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Chapter 664: Bidding Collusion

Everyone present was paying attention to the actions of the two young lawyers. The scene of them accusing the high-tech park of having to re-tender more than half of the projects in one breath still left a deep impression on everyone.

The city hall officials were all very concerned about what tricks the other side would come up with. Since the last case was heard, these city hall officials had held a special internal meeting to study the bidding files for the high-tech industrial park project. In addition to the problems pointed out by Kitahara before, they could not find any other mistakes that could be caught by the other side.

At this point, Shinjuku City Hall has no way out.

Even if one or two requests from the other side are approved by the Tokyo Metropolitan Finance Department, it will be a complete loss of face for the city hall.

The people on the other side are just two young college graduates. What other tricks can we use?
How can two people try to shake a tree like an ant?

Kitahara stood up slowly, his expression was the same as before, with a bit of cynicism. In the previous two trials, the female lawyer usually opened the case. When the female lawyer couldn't handle Hamano, the male lawyer came out to save the situation. Now, Kitahara took the initiative to stand up, and everyone present couldn't help but stare at him.

Kitahara looked at the audience and said, "Today, on behalf of the parties involved, I accuse the Shinjuku District High-Tech Industrial Park project of collusion in bidding. Many internal suppliers colluded with each other, bidding for this project today and that project tomorrow. You win today's project, and I win tomorrow's project. We take turns to win the bid. The parties are colluding with each other and are in cahoots! The agent has applied to the Tokyo Metropolitan Finance Department in accordance with the law to order the re-bidding of the batch of projects and punish those who colluded in the bidding!"

【Accompanying Bidding】

[The so-called accompanying bidder means that the bidding party has already decided on the winning company. In order to meet the formal requirements of the bidding, the winning company will bring in other companies to bid together. These companies that serve as foils are called accompanying bidders.]

When the lawyer accused the city hall officials of bid rigging, they broke out in a cold sweat. The reason is simple: bid rigging is not just an administrative violation, but may be a crime. For large-scale municipal projects, if the supply price deviates slightly from the market price, it may reach the standard of a crime.

Hamano was a little bit unbelieving when he heard Kitahara actually accusing others of bid-rigging.

Bid rigging is indeed illegal.

However, how can we collect evidence for such things that happened in private?

Hamano had also handled bid-rigging cases before. Generally, bid-rigging cases occur because insiders share the spoils unevenly and then are anonymously reported by insiders. This is how the case usually occurs. But is it possible for these two young people to collect such evidence? !
"Please show us your evidence!" Hamano shouted back, "Lawyer Kitahara, I hope you'll be aware that our City Hall also has a reputation. You can't just make up stories and slander us. If you continue to make false accusations, our City Hall will hold you accountable!"

Kitahara sneered as he listened to the words of the public lawyer.

This sneer was extremely clear in the conference room.

It was as if he was mocking Hamano and the city hall officials present in person.

Like I feel sorry for their IQ.

"Be more respectful!" Hamano didn't believe Kitahara could come up with conclusive evidence of bid rigging. "Show us your evidence! Show us your evidence!"

Kitahara raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and took out a stack of materials in his hand. "The winning supplier for the bidding project of the super high-rise building garden construction of the High-tech Industrial Park project is Hongye Co., Ltd. The president of the company is Mr. Murata Kazuki. In this project, the second-ranked candidate supplier is Gaosheng Co., Ltd. The president of the company is Ms. Takenaka Manami." Then, Kitahara took out a certificate. On it, you can vaguely see a few Chinese characters written on it: "Proof of Household Registration Relationship." The people present didn't understand what this male lawyer was going to do. The next second, Kitahara's voice rang out:

"The attorney obtained household registration information from the Tokyo Joto Ward City Hall. Murata, the president of Hongye Co., Ltd., and Takenaka, the president of Gaosheng Co., Ltd., are husband and wife. The actual controllers of the two companies are spouses and there is a situation of concerted action. In the above bidding project, the two companies can actually share bidding documents and jointly formulate bidding price strategies based on the special relationship between their actual controllers. In this case, it should be determined that there is a major illegal act that is considered collusion in bidding!"

As soon as Beiyuan's words came out, everyone was shocked.

Especially the city hall officials present. They did not expect that this male lawyer would dig so deep into the high-tech industrial park project that even they did not know about it.

Kitahara's accusation once again reveals an absurdity.

The husband and wife each opened a company.

Blatantly participating in bidding for the same project.

There is no fear or worry at all.

It's to the point where you don't even need to install it.

"Don't you need evidence, Lawyer Hamano?" Kitahara showed a somewhat cautious smile, like a bloodthirsty monster appeared in this meeting room, pressing the other party step by step, "Is it enough now!"

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Hamano frowned. He could not imagine that Shinjuku City Hall would make such a low-level mistake. Even if it was fraud, they actually let two people who were openly married to each other. Can't you just hide behind and manipulate the company? ! You have to use the title of president, for fear that others don't know the relationship between your two families.

This is really a huge trouble.

This public lawyer did not expect that the other party would launch such a fierce attack at the beginning of the day.

At this point, even Hamano was not sure how much the City Hall had hidden and how much more they hadn't told him. Would the other party be hiding more killer moves?

However, the move in front of him cannot be ignored.

"Lawyer Kitahara, you still don't have any evidence!" Hamano stood up and loudly retorted: "Do you have any records of communication between the two people about the bidding collusion?! Do you have any evidence of how the two people colluded to prepare the bidding documents! You are just speculating based on the fact that the two people are husband and wife! This is not evidence! It's speculation!!"

"The husband and wife are a community of interests." Kitahara said, "The husband and wife's property is shared and controlled by both parties. The income of Hongye Co., Ltd. belongs to the common property of the spouses, and Gaosheng Co., Ltd. is also common property. This is not a question of whether there is a record of collusion or not, but that the two companies themselves belong to the same interest group in essence. Excuse me, if this is not considered collusion in bidding, what else is collusion in bidding?!"

(End of this chapter)