Chapter 462 – Part 3

After finishing the five-day market, I returned home.
With all the lights in the living room turned off, the house was quiet as if no one was there.

“Mother. Hee Kyung. I’m here.”

Sungjin went in calling her mother, but there was no answer.
Aunt Hyo-seon tried to follow her Sung-jin into the house, but after seeing the atmosphere in her house, she went up to her own floor.

When Seong-jin opened the door to the master bedroom, her mother was lying on her bed with a blanket on her back without even turning on the light.
I don’t think I fell asleep, but Sung-jin came in and she didn’t even look back.

“Hee-kyung is here.”

Sung-jin went and sat down next to her mother, speaking quietly and placing her hand on her mother’s shoulder.

“Huh..”

Suddenly her mother started crying.

“What’s wrong? Mother why are you crying Try this.”

Seongjin grabbed her mother by the shoulders and lifted her up and held her in her arms.
But she wept more sorrowfully as her mother suddenly pushed her genitals away.
In the end, Seong-jin, who tried to hug her, had no choice but to let go of her mother, who then turned her back to her and lay down and cried silently.

“Ha, mother. It was unavoidable. It’s not your mother’s fault. So don’t do this.”

Sungjin put her hand on her mother’s arm again, but her mother moved her arm to brush off her Sungjin’s hand and pulled her blanket up to her neck.

Even if Seong-jin didn’t say why her mother was doing this, she touched her heart so much.
She must have thought that her father’s death was her own fault.
Perhaps she resented Sung-jin for making her mother her own.

Seeing her mother like that, Seong-jin let out a sigh and decided to leave her alone for the time being, thinking that her time was medicine.

After going to her own room and changing her clothes, Seong-jin opened Jin-hee’s door.
Jinhee was already in bed and she was fast asleep.

After coming out to the living room, Sungjin turned on the TV and sat down on her sofa.
She wanted to fall asleep right away, but since her mother was also doing that, her distraught mind made it impossible for her to fall asleep.

Just in time, the news was coming out, and the news was announcing that the government and Dongwoo Construction were forming a joint fact-finding committee to investigate the collapse of the Seongsu Bridge.

“What? Fuck.. Why is Dongwoo Construction suddenly here?”

Seongjin jumped up at the unexpected news.
I knew that Mirae Engineering & Construction decided to join the fact-finding committee, but why did it suddenly say Dongwoo Engineering & Construction?

Dongwoo Construction was the construction company that built Seongsu Bridge.
However, the Seongsu Bridge collapsed, and it was a really nonsensical news that the construction company was entrusted with a fact-finding investigation.
It wasn’t that he was going to do a fact-finding, it was nothing more than saying that he would just cover up the case and move on.

Seongjin immediately called the president of the construction company.

“Obviously, I ordered Mirae Construction to join this investigation, but suddenly Dongwoo Construction, what are you talking about?”

“I… Chairman. It looks like someone put pressure on it. Obviously, at first, an agreement was reached to have our company take over the investigation, but yesterday it suddenly changed to Dongwoo Engineering & Construction.”

Sungjin had a few more conversations and hung up.

Even without looking at it, it was obvious who did it.
In the end, there was no doubt that Kim Jin-cheol was moving with a grudge about the funeral.
Of course, it is natural for Dongwoo Construction to lobby with money.

Seongjin’s stomach was boiling, but this was only the beginning.

A few days later…

“President. It was a big deal.”

The chief of staff opened the door to Sungjin’s president’s office and hurriedly entered.

“Now, the National Tax Service is said to have come in to conduct a tax investigation on HK Foods affiliates.
And the prosecution brought a search warrant for the group planning office and secretary office.”

“What?”

Seongjin felt that she had finally come.

“Chief Secretary, block the prosecution from entering first, and quickly organize the documents.”

Seong-jin quickly gave instructions to the chief of staff, and the chief of staff rushed out of the president’s office.

And after a while, I got a call from Hyejeong, who hadn’t moved HK distribution to the head office yet.

“Sungjin. She’s coming in saying she’s doing a tax audit at the IRS. Oh my god?”

After a while, I got an urgent phone call from the CEO of Mirae Securities.

