Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 630 Seeking Justice

The atmosphere in the meeting room where the case was being heard became increasingly solemn.

At this time, almost everyone on both sides had arrived. At first, I could still hear some people talking, but later it became a whisper that was inaudible. Later, I couldn't even hear any talking. The only sound in the entire large conference room was the occasional "swish, swish" of pages turning.

The trial of the case has not yet begun.

However, an invisible pressure has already loomed.

The case concerns the hot high-tech park project in Shinjuku District.

If the relevant information were to leak out, it would definitely cause an upheaval in the political arena.

There are two parties in the case. One party is President Hamanaka and his colleagues who have been repeatedly owed money by the Shinjuku City Hall. Their company has been saddled with huge debts due to the city hall's continuous defaults, and is on the verge of collapse, with the possibility of bankruptcy at any time.

On the other side are the "public servants." If the ruling party, represented by Ishiwata, loses this case, the parliamentary election next spring may encounter major changes and set off a bloody storm.

Both sides.

There is no way to retreat.

If anyone takes a step back, his future life may fall into an abyss from which there is no escape.

With a "click", the door of the conference room was opened.

Many people present were startled by the sound.

They all looked up involuntarily.

But then several people in suits came in one after another.

The leader was a dark-skinned middle-aged man wearing black-framed glasses and with some streaky white hair. His face was cold and ruthless, as if he had no human emotions at all. In his eyes, everything in the world seemed to be just a tool to be used, showing an absolutely rational attitude.

This man is Iwasa, the judge of the case. After twenty years of working as a lawyer and ten years at the Ministry of Finance, he is now back to his old profession - law. This lawyer who once designed a system to squeeze suppliers to the extreme, will now serve as a judge to hear the case of the people he designed the system for - President Hamanaka and others who are owed settlement payments.

The world is like this, full of reincarnation and impermanence.

It seems that the superior is always the superior.

When in business, squeeze suppliers.

But now, the Tokyo Metropolitan Finance Department is once again deciding the life and death of suppliers' legal claims.

Seeing Iwasa coming in, Kitahara, public lawyer Hamano and others stood up.

Iwasa came to the long table in the middle and sat down, then nodded and said, "This is not a court. Although I am the person who decides the case, I am not a judge. Administrative decisions do not have the same form and procedure as judicial decisions. I think we don't need to be restrained. In short, we are here today to listen to the demands and opinions of both parties, and then our Ministry of Finance will make a fair judgment for you based on facts and laws."

"Clerk." Iwasa looked at a young lady next to him, "Have you checked the identities of both parties' agents?"

"It has been checked."

Iwasa placed the relevant materials of the case on the long table one by one, cleared his throat, and looked at both parties in the conference room.

"In this case, the applicant is a joint application filed by five companies including Xinchusheng Industrial Co., Ltd. The respondents are Shinjuku City Hall and Shinjuku City Municipal Industry Co., Ltd., and the application is mainly for a ruling on illegal bidding and procurement in the High-tech Park project."

The morning sun is very strong.

The meeting room is bright.

Visibility out the windows was good.

Mount Fuji stands majestically in the distance of the floor-to-ceiling window scenery.

"Well, the review of the administrative ruling begins now." Iwasa's voice sounded.

There was no sound of the gavel.

There was no clerk to read out the court rules before the court.

There was no solemn atmosphere where everyone stood up before the judge entered.

However, at this moment. In this 48-story Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.

The tense atmosphere was even greater than in previous court trials.

that's it--

This administrative adjudication has begun!

"Applicants, please briefly explain the request and facts of your application." Iwasa said, "Just give a brief summary. As for the respondents, such as Shinjuku City Hall, we will examine the specific illegal facts and behaviors one by one later."

Kitahara glanced at Miyakawa beside him.

Somehow, it started from entering this meeting room.

Kitahara felt an uncontrollable impulse in himself.

It was a kind of bloodthirstiness that could not be suppressed after sensing a strong enemy.

I still have to bear it for now, Kitahara's mouth corners slightly raised.

What kind of surprises can the power elites of the East bring to me?

  Miyakawa saw Kitahara's look and immediately understood what he meant. He immediately stood up and read out the ruling request:

"Applicants: Nobutadakatsu Industrial Co., Ltd., President Hamanaka Taro; Ruidaxing Co., Ltd., President Goda Chihiro; ATP Co., Ltd., President Kuwahara Seiichiro; Shenghong Machinery Co., Ltd., President Sakoda Kensaku; Tianming Commercial Co., Ltd., President Imai Mahiro."

“The above five applicants request that the respondents, Shinjuku City Hall and Shinjuku City Municipal Industry Co., Ltd., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shinjuku City Hall, correct their illegal acts in the bidding and procurement of the High-tech Park project.”

Miyakawa's voice sounded very clear in the conference room.

This woman who looks somewhat weak in appearance, now has a unique feminine strength in her voice that has never been heard before.

"The facts are briefly as follows. In April of this year and the fifth year, a wholly-owned holding company of the Shinjuku City Hall carried out bidding and municipal procurement services in the local high-tech industrial park. The scope included park construction, road repairs, lighting installation, electronic equipment procurement, land leveling, industrial equipment installation, office stationery purchase, elevator engineering, etc."

"The five applicants participated in the above-mentioned procurement and bidding projects as contractors. However, during this process, the applicants were treated unreasonably and unfairly."

Miyagawa's voice is like singing.

The language also began to be filled with moving emotions.

"For example, five applicants were rejected on the spot for bidding on some projects on the grounds that the power of attorney of the employees present did not conform to the format. Even during the bidding process, the organizers deliberately delayed the collection of bids, resulting in the applicants' bids being invalid. All these things are done by using the power in their hands to make things difficult for private enterprises."

"Even worse, after the bid was submitted, the review experts re-interpreted the qualifications and standards for the company's bid, declaring that the company did not meet the main requirements and the bid was invalid. Or, after the bid was won, the review experts of the bidding project made a new judgment, declaring the product unqualified in the name of random inspection, and the bid result was invalidated."

"After invalidating the winning bid that the applicant deserved, Shinjuku City Hall not only failed to reconvene the bidding process in accordance with the law, but also directly ordered the candidate with the highest bid to win the bid, which seriously violated the relevant provisions of the Bidding Law."

"Looking at the winning bidders of the project, several of the winning bidders have the same executive. This shows extremely obvious nepotism and collusion. In the face of the applicants' complaints and doubts about the winning bidders, the Shinjuku District City Hall turned a deaf ear to them. After repeated questioning, it issued a reply that it was unable to investigate or that the complaint was not established. And the reply did not contain any factual or legal basis."

"The High-tech Industrial Park project accounts for 8% of Shinjuku City's fiscal expenditure, which is a big project. However, in the face of such an important matter, the city hall turned a blind eye to the waste of public funds and instead colluded with others to transfer benefits, damaging the hard-earned money of the citizens of Shinjuku City."

"In this regard, the five applicants: Xin Zhongsheng Industrial Co., Ltd., Rui Daxing Co., Ltd., ATP Co., Ltd., Shenghong Machinery Co., Ltd., and Tianming Commercial Co., Ltd., request the Tokyo Metropolitan Finance Department to correct the serious illegal behavior of Shinjuku City Hall to bring light to the world!"

Miyakawa's words were powerful.

She has been a person without dreams since she was a child.

Until I met Kitahara.

She wanted to speak out.

Speak out against the injustice in this world.

This is her dream.

Today, she will stand here. As someone who grew up in Shinjuku, she wants to seek justice from the city hall for the businesses and citizens here!

(End of this chapter)