What's wrong with this lawyer?!

Fang Qiusheng was truly anxious now, he was frightened by the situation described by the police officer!

Fraud, a considerable amount is less than three years, with or without a fine, huge amount, three or ten years, with a fine, extraordinarily huge amount or other particularly serious circumstances, life imprisonment, fine or confiscation of all property.

According to "Interpretation of Specific Legal Issues on Handling Fraud Criminal Cases" by the "Two Highs," three thousand to more than ten thousand is a considerable amount, thirty thousand to more than one hundred thousand is a huge amount, and more than five hundred thousand is extraordinarily huge.

High Courts and High People's Procuratorates of each province, autonomous region, and municipality can determine the specific enforcement standards in their local areas based on local economic development, within this prescribed range, and report to the Supreme Court and Supreme Procuratorate for the record.

The regulations for theft are also similar, and the starting point for prosecution is determined by each province itself. It's not necessarily true that economically developed places have a higher starting point; it's just generally higher.

In most provinces, it's five thousand, while in higher ones like Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it's six thousand.

Guangdong Province divides into two regional categories, with the first category at six thousand and the second at four thousand, which is quite interesting. In the first category of six cities, fraud over six thousand becomes prosecutable.

In the second category, anything over four thousand results in prosecution...

But none of this mattered to Fang Qiusheng anymore; what situation were they in? Originally compensating fifteen million, the Supreme Court's retrial determined compensation at one hundred and thirty million.

Forget it, there's no need to consider whether the amount is large or not, just use the highest tier.

Besides, in the case of life imprisonment for fraud, the likelihood of confiscating all property is significant!

Here's a fun fact that might not be common knowledge: in the criminal law, fines and confiscations are additional penalties with a property nature, penalizing your personal assets.

As for the proceeds of your crime, those are called stolen money, which will be directly recovered and returned.

Thus, the police didn't interrogate much, just briefly informed him of the situation, then said one phrase encouraging candor for leniency, and Fang Qiusheng spilled everything.

And upon hearing Fang Qiusheng say "The Chairman ordered him to do so," the interrogating officers exchanged a glance, their eyes lighting up!

And when they heard him say "I have evidence," they became even more excited.

"Fang Qiusheng, I have to tell you, although being candid can lead to leniency, you mustn't make false accusations; framing someone is also a crime!"

Upon hearing this, Fang Qiusheng hurriedly replied: "No, no, I'm not talking nonsense, I really have evidence, I have a recording of the Chairman talking to me about this!"

One police officer immediately asked: "Where is it?"

"At my home, the recording is in the phone I used to use." Fang Qiusheng replied hastily.

Then the interrogating officers quickly informed their colleagues outside, and soon a police car rushed to Fang Qiusheng's home.

The police officer continued to ask: "Did Dajin's Chairman speak to you about this over the phone?"

Fang Qiusheng shook his head: "No."

Huh? The police officer was stunned by this response.

Fang Qiusheng promptly added: "He came directly to my office and told me not to ask anything, just to get the people below to do the work."

"I felt something was off..."

Fang Qiusheng, like Cui Zhengyu, is a technical engineering type, but the difference is Fang Qiusheng has always been in a state-owned enterprise.

The production of such chemical materials, safety issues is equally important.

As the Chief Engineer, Fang Qiusheng doesn't know much about criminal law, but he does know one thing: modifying such a production line without authorization can easily lead to problems.

After all, this production line follows Tengfei's technology, and now they want to temporarily change key parts, making it run smoothly afterward, and the time is tight — all of this can easily cause trouble.

Fang Qiusheng is a professional, and he's also heard things in this industry, like stories about civil engineering interns getting sentenced for signing off within three months of employment; similar scenarios exist in other industries involving safety production.

Many young newcomers believe the leaders are good people, that they'll value you, so you do whatever they tell you to do.

But after being in the industry a bit longer, one learns the importance of leaving traces for everything.

Leaders might tell you to do whatever you want now, promising to take responsibility if problems occur, but once a problem arises, the leaders avoid responsibility far quicker than you can.

What? He made decisions on his own; I never told him to do it. Does he have evidence?

No, because the leader gives direct verbal orders; you can't record everything all the time, so how can you provide proof?

Someone experienced like Fang Qiusheng naturally understands this, so he developed a habit.

Every time a leader gives direct orders, he makes a prior phone call before starting the work.

It's somewhat like this: CEO, we're ready to start the task you assigned us.

It's an ordinary report, appearing unobjectionable on the surface. If the other party disagrees with even this, then there's sure to be a problem.

He records this situation, doesn't share it freely, just keeps it for himself; it might never be useful in his lifetime, but just in case.

It's an engineer's self-preservation strategy.

Because these days, nobody knows what might happen.

Fang Qiusheng feared safety issues, yet he didn't expect it could be used now.

The police officer smiled after hearing Fang Qiusheng's account, just saying that Director Fang was indeed lucky.