Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 119 The Admonition Room

Train the fan in the room to "call, call" the rotation.There is no air-conditioning here, and the summer heat wraps tightly around the human body, stimulating the heat-sensitive nerves.The rough gray walls around exude a faint musty smell.There were already several interrogation transcripts on the table, with bright red fingerprints on the paper, and a black handwriting signature at the end.

Kotaro sat on the seat, frowning, crossed his hands, and tightly clasped his fingers together.The people in the court didn't ask anything from their mouths.After all, regarding the reports of the attack on Terai, the people under his command did a good job and left no traces.People in the court also have nothing to do with themselves.

But just now, I was notified that Yoshiichi Kitahara, the plaintiff's lawyer, wanted to meet with me, so I was forced to stay in the admonishment room.Kitahara Yoshiichi, Kotaro silently recited this name in his heart.It was this name that filed a group lawsuit against his company. It was this name that actually used a traffic accident case to destroy his plan to become the successor of the group.

Thinking of this, Kotaro's cheeks bulged involuntarily, he gritted his teeth, and his eyes revealed extreme unwillingness.

On the table, a mobile phone was pressed against the interrogation transcript, the screen was turned on, and a stock quotation software was opened on it.After the verdict of the first instance was released, the share price of Kawamoto Expressway has plummeted by 50%, and the white daily stock price line dived vertically toward the ground like a broken kite.

Because some institutions have raised funds to do more, in the face of a sharp drop in stocks, these institutions can only close their positions and sell stocks in order to avoid further margin calls.The resulting damaged long chips, together with the short selling, gathered together to form a stronger selling pressure.

This huge selling pressure caused the stock price of Kawamoto Expressway to spiral down.

From the corner of his eye, Kotaro glanced at the stock price chart of his mobile phone, feeling that everything he did was so ridiculous.The financing and share expansion plan that has been pushed forward with great difficulty, and the large amount of cash absorbed, at this moment, most of it is estimated to become compensation for future group lawsuits.

My own painstaking efforts have finally become someone else's wedding dress and fat on the chopping board.

Not reconciled.

Not reconciled!

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door.

Immediately, when the handshake on the doorknob was turned, there was a "creak", and the door of the training room was pushed open.

A man in a gray suit jacket and a briefcase walked into the room.His face looks very young, estimated to be only about 25 years old.The gray suit jacket had a few obvious creases, and the threads of some seams were a little bit broken. People who are familiar with it will laugh when they see it.

Kotaro raised his head and saw the man in front of him, he couldn't help being taken aback, and his whole body paused.

North... Kitahara Yoshiichi?

He is Yoshiichi Kitahara?The one who launched a class action lawsuit against his own company, the one who defeated Imamishi?

Kotaro thought that the person who would come was at least a senior lawyer in his 50s, or even 60 years old.Unexpectedly, it would be such a young man.Kotaro was speechless for a while, not knowing what expression to make.

Bei Yuan pulled away the chair in front of him, and sat down with a rather complacent look.

In the training room, these two people sat facing each other, as if two generals were meeting with each other in the gap between the battlefield and the two armies.On one side is a lawyer who once filed a group lawsuit, and on the other side is the chairman of a listed company.These two opponents, who were entangled with each other and fought with each other, made countless cruel and poisonous moves to each other in places where they could not see each other.

The two opponents finally met for the first time.

"You made a lot of limelight this time." Kotaro sneered, "You stepped on our company and launched a class action lawsuit. How about it, don't you feel very refreshed? Do you feel that you are almost going to become a justice? Messenger, so that we, the highway companies that suck human blood, can be punished heartily and heartily."

Hearing some yin and yang words on the other side, Bei Yuan's expression didn't change at all, he just said indifferently:

"I never feel that I am the embodiment of justice. Or in other words, I never feel that there is a human being who can claim to represent justice. Justice is something that only God knows what it is. I am just a lawyer, and I only care about two things First, how is the law stipulated. Second, how to use the law to protect the rights and interests of my client.”

