The whole story of this mega-bank vault theft.

In the early 1990s, a bank vault theft that shocked the whole country occurred in a provincial capital city in the north. The whole case goes like this. ...

1.

At about 9: 00 am on March 16, police cars roared in and out of the courtyard of Beimen Sub-branch of Agricultural Bank of China in the middle section of Beizha Street. Outside the cordon that has been pulled up, a crowd of onlookers gathered. There are whispers in the crowd from time to time:

"I heard that the vault of the bank was stolen." ...

"Not to say that stole more than 500000? After a while, it became more than 800,000. " ……

"Oh, will my money in it be stolen?" ……

"I have to get the money out quickly, just in case." ……

"……"

2.

In the middle of the courtyard of Beizha Bank Sub-branch, Wang Weiguo, the director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau with a dignified expression, took advantage of the short gap just after the assignment to carefully observe the surrounding situation. This is a new rectangular courtyard, which has just been built and used for a little over two years. A row of bungalows facing the street in the south is the business office of the bank, the main entrance, reception room and fence of the branch in the east, the fence, garage and bicycle storage in the west, and a four-story office building in the north, which is actually five floors, with one floor underground. The entrance of the building is in the middle of the whole building, and it takes four or five steps to get in. After entering, there are duty room and guard room on the left and right respectively. Downward is the negative floor, and the west end is the vault. There is also a "duty room" in front of the vault. Above the vault, that is, the western half of the first floor, is the equipment room. Other places belong to the office area.

It is this nondescript basement that puzzles Wang Weiguo: if it is a basement, it is about one meter from the ground, and the higher part has no windows, so it is not a basement at all. What puzzles him even more is that as the most important vault of the bank, there is no other defense facilities except a monitoring probe at the door.

"Wang Ju, I found out." Liu Xing, captain of the city bureau criminal police team, ran from the entrance with hot air in his mouth.

"How much is it?"

"More than 65438+200000. Let him report to you. " Liu Xing turned and waved to Director Wang coming from the sub-bureau and said, "Hurry up."

"One * * * was stolen by a hundred ... 1.286 million ..." I could hear the trembling voice coming from all my strength.

"Well, you have to put a satellite." Obviously, this figure surprised Director Wang-you know, the maximum denomination of RMB at that time was 10 yuan, and the average person's monthly salary was 100 yuan.

"That hole ..." When Wang turned to ask Liu Xing, a car horn sounded at the gate. Get off is the mayor of Trung Dinh, he hurried to meet the past.

3.

In the afternoon, the first case analysis will be held in the conference room of the nearest branch office to Beizha Branch Office.

"Most comrades have arrived. Let's have a meeting now. " After looking around the venue, Director Wang said, "The amount of money stolen from the bank vault today is unprecedented in our city and extremely rare in China. The resulting shock and impact ... Now let Liu Duichang introduce the case to everyone, and then we will discuss it. "

As soon as Wang's voice fell, Liu Xing, dressed in plain clothes, a crew cut and a strong figure, got up and walked to the front desk of the conference room-there was a big blackboard hanging on the wall, on which a schematic diagram of the case clues could be vividly drawn, which was the usual method used by criminal police to solve crimes.

"We received the report at 8: 05 this morning. The informant's name is Kong Fanren, and he is the deputy director in charge of safety work in the office of Beizha Bank Branch. He called the police only after receiving a call from Li Jia, the guard on duty in the vault. According to himself, he didn't believe it was stolen at that time and planned to go to the bank first. But after thinking about it on the way, I was afraid that I couldn't afford the responsibility of late reporting, so I reported it to us. Of course, this needs to be further implemented.

I was the first person to arrive at the scene. According to two warehouse keepers and two security guards at the scene, they entered the vault around 7: 30 as usual, ready to withdraw cash sent to various bank outlets. After entering, I first found that the hole in the west wall of the vault was Li Jia. When they found that the cash stored on the shelf was obviously less, they realized that the vault had been stolen.

So, in order not to destroy the scene, four people quickly withdrew from the vault. At that time, the four men did not choose to call the police first, but Li Jiaxiang called his leader Kong Fanren first and reported the theft. Although Kong Fanren arrived at the scene before us, he entered the vault with us after we arrived.

