CHAPTER 434: CHAPTER 433 DEFEATED

Originally, Mark Zuckerberg was very composed, thinking that this time he might only face some minor troubles.

But when he was brought into the interrogation room, Mark Zuckerberg finally realized that this time he was likely inescapably doomed.

Although the environment of the interrogation room could be considered decent, Mark Zuckerberg felt a chill in the air.

This place was not a playground, but the terrifying tax bureau interrogation room.

In the United States, the tax bureau is not an ordinary department; they possess enormous power and can even freely enter the headquarters of some large companies for tax investigations.

Some say that in the United States, you can offend anyone, but never offend the people from the tax bureau.

If you have always been honest and paid taxes, then you don’t need to fear the tax bureau’s people.

But for someone like Mark Zuckerberg, who evades taxes on a massive scale, the tax bureau is a source of great fear.

The United States tax bureau is truly a department with extremely powerful combat capabilities, even more formidable than those of the police.

You can often see on the news that those major drug lords in the United States are caught by the tax bureau, simply because they evaded taxes.

These major drug lords have always lived well without being captured by the police because the police didn’t have evidence of their crimes.

But these people ultimately fell into the hands of the tax bureau, because the bureau held evidence of their tax evasion.

Such longstanding figures not being caught by the police yet eventually being dealt with by the tax bureau is a frequent occurrence in the United States.

From this matter, you can see just how powerful the United States tax bureau is.

However, in normal circumstances, they wouldn’t provoke the heads of those large companies.

These large company heads generally have deep connections, and if you can’t bring them down, the tax bureau could face trouble.

But this time, their focus on Mark Zuckerberg was different; they were confident in their evidence, believing they could make Mark Zuckerberg suffer greatly.

After the interrogation began, the tax bureau people wasted no time and directly threw the evidence they held in front of Mark Zuckerberg.

"How did you get these? It’s impossible for anyone to have obtained these things!" Mark Zuckerberg immediately shouted upon seeing the items in front of him.

Mark Zuckerberg couldn’t believe anyone could really get these items, as these documents were stored on an independent server that only he could freely access and copy.

"Sir, where we got this evidence is not important. What’s important now is your company’s issue this time," the person responsible for interrogating Mark Zuckerberg said with a cold smile.

He knew they had caught a big fish this time, seeing Mark Zuckerberg’s reaction confirmed the authenticity of the items.

The tax bureau personnel looked at the constantly sweating Mark Zuckerberg and raised their voice to ask: "Aren’t you going to explain? Your company’s tax evasion amount over the years has reached billions of US Dollars, which is truly an astonishing number!"

Faced with the questions from the tax personnel, Mark Zuckerberg had no idea how to explain because the evidence was too overwhelming to refute.

Now, what he’s considering is not how to extricate himself, but how to minimize the losses.

Mark Zuckerberg realized this time he was done for; now he could only hope it wouldn’t implicate him personally.

As long as he doesn’t have to go to jail this time, even being fined would be acceptable.

Although the fine amount might be in the hundreds of billions of US Dollars, as long as he was fine, he could earn back the lost money in the future.

The tax bureau personnel, seeing Mark Zuckerberg not speaking, knew they had won this round, and it was just a matter of how to continue the investigation now.

Soon, the interrogation ended, and Mark Zuckerberg’s lawyer quickly arrived at the tax bureau and paid a large amount to bail him out.

After returning to the company, Mark Zuckerberg immediately got busy; now he needed to extricate himself from this matter.

Upon returning, Mark Zuckerberg began destroying some things, which were evidence of his participation in tax evasion.

Now, as long as it couldn’t be proven that Mark Zuckerberg was involved, then he wouldn’t end up in prison.

However, merely destroying evidence was not enough, as even a fool knew if his company evaded taxes, he surely knew about it.

Even if his connections were strong, he couldn’t suppress this incident, since this matter was too significant.

Now, he could only push out a scapegoat and let a subordinate in the company take the blame.

As long as someone came forward to confess and admit the tax evasion was their doing, then Mark Zuckerberg could use his connections to avoid the ordeal of prison.

Soon, Mark Zuckerberg found the scapegoat; his finance director was the best choice, as the finance director must have been involved in such matters.

After offering some conditions, the finance director immediately went to the tax bureau to confess, very decisively without any hesitation.

After all, this kind of charge only meant a few years in prison, and as long as Mark Zuckerberg offered enough compensation, doing a few years wouldn’t be a big deal.

After the Facebook finance director confessed, several high-level officials in the United States received calls from Mark Zuckerberg.

Mark Zuckerberg began to activate his connections, hoping to minimize the impact of this event.

After consecutively finishing several phone calls, Mark Zuckerberg finally breathed a sigh of relief.

From the attitudes of those high-level officials on the phone, it seemed he wouldn’t have much of a problem this time.

Although Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t completely defeated this time, it’s unknown what the subsequent methods will be.

Continuous strikes were Jiang Cheng’s approach this time; he wanted to see how many assaults Mark Zuckerberg could withstand.

After presenting the evidence of Mark Zuckerberg’s tax evasion, Jiang Cheng didn’t immediately proceed with the next move.

He needed to wait for this matter to continue fermenting before proceeding against the opponent, letting Mark Zuckerberg fall into ongoing troubles.

This kind of relentless wave after wave assault is the most terrifying thing.

Anyone would become exhausted in such continuous attacks, ultimately getting knocked down decisively by the opponent.

Jiang Cheng temporarily remained quiet on this side, but across the Pacific Ocean, there was no peace.

After the Facebook finance director confessed, many media outlets received the news and began reporting the incident.

Mark Zuckerberg’s company being involved in a tax scandal quickly spread across the world.

In such a large company, there are countless people waiting to see the chaos, and people love to witness the scandal of celebrities, so the news about Mark Zuckerberg’s tax issue quickly became known to everyone.

And the tax amount reaching billions of US Dollars made those who heard about it utterly astonished.

After all, with such a large tax amount, it’s unknown how Mark Zuckerberg managed to hide it; it seems the roots of their company truly have skill.