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Chapter 1092: Chapter 354 Why do you force me?_3

He discovered a suspicious large transfer because the recipient company was Dezheng Company, and the payment note read “Entrusted payment”!

Sure enough, there really was a connection between these two companies, and that Boss Pang indeed had issues!

Looking further back, there have been two such income payments in the past year, both labeled as entrusted payments.

These were also Dezheng Company’s largest revenues in the past year.

However, Old Tang searched several times and still did not find any money transferred by Hanxi Construction.

Could it be that Hanxi Construction hasn’t paid?

With this question in mind, Old Tang started tracking the destination of these payments again; this step was not easy to investigate just by using transaction records.

However, Old Tang still found the answer.

Because the money was directly transferred untouched to Risheng Company, with the note “Project payment.”

How coincidental can this be? Hanxi Construction doesn’t pay, Dezheng Company does, and this money ultimately goes directly to Risheng Company, under the guise of project payments.

There are now two possibilities: one possibility is that this money was indeed from the Hanxi Construction project, but it was paid through Dezheng Company.

The reason became immediately apparent to Old Tang: it was absolutely because Dezheng Company borrowed Hanxi Construction’s qualifications to take on the project. This kind of practice is very common in the construction industry!

The actual construction was done by Dezheng Company, while Hanxi Construction simply acted as a front to secure the project and collect a few percentage points as management fees.

This is certainly illegal, but it’s a situation that happens frequently in reality.

However, another possibility cannot be entirely ruled out: that Dezheng Company, Dekang Company, and Risheng Company genuinely collaborated, making this project payment part of another project.

This is something Old Tang couldn’t trace because this case is unrelated to Dezheng Company, and Risheng Company has already paid its damages, so there’s no authority to investigate it further.

But Old Tang quickly came up with an approach—stir things up to uncover hidden truths!

Since there is no payment from Hanxi Construction visible in the transaction records, the investigation report and the court findings confirmed that Dekang Company and Hanxi Construction had signed a specialized subcontracting agreement.

Now, the project is completed and successfully verified, so per the contract terms, Hanxi Construction should pay the project funds to Dekang Company.

Yet transaction records show nothing—does this mean Hanxi Construction still owes Dekang Company this amount?

That’s where a commonly used legal mechanism comes in handy: creditor substitution rights (代位权)!

Article 535 of the “Civil Code” states: “If the debtor fails to exercise its due creditor rights and harms the creditor in doing so, the creditor can petition the People’s Court to exercise the debtor’s creditor rights in the creditor’s name.”

To put it in layman’s terms: Li Si borrowed a thousand bucks from me and couldn’t repay it upon maturity. However, he’s owed ten thousand bucks by Zhang San, and that debt is also due, but he refuses to claim it.

In this case, I can sue Zhang San for the thousand bucks owed to me—that’s substitution rights.

Specifically, in this case, Dekang Company is unable to pay its damages, but Hanxi Construction still owes Dekang Company the project payment.

So Old Tang can file a lawsuit in Lin Youliang’s name to demand payment from Hanxi Construction!

The evidence is all intact. Even though I can only check a year’s transaction records, it’s still implausible for Hanxi Construction to have paid the full project amount to Dekang Company before the project even started—no way!

This is a two-pronged approach: if Hanxi Construction hasn’t paid, exercising substitution rights will directly recover the money, avoiding unnecessary disputes with Dekang Company.

However, if Hanxi Construction has already paid, it would absolutely deny it and would have to explain the situation clearly.

Since it’s a national enterprise, the amounts involved are quite substantial—even the general manager wouldn’t have the final say.

If payment was made, why was it done through another subcontractor to cover the cost? You, acting as the general contractor, had another subcontractor pay the project funds?

Let’s hear your explanation for this!

With a clear plan in mind, Old Tang began preparing for the lawsuit.

However, if borrowing qualifications really was the case, another doubt could emerge.

Is Dekang Company truly so generous? Even if it subcontracted the entire project to Risheng Company, it shouldn’t hand over all the project payment.

That doesn’t add up—companies always aim to turn a profit, and subcontracting deals usually involve taking a cut.

Thus, Old Tang believes that once it’s confirmed that qualifications were borrowed, the next focus should shift to the Risheng Company, the firm registered in Sichuan Province.

The plot is truly becoming more intriguing. After so much investigation, it turns out that the ultimate beneficiary of this project is none other than Risheng Company!

If it weren’t thoroughly investigated, this would have gone unnoticed!