At the crime scene, we checked the door of the vault, and the keys and password safety devices were intact. On the ground of the vault, we got four clear footprints and found a button in a hole two meters above the ground. Other than that, there are no other clues in the vault. After checking by the bank, the stolen cash 1.28 million yuan.

At the other end of the hole in the wall of the vault, that is, an empty house belonging to the match factory separated from the branch, we found many clues.

This house is a turnover room for single workers in the match factory. There are eight rooms in a row, and there are two vacant rooms. This is one of them. The outer wall of this row of houses is only 15 cm away from the outer wall of the vault. "Liu Xing raised his hand to indicate that he was only halfway through, and then went on to say." A lot of garbage and some domestic garbage left by digging holes were found in the house, including cigarette butts, empty cigarette cases, chicken bones, bread packaging, mineral water bottles, a set of gas cutting equipment, a steel bar, two hammers, a shovel, an impact electric drill, a hemp rope, a new sack and a pile of feces. It can be concluded that the purpose of the suspect living here is to dig a hole in order to enter the vault, steal cash and transfer money from here. "

Liu Xing had intended to stop here so as to hear if anyone had asked questions. But I heard the king's order: "Go on."

"Let's look at this hole." As he said, Liu Xingbian painted on the blackboard, much like a teacher on the podium.

"This hole is generally irregular and round, with a maximum diameter of 48 cm and a minimum diameter of 42 cm. People who are thin or medium in stature can pass. The hole thickness of the wall is 5 1 cm, the whole wall is concrete, and there are two rows of steel bars with a diameter of 2.2 cm in the wall, which can be said to be extremely strong.

Let's look at the location of the hole. The lower edge of the hole in the vault is 2. 1 m from the ground, and the upper edge is only 23 cm from the roof. In the house at the other end of the hole, the lower edge of the hole is deliberately dug in a small pit on the ground, about 10 cm from the ground. In other words, before digging this hole, we should not only know the location and structure of the vault, but also carefully measure it to avoid the vault. Who can do this? Liu Xing paused and saw that they didn't mean to question for the time being, and then continued.

"There is a question. Opening such a big hole in the wall is sure to cause a lot of noise. However, according to the preliminary understanding, the employees of the branch company did hear the movement of digging the wall during the day in recent weeks, but they all thought that the sound came from the third floor under the interior decoration. Recently, the employees who worked at night said that they had never heard the sound of digging a wall. If the duty room is a little far from the vault, it may not be heard, so the match factory workers living in that row of houses will hear the sound anyway, assuming that someone cuts the wall at night. However, they also said that they had never heard the sound of digging a wall at night. Can it be concluded that the suspect only digs the wall during the day, and it is carried out at the same time as the third floor construction? If this is the case, once again, the suspect should be familiar with the internal situation and laws of the branch. " After Liu Xing finished speaking, he saw that everyone was meditating. Director Wang didn't say anything, so he added, "I'll introduce it here." Then go back to your seat.

"There are indications that this case is internal and external collusion even if it is not an insider's crime. We must first start the investigation from within the branch. " Wei Mingliang, deputy director in charge of criminal investigation, took the lead in breaking the silence.

"So much money-more than one million must weigh at least two or three hundred kilograms, and at least two or more people must commit crimes together, and it is likely to be transferred by car."

"How can this vault be above the ground? Besides, how can we not install monitoring facilities inside? "

……

"Comrades, be quiet first." After a while, Wang interrupted everyone's discussion. "I announce that the 3- 16 mega-theft bank task force has now been established and is headquartered here. I am the team leader and deputy team leader: Deputy Director Wei Mingliang, Director Huang Yiran and Team Leader Liu Xing. From now on, before the test results and new clues from the technical department come out, the focus of work will be on investigating suspicious people and signs related to Beizha Bank Branch for the time being. The focus is on people who know and are familiar with the vault of the branch, people who have close contact with the branch, and visits to people near the scene of the incident ... For every physical evidence left at the scene, there must be someone who is responsible for tracing it. I will assign specific tasks below ... ".

After the meeting, as soon as everyone cleaned up, Liu Xing, who was left behind, waited for the sentence he expected.