“President. It was a big deal. Suddenly, an audit came from the Financial Supervisory Service.”

In addition, when Sungjin’s subsidiaries, such as Mirae Construction and Mirae Entertainment, were contacted that an all-round tax investigation had fallen, there was an uproar.

Fortunately, Mirae Mutual Credit Cooperative, where Kwang-shik is, seemed to be quiet.
I guess it’s because they think they’ll eat it.

“Haa.. Fuck.. Power is scary, it’s scary. It really sucks.”

Seongjin stood up from her seat and looked out the window at her, placing her cigarette in her mouth.
There was no way she could stop her anyway if she rushed to kill like this.
If you hit, you have to hit as you hit, and they had no choice but to endure as much as possible.

Seongjin quickly organized her thoughts and, unable to take a few sips, extinguished her cigarette, which now had only her filter, and pressed her intercom.

“I have a meeting in an hour. Ask all the presidents of affiliates and the executives in charge of finance to gather. Invite Mirae Mutual Credit Finance Corporation Jang Gwang-shik as well.
And he told me to block the prosecution and the tax office as much as possible until the end of the meeting.”

“All right. President.”

An hour later, in the HK Group headquarters conference room.
On one side, Mrs. Jeong-hee, Mrs. Hyo-seon, Mrs. Hye-jeong, and older sister Young-hee, accompanied by their secretaries and executives, were sitting.

Seongjin sat in the seat of honor in front of her and looked around at his women.
Her mother, who should have been sitting closest to her, was still out of sight.

Her mother had been locked up in her room for over a week already, and she was barely eating porridge, unable to get out of her shock at her father’s death.
It was fortunate that So-hee was taken care of, and even the kind So-hee was doing well without causing any problems, as if she had read the mood of her mother.

Mirae Securities CEO and Kim Doo-sik were busy having a serious conversation with executives sitting next to Yeon-sin.
However, the women of Seongjin were just chatting with each other, and the atmosphere was not that serious.

Somehow, Seongjin’s women believed that Seongjin would handle it on her own, and even if it didn’t work out, they didn’t have that much attachment to her company because they had the mindset that all they needed was Sungjin.
I have already earned enough money to live on for the rest of my life.

But of course, since the president of Mirae Securities and men like Kim Doo-sik were directly at stake, their attachment to their workplace was inevitably different, which is why the atmosphere is so clearly divided.

“Now, please focus.”

Seongjin clapped her hands lightly and focused her attention.

“Maybe we are facing our biggest crisis right now. I didn’t want this to happen, but in the end, this problem popped up.
If you make concessions, there are people who think it’s their right. As those of you who know me know, this situation is like that. We cooperated as much as possible in this regime, but humans are greedy.
You can’t just sit there and do nothing, can you?
I hope everyone will do their best in this situation.
Please make a presentation from the group finance team first.”

The HK Group Finance Director started briefing on the current financial status of the entire group.
Then, with the help of the finance department, the presidents of each affiliate reported the company’s status and potential problems.

As the report progressed, the executives’ faces began to show some relief.
Seongjin was so good at managing the group that all affiliates were strong enough to say that he had almost no debt except for Mirae Construction.

In particular, the last listing of stocks of affiliates served as a very big filial piety.
Even though I was able to manage the company sufficiently without going public, I was able to secure more than 900 billion won in liquid funds while listing, and some of the funds went into Mirae Securities, which has now increased to hundreds of billions of funds.

“As you just announced, our group is now virtually debt-free. In-house reserves are also sufficient.
My thoughts are that I can endure this situation enough and go over.
Chief Secretary, what are the prosecutors and tax office staff doing now?”

“I said that the president’s instructions would be coming soon, and they are waiting in the waiting room on the second floor.”

The chief of staff answered Seongjin’s question.

“Great. Executives of each affiliate, don’t worry too much, go back to the company and set the mood for the employees first. And as you’ve heard, you know, our company is not so easy going. Please don’t worry and work harder on what you are doing because you can endure enough fines or additional fines.
And the CEO of Mirae Securities.”

“Yes.. Chairman.”

“Clean up some of your stocks and set aside 100 billion won in cash. You know what I’m talking about?”

