Offer To The CEO

Monday, continued …

Hearing that comment, Anna turned to Hou Yi and asked "How likely is that?"

"Sweetheart as you know, if you pay compensation, your victims can agree to lesser charges being pursued or all complaints being withdrawn. The issue will be how much money he has access to and how many victims he can contact. The main targets will be those victims with connections to Lu Corporation's entertainment division. Lu Corporation will want to prevent them being dragged in too much hence they will be willing to pay. The other thing is I would suspect most of the victims are from poorer rural backgrounds and therefore the amount is much less than for city raised girls or those from better off backgrounds."

"You know he will not be able to buy everyone off. Those who are with the joint venture are protected, and there is no way that he could buy us, or Alecia, off. And given that it seems that Lu Jinhu has sold him out as well, there will be some charges that he cannot escape. He will not be able to escape the charges where there is the footage of his activities, as they will not rely on the victims."

"That is one thing about the criminal legal system here that is taking me time to get my head around. The Victims control the process. In Australia the authorities control the process once the victim makes their statement. But it seems to work. Matters get dealt with, those without the resources are not left behind, and unlike Australia matters do not seem to drag out," replied Anna.

Hou Yi looked at his wife. "Anna the system is designed to reach a justice solution that each party can live with and the government accepts as being reasonable. It leaves it to the parties, but that ends up seeing two levels of justice, those with money can compensate for charges not proceeding and those without end up with punishment imposed by the state."

"I just hope he does not do it to many."

"Well according to CEO Yang, when he called me late yesterday, due to our shareholding in Lu Corporation, it has acted to ensure that he has no access to the corporate accounts. They will withhold money he is owed for work and from distributions until the end of the court process to pay his lawyer and aid in paying victims if they need to be involved. They decided that they will make ex-gratia payments to victims of his actions that have at any time been employed by Lu Corporation."

"Apparently, according to CEO Yang, this is not about admitting that Lu Corporation was involved or is guilty but since he acted in such a manner while CEO of the company. They will ask those that take the payments to agree not to pursue the company unless there is clear evidence the company other than Lu Jingho directly facilitated the actions against them. They seem very confident that it was only his involvement."

"Yi, he would not have had the guts to do all of this without Lu Corporation behind him."

"Anna, true, but the board suspect that he was illegally using resources or assigning them to private companies that were responsible for the activities. They cannot prove it presently."

"Now, come on, stop getting distracted. You need to eat your breakfast before the obstetrician arrives."

Hou Yi, as he had finished his breakfast slipped into the bathroom, and quickly showered and changed for the day. He was glad that he had gotten a hold of Assistant Wang last night and advised that he would not be in until at least 10:30am. Once the assessments were done, he could then work out what was going to happen for the day.

When he came out, he looked at the time, and hurried Anna into the bathroom to allow her change before the obstetrician arrived.

Right on 9am, Anna's obstetrician walked in, and found Anna in Hou Yi's arms on the couch. Seeing the nursing staff outside the room, he quickly shut the door leaving everyone else outside the room.

Once he sat on a chair facing the couch, "Madam Hou, I have checked the observations and so far, everything looks good. You even look better than you did when you arrived yesterday. Plus, I have spoken to Dr Chen, after she spoke to you. From her perspective she indicated that you seemed much better than you were when she started to talk to you."

"Given that the abuse that you suffered in your previous relationship, and what came out yesterday with respect to Mr Lu, we know the reason for your collapse, stress. I view was that keeping you here will be counter-productive, and Dr Chen agreed with that. However, given you CEO Hou, seem to be her stability at this time Dr Chen has recommended for the next few days until she arrives back in country to do a full and proper assessment as to where you are at Madam Hou, that you need to be close to CEO Hou at all times, but not working."

"If you can do that, I am happy for you, after another ultrasound, and series of blood tests for you to go, and come back for a review on Thursday, with Dr Chen and myself. I will then give the OK for you to travel next week to Australia for your wedding."

Anna looked at Hou Yi who whispered, "That is OK with me, no work, and you can rest in the suite attached to my office."

Anna quickly confirmed her agreement, and before long a nurse was taking further blood, and the mobile ultrasound machine was brought in for the scan.

Forty-five minutes later Hou Yi and Anna left the hospital and headed for Hou Enterprises.