Chapter-31 : Conference

## 1 hour later ##

I was working on the computer non stop as I prepared everything I needed for that conference.

## 1 more hour later ##

I stood on the podium as media personel sat in the room with me going on air.

*3....2....1....now* gestured the man recording to me.

"Good morning everyone, you can all call me Barto, I am here on order of the president of Spain to clarify any and every misconception fed to people by the group which is now looting this country of its prosperity"

Many people raised their hands I I picked one up "How did Ágata Jiménez die, alias Nairobi"

I smiled as I answered "At the moment we are still gathering information, but all I can say is that she was taken down by the chief of security of the bank of Spain during a skirmish who managed to free himself"

They raised their hands again as I picked another one "Was Cortes, alias Rio, detained illegally in Panama?"

"The arrest was made in compliance with law, with his international arrest warrant issued by Europol and his willful surrender"

The media clamored again as they raised their hands.

"Cortes claims he was detained in a 45 cm wide cell, is that true?" she asked in English as I too replied in flawless English "No sane person would ever do that, I believe no law under any government allows that to happen"

They hustled again as another women asked in Japanese "He claims to have been buried alive, do you deny that too?? That he was left to defecate himself in the same 45 cm wide cell they locked him in?? That they gave him 40 coffees and cold showers??"

This time I spoke out in fluent Japanese "Those claims are as grotesque as these people are, next..."

Media clamored as they went on to ask alot of different questions as I answered them all, denying every negative claim.

## In a dark place ##

The professor smirked as he said "Do it, now, lets enjoy the drama"

## back to the conference ##

Everyone's phones rang at the same time as a video start playing on them, except bobby's.

In the video, the man, Osman said how they were ordered by colonel Prieto to torture Rio and paid €200000 to do so. He showed where Rio dug his own grave and was buried alive and continued accepting torture of Rio live.

The crowd seemingly got berserk as they all rose up raising their phones high screaming at me to answer this.

I clapped as hard as I could as a loud sound resounded in room.

"Please sit down, I know you may be having multitude of questions, but don't worry, I won't send you out or get out myself until I answer every single one of you, so please like civilised people we are, we sit down and talk."

They all calmed down with excitement on their faces with an urge to slap me with questions that would embarrass the government.

"Now, it seems like the professor is even more atrocious than I think, so, I think we are past the point where I could just deny everything and do this the easy way." I said as I said with a grossed out expression

"Please bear with me, this could get very disturbing and oppressive to many people, so I ask anyone with weak hearts be leaving this room."

Nobody left as I looked down onto the podium as I took something out from under.

"So let's start by Anibal Cortes, I will explain how we caught him in the first place."

"By this" I said as I showed a radio like thing to them.

"Many of you may not know what this is, it is a satellite phone, one of the most secure mobile phones, now you will be thinking how did we find it in the first place of it was meant to be the most secure way of communication."

"The reason is simple, the Interpol made it, as a bait for terrorist organisations in the east to monitor their activities."

"But the plan was abolished when an information leak happened, most of these were destroyed by terrorists who bought them"

Listening to me, everyone had a frowning faces. This was no major secret, if one tried well enough, anyone could get this info.

"But we were shocked too when a phone that was meant to be in hands of mass murdering terrorists end up in hands of a most wanted thieves"

I showed them a video playing on the monitor behind my back, of how the patrol boats approached Rio to arrest him.

"We took the lead and captured Anibal Cortes on an isolated island."

"But look at this video carefully" I said as I showed a bunch of images and a video of how Cortes was capture.

The video showed how he was just about to fire his RPG onto the oncoming boats of police officers. The video was not so clear but showed how he turned around multiple times with an RPG on his shoulder ready to fire.

There were even a couple of satellite photos showing from top view how he was holding RPG in his hands from above.

"All we knew was that we were going to capture a target that had no business doing with such weaponry, but as you can see, it was not that easy" I said as I pointed towards the screen as multiple images showed themselves on the screen.

Images showing a dungeon full of advanced weapons and heavy artillery, with video of bomb squad opening boxes and finding missiles, stingers, plastic explosives, detonators and many weapons of mass destruction.

"His house was full of weaponry capable of fighting a whole batallion of seasoned soldiers, from automatic rifles to heavy machine guns, with RPGs, surface to air missiles, land mines, and multitude of dangerous explosives and detonators. That was the moment we came to know, all of this was as simple as it seemed" I then showed them images of multiple destroyed armoured vehicles and dead bodies of law enforcement officers.

"These were weapons that had been stolen and alleged by the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, killing 8 men who sacrificed their lives to do their duty."

"The terrorist organisation took full responsibility and said they would use these to terrorise more people" I said as I showed a pic of newspaper where Al-Qaeda took responsibility for it.

"Our suspicions increased, these people who stole about €980 million from the Royal Mint of Spain, were using this money to either fund a terrorist organisation, or were planning something like a genocide, because that was the only case considering the kind of weaponry these people had bought from those organisations"

"Now, Anibal Cortes was considered a potential terrorist of top priority."

I took out my phone as I touched the screen a few times "Now listen to this" I said as I played an audio clip

""You don't need to worry, even if they came I'll take care of them, I have bought the whole stash that you wanted, we have RPG, guided missiles, even anti-tank missile launchers, we'll blow everyone in our way..."" Came the voice of Rio from my phone as I stopped audio

"This is him, alleging that he and his group will definitely kill people with these weapons, and this was audio recovered from the satellite phone that we bugged, unknown to him"

"Now, it was confirmed, Anibal Cortes, and his group were considered terrorist organisation instead of a a band of thieves"

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