“Yes. All right. I will go back and prepare right away.”

“Okay.. Now everyone go back to work, and the Chief Secretary, please cooperate with the prosecution and the National Tax Service as much as possible under the direction of the Chief Secretary.”

“All right.”

Like the atmosphere at the beginning, the male bosses left their seats frantically still nervous, but the women of Seongjin looked at Seongjin and smiled, winking, and left leisurely.

“Kwang-sik hyung-nim, hyung-nim, look at me.”

“Okay. I get it.”

Sungjin and Gwangsik moved to the chairman’s office, and Kwangsik’s attendants waited outside.

“Brother, please meet the president. Can’t we just be stunned like this?”

“Okay. I’ll see if it moves. But don’t expect too much. Seeing that it moved to this extent, it seems that Kim Jin-cheol made up his mind. If so, there is a high possibility that the president will not even meet me.”

“Yes. I know. To be honest, I’m not expecting much either. Still, wouldn’t it be better to skip it if you can easily skip it?
If you can’t meet the president, please lend a hand to the members of the National Assembly who have been making it so far.
Maybe I will be ordered to appear in court. Please stop that.”

“Can you really go that far? What have you done to the president?”

“I’m sorry you didn’t know. So it may be cumbersome, but my brother, please move a little busily.
What happened to Mr. Kim Se-joong, whom I told you about last time?”

“Once I found out, it seemed that I would probably return to Korea soon. So I made a large one in advance and told them to see it when I returned home.”

“Are you going to do that?”

“Huh? We gave you two big ones last time. Then he said thank you very much. Maybe that’s why I was happy to meet him again this time, and he’s very friendly.”

“As expected, the only person I can trust is my brother. If this time passes well, neither Kim Jin-cheol nor the President will have time to care about this anymore. So please move a little.”

“Okay. Okay. Sungjin, how can you take care of it? Do not worry.”

Seong-jin was saying this with the president’s lame duck in mind as various major accidents broke out in the country, but Gwang-shik seemed to take it lightly, thinking what Seong-jin was going to do.

That’s how I went back to Kwang-sik, and the prosecution and the National Tax Service began to move in earnest.

The justification for the search and seizure by the prosecution was tax evasion and slush fund creation, and it seemed that this content had not yet been disclosed to the media.
Perhaps because it was a conglomerate, the prosecution did not show a reckless attitude, and waited until Sung-jin finished the meeting while eating lunch.
Fortunately, it was fortunate.

An intense tax investigation had already been going on for three days.

Most of Seongjin’s slush fund creation was done through Gwangshik, and he instructed to make sure the documentary evidence for the transaction was as clear as possible, and Seongjin was paying taxes thoroughly, so there were not many illegal parts.
However, they said that there is no dust that comes out after shaking it off. Surprisingly, incomplete parts of the paperwork began to come out, and it was being caught as a pod.

Seongjin had already been unable to do anything for three days.
To be honest, it wasn’t that scary, but he couldn’t help but be bothered by the IRS officers who occupied the large conference room next to the general affairs team and investigated until late into the night.

It wasn’t just headquarters here
Other affiliates were also paying attention to the place where they were investigating, except for urgent matters, with their work almost stopped.

Seongjin was annoyed and angry.
The National Tax Service employees have been investigating for three days already, but they haven’t come up with anything big enough to catch a book on, so they’re going through the documents again and again, trying to come up with something that doesn’t exist.
If there was a problem, the chief of staff rushed to the president’s office and reported it, so I couldn’t concentrate on my work.

“Haa.. Fuck really.. I can’t eat it because it’s dirty.”

It was still only 4:00 PM, but Seong-jin couldn’t seem to sit in his office because of the overwhelming stress.

“Chief Secretary. I will go to work first. Please organize your report and report it tomorrow.”

“…Yes. All right. President.”

When the chief of staff said Seong-jin was away, he couldn’t answer easily, perhaps because he was anxious.
Well, no matter how small it is, the more wrong things come to light, the more they reveal their inability to handle things properly, so why not be anxious?

Seongjin didn’t even wear a suit jacket and left the chairman’s office holding it in his hand.