"Come on, go to that house with me again." Director Wang said as he walked to the door. -Liu Xing retired from the special forces, with strong working ability, which won the appreciation of Director Wang.

4.

The scale of the meeting the next morning was beyond Liu Xing's expectation. Not only did the venue move to the big conference room of the station, but all kinds of police, district and county leaders and even the directors of key police stations in the city participated. The atmosphere of the meeting was extremely serious and solemn.

"Comrades, the big case of 3- 16 not only alarmed the provincial offices, but also attached great importance to it and gave us an order to solve the case within ten days." Director Wang scanned everyone present and spoke loudly in a solemn and stirring tone. "Comrades, it's time to test us. To this end, we must mobilize the overall situation and complete the task on time at all costs ... ".

After the meeting, a tight encirclement quickly fell to every corner of the big city.

It can't be said that this routine investigation is ineffective. After all, a large number of accumulated cases or suspicious cases were quickly cleaned up and detected in just a few days. However, they have nothing to do with the case of 3- 16.

Time soon arrived at the fifth night. As a rule, no matter how late it is every day, the case meeting of the task force is firm. Because we have never found a breakthrough in the case, everyone is under pressure. Especially as the group leader Wang Weiguo, at this time, others sitting around the conference table, all bowed their heads and meditated. And he stood by the window with his chest in his hands, staring at the night sky outside the window, as if the answer he needed was in the dark night sky. The indoor air is depressed and tense.

In the past few days, Wang Weiguo has received hundreds of phone calls, instructions and feedback every day, and at the same time he has hundreds of times of depression ... Plus staying up late, he looks very haggard in his fifties. But he still stick to the headquarters, and constantly reflect on:

What's the problem? People associated with bank branches, even all those who have recently gone to do business, have visited them one by one, and there is no useful clue at all; I asked almost all the job markets, even those who look like migrant workers, either said they didn't break the wall or said they did but had nothing to do with the treasury; ……

Is the reconnaissance direction wrong? Design and construction, water and electricity installation, etc. It is related to the vault, but all the people who have been nearby and in and out of the vault have also visited them one by one, but no suspicious signs have been found; The gas cutting equipment, hammers, steel drills, electric drills, cigarette butts and other items left at the scene have been checked one by one, even the manufacturers, buyers and users have been checked, but the final trace can not be found; For example, after verification, the steel bar was sold from the siping road Sales Department under the Municipal Materials Bureau, and the buyer was the Third Construction Company. The team that can use it doesn't even know when and where it was lost, so it is impossible to find out the final destination of this steel bar. Even cars and motorcycles that may become means of transportation have been extensively investigated, and even several theft cases have been cracked, but no clues have been found to use them. ……

Is it because the investigators' work is not serious enough? Really ... While Wang Weiguo was thinking deeply, there was a voice on the intercom.

"Liu Dui ... Liu Dui ... this is Wang Lei. Please reply. " The clear voice from the intercom broke the terrible silence in the room and interrupted Wang Weiguo's thoughts.

"This is Liu Xing. Go ahead. "

"The object I visited has just returned to China. According to him, some time ago, he heard an elderly man say that he seemed to have done the work of smashing walls. But he also said that the man was about fifty years old. Although it does not meet the inspection conditions, I still feel that I should report it to you. "

"Does he know that man?" Liu Xing asked eagerly. On hearing the word "smashing the wall", everyone became alert-the person who smashed the wall was either a criminal or knew a criminal. Finding the person who smashed the wall is tantamount to solving the case.

"I don't know. He overheard it from two people next to him on the bus. " This sentence made the people present instantly deflated like balloons.

"Two people? What kind of two people? "

"Two men, one is about fifty years old, the other is about the same age, but one is mute."

"Record the time, place and characteristics in detail. We'll see you tomorrow. "

This seemingly unreliable news has attracted the attention of Wang Weiguo and Liu Xing because it contains elements of "hitting the wall". After that meeting, Wang Weiguo specifically asked Liu Xing to find out the information that was not a clue.

5.

At noon on the sixth day after the murder, when Liu Xing struggled to find the two people who lived in a village in the suburbs-the two people mentioned in the intercom last night, he was instantly shrouded in a huge disappointment. Because both of them are in their fifties, one is dumb but not deaf, and the other is not deaf but a little dull. However, after a brief inquiry, he was surrounded by great excitement. Because, from the description of these two people, Liu Xing can still conclude that they carved the wall of the vault.

