Offer To The CEO

Thursday, continued …

After a couple of seconds of silence on the phone, the police continued "Madam Yao we are going to do that. And Madam Hou, we understand your concerns. After having discussed matters with senior police and prosecutors in the capital, it was decided that for the purposes of the investigation that Mr Gan, Mr Mo and their associates will be sworn in as temporary members of the police force. That should address any legal issues, and other that fact will only be known to yourselves, my team and the people we have spoken to."

Continuing, but now in an exasperated tone "Look, I am guessing we are getting a bit sidetracked here, with respect to the investigation issue. In this case we are going to need the assistance, but we felt that you all needed an update as to the situation."

"CEO Yao, in respect to your daughter," and with the mention of Alecia everyone in the room started to tense up "we have an interview scheduled with Lu Jinhu tomorrow. The DNA tests have been sent off both domestically and to respected international laboratories for the purposes of double checking he sequencing, but we have no firm timeline on when all results will be back."

"However, if what is suspected to be true, we eventually will be charging CEO Lu and Rong Jingye over the incident and Lu Jinhu with aiding and abetting it. On the surface, it appears that this is a discrete incident, but there appears from the statements we have so far to be links to the wider abuse of young girls and hints that there was an intention to use this to blackmail you CEO Yao …"

"And possibly me, as well given it is known that she is my goddaughter" responded Hou Yi.

"That is a possibility, CEO Hou. Something that was said in our interviews with the young girls you brought in Madam Yao earlier in the week makes us wonder if that was in fact his intention. Looking back into business news archives, we noticed a pattern where there were rumours of attacks on daughters of various company CEO's or senior executives, and then sudden deals with Lu Corporation."

"Additionally, from their statements and the information Mr Gan and Mr Mo provided it supports the potential that CEO Lu, Rong Jingye and some of their friends and associates will be charged with

multiple sexual offences against people under the age of 18 years. Presently the question is who and what the charges will be, and that depends on further statements and evidence that is gathered."

"The more that can be gathered, the harder it will be to argue that the charges are made by spiteful jealous people out to smear their reputations. The one thing we are struggling with is who is involved in the actual scheme. More than likely CEO Lu is involved, but the question is how far into Lu Corporation this goes, and who else is involved"

Fully knowing the answer Hou Yi asked, "So I am guessing that this cannot be spoken about?"

"That is correct CEO Hou. The less that is in the public, the better. But CEO Lu will be charged today over the incident at XF international. The only question is whether Lu Jinhu will also have charges for this incident as well. Do you mind me asking why you have to know?"

"Just something you might need to know, through various investment companies my wife and I now own the forty percent of Lu Corporation shares traded on the open market. We have a deal in the future if we wish to sell those shares to sell up to a quarter of those shares to Mr Gan and Mr Mo's company. I started this prior to any of the incidents occurring due to concerns that Lu Corporation assets were being used to target my wife."

Taking a breath, Hou Yi then continued "The problem is that my wife and I will have obligations of owning that amount of shares of Lu Corporation, particularly when we use our votes to question who the CEO of Lu Corporation should be. Lu Corporation's charter will automatically give my wife and I Board seats on their board, and as you would know the law will oblige both of us to tell Lu Corporation's board and naturally Hou Enterprises board, who CEO Yao is a member of and Madam Yao often sits as his proxy. That risks the information getting out."

There was dead silence on the other end of the phone, before there were unintelligible voices in the background, before here was said "That was something that we were unaware of. CEO Hou, we want to make the same offer as has been made to Mr Gan and Mr Mo …"

"You are giving it to all of us to protect ourselves and our companies?" came Anna.

"Madam Hou we need to. I would expect that CEO Yao would have the same issue with XF International as with Hou Enterprises if we did not act and make you all temporary police officers to assist us with the investigation. As I understand you are all at Hou Enterprises, a Senior Officer will be there in around fifteen minutes, to swear you in for this purpose only. Mr Gan and Mr Mo, can you arrange for your associates to be there as well."

Hou Yi continued, "I will let my assistant know to ensure that the officer is shown up immediately, and the meeting that we will be about to go into with Mr Gan, Mr Mo and their other company senior members can be interrupted."

With that Hou Yi took the call off speaker phone and quickly ended the call while Anna, called Assistant Wang and let him know what was happening.