12 Hours After Chapter 169

Translator: Khan

Editor: Aelryinth

I picked up the phone . “Secretary Park . ”

“Yes, boss . ”

“Come in for a second . ”

“Ah, yes . ”

Soon, Secretary Park opened the door and came in . I handed him a piece of paper, which read, 'Hello, are you the wife of Hong Yong-pyo? Your husband will be in trouble in the near future . We can help you to some extent . Please think about it and let me know . '

Secretary Park said, lifting it, “This is…”

“Send this to the number written next to it . And if you get a reply, you can patch it through, and… she'll reply in two or three days . She'll contact us in a week, at the latest . ”

Secretary Park put the paper in his pocket and replied, “Yes, boss . ”

The next morning, the Daewon Daily News published a super-specialized edition, featuring the article, 'We dug into the controversy over Tak Woo-kyung's death, and the hidden truth . '

It contained information about the VIP room on the top floor of Suyeon Foundation Hospital, which Crow had been investigating for two months: the time when Tak Woo-kyung had actually died, the names of the doctor and the nurse who had confirmed he was dead, the reason why Suyeon's Future Strategy Team kept it a secret and pretended he was alive, and so on .

Almost instantly, the Internet was going crazy .

– Wow, is this a true story? Did they turn a dead man into a living one?-

– By the way, is this even possible?-

– It's possible . In Korea, if a doctor does not declare death, he is not legally dead even if he can't breathe and he has no heartbeat . -

– Although he was biologically dead, a doctor can make him alive physically . -

Of course, there were people who predicted this story .

– This kind of rumor has been around for a long time, and that's the way it is . Isn't this what everyone used to hush up?-

– Everyone knew all about it, but since Suyeon was so powerful, they kept quiet . -

– The Suyeon group has tried to take off some of Tak Woo-kyung's assets and then they would declare him dead . However, the Daewon Daily News disclosed it first . -

– Tak Woo-kyung's check recently paid to repair Tak Mun-su's house . What does this mean?-

There were other such stories, too:

– Isn't Daewon Daily News a hound of a big company dog? Why did they publish this article?-

– Suyeon might be fighting with Susung or Mirae . I don't think Daewon Daily News would have worked alone . -

– Suyeon is being investigated for tax scandals by the independent counsel; they seem to be in someone's bad books . -

– I don't know who that someone is, but Suyeon is in big trouble . I'm afraid Suyeon Group will be disintegrated in midair . -

I was shaking the nation's political and business world behind the dark curtain . I would split the Suyeon Group in half and disintegrate it in midair, as written in the comments . I would take only the good companies there . I would kick out anyone with the surname of Tak .

After the article was published, public attention was focused on Hong Yong-pyo, head of Suyeon Foundation Hospital, the doctor of Tak Woo-kyung, who was responsible for all of this . He did not confirm or deny the report, but remained consistent with no action taken . I knew it was going to go that way . He was a professor at Seoul National University's medical school in Korea, but this was a matter worth a billion dollars . It wasn't something he could handle on his own .

'Maybe he's under a lot of pressure from Suyeon Group . '

According to Crow's investigation, he was supposed to receive a large sum of bribes from the Suyeon Group in return for keeping the secret . He had already received six million dollars in cash, and then he would get another four million dollars a year to keep Tak Woo-kyung 'alive' in the hospital .

The money paid to the doctor was four million dollars a year, so hundreds of million dollars a year were designed to somehow be transferred from Tak Woo-kyung's wallet to Tak Mun-su's .

I was about to ask Crow to investigate that, if Hong Yong-pyo, the head of the hospital, finally denied it . But things didn't go that way .

The very next day, Secretary Park told me, “I got a reply from the doctor's wife . She is asking what she should do and how we could help . ”

I said, nodding my head, “Please put me through . ”

“Yes, boss . I'll go and connect you . ”

“Okay . ”

Soon, Secretary Park brought me a smartphone . “Press the call button and you'll be connected . ”

I glanced at him, then pressed the call button . Soon someone answered the phone . “Hello?”

“Hello . ”

She spoke in a rather cautious voice . “Well, are you the one who contacted me two days ago?”

“That's right . ”

“I'm sorry, but can I ask you what you're doing?” She seemed to be in a pretty tight state . The public eye was focused on her husband .

“It doesn't mean much now, does it? The point is on whether your husband will survive or not . Isn't that right?”

“That's right, but…”

“The news doesn't have a specific amount right now, but the media already has the information about your husband receiving six million dollars . If I am willing to expose it, the prosecutor will trace the source of the money . ”

She voice quavered at my words . “It's not six, but four million dollars . I just received the money and have kept it . ”

Crow even investigated the fact that Hong Yong-pyo, head of the hospital, had a young lover in her late twenties at the Apgujeong-dong OfficeTel .