On the way back to the city, Liu Xing drove off two people, and he got through to Wang Bureau.

"good! Quick! " Wang Weiguo's answer is extremely simple and powerful. People who are in a period of extreme fatigue, the most urgent desire will be satisfied in an instant.

Accompanied by sirens, Liu Xing quickly took the two men to the crime scene. The answer is expected. However, the result is unexpected-people who can talk can't describe the people who hired them to smash the wall. Not to mention looks, even the height will be 1.8 meters, 1.7 meters or even 2 meters. Even if later Wang invited them to the station to ask respectfully, he did not ask for a clearer outline. In fact, it's not that they don't cooperate, but that they have mental problems.

Just when everyone was at a loss, thanks to director Li of the pre-trial office, we came up with a solution. He took them back to the house, bought bread and roast chicken, and promised them 100 yuan as long as they could do every move they had done here before.

It proved to be very effective afterwards. The people who participated in the on-site observation returned to the meeting room and started a concentrated discussion.

"I see these two people smashed the wall here for three days." Director Li of the pre-trial office said.

"They should have heard it outside before they started hitting the wall. Without sound, I will never smash the wall. "

"They haven't been out since they entered the room." ……

"Now, it seems that what happened should be ..." Director Wang glanced at everyone and said slowly: "On the third day after the renovation of the branch office, a man found these two people who had just entered the city to find a job near the bus station and sent them home with a van. Promise 100 yuan per person per day to control the diet, provided that you can't go out and be found, and you can only dig the wall when there is movement upstairs during the day. Three days later, they were sent back to the bus station by a van without the wall being cut through. Then, I stayed at home and never went out again until we found them today. "

"yes. Things should be like this. " Deputy director Wei said. "We have to start with the van again."

"Have we checked fewer cars?" Director Wang looked at him and said, "Besides, do we still have time?"

"I don't know if you have seen it, but the mute has done it twice." Liu Xing held one end of the pen on his left hand. As soon as his right hand touched the other end of the pen, he quickly put it away. Said, "Does this mean that steel is hot? If it is hot, it means that the steel has just been polished, but it cannot be polished indoors and can only be polished outdoors. "

"That's a good idea. Such a thick steel drill, the grinding wheel can neither be polished nor quenched, and can only be made in the blacksmith shop. " Wang Weiguo's eyes shine and he looks at Liu Xing with appreciation.

"And it is near the shop while the iron is hot. I'll check it right away. " Liu Xing said and stood up.

"Yes, bring more people."

6.

In a corner at the northern end of Zhongzheng Street, more than 0/000 meters away from the crime scene, Liu Xing found a blacksmith shop. When he showed the blacksmith the steel bar used for the crime, the blacksmith's son next to him spoke first: "I know this steel bar." Or am I quenched? "

"Can you tell me in detail when the person who polished the steel bar came? What does it look like? " Liu Xing's heart is full of ecstasy and excitement, but he still keeps asking.

"What do you do?" Although the young man was strong, he showed a slightly immature expression on his face and asked Liu Xing doubtfully.

"My name is Liu Xing, and I am from the city bureau criminal police. What's your name? " Liu Xing also felt her rudeness, and her tone softened a lot.

"So you are a policeman! My name is Huo Feng. " Huo Feng's eyes suddenly filled with envy, and then said, "I also want to be a policeman and catch bad guys."

"Well, there is a big bad guy now, and we need your help to catch him."

"Where is it?"

"That's the man who came to you with this steel drill to polish it." Liu Xing pointed to the steel and stared at Huo Feng, she said.

"That man doesn't look like a good man to me either."

"Do you remember what he looks like?"

"That man is very fierce, and there is a mole here. Of course I remember. " Huo Feng confidently said, pointing to his right chin.

"Come on, you go to the station with me and talk slowly." Liu Xing took Huo Feng's hand excitedly.

In the conference room, Wang Weiguo had just finished talking with Huo Fenggang, and he excitedly gave orders to Liu Xing.

"Notify all investigation teams and send photos of suspicious persons to the conference room immediately."

