Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 614 There is no more royal law

"The thing is like this." President Hamanaka explained the case to the two lawyers in front of him, "Our club started to undertake municipal procurement business about three years ago. In the first year, there was no problem with payment. . Therefore, we decided to increase investment and further expand our business scale in municipal procurement.”

"The problem arose when we decided to undertake municipal procurement as our main business." Hamaka subconsciously wanted to touch the cigarettes in his pocket, but his hand stopped.

"Now that I think about it, I feel like everything is a trap. I'll give you a taste of the sweetness first, and I'll let you in. Then, after you actually win the bid for several large-scale municipal procurement projects and invest real money and resources in these projects, You will find that you can no longer get money from the city hall.”

"At the beginning, we made great efforts and contracted the projects of several overpasses in Shinjuku District. These overpasses also required escalators and bridge railing display screens. These add-ons all faced the problem of being protected from rain and snow in the open air. It was a high-cost and laborious task. It’s a hard job, but we gritted our teeth and did it.”

"The result is that starting from the overpass payment, the Shinjuku City Hall will not pay. They keep looking for various reasons. What still needs approval? They are undergoing an audit recently and cannot allocate funds for the time being. Or the supervisor is on a business trip and cannot sign, or the unit The seal has been changed recently, or our request information is incomplete, etc. In short, there are various excuses.”

"When we gradually discovered that several large-scale projects we were involved in were experiencing delays in payment, we were ready to quit." Binzhou continued, "At that time, the Shinjuku City City Hall came to us again."

"I've found you again? Are you talking about repayment?" Miyagawa asked.

Hamaka clenched his fists as if he was thinking of some terrible meeting, "They have set up a new trap for us. Let us participate in the Shinjuku District High-tech Industrial Park project."

Hearing the name of this project, Miyakawa opened his mouth slightly, "I know this project. It is an industrial park project promoted by the governor of Tokyo and the district council. It is said that many high-tech companies are planning to move their headquarters there, even big Western companies like Microsoft."

Hamanaka nodded, "Yes, that's what the people at Shinjuku City Hall told us at the beginning. They said that this is a very important project in Tokyo, and even many members of Congress and various cabinet ministries are paying attention to this industrial park. The Shinjuku City City Hall has made a request to let our club advance funds to build some of the industrial park’s infrastructure.”

"Add... advance funds for construction?" Miyagawa couldn't believe his ears when he heard this. This kind of behavior can be said to be an obvious robbery. And it happened in Tokyo, which I have been familiar with since childhood.

"Then did you agree?"

Hamaka nodded.

"Why?!" Miyagawa couldn't help asking.

"The people from the Shinjuku City Hall said that if we help make this deal, they promise that, first, they will pay off the debts owed to us by the city hall in the past. Second, they will pay the municipal government in the Shinjuku City High-tech Industrial Park For procurement projects, we will be invited to participate in the bidding, and we will increase the bidding score based on our company's past service contribution to Shinjuku City. In other words, we can get more projects from the city hall. And, once we win the bid for these projects. The council will pay more than 40% in advance.”

"At the beginning, I didn't want to agree to the people in the city hall." Hamanaka said, "However, it was all my fault. It was really all my fault. I thought about it again at the time and felt that since this industrial park is in the political and industrial circles, The press was paying so much attention to it, so I felt that Shinjuku City would never default on it again, so... So in the end, I agreed. "

"I really shouldn't! I shouldn't!" Hamanaka hammered himself hard several times, "I invested most of the company's working capital. But...but, the city hall lied to us, lied to us Us!" Binaka became more and more excited.

"The past payments have not been settled. As for those high-quality bidding projects and projects with large prepayment ratios, they have squeezed us out."

"How did the city hall exclude you?" Miyagawa asked immediately.

"There are so many, so many tricks that you can't imagine!!" Hamanaka took out a thick stack of bidding documents from his bag, "For example, the bidding project requires that every page of the bidding document must be stamped. , but we only left the cover and the last page unstamped, and as a result, they declared our entire bidding document invalid.”

"For another example, our club sent representatives to participate in the bidding of a sub-project of the industrial park. Just because our power of attorney did not specifically mention the name of this sub-project, but the name of the major project within this sub-project. In this way, something was wrong with our power of attorney, and our club’s representative was asked to leave the venue.”

"What's even more outrageous is that once, our club sent representatives to participate in the bidding. At that time, the deadline for submitting bidding documents was 9:30. We had all the documents ready, but the bidding party kept confiscating them and let them We stayed put. As a result, it was only ten seconds before 9:29. By the time our documents were received, it was already 9:9. The tenderer announced that it would not accept the bid.”

"At that time, the city hall recommended 20 or 30 high-quality bidding projects to us, but almost all of them were wiped out. They were just deceiving people, completely deceiving people!!! Later I went to check specifically, and those who won the bid, It’s obviously their relationship, it’s not fair, it’s not fair!”

"Are you saying they are setting up bids?" Miyagawa said.

【Bidding Rigging】

The so-called bid-rigging means that bidders collude and cooperate with each other and agree that if a certain person wins the bid, they will share the benefits.

"Guess their bid-rigging tactics." Hamaka smiled bitterly, "Lawyer Miyagawa, Lawyer Kitahara, you can't even imagine how ridiculous it is."

"One project was particularly exaggerated. They had already planned it. A total of 11 companies participated in the bidding. As a result, the bidding prices of 8 companies did not meet the requirements of the bidding documents. How could they not comply with the law? The bidding documents require that the price be kept in decimals. For the latter one, these eight companies all chose to retain the two decimal places of the price. As a result, all eight companies’ bids were declared invalid, and the remaining three companies just met the minimum three price comparison requirements.”

"Bad, this is simply too bad!!" Hamaka couldn't help but say.

"There is also a bidding project for the printing of invoices, internal bills, and documents. Our club already has the qualification to print publications. This is the highest licensing qualification in the printing industry. And the printing of these invoices, internal bills, The printing industry falls under the license of 'Other Printed Matter'. As a result, the city hall excluded us from the tender list because we did not have the license of 'Other Printed Matter'. This is a big joke! Qualification certificate, but the law does not allow lawyers to engage in business registration services.”

Hamanaka's expression became more and more angry, thinking of all kinds of injustices and phenomena. In the office, he finally couldn't help but said loudly: "I don't understand why the people in the city hall dare to do this. Is there any more law? Is there any more!"

(End of this chapter)