“Ah, two million dollars would have gone to the young lover . The prosecutor is going to look there, too . ”

“The young lover?”

“Yes . Your husband did not receive four million dollars . It was originally six million dollars . If you dig in, it'll all come out . ”

“Is that… is that so?” At this point, her voice changed slightly . Inside the fear, a strange voice came out with a slight mix of anger .

“Yes, the tenant of Apgujeong Blueville OfficeTel 405 is a young woman, right? She's not just a tenant, but your husband's lover There's two million dollars in that safe . ”

She didn't question who I was, how I knew it, or any more about it .

“Is it really…?

“Yes . As I know, you planned to invest in the Officetel . ”

“Yes, that's right . What a prick she is,” she said, as if she were going to the Officetel right now and rip off the young woman's hair .

I said, calming her down, “Ah, you're so excited, whatever may become of your husband, your son and daughter should not be harmed by this . ”

The son was attending Harvard and the daughter was attending Stanford .

“Of course, as you have the basic assets, there would be no problem, but this is a money matter of a billion dollars . If your husband is accused of breach of trust or perjury, would you be able to pay tuition to the United States?”

“What? A money matter of a billion dollars? My husband just accepted their request . ”

“Yes, I know, but that's how the law works . Do you know that the Suyeon Group is saving hundreds of million dollars in taxes because of your husband?”

“…” She couldn't talk for a moment .

“The circumstances are already revealed, and the prosecution will come to your house soon . You know that Suyeon Group has been hit by both the prosecutors' investigation and the tax investigation . Convince your husband to turn himself in, and he will be treated decently . He's going to get a good sentence . Let him say, 'I couldn't help it under pressure from the Suyeon Group . I couldn't refuse . ' That's how it is . ”

“Then… will that happen?”

I answered right away, “Yes . ”

But to be honest, I didn't know about the legal work . But nevertheless, I said so, because I didn't want Crow to go back and forth for another month or two . It was the cleanest thing for me if the head of the hospital would turn himself in . It would not be bad for him . If he denied it anyway, I was going to reveal some more details through the Daewon Daily News and Crow .

However, she said, “I'll think about it . ”

So I said one more thing, “I'll give you a week . Turn himself in, or he will be plastered with news on the Internet . I'm also moving the Daewon Daily News . You know the English version of the Daewon Daily News comes out in the United States…”

“Yes, I understand . I'm sorry . ” When I talked about her son and daughter, she immediately changed her words defensively . I had a rough guess after receiving Crow's report .

“Well, it's a week . Please do it as soon as possible . I can't stop all the reporters . ”

“Yes . ”

After that, I looked down at the cell phone for a moment . The cell phone was an old-fashioned one, which seemed to be rather heavy . I lifted it up and asked, “Is this…? I asked Secretary Park .

Park replied as he bowed his head, “It's as you expect . ”

I handed the cell phone over to him and said, “So I've never seen this . ”

He said, putting it in his arms . “Yes, boss . ”

Ever since this day, the battle for the truth of Tak Woo-kyung's death had continued . Some of the brave press had made follow-up reports, and Suyeon Group did some media play, 'It's a biased report, it's defamation . ' But it was really funny in my eyes . No one in Korea could lie to me, no one could escape my eyes .

Two days later, Hong Yong-pyo, the head of the hospital, finally turned himself in . “I'm sorry to betray the doctor's duty . However, while serving as the head of the hospital, it was impossible to reject the offer from the Suyeon Group . ” In this way, he cut his tail as much as possible while making Suyeon Group bad guys .

He didn't really look good, perhaps because he was so harried by his wife at home . In any case, he exposed the inside story of Tak Woo-kyung's death, including the time of his death, the reason why he had died, and those who were there .

The doctor was interviewed by the media and said, “The patient is dead”, and it led to a public death declaration . Now, Tak Mun-su and other heirs had to pay inheritance taxes of five billion dollars, half of ten billion dollars of Tak Woo-kyung's assets . President Joo Sung-won and the National Tax Service would move fast, as they were struggling with insufficient tax revenues due to the Chinese financial crisis .

Shares of Suyeon Construction and Suyeon Electronics, which were heavily owned by Tak Woo-kyung, fluctuated after rising and falling, since they didn't know whether his death was a boon or a bad thing . However, I already knew that Tak Mun-su would dispose of his shares in electronics and construction for the tax payment, and I bought the fluctuating stocks at low prices .

I smiled as I watched the operation to disintegrate Suyeon Group proceed as planned .

Chapter end