Time is running out. It was not until four and a half hours later, until midnight 1 1 5, until I saw the photo of 1 125, that I heard Huo Feng's surprised and loud voice: "That's him!" -this sentence has become the key to solving the case. Later, he was hired as an official people's police because of his meritorious service.

In the conference room, the dull air emitted by all the people who have been waiting anxiously was instantly blasted by this cheerful voice. In the applause, Wang Weiguo held 19-year-old boy Huo Feng in her arms. His excited eyes were full of tears, but he was silent. Some people are laughing and some are crying in the room. It's not easy! For six days in a row, the white and black fighting finally made a breakthrough in the case.

The man in the photo is Sheng Weiqiang, an employee of the Third Construction Company. He is thirty-nine years old this year. He has nothing to do with the branch of Beizha Bank. Send his photo only because he had a record of fighting and being reeducation through labor five or six years ago. Not only Huo Feng's appraisal can confirm that Sheng Weiqiang is the perpetrator, but also the result that the steel bars checked by the sub-bureau are lost in the work unit of Sheng Weiqiang, the third construction company.

Liu Xing is responsible for the early morning arrest. He first monitored outside the bungalow where Sheng Weiqiang lived, and then dived under the window. By dialing Sheng Weiqiang's BB machine, he determined his position with the ringtone. The preparation and arrest were perfect, but the result was very bad-Sheng Weiqiang had just been taken out of the house and fell to the ground dead because of taking poison in advance.

This great change shocked and frustrated the members of the task force. You know, Sheng Weiqiang definitely has at least one accomplice. If that guy learns that Sheng Weiqiang committed suicide or was arrested, whether he chose to hide, abscond or commit suicide, it will bring unimaginable disastrous consequences to the detection of the case. If you want to avoid such a passive situation, you must control that partner before dawn. However, let alone control, now he doesn't even know who he is.

7.

At two o'clock in the morning, the air at the headquarters of the task force became tense again.

"Although this time we ate the loss of experience. However, I think that Sheng Weiqiang's accomplice has to be found from his most familiar and best friend. " Deputy Director Wei's so-called "loss" means nothing more than that there is no connection between Sheng Weiqiang and the sub-bureau, not that the original criminal must have a close relationship with the sub-bureau.

"I agree. No one will choose someone they don't trust to perform the beheading. " Liu xing went on to say.

"Even if you don't trust me, at least you have to be a very close friend." ……

I want to do this. Seeing that everyone stopped talking, Director Wang threw out his own plan and finally added. "This is forced by the situation and it is really helpless."

Because the police car kept going back and forth, at 5: 30 in the morning, Sheng Weiqiang's unit leaders, street cadres and Duan policemen were invited in the conference room of the bureau ... At 6: 30 in the morning, it was already dawn, and the residences of four people who had close contacts with Sheng Weiqiang had been closely monitored by plainclothes police. Only after more than an hour, the tail of one of the foxes was exposed-Wang Hao, the best friend who grew up naked with Sheng Weiqiang, was also one of the four monitoring objects, and the most suspected guy sneaked into the vicinity of Sheng Weiqiang's home alone.

This is what Liu Xing expected. Liu Xing, who lies in ambush at Sheng Weiqiang's home, won't let Sheng Weiqiang's daughter-in-law go out, just in case something happens. She just answered Wang Hao's question in the room. "Your brother hasn't got up yet." Wang Hao hurried home after hearing the reply. According to the order, the monitoring personnel did not take action against Wang Hao.

About an hour passed. Wang Hao went out again, and the direction was still Sheng Weiqiang's home. At this point, as commander in chief, Wang Weiguo's nerves began to be highly nervous-whether to grasp or not to grasp must make a decision at once? In fact, there are different opinions within the task force about whether there are two or more criminals. If it is two people, then it should be caught in the morning; But if there is more than one person, arresting now is tantamount to alarming the snake and the trial is smooth. Once you encounter a suspect who refuses to confess, it will seriously affect the process of solving the case. After all, Wang Hao is the only clue at this time and must not be broken.

