Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 697 Investigation Strategy

"Mr. Kitahara, what suggestions do you have for the next steps for our Financial Services Agency?"

In the office of the Financial Services Agency, Chief Prosecutor Kurosaki said.

At present, the Financial Services Agency has sent a regulatory letter to the Tokyo Central Bank. Kitahara also participated in the process of preparing the regulatory letter and provided guidance to the Financial Services Agency. At the beginning, many prosecutors were not convinced, but after in-depth contact, many prosecutors changed their attitudes and could not help but admire this young lawyer.

Kurosaki also saw the difference in this lawyer.

"Let's wait for Director Nakajima to come." Kitahara said.

"Then we'll probably have to wait for a while. Do we need to report this to him specifically?" Kurosaki asked with some confusion.

Kitahara nodded.

About half an hour passed.

Financial Services Agency Director Nakajima hurried to the office.

"Why don't you start first?"

"Lawyer Kitahara said that he must wait for you to arrive," said Kurosaki.

"Is there anything that requires my special approval?" Nakajima picked up a plastic cup, filled it with water, and then sat on the sofa.

Kitahara saw that everyone had arrived and said, "I also understand that your Financial Services Agency has been trying to investigate Eriko before, but to no avail. What I want to say here is that, in addition to Eriko's own good concealment, is it possible that our Financial Services Agency itself has problems?"

The male lawyer finished speaking.

Kurosaki and Nakajima were shocked instantly.

What this lawyer said is tantamount to asking whether there might be a traitor within the Financial Services Agency.

"Do you think our Financial Services Agency has been planted by someone?" Kurosaki asked quickly.

"I am just suggesting this possibility," Kitahara said. "So, before discussing the next specific action, I suggest taking appropriate confidentiality measures."

"Please go ahead." Director Nakajima also found this young man interesting.

He actually started to suspect the Financial Services Agency.

Nakajima couldn't help but think about the existence of this possibility.

Indeed, the Financial Services Agency spent several years tracking down Eriko, but to no avail.

Is it true that there is an insider who is leaking information and obstructing the process?

"First, develop two investigation plans," Kitahara said. "One of them is a real, comprehensive investigation plan. For this real plan, I suggest that it be limited to no more than five people. If this plan is leaked, we can lock down the scope."

"Second, different codes are inserted into all internal emails and printed documents," Kitahara continued.

The so-called secret code is a recognizable string of characters that is not easily detected by humans.

For example, in an email, you can deliberately add an extra space between two English words.

In this way, you are equivalent to putting in a secret code.

You can recognize this email.

"We set a different password for each internal Financial Services Agency prosecutor who receives documents or emails," Kitahara emphasized. "This way, if a document leak occurs in the future, we can quickly find that person."

Hearing Kitahara's statement, Director Nakajima couldn't help but be surprised.

The young man in front of him was undoubtedly serious.

"I agree," Nakajima said.

"Then the next step is the direction of the investigation," Kitahara said.

Kitahara knew that large institutions like the Tokyo Central Bank were probably already adding documents overnight. Therefore, intensive regulatory actions were necessary to disrupt the banks' rhythm. "We must take on-site action against the banks immediately in the next few days," Kitahara said.

"Are we going to the scene to conduct a surprise search for information?" Kurosawa asked.

Kitahara shook his head.

"No. Our goal is to go straight to the person," Kitahara said. "If we follow the traditional investigation path, collecting documentary evidence first and then investigating the bank employees, it will be too slow. We give the bank too much time to react. We should go directly to the scene and start questioning the bank employees."

"Will we really be able to get anything out of this? Without hard evidence, these cunning bank employees may find it difficult to speak." Kurosaki supported his chin with one hand and began to think.

"It's not important what we get out of the question," Kitahara replied. "What's important is whether there are any contradictions between their statements. These contradictions will be the direction of our next investigation."

"Their current bank staff should be focusing their main efforts on collecting the documentary evidence required by our regulatory letter. They probably didn't expect that we would go directly to the scene, arrest their employees and start questioning them."

"And doing so will disrupt their pace of supplementing documents. The more panicked the bank is, the greater the possibility of mistakes, and the more clues will be exposed to us."

"What about Yoshizawa Trust? Should we take any action?" Kurosaki said.

"I suggest that Yoshizawa Trust should focus on monitoring first," said Kitahara. "As it is also under regulatory investigation, the Tokyo Central Bank will be under greater pressure. When the pressure is high, its actions may change. The Tokyo Central Bank will definitely contact Yoshizawa Trust. By then, it may provide us with more valuable clues."

In the office, Kurosaki and Nakajima listened to Kitahara's story. The young man's investigative ideas were simply linked together. Director Nakajima even had the idea of ​​recruiting this young man into the Financial Services Agency.

After the discussion in the office, Kurosaki and Nakajima discussed the Tokyo Central Bank's false reporting case internally within the prosecutors. Soon, the Financial Services Agency initially determined a plan to launch an on-site action...

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In the evening, Kitahara returned to his apartment. He had spent a lot of energy discussing the investigation ideas of the case with the Financial Services Agency during the day. He walked to the refrigerator and took out a can of cold beer.

For some reason, Kitahara felt that something was wrong.

That is the letter of complaint received by the Financial Services Department this time.

Eriko's affiliated companies assisted the Tokyo Central Bank in conducting false off-balance sheet operations.

Kitahara always felt like he was missing something.

The Financial Services Agency has been investigating for so long but Eriko has not found any clues, but now a letter of complaint has inexplicably appeared out of nowhere.

The more he thought about it, the more Kitahara felt there was something wrong.

But at the moment, he couldn't tell what the problem was.

He always had a feeling that he and the Financial Services Agency were being used by this letter of complaint and were acting according to someone's arrangements.

Kitahara sat down by the stove and took a big gulp of beer.

False off-balance sheet operations are a serious violation of financial regulatory regulations.

The Tokyo Central Bank will inevitably fight to the death.

Kitahara never thought that in order to track down Eriko, he would first have to cross a giant like a bank.

Time passes little by little...

Soon, the day came for the Financial Services Agency to conduct an on-site inspection of the Tokyo Central Bank...

(End of this chapter)