Along with the God of Law - Chapter 418



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418.

The war on drugs.

It was originally a symbolic word used to describe a strong drug control policy first used in the United States.

It is not that there are no cases where this term is used in the domestic media, political circles, or investigative agencies.

– It is estimated that more than 26,000 doses that can be administered simultaneously are still hidden throughout Seoul.

-Therefore, considering the seriousness of the current situation, the Central District Prosecutors’ Office would like to declare a ‘war on drugs.’

The briefing, which was like a grand declaration, came as an official statement from the Office of the Chief Prosecutor of the Central District Prosecutors’ Office, not from the Joint Investigation Department of the Central District Prosecutors’ Office.

As Kim Si-hwan, the head of the joint investigation team, said, the Central District Prosecutors’ Office strongly criticized the ‘guys’ from the vanguard and encouraged the entire country, and each investigative agency jumped into investigating illegal drugs ‘with a sense of duty and responsibility.’

The ‘war on drugs’ has come into effect.

This effect could be said to be quite successful.

As if the entire country was in an ‘illegal drug emergency’ and needed to respond immediately.

In each city, a period of ‘surrender for drug users’ was declared irregularly and slogans such as ‘strict punishment for illegal drug trafficking’ were hung.

The police also began to set a period of intensive crackdowns and strengthened the reward policy.

These few changes would have a significant impact on the investigative system in the near future.

For now, the movements of police officers, correctional officers, investigators, field officers, and senior officers of investigative agencies have changed.

-Shut up.

-What is this?

-We need to clear up the case that was sitting idle. There’s chaos at the Central District Prosecutors’ Office.

We will once again see incidents that were passed over in a haphazard manner, and the pursuit of higher-ups who cut off the tail and ran away will become faster and sharper.

The court’s rate of acknowledging warrants will naturally increase. Judges who conservatively reject citations will be replaced by judges who are friendly to investigative agencies.

If the warrant is ‘accepted with reasonable certainty’, the claim rate also increases.

Naturally, the proportion of ‘illegal drug cases’ increases.

At this point, curiosity begins to arise.

-What on earth caused this?

-Don’t you know? The prosecutor’s office is chasing Jo Gi-jun, who is currently distributing banned drugs on the dark web.

-Is it just a day or two since they’ve been chasing the vendors? Why are you so excited this time?

-Kang Hyun.

-ah.

As the illegal drug case that started off as an ‘early-morning’ incident caused a huge stir nationwide, complaints like this were occasionally heard within the Central District Prosecutors’ Office.

‘Isn’t it all fried?’

‘They’re advertising to fold and run away.’

It made sense.

This led to predictions that as interest in illegal drugs grew and investigators became aware that they were being watched, people would become more cautious.

But this is a statement made without much understanding of the nature of ‘illegal drug’ cases.

For example, if there is a large-scale crackdown on illegal gambling establishments, those guys will clean up the mess and run away.

The same goes for crimes like drunk driving. During the period of intensive crackdown, the rate of crackdowns nationwide decreases.

However, drugs designated as illegal had an ‘addiction’ that surpassed any human line.

Gambling is addictive. People who drink and drive continue to do so.

However, the one that shows the greatest addictiveness is ‘drugs’.

Even if it’s dangerous, even if it means I die, even if it means I go to jail.

Addicts are people who are willing to harm their bodies and even throw themselves into prison cells for a single moment of pleasure.

It was not an ‘organization’ that would leave such customers alone. When the crackdown became more intense, they did not think about running away, but rather found a way to continue selling while avoiding people’s eyes.

How much money is it?

At this point, Kang Hyun was confident.

“If the investigative authorities crack down on ‘dropped’ drugs in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, and across the country and the proportion decreases, they will definitely change their methods.”

The idea was that if the drugs were scattered all over the country enough that the droppers didn’t have to move, we could just collect them all and make them move again.

So I didn’t know how long it would take.

But if they were put in this situation, they would definitely move in a different way, not by ‘dropping’.

If, as Kang Hyun predicted, they were worried about being tracked by the investigative authorities and continued selling in a different way, then it would be a success.

