65: Do you understand what misappropriation of funds means?

The staff member at the Execution Bureau window looked up, picked up a stack of materials in front of him, and began to check.

After entering the case number and looking at it, he frowned and said, "Your case has already been closed."

Zhou Yun looked surprised and said, "You can't issue an investigation order for a closed case here?"

The staff member shook his head and said, "That's not it. You have to contact the Enforcement Judge yourself and see the situation on the Enforcement Judge's side..."

Zhou Yun heard this and said, "Oh, I have to contact the Enforcement Judge myself? Then I want to ask, why?"

The staff member frowned: "Why is there a 'why'? It's just the regulation. If a case is closed, you have to contact the Enforcement Judge first. If you don't contact him, I can't do anything..."

Zhou Yun still kept his smile and said:

"Then I really want to ask what kind of regulation this is, and where it comes from. The Supreme Peoples Court's 'Several Provisions on the Implementation of Lawyer Investigation Orders in Civil Litigation and Civil Enforcement' doesn't seem to have this clause, does it?"

"The 'Opinions on the Implementation of Lawyer Investigation Orders' issued by the Hedong Province High Court doesn't have this clause either, does it? So what regulation are you actually basing this on?"

"I'm just a little curious, so I'd like you to explain it to me!"

Zhou Yun had seen many such situations in his previous life's enforcement practice. For closed cases, it was very difficult to do anything else.

The window would tell you to contact the Enforcement Judge yourself, but as everyone knows, under normal circumstances, you simply couldn't reach the Enforcement Judge.

It was truly too difficult for lawyers to meet an Enforcement Judge or get through on the phone.

The window staff member's face looked very bad and he said, "What's wrong with you? I've already told you..."

This time, he was interrupted by Zhou Yun before he could finish his sentence.

"I'm asking you to explain now, what regulation are you basing this on? Have you explained it?"

Zhou Yun's voice was a bit loud, and other people queuing at the Execution Bureau window all looked over.

The staff member stared, trying to say something, but Zhou Yun said directly, "If you can't explain it, then let's go find your leader, or directly find Discipline Inspection, and ask what's going on?"

"Or if you think I'm provoking trouble, I support you calling the police, no problem!"

In his previous life, he was fed up with these so-called rules of the Court, but he had no choice; he had to make a living.

Now, he really wasn't going to indulge them. You show me the regulation. If you can't, then follow the Supreme Peoples Court's regulations!

And just at this moment, someone walked out from inside and said, "What's going on? What's all the noise about?"

The staff member glared at Zhou Yun, then showed the materials to the person inside.

After seeing the materials, that person immediately came to the window and smiled, "You are Lawyer Zhou Yun from Jinghai City, aren't you? I'm sorry, this Comrade is not very familiar with the business..."

"It's nothing, you just hand in the materials, and we will notify you at any time if there are any developments later."

Zhou Yun looked at that smiling face and finally said, "What should I call you?"

After all, one doesn't hit a smiling person.

The man inside smiled and said, "I am Director Zhang of the Execution Bureau's Case Filing Department. My surname is Zhang."

"Director Zhang, thank you, thank you. It's understandable if he's not familiar with the business... So, is that all?"

Director Zhang nodded: "That's all, Zhou Lawyer, you can leave at any time."

Zhou Yun turned to walk out, and before he had taken two steps, he looked back at the staff member and smiled, "Since he's not familiar with the business, I'll come again later. Let's do a follow-up review."

"What do you say, Director Zhang? I'm a stickler for details, it's an old habit, sigh."

After speaking, Zhou Yun strolled out leisurely, while behind the counter, Director Zhang and the staff member were both stunned.

What the hell is a follow-up review? Is this person crazy?

Zhou Yun, of course, wasn't acting on a whim. He planned to do this from now on. He would note down those who had particularly bad attitudes and were completely unfamiliar with the business.

Then he would do a follow-up review or something.

After all, these days, various places would issue things like rectification and drawing inferences from one instance, but no one knew how the rectification was going or how the inferences were drawn.

Just right, he was idle anyway...

The next day, the investigation order was issued, and Zhou Yun began to run around investigating.

Three days later, in a hotel room in Linwu, Zhou Yun looked at the two large piles of account details in his hand, a smile appearing on his face.

After spending a day obtaining the financial details, he began to meticulously compare them, combining them with the relevant evidence of the supervised account obtained in the administrative litigation, and finally found a clue.

