The crackdown on organized crime began with the arrest of the mother-in-law.

Chapter 550 The Panic-Stricken Distant Financial Group

The news of Zhang Dongbei's arrest and the sudden collapse of Aijia Supermarket spread like wildfire throughout Linzhou City and even the entire Linjiang Province within a single day!

Faraway Financial Building.

In the top-floor office, some people were sitting, some were standing, and a dozen or so people were gathered together.

If there were any locals from Linzhou, they would be astonished to see that more than a dozen people could actually gather together.

It can be said that these people together can influence one-tenth of Linzhou's total economic output.

"Everyone, what are your thoughts on this matter today?"

Sitting at the head of the table was Gao Yun, chairman of the Yuanfang Financial Building.

Gao Yun spoke softly, but those gentle words felt like a bombshell to everyone present.

As everyone knows, Gao Yun was referring to the collapse of the Aijia Supermarket Group.

To be honest, before today, if someone had told them that the Aijia Supermarket Group would fall apart overnight, they would have thought that person was crazy.

But this crazy news swept through the entire Linzhou City and the entire Linjiang Province in just one morning.

Although in terms of the wealth controlled, Yuanfang Financial Group is greater than Aijia Supermarket, and it could even be said that the two are not even in the same order of magnitude.

However, Aijia Supermarket Group controls the daily necessities supply for half of the residents of Linzhou City.

Who among us here has never bought vegetables or eaten meat at Aijia Supermarket?

Zhang Dongbei's rise from a small supermarket owner to where he is today is no accident. His opponent is an extremely powerful figure with the means, the manpower, and the protection of high-ranking officials.

But this ruthless man was brought down in a single night, losing the empire he had built over a decade or two, and he was arrested.

None of us here are fools. We didn't get to where we are today by fighting and killing.

On the contrary, from that era when they started with loan sharking and then moved to microfinance companies, all of you here today, who have built the Yuanfang Financial Group, are highly intelligent people; there are no fools among you.

Qin Chuan, the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau of Linzhou City, who had only been in office for a week, was already a household name among these people when he first took office.

At the time, Gao Yun had given instructions on how to deal with Director Qin, but a week had passed and they still hadn't come up with a good plan to put into action.

Qin Chuan acted swiftly and decisively, eliminating the Buckingham Club and taking down a district head overnight. Now, even Zhang Dongbei and Song Baobao of Aijia Supermarket Group have been arrested, and three other people have been implicated and are said to have been invited for questioning by relevant departments.

Yuanfang Financial Group is indeed richer than Aijia Supermarket Group, but in terms of influence or status, the two are actually not that different.

The main reason why the two have had little interaction, friction, or conflict over the years is that they operate in different fields.

Since the other side was able to take down Zhang Dongbei in such a short time, is it possible that they could also take down Gao Yun?

This is also the main reason why this group of people are gathered in Gao Yun's office to discuss the next steps.

"Mr. Gao... I think we should be more cautious about this person to avoid giving him any leverage. I heard that Zhang Dongbei is here because Qian Youcai was arrested. They want to take down Qian Youcai through assassination to prevent the leakage of relevant evidence."

The person speaking was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties, sitting in the first seat to Gao Yun's left.

Although Zhang Dongbei was only arrested in the morning, Qin Chuan did not involve the armed police in the interrogation, as the armed police were not suitable for such matters. Therefore, the interrogation is currently being conducted by regular criminal police officers at the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Linzhou Public Security Bureau. As such, it is quite normal for some information to leak out.

Therefore, some well-informed people have obtained information about the entire process of Zhang Dongbei's arrest, including why he was arrested and what methods Qin Chuan used.

Of course, this was actually Qin Chuan's deliberate leak. He wanted to make these people panic. Only when they started moving would they reveal their weaknesses. A turtle hiding in its shell is impossible to bite.