Knock, knock.

Kang Hyun turned his head indifferently to those coming in.

It was to receive the reports pouring in.

“The current number of cases in the Seoul metropolitan area is over 200. The number of cases of detection of the new illegal drug ‘synthetic cigarette’ is overwhelming.”

“All of the drugs seized are currently linked to those suspected of being part of the organization of ‘Jo Gi-jun.’ Shall we proceed?”

Results of the declaration of ‘war on drugs’.

The result was as expected.

In just one week.

“The number of cases detected within the jurisdiction of the Central District Prosecutors’ Office and Seocho Police Station has exceeded 900….”

How many times have they wrapped up illegal drugs and left them lying on the street?

The number of cases of drugs that have already been ‘dropped’ has reached 900, 1,000 cases under the investigation team’s jurisdiction.

There may have been many places that were busy, but the core was the Central District Prosecutors’ Office’s Joint Investigation Department and its on-site analysis lab led by Director Na Ye-an.

Since there was a ‘suspected person’ in the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, it was not possible to bring in the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office’s analysis experts to analyze, manage, and calculate the total amount of drugs, and it was also somewhat difficult to receive help from the National Forensic Service in this regard.

Small staff, but talented people.

When the situation that Kang Hyun had predicted occurred, these talented individuals sweated profusely and devoted themselves to analysis day after day.

“It’s so easy. It’s so easy that my nose is bleeding.”

“Please include your fingerprints as well.”

“Uh… I didn’t hear that?”

Although she says this, Na Ye-an, who has left behind the sad experience of an accident between her family members due to ‘illegal drugs’ and runs forward without looking back, is different.

“Over there, over there! I told you to put it over there!”

He had already entered a state of awakening, having overcome the condition where he felt like he was going to collapse from exhaustion. He threw away all the human models and antiques he had collected as a hobby, and turned his analysis room into almost a ‘laboratory’.

They were now machines. Machines that found out everything about the drugs that were detected under Kang Hyun’s instructions.

The prosecution office and the police were also busy.

All the prosecutors and investigators, including Kim Si-hwan, became the joint investigation team during the day and ‘undercover machines’ at night.

Just hearing the words, “a lurking machine,” sounds incredibly tiring and exhausting.

“It might really come now.”

Drug buyers in the X-marked areas on Kang Hyun’s ‘map’.

Their surveillance was doubled or tripled.

During the week, the Seocho Police Station’s Violent Crimes Unit and the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Magic Unit.

At night, the joint investigation team took charge of the work.

If ‘dropping’ is no longer possible, how will they deliver the drug?

Keeping all of these possibilities open, the investigative experts worked together as one to repeatedly go undercover.

“Whew.”

The same was true for the 5th trial division, Prosecutor Park I-hyeon, and the cyber investigation team supporting them.

The sigh of the taciturn Park Hyun first became ‘phew’, then ‘phew,’ and now ‘phew-uh-uh.’

He followed the instructions of Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Kim Si-hwan and Chief of the 5th Division Kang Hyeon very thoroughly.

After his access to domains within the ‘dark web’ was taken away, he began surveillance using a monitoring system developed in collaboration between the Immigration Office and the Public Prosecutors’ Office.

“It seems impossible, but some information was left on the laptop.”

“Common sense… right? Is there any common sense here?”

Baek Hoon-sik looks at the data flowing in a chaotic manner as if looking at a picture.

Despite the concerns of those around him, including himself, he spent time in front of the computer day and night.

Even though he spent his time skipping meals and taking short naps, his eyes still shone brightly like those of Kang Hyun and the prosecutors who had passed through Kang Hyun’s office.

Everyone’s efforts, the result.

“hmm.”

“… .”

The expressions on the faces of those doing their best in each field were the same.

“Looking at your expression, I guess nothing came out.”

“Yes. The drug components that were detected were completely analyzed, but no other traces remained.”

“The undercover operation was a failure. Nothing happened. The ‘buyers’ are just going about their daily lives.”

“… the dark web seems to be dead.”

