Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 646 Murderous Intent

On the same night when Kitahara and Yuuki teamed up again.

Shinjuku City Hall, Office

The dim light illuminated the figures in the room. Although the sofa in the room was not particularly expensive, the slightly matte surface still revealed a sense of luxury. There were three people sitting in the room, namely Hamano, a public lawyer representing the City Hall, Urakawa, an investigator from the Tokyo Securities Regulatory Bureau, and Ishiwatari, deputy director of the Shinjuku City Development Committee.

As the promoter of the Shinjuku Hi-Tech Industrial Park project, Ishiwatari is naturally very concerned about this lawsuit. He has introduced many major investment projects in Shinjuku. Now, the contractor of the municipal project dares to sue the city hall, saying that the city hall is cheating in the bidding. This is something Ishiwatari has never encountered before.

Under normal circumstances, Ishiwatari wouldn't care about these companies.

But right now, he is at a critical juncture where he may be transferred back to the Cabinet Secretariat.

You must never let these things hold you back.

However, Ishiwatari was still worried. He was a man with a keen sense of smell. He also knew about the re-election of members of the National Assembly in April next year. Now, what he was most worried about was that if various forces used this incident as a tool for struggle, it would be terrible.

"Lawyer Hamano, how is the case going today?" Ishiwatari asked.

"No need to worry." Hamano said, "This is the first case hearing today, and I met the opposing lawyers. They are two very young lawyers, probably just graduated from college. They may be the kind of young people who just graduated and don't know anything, but they took this case without thinking."

"That is to say, attorney Hamano believes that this case was just an accident and there is no one behind it," said Ishiwatari. The deputy director of the Shinjuku City Development Committee is most anxious to find out whether there is anyone behind this administrative ruling.

"I don't think so," Hamano said. "These young people who have just graduated don't understand anything about society. I guess they think that helping these companies to seek justice from the city hall is in line with their imagination of legal justice. So they took this case."

Ishiwatari pondered over Hamano's words.

The deputy chairman of the committee is a very cautious person.

The lawyers on the other side turned out to be two recent college graduates.

This was somewhat beyond Ishiwatari's expectations.

Originally, he thought that a lawyer who dared to come to the Tokyo Metropolitan Finance Bureau to file an administrative ruling must at least be a lawyer with strong connections, otherwise he would not take this approach.

"Have you checked the backgrounds of these two college graduates?" Ishiwatari asked, still a little worried.

"Young lawyers like this usually don't have publicly available resumes," Hamano said. "But I have heard of the female lawyer named Miyakawa across the street."

"how?"

"Her father is Attorney Imanishi, who is also the vice president of the Tokyo Bar Association. She is a rich lady in the legal profession." Hamano picked up the teacup and took a sip. "Normally, a rich lady like this should be a princess in her father's law firm, but I don't know how she got involved in this kind of lawsuit."

"Maybe the rich girl's life is too comfortable and she wants to rebel." Investigator Urakawa next to her sneered.

No one would use their own daughter as a pawn, Ishiwatari thought. So, is this a coincidence? Is it really just a momentary impulse of two college graduates for their childish sense of justice?
Although the clues on the surface showed such a situation, Ishiwatari, who was suspicious by nature, still didn't dare to believe it. No matter how deep the secret was, he wanted to find evidence that someone was behind it.

"I think we can rest assured." Hamano said, "I heard that the two lawyers opposite were college classmates. Miyagawa's father, Imanishi, was against them being together, so he specially used the Bar Association's disciplinary investigation to deal with that guy named Kitahara. For a while, this was a joke within the small circle of Tokyo lawyers." "Hahaha, it's just a story about a rich girl falling in love with a poor boy." Urakawa laughed even more heartily beside him, "When I first took the Securities and Exchange Commission to search the law firm, the lawyer named Miyagawa was quite protective of that bad boy. I just don't know if they will be so lucky again in the future."

Ishiwatari didn't know why, but he always felt like there was a ferocious monster in the dark, staring at him.

The deputy chief felt uneasy.

This is what his intuition has told him over the years.

"What about the lawyer named Kitahara?" Ishiwatari asked, "I'm still not very reassured."

"I have also done some research," Hamano said. "That lawyer Kitahara doesn't have any background. He went to the Eto Law Firm right after graduation. But the director of this law firm, Eto, must have used his status as a lawyer to do something illegal and has absconded. Now many of the bad things have to be borne by Kitahara. I guess that's why he goes around making false accusations."

Hamano then turned to look at Urakawa next to him, "Investigator Urakawa's Securities Regulatory Bureau is currently investigating Eto Law Firm. Urakawa should know more than me."

Ishiwatari did not ask Urakawa questions immediately.

He was still thinking about the possibility that someone was behind this administrative adjudication case.

Two college graduates filed this case out of a sense of justice.

Everything was just right.

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It just so happened that he was about to be transferred back to the Cabinet's official office.

It just happens to be about the Shinjuku District High-tech Industrial Park project, which is the most important investment project in Shinjuku District.

It happens to be at a critical time for next year's congressional election.

So no matter how much Ishiwatari tried to convince himself, he still found it hard to believe that it was a coincidence. Especially since the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly had set up a special investigation team to audit the financial situation of Shinjuku Ward.

Ishiwatari, he really didn't believe that all this was a coincidence.

As a person who has been in the officialdom for many years, even though Ishiwata had experienced the failure of being demoted from the cabinet to the local government, whoever walks on this road has come up on a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. Whoever has not experienced brutal struggles has only gained a small place.

Even if it is a small position in the city hall, there may be a bloody struggle behind this position.

Therefore, Ishiwata, who is accustomed to this environment, will not miss any opportunity to defeat the enemy in the early stage. If you don't eliminate others, you will be eliminated by others in the future.

It is better to take the initiative than to be behind.

This is Ishiwatari's creed.

The deputy director of the Development Committee, who holds real power, slowly raised his head and looked at the two people in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "We must get rid of these two lawyers."

(End of this chapter)