Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 696: Strange Name

After the emergency meeting of the Tokyo Central Bank, Deputy Governor Shirai returned to his office.

Shirai didn't care about Hanzawa's provocation. Even if the insects screamed louder, it would be useless. In the face of the absolute gap in status, nothing could work.

Although the curtains in the office were drawn, there were still gaps.

The sunlight shines through here and onto the desk.

There were many files piled up on the table.

Shirai walked over slowly, sat on the office chair, picked up the document and began to browse. Shirai was of course in a good mood at this time. If the Financial Services Agency's investigation this time can defeat the power of the original Tokyo faction in one fell swoop, then the era of the Tokyo Central Bank belonging to the original industrial faction will come.

How exciting this is!

Shirai smiled when he thought of this.

In fact, Shirai was the one who secretly pushed for the FSA investigation, and the complaint letter received by the FSA was written by him.

Shirai knows a woman.

A woman who left the Tokyo Central Bank.

This woman is Eriko.

Eriko was also once a member of the original industrial group of the Tokyo Central Bank.

During the period when Shirai was pursuing a radical expansion strategy, although Eriko was no longer in the banking system, she provided him with a large amount of resources. The power of the original industry faction must not die out, but must become stronger and stronger.

So, he decided to join forces with Eriko.

Even at the risk of putting the Tokyo Central Bank at risk of being heavily fined by the Financial Services Agency.

The former Tokyo faction must also suffer a devastating blow.

At this moment——

There was a sudden knock on the office door.

Then, a middle-aged man walked in.

He is Yamatoda.

Yamato is also a core figure of the Industrial Group. However, he was overthrown by Hanzawa due to the Ise Island Hotel incident and his position as general manager was revoked. Yamato also has a strong desire for revenge and wants to drive Hanzawa out of the bank and revive the power of the Industrial Group.

Shirai and Owada smiled at each other in understanding.

Yamato sat on the sofa unceremoniously, "Vice President Shirai, how confident are you this time?"

The former executive also knew that the Financial Services Agency investigation was an excellent opportunity to bring down former Tokyo clique members including Governor Nakano.

"Our era will soon come," said Shirai.

Both Yamatoda and Shirai understood the significance of this incident.

The strategic style of the original industry group has always been radical expansion.

During economic booms, this certainly helps banks expand their market position rapidly.

However, when the economic boom ends, many bad debts and non-performing loans will quickly be exposed.

These bad loans have been tying the hands of the original industry group.

This investigation by the Financial Services Agency is also a perfect opportunity.

The responsibility for these bad loans was also shifted to the former Tokyo faction.

"But, be careful of Hanzawa." Yamato frowned slightly, gritting his teeth as he recalled the past scenes.

"This kind of thing can't happen again." Shirai looked at the documents on the table. One of them was Hanzawa Naoki's resume.

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Hanzawa, who came out of the head office conference room, immediately began to collect relevant information.

Instead of sitting at his workstation in the office lobby as usual, he found an unused office and closed the door to conduct his research.

Hanzawa felt a lot of pressure.

As a result, he could no longer stay at his desk in the office hall and had to find an empty office to be alone in order to concentrate. Hanzawa was very efficient. Soon, he found the project materials of Yoshizawa Trust and started to flip through them page by page.

The content of the material is the same as Hanzawa's previous impression.

Ji Ze Trust itself is a low-risk project. The trust company mainly invests in government bonds, safe-grade corporate bonds, bills, etc.

They are mainly fixed income, and there are no large-scale risk investments.

Therefore, at that time, I didn’t think too much about the Tokyo Central Bank’s capital injection into Yoshizawa Trust.

What banker would devote his time and energy to a project with such little risk?

The only reasonable explanation for this is...

Vice President Shirai had been colluding with Yoshizawa Trust for a long time. They discussed together to use the bank's investment in the trust to purchase the bank's non-performing assets.

However, although this is speculation, there is no evidence.

In other words, even if there was any collusion, the evidence of collusion between Shirai and Yoshizawa Trust would have been destroyed long ago.

Hanze shook his head, trying to make his mind clearer.

Don’t speculate what’s going on behind the scenes for now.

The focus should still be on responding to the investigation by the Financial Services Agency.

The indicator light on the printer in the office lit up, and then it began to print "swish, swish, swish". A series of documents related to the Financial Services Agency's investigation were printed out.

Hanzawa picked up the documents and read them carefully.

The regulatory inquiry letter requires the Bank of Tokyo to disclose a series of transaction documents with Yoshizawa Trust.

Including pre-transaction consultations and meeting minutes.

Internal bank decision-making documents

Transaction agreement.

Even all previous drafts of the agreement texts produced during negotiations and consultations must be provided.

Information about persons involved in the transaction, etc.

The documents to be provided are very detailed.

It's a real headache to provide so many files.

In particular, you should pay attention to the documents you hand over to see if there is anything that is unfavorable to the bank.

This is tricky.

However, Hanzawa felt something strange.

The strictness of the regulatory investigation letter from the Financial Services Department this time was more than one level higher than before. It was as if someone had carefully pointed it out.

When Hanzawa was still at the Osaka branch, he also responded to many inspections by local branches of the Financial Services Agency.

After coming to the head office, I have come into contact with regulatory agencies several times.

None of their documents have ever reached such a level of detail.

Hanzawa had a vague feeling that this inspection by the Financial Services Agency was different from all the previous inspections he had encountered.

Hanzawa quickly looked through the list of people being investigated by the Financial Services Agency.

At the end of the regulatory letter, the members of the Financial Services Department's investigation team will be disclosed to ensure the transparency and standardization of the process. This will allow the investigated to know who is investigating them and whether there are people with vested interests who are investigating them, thereby causing unfair results.

Hanzawa quickly browsed through the list of the investigation team.

Chief Prosecutor Kurosaki, needless to say, he is an old acquaintance.

The prosecutors are Kojima Kenjiro, Sugawara Shiori, Mizuta Masako, Furuya Takumi...

Looking at these names, they were all familiar names to Hanzawa.

The more I look at it, the weirder it gets.

They are all the same team, so why is the style of this investigation so different?

At this moment, Hanzawa found a name he had never seen before on the list of investigation team members.

Consulting attorney for the investigation team: Yoshikazu Kitahara.

(End of this chapter)