Looking at the various dead grasses, Kang Hyun calmly said, “Please endure a little more,” and then looked back at the incident.

Mobilizing all these investigative personnel to find ‘small-scale drugs’ in Seoul was a significant act in itself, but weren’t they drug dealers?

‘It’s true that the first operation to wipe out the droppers failed, but our investigation team then changed direction and approached the scene like flowing water. But they couldn’t catch even one tail.’

The attacks that Kang Hyun poured down on them were fierce to those who were being hit for the first time. But those guys still hadn’t even shown up.

‘How do you know our movements?’

* * *

Thud, thud.

Kang Hyun, who had been in deep thought, put on his judge’s robe and appeared for the ‘Reserve Military Act Violation Case’.

Judge Kim Ari appeared in her seat as usual, the defendant’s seat was also empty, and the public defender looked a little more exhausted.

“If Mr. Cho Ki-jun’s family had been there, it would have helped us find him, but the problem is that he has no siblings and both of his parents are deceased.”

The judge asked slowly to hear the prosecutor’s argument that the trial date should be postponed because the defendant, Jo Gi-jun, was not present.

“… Should I adjust the deadline?”

At that moment, Kang Hyun-i listened to the judge’s words and thought about them for a moment.

‘ah?’

Kang Hyun, who was deeply thinking about something, felt an exclamation mark appear in his head.

So instead of saying ‘yes’, or a formal request like ‘please take action in court’.

Suddenly he raised his hand and slid out of his seat.

“I have something to tell you.”

As the judge turned his head, the public defender, who had been sitting blankly, quickly straightened his posture.

“Yes. Go ahead.”

“The Central District Prosecutors’ Office’s Joint Investigation Department and other departments are investigating, and a person named ‘Jung Da-young’, who is believed to be related to the defendant in this case, has been identified at the residence of Jo Gi-jun.”

“Jung Da-young?”

“Yes. The prosecution is speculating that Jeong Da-yeong and Jo Gi-jun are ‘common-law couples’ or ‘cohabitants,’ but her own statement is different. In other words, she is claiming that they are not family, even though they are practically family.”

“What do you mean, the statements are different? And you said there was a cohabitant who was like family to you?”

“Yes. Ms. Jeong Da-yeong continued to make statements that seemed to draw a line with Jo Ki-jun. Based on her decisive statement, we are investigating the other case of ‘violation of the Narcotics Control Act’, but this is also not trivial. We need to look into it.”

“… That makes sense.”

Kang Hyun finished speaking, turning on the light bulb above his head.

‘I missed Jeong Da-young.’

After thinking about it for a while, Kang Hyun’s opinion was that the key figure, ‘Jung Da-young’, was suspicious.

A woman who seems to know Jo Gi-jun’s secret. She denies the relationship and has deep eyes that seem like they won’t tell him what they want, but she’s definitely hiding a lot of conspiracies. If you pull this out well, you have a gut feeling that the tightly tied thread might come undone. Who can follow Kang Hyun’s intuition?

“I hope that we can summon Jeong Da-yeong as a witness and have her testify in court about her relationship with Jo Gi-jun, and that she will help us find Jo Gi-jun’s whereabouts.”

“I will accept it. There are no objections from the defense side, right?”

“Oh, oh.” The public defender glanced at Kang Hyeon and nodded.

“doesn’t exist.”

“Yes. We will conclude the trial here, and I will summon Jeong Da-yeong to the next hearing on my own authority. Since the witness requested by the prosecution may become a turning point in the case while the trial continues to be delayed, I will bring forward the hearing date.”

“All right.”

The second trial date of the Central District Prosecutors’ Office’s 12th Division’s case of violation of the Reserve Forces Act ends.

As soon as Kang Hyun appeared in the courtroom, the judge’s thoughts were instantly organized and he showed his intention to pass judgment.

At this point, when he has expanded the scope of the investigation in many directions and everything has reached its limit, there is only one question left for Kang Hyun and one card he has not used.

That’s right, Jeong Da-young.

Kang Hyun started looking at the mysterious woman, Jeong Da Young.