Finally, Wang Weiguo decided to continue to take risks-not to arrest for the time being. However, Liu Xing was told to leave Sheng Weiqiang's house as soon as possible and lock the door. Wang Hao became a frightened bird when he saw Cheng Weiqiang's house closed. Panicked, Wang Hao quickly returned home and made a phone call at a public phone booth. This is exactly what Wang Weiguo expected. He learned that Wang Hao had not installed a telephone in his home. According to his inference, even if Wang Hao found that Sheng Weiqiang had an accident, assuming that he had an accomplice, he would contact him; If not, he will abscond with the money; Without struggle, the probability of choosing suicide is very small. Therefore, when Wang Weiguo heard Wang Hao's news on the phone, he decisively issued the decision of "arrest immediately" to prevent the accomplices who received the call from escaping.

After Wang Hao was arrested, potassium cyanide was also found from him. Only after Sheng Weiqiang's last lesson, the captors led by Liu Xing didn't give him any chance to swallow it. At first, the trial of Wang Hao was extremely difficult-he was a stubborn fugitive. No matter what he asked, he kept silent and said nothing.

The breakthrough was opened from the phone he dialed. After investigation, the number was a long-distance call, and the owner was a lady named Zhang Ying from a city in a neighboring province. Through further investigation, Zhang Ying's husband's name is Jinda, and Jinda is a distant cousin of Sheng Weiqiang. It is precisely because of this information that Wang Hao's retrial became an instant hit. -When experienced interrogation director Li repeatedly hinted that Sheng Weiqiang gave up on him, especially after naming a certain city named Jin Da, he completely defeated the psychological defense line of the outlaws' heavy brotherhood and convinced him that his arrest was the result of Sheng Weiqiang's betrayal.

By the early morning of the eighth day after the murder, with Wang Hao's complete confession, the case was basically clear: Sheng Weiqiang was working on a construction site across the street just two years ago, that is, during the construction of the vault of Beizha Bank Branch. He took time to wander around the branch site and secretly measured and recorded the information of the vault. I have to admit that Sheng Weiqiang is very scheming. Even when he was heavily in debt because of gambling, he didn't easily take risks to implement his long-planned plan to steal the vault, but silently observed, waited and looked for the right time. It was not until two years later that he saw that the third floor of the branch was being renovated, and the house next to the match factory was just empty. So, he stole a key, hired someone to cut the wall to only four or five centimeters thick, and resigned early.

Sheng Weiqiang's action plan was informed to Wang Hao before implementation, but Wang Hao did not participate in the wall cutting process; Jinda drove from other places the day before stealing the vault. The purpose of the notice is only to use his car to transfer the stolen huge sum.

8.

Although Jinda received a phone call from Wang Hao in the morning, Wang Hao did not explicitly say that Sheng Weiqiang had an accident, only that something might have happened. This made him feel lucky. It was not until the afternoon when he called Wang Hao on BB, but he couldn't contact him, that he began to make preparations for absconding-he booked a plane ticket to fly to the south the next morning. Although he hid in a remote hotel at night, all his actions were closely monitored by the local police.

The task of catching Kim Dae was relatively easy and smooth. Because the public security departments of neighboring provinces have received orders from the Ministry of Public Security to fully cooperate. In the early morning of the 9th, Jin Da, who was monitored by the local public security department for nearly a day, and Liu Xing, who was rushed to carry out the arrest task, put on handcuffs in the hotel room.

At one o'clock in the morning on March 26th. In the brightly lit 3- 16 project headquarters, although there were more than a dozen people sitting, it was silent. Only the clock on the wall ticks regularly, and everyone is anxiously waiting for a call from Liu Xing at any time. They are not sure whether the coming news will keep their nerves nervous or completely relax.

Sitting in the middle of Wang Weiguo, after more than nine days and nights of suffering, his bags under the eyes have swollen a lot, and the black eyes are becoming more and more obvious. Against the neglected gray hair, it looks unusually old and sad. However, his back is still strong.

"Cha ... Cha ..." Although the Han Xian BB machine on the table was quiet, it still attracted everyone's attention. Wang Weiguo picked up the BB machine at the fastest speed, and the small screen said, "Wang Ju, go to bed! The task has been completed. "

"The task has been completed." Wang Weiguo put his hand on the table and handed the BB machine to the person next to him, as if talking to himself.

After the cheers came to an abrupt end, it was the director Wang Weiguo's dripping snoring. ...

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