Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 637 In Progress

Eto Law Firm.

A large number of law enforcement officers are carefully sealing up the collected documents. More than 10 boxes of documents were found under the floor of the director's office. Preliminary judgment shows that these documents are related to Eto's assistance to enterprises to defraud subsidies from Shinjuku City Hall.

Puchuan specifically looked through some documents on the spot.

The investigator gradually began to see the image of Eto Law Firm assisting companies in defrauding subsidies.

Shinjuku City Hall has set up a special subsidy program for high-tech enterprises. To receive the subsidy, you must meet certain specific conditions set by the city hall. For example, you must purchase advanced equipment from advanced countries for a certain amount of money, your R&D expenses must meet certain standards, and your office address must be registered in a certain place.

Lawyers can help prove that the company is eligible to receive subsidies.

For example, a lawyer can issue a witness document to prove that the company has indeed purchased equipment of a certain size. With these witness documents issued by lawyers, the city hall may not necessarily conduct an on-site inspection of the company and may decide to grant subsidies based on its trust in the witness documents issued by lawyers.

Urakawa also specially took out some documents related to Kitahara for review.

Among them, Kitahara also assisted in giving many testimonies to these companies, for example, testifying about the educational background of the company's R&D personnel, the number of R&D personnel, and the authenticity of salary payments.

There is no doubt that these testimony documents made by lawyer Kitahara are also important bases for the city hall's decision to issue them.

In other words, if further verification shows that these documents are indeed false, then Kitahara will become Eto's accomplice.

Urakawa was an experienced investigator. At this moment, he decided to slow down and not rush to take action against Kitahara based on these documents.

These documents have provided the next direction for investigation.

Puchuan decided to make sure that the evidence was solid before taking action. As for before taking action, it would be a good idea to use some means to warn this arrogant lawyer.

When he thought about how he would be able to gradually watch the arrogant lawyer panic, Urakawa couldn't help but feel a surge of pleasure in his heart.

This investigator has the mentality of taking revenge on others for fun.

Urakawa pulled an office chair to the center of the law firm's office, crossed his legs, and looked at all the law enforcement officers as if he was appreciating a beautiful painting. "Everyone, conduct a thorough search of the Eto Law Firm now, and check carefully for any hidden compartments!"

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At the same time, in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, 43rd floor, Conference Room 3.

The trial of the case is still at a stalemate.

Everyone in the meeting room was watching the lawyers on both sides. The tension of the trial gradually spread to the audience.

Miyakawa had already prepared a thick stack of materials. She decided to follow Kitahara's plan and stop entangled with the other party, but focus directly on the illegal behavior of Shinjuku City Hall.

Miyakawa stood up from his seat again and said with a rather stern expression, "This time, the Shinjuku City Hall has committed more than ten serious illegal acts in the High-Tech Park project. These include improperly setting bidding and procurement conditions, maliciously excluding suppliers, changing bidding results without legal procedures, and many other improper behaviors during the bidding process."

“Below, we will group 2 to 3 offences into a group and describe them separately.”

"The first illegal act is to prevent a branch company from participating in the bidding. One of the five applicants this time is Shenghong Machinery Co., Ltd. The company has a branch in Shinjuku Ward. Among them, the Shinjuku branch of Shenghong Machinery Co., Ltd. was rejected by the Shinjuku Ward Local City Hall when it participated in the bidding for the elevator shaft project of the High-tech Park project involved in the case."

【Branch】

[A branch is a branch of a company set up in another administrative region. The headquarters of a company is called the head office. That is, the head office is opposite to the branch. ]

"However, during the initial project negotiations, the Shinjuku City Hall did not inform Shenghong Machinery Co., Ltd. that the company's branches, or subsidiaries, were not eligible to participate in the project in question. In the early stages of the project, Shenghong Machinery Co., Ltd. had provided a lot of consulting services to the Shinjuku City Hall on the elevator shaft bidding project free of charge."

"Shinjuku City Hall prohibits branches located in Shinjuku from participating in bidding. This regulation is completely inconsistent with the Market Procurement Supervision Law and the Bidding Law and other regulations that ensure free market competition. This practice actually restricts competition between companies in different regions."

Miyagawa's voice was sonorous and powerful.

She looked at the materials in her hand methodically and continued, "The second illegal act is to prevent overseas companies from participating in the bidding. One of the applicants for this administrative ruling is ATP Co., Ltd. Its president is Seiichiro Kuwahara. Or more accurately, ATP Co., Ltd. is a company registered overseas."

"Although its head, Seiichiro Kuwahara, has moved overseas, he has always been concerned about the development of science and technology in Japan. After learning that Shinjuku District had established the High-Tech Park project, ATP Co., Ltd. also did its best to provide advice for the proposed investment projects of the High-Tech Park and also provided a large number of free consulting services. The Shinjuku District City Hall promised that it could participate in the bidding for the procurement of communication optical cables and network equipment in the High-Tech Park."

"However, after the bidding started, ATP Co., Ltd. was told that as an overseas company, it was not eligible to participate in the bidding project in question. And the Shinjuku City Hall, which had promised them that they could participate in the bidding, had obtained more than one million words of consulting documents from ATP Co., Ltd. on the latest trends in overseas technology development for free."

"The above parties all said that they were willing to accept being defeated in a fair and just bidding process. However, they would never accept being blocked by the unreasonable conditions that suddenly appeared and unable to participate in the bidding. The above two companies provided a lot of scheme design and future planning consultation for the high-tech park project involved in the case. However, the final result was that they were blocked from the bidding and procurement process."

"For this reason, Shinjuku City Hall has illegally set several conditions at the beginning of the bidding, unreasonably excluding many of our parties from the procurement process. This is clearly contrary to the requirement to comply with the principle of market competition!"

Miyakawa's words were directed at City Hall.

Many city hall officials present were naturally very familiar with this tactic. Before the project was launched, many companies were invited to provide consulting services so that the project could be launched with sufficient intelligence and information. Then, through the setting of bidding conditions, these companies that provided consulting services free of charge were excluded, leaving only "their own people".

However, this is a long-standing "rule".

At this moment, this female lawyer shouted so loudly——

He said it openly in front of everyone.

(End of this chapter)