The money in the supervised account, as well as the money in the Linwu Branch's account, all ended up in this out-of-province account.

Then, through this out-of-province account, the money was transferred out under various pretexts.

To clarify the situation, Zhou Yun even spent five exchange points to exchange for a bottle of energy potion!

It proved that the potion really worked. After drinking it, Zhou Yun felt that his state was even better than his usual peak state!

He could recall his previous knowledge effortlessly, and his efficiency was frighteningly high.

And now, the situation was basically clear.

Over approximately one year, Starlight Real Estate Company, using a method like ants moving house, transferred money from its account, transaction by transaction, to another company called Lichang Decoration.

The pretexts varied, such as lighting fees, air conditioning fees, and tile fees, etc.

Basically, when these pretexts were summarized, they matched the information from the supervised account, indicating that they were likely specially designed.

However, Zhou Yun quickly found the problem: the houses were still in their rough state, yet three years ago, the developer had already bought piles and piles of tiles.

Where did these tiles go?

Not to mention other things like light fixtures and air conditioners.

The most important issue was that Zhou Yun found out about the shareholder situation of this Lichang Company. A year ago, the suspected actual controller of Lichang Company became someone named Mi Jingming.

And this Mi Jingming happened to be the former boss of Starlight Real Estate Company!

This finally matched up. Zhou Yun could now be sure that the problem lay with this Mi Jingming!

Moreover, it could also be confirmed that the Linwu Branch definitely had problems too, otherwise, it would be impossible for them to transfer the loan into other accounts.

The housing and urban-rural development department was hard to say; it was highly probable that they turned a blind eye.

Many people don't know that the housing and urban-rural development department's review of developers' applications to use pre-sale funds is a formal review.

That is to say, the housing and urban-rural development department will not go to the site to see what your building looks like; they will only look at the materials you submit.

Although there are no specific regulations, in the past, it could almost be said that most places across the country did it this way.

Zhou Yun had seen it in his previous life, where the housing and urban-rural development department itself said that they didn't have the ability or obligation to conduct on-site inspections; they would only review the application materials, and if they met the requirements, they would approve it.

To put it bluntly, everyone was fooling each other. Anyway, the houses were expensive. As a result, they realized they couldn't continue fooling around, and the homebuyers were bewildered.

So, after all this time, all those regulations were only taken seriously by themselves, while others didn't take them seriously at all.

After such a long time, there was finally a breakthrough. As soon as Zhou Yun collected evidence from the construction site, he could report the case.

That Meng Guoliang, who considered himself the company boss, committed the crime of embezzlement!

You said you bought tiles, where are they? Don't tell me that the tiles bought with such a huge amount of money were all lost!

Although steel bars and other things are indeed often lost on construction sites... but some things just can't stand scrutiny!

However, after thinking for a moment, Zhou Yun still dialed the phone.

"Hello, Judge Xiang, I'm Zhou Yun. Our previous case..."

Judge Xiang's voice from the Yunshan County Court's Administrative Division came from the phone: "Lawyer Zhou, don't rush. Your case is quite complex; it's gone to the Judicial Committee. Please wait a bit longer."

Zhou Yun smiled and said, "That's not what I meant. I was thinking, why don't you contact the defendant's side and tell them that I want to talk to them now?"

"If we reach an agreement, I can withdraw the lawsuit."

Although administrative litigation does not allow mediation, if a private agreement is reached and the lawsuit is withdrawn, the Court certainly cannot interfere. You can't force people to litigate.

"What?" Judge Xiang was stunned: "Lawyer Zhou, you're not joking, are you?"

"Of course I'm not joking, I'm serious!"

"Okay, wait a moment, I'll contact them. Oh, if you had done this earlier, it wouldn't have come to this..."

Zhou Yun smiled in response and hung up the phone, his smile immediately disappearing.

Some people, if you don't push them, how could they possibly cooperate with you?

Investigating a construction site by himself definitely wouldn't work, because that's the developer's property. It's one thing for the owners to move in themselves, but if he were to go in and investigate, and they called the police, he'd be in serious trouble.

But the housing and urban-rural development department is different; investigating ex officio is no problem at all!

Every step he had taken until now had not been in vain, and now he had finally reached the last step.

I wonder if President Meng is a man of honor, and if he will take the blame for this crime.