Kotaro's eyebrows trembled suddenly, he couldn't imagine that these almost cold and heartless words came from a passionate college student who seemed to have just graduated a few years ago.

"Do you think you have won?" Kotaro's voice sounded, "It is due to your lawsuit. Now the industry will decline faster. With the current scale of expressways, the annual maintenance expenditure is frighteningly huge. The entire industry has already Overwhelmed, there are very few freeway sections that are truly profitable."

"This lawsuit will inevitably have a chilling effect." Kotaro raised his voice slightly, "City halls in various parts of the East simply don't have enough revenue to support the maintenance of the road network. Without our expressway company struggling to support. Only local municipalities The little income of the government can’t even fill the gap between maintenance expenditures. At that time, there will be less investment in roads, and the road maintenance will worsen. You think you are doing good things, but in fact you are making the whole situation worse. Poor direction push."

"I quite agree with your opinion." Bei Yuan smiled, "At that time, the huge road maintenance expenditure can only be filled by taxation. However, the final destination of the tax burden will be the class with the least bargaining power in society. The result is that poor citizens who do not use the highways are using their hard-earned taxes to subsidize those transportation companies and road companies that use the highways. The end result is a lose-lose.”

In an instant, Kotaro got stuck again.He had thought that the young man in front of him would rise up and refute himself, scolding himself with that childish and superficial concept.

Unexpectedly, his understanding of this issue has reached this point.

However, the young man in front of him seemed to know everything.

Seems to know everything.

It was as if everything was under his control.

Kotaro couldn't help getting a little excited, and directly slammed his fist on the table, "If this is the case, why are you still doing this?! Why are you still doing this!! Could it be that private reconciliation is not enough?! It depends on the materials in your hands, isn't it Don’t you think you can successfully push us to a settlement?! Why did you file a subsequent class action lawsuit?!”

"If you hadn't released those news reports on Terai, maybe you would have reconciled in private." Kitahara said quietly, "Your reports once forced my client to jump off the Edogawa Bridge in Tokyo Bay .In line with the principle of an eye for an eye, an eye for an eye, and an eye for an eye, I chose to initiate a class action lawsuit."

In an instant, Kotaro was stunned again.It turned out that everything actually originated from this.It's ridiculous.Kotaro seemed to have seen the reincarnation of fate, and sneered:
"You know. I once stood on the Edogawa Bridge in Tokyo Bay, hesitant to jump off. It was the day when I first came to Kawamoto Expressway as the chairman. At that time, it was a joint venture road construction project, and we 30 % of the project money was cheated by the other party, and that year, Kawamoto Expressway directly suffered a loss.”

"At that time, I also stood on the Edogawa Bridge and wanted to jump off. Later, yes, it was a lawyer. I still remember, it was Miki Law Firm, a lawyer named Gu Meimen. Before I was about to jump, it was a lawyer. He stopped me the moment I came down. He told me that the lawsuit must be won and the project money must be recovered. At that time, he was obviously just a paralegal of the Miki team, but he said such frivolous words, but it happened to be Those words touched me at the time.”

Kotaro seemed to be immersed in the memories of those years, "Speaking of which, the temperament of that lawyer named Gu Meimen seems to be somewhat similar to yours. I don't know how he is now."

Kotaro turned his head and looked at Beiyuan, "Tell me, what is your purpose today. You don't come here to chat with me."

But he saw a stack of documents taken out of the lawyer's briefcase in front of him.The above is a series of tracking records of ip addresses, showing that the ip addresses that communicated with several tabloid weekly magazines were finally locked in the headquarters of Kawamoto Expressway - Shinjuku Center Building.The information is credited to a hacker teenage girl in an Internet cafe.

"Kneel down and apologize to my client. I can choose not to disclose these materials. After all, at such a critical moment for the company, if the legal representative is detained judicially, he may even be held criminally accountable for obstructing civil proceedings. You should know how much impact it has caused." In the admonition room, the male lawyer said coldly.

(PS: One or two more chapters to wrap up, explain the whereabouts of the final characters, and this case will be over)
(End of this chapter)