292 Chapter 286 (1/2)
Hamilton opened his eyes wider at that.
He even felt it strange that he found it after a yearlong search.
”Are you sure they have found tax evasion of Hyunwoo's companies? We need specific evidence that they intentionally evaded taxes.”
”I'm not so sure whether they intentionally did it or not. But there is no doubt about their tax evasion.”
”How much is their additional tax amount?”
”What I confirmed is not that much. Including the value-added tax, it's about 600 million at most.”
In Hamilton's eyes, that was not big enough.
But the amount itself was not important. What was important was the company image. If the allegation on their tax evasion proved true, he was going to damage the image of KOVE DREAM by actively promoting the active media coverage of it.
He needed to make the matter of Hyunwoo's tax evasion much worse than now.
”Got it. Nice job!”
***
a.s.semblyman Jungmin Hw.a.n.g, the new big shot of the ruling party, had a drinking party with some lawmakers who followed him.
While having a good dinner, he mentioned Hyunwoo. As Hyunwoo was the talk of the town because of the enormous donation of his wealth to society these days, Hw.a.n.g naturally changed the topic to him.
But they were not interested in Hyunwoo's commendable donation. Rather they expressed complaints against him.
”Let me talk about Hyunwoo Jang. I know he's doing lots of good things, but I just don't know why I feel resentful towards him. Don't you think he has to do it through politicians?”
”Right. Basically he is sending the message that he can't trust politicians. Does he think we politicians are diverting political funds for some other purposes?”
”I think we need to teach him a hard lesson. How dare he avoid us when his companies are making such a huge amount of money thanks to our help? I don't think we should give him a pa.s.s this time.”
As if he saw eye to eye with them, Hw.a.n.g nodded.
But they couldn't touch him thoughtlessly because he was gaining wide popularity for his generous donations.
They needed to make a strong case against him.
At that moment, Hw.a.n.g got a welcome call. The caller was the representative of the Korea branch of OneStar, which took over Bando Oil four years ago.
”Congressman, we need a special audit of Hyunwoo's companies.”
”Which audit?”
”We have found some illegal act in their business practices.”
Hw.a.n.g's face brightened momentarily.
”Are you sure? Which part?”
***
”Wow, the air is so fresh here!”
Climbing the hillside, Yu Zuung took a deep breath and looked down on the beautiful landscape.
Hyunwoo felt happy, too, and was there with her for a morning workout.
”It's really good that I moved to Sosan.”
”You bet. I didn't know how much I liked this place like this. I'm happy.”
Hyunwoo was happy, too.
Before he got married, he found it difficult to be with her even a couple of times per week, but he could be with her from the moment he came back home from work until he reported to work the next morning.
It was already 9 am. Originally, Hyunwoo and Yu Zuung used to go to sleep and get up early, but they switched their living patterns to the opposite. They went to sleep and got up late.
It was inevitable because both often came back home after midnight because of their tight schedules.
A housekeeper prepared breakfast for them.
After breakfast, they were busy taking care of various business schedules until they went back home. Hyunwoo had to meet many people or stop by his companies while Yu Zuung had to appear on TV shows.
Hyunwoo headed for STM Research Center in Tapgokri, his favorite place these days.
He paid all of his attention to his father's research on the core material compatible with Toughtex.
Duyoung was studying the contraction of Toughtex. To be precise, he was looking for a core material that perfectly matched the Toughtex in contraction as the voltage changed.
He had been doing research on it for the past three years, but he hadn't made any tangible progress.
Of course, he found materials whose contraction ratio was similar. It was carbon nanotubes that Hyunwoo originally thought of. The contraction ratio of Toughtex extracted from kerosene and that of carbon nanotubes was almost identical.
But 'almost identical' suggested there was a slight error.
Duyoung continued to fail in his experiments because of this slight error. To make the type of product that Hyunwoo wanted, it needed durability to endure tens of millions of experiments, but the carbon nanotubes were often damaged by this slight error.
Now, Duyoung said he found the method to reduce that slight error. Of course, it can't be said to be a complete success until Duyoung found the perfect solution, but it had great potential.
Duyoung was stuck in his research room from early in the morning. He even put a memo 'Never Disturb Me!' on the door.
In the meantime, Sonjong Kim called Hyunwoo.
She gave him some surprising news.
”Sir, we received a notice about tax investigation from the National Tax Services.”
”Tax investigation? We received it two years ago, didn't we?”
”They say this is not regular but an ad-hoc tax audit.”
”Any particular reason?”
”I hear that somebody tipped them off on us evading taxes.”
”Tip on evading taxes?”