the "crime of illegal intrusion into a dwelling," which is a conduct crime.

This means that, theoretically, as long as you have the act of "illegally breaking into another's dwelling or refusing to leave after being asked to, affecting others' normal life," you can be convicted.

As for the severity of the circumstances, this only affects the sentencing.

But regulations are regulations, and everyone has seen in reality that, let alone forced entry, even in cases of assault after forced entry, prosecution for the crime of illegal intrusion into a dwelling is rare.

This is the biggest difference between theory and practice.

What's more, this time the conviction is based on the fourth paragraph of the crime of illegal business operations, which is "other illegal business operations that seriously disrupt market economic order."

Therefore, the severity of the circumstances determines whether criminal responsibility will be pursued.

Those who operated independently and intentionally withheld less, were not prosecuted because their actions did not reach the level of seriously disrupting market economic order.

However, those like Wu Junxian and Ren Weihao are 100% going to be prosecuted.

Out of over a hundred labor intermediaries, twenty-three people were held criminally responsible!

Some of the remaining were administratively detained, while others faced huge fines.

Zhou Yun specially came to New Guang District Court today, as today was the day of the verdict.

Ren Weihao's face was expressionless. His situation, along with Wu Junxian and several others, was particularly severe because they ran the largest labor intermediary businesses.

The bigger the business, the more people they scammed, so even with a plea bargain and active restitution, they couldn't get probation.

Finally, the Court delivered its judgment. Ren Weihao was found guilty of the crime of illegal business operations and sentenced to two years and six months in prison, which is two and a half years.

This means Ren Weihao will be inside practicing sewing machine skills for two and a half years.

But that's not the point. The main penalty for economic crimes is usually just an appetizer; the focus is on the additional penalties.

And the additional penalty for Ren Weihao… was the confiscation of all his property!

Upon hearing this verdict, Ren Weihao collapsed on the spot. Going to jail was one thing, but the key was that all his property would be confiscated!

He couldn't help but cry in Court. Meanwhile, in the spectator's gallery, Ren Weihao's wife frowned. She was already going to divorce Ren Weihao.

Wu Junxian was bruised and swollen. No one knew what happened; when asked, he always said he fell himself.

He received a suspended sentence, also with the confiscation of all his property.

The reason he got a suspended sentence was because he exposed the people from the Labor Supervision Brigade, who were his protectors. Anyway, he doesn't plan to do this anymore.

Even if he did, it wouldn't be in Jinghai. With Zhou Yun around, this rotten place of Jinghai is simply unbearable.

Zhou Yun watched these people in the Court and thought that when he had time, he could visit (and torment) them.

Don't look at how miserable these people seem now; that's only now. Before, they used to bully those workers to the point of wanting to commit suicide.

After the verdict, Zhou Yun left the Court. His video could finally be released. It was almost New Year's, so it was a good time to give the netizens a treat.

As soon as he arrived at the law firm, his phone rang. He picked it up and saw it was Old Zhuang calling.

"Hello, Old Zhuang, what's up? Comrades from the city's propaganda department want to talk to me? Talk about what? The publicity for this case?"

"They can also provide me with a lot of first-hand material? Director, I agree, I must agree!"

After hanging up, Zhou Yun immediately took a taxi and set off. He really didn't expect that the city's propaganda department would actually want to partner with him for publicity this time.

They even said they could provide him with first-hand information from the Public Security Bureau. If he could get that into the video, the effect would be explosive!