Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 244 Head Office Investigation Meeting

Monday morning, 9:[-].

Otemachi Tower, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.

Otemachi Tower is a 38-story skyscraper located less than 600 meters from the Imperial Palace.On the building body, strips of black decorative vertical pieces bind the whole building up like cable ties, lined with dark blue office glass windows, and the whole majestic building exudes a strong sense of oppression.

The headquarters of Mizuho Bank is located in the Otemachi Tower.

Building No.20, nine floors, a wide and bright corridor outside the meeting room, the beige floor extends to the distance, showing modern minimalist style decoration art.There was a chair by the door, and Shimada was sitting on it, holding a folder, and he already felt his heart beating faster.

In the face of the bank's extremely strict hierarchical system, the head office is almost an unattainable temple in the sky.The well-known bigwigs who can only be heard in the sub-branches can see them with their own eyes after entering the head office. This is an unparalleled impact.

And next, I have to accept the cross-examination of such big shots.

Shimada flicked through the documents in his hand, and browsed through the e-mail sent to him by the bank about the investigation meeting.

Today's head office investigation meeting was personally conducted by Compliance Director Hitoshi Aizawa.

Aizawa is a legend within Mizuho Bank.He himself is a member of the Supervision Committee under the Toyo Financial Services Agency, and has many years of experience in supervising the banking industry.Afterwards, he resigned from the office and chose to become a lawyer, and after several twists and turns, he finally joined the Compliance Department of Mizuho Bank and was promoted to director. Fifteen years ago, Mizuho Bank faced huge fines for violating the foreign anti-money laundering laws of Western countries.

It was Aizawa who came forward at that time and repeatedly negotiated with Western administrative officials, and finally reached an administrative settlement agreement.The sky-high fine was cut by nearly two-thirds, saving Mizuho Bank's overseas business.

Next, he will face a big man like Aizawa.Shimada's hands were shaking slightly. Whether he could stay in Tokyo would depend on today's battle.

With a "click", the door of the conference room was opened, and an administrative secretary poked his head out and looked at Shimada, "The investigation meeting is ready. Mr. Shimada can enter."

Sitting in his seat, Shimada took a deep breath, adjusted his tie and dress with the reflection of the phone screen, then puffed up his chest slightly, and walked into the meeting room.

Walking into the room, the bright lights are a bit dazzling.There was a large horizontal long table at the far end of the conference room, and fifteen people sat on it.In the middle of the position is a man in his fifties. His hair is already a little pale. Under the light of the conference room, his face cannot be seen clearly. However, it is just his posture sitting there. , already faintly exuded a majesty.The sign on the desk of the man in the middle is written with four Chinese characters "Aizawa Hitoshi".

On the left side of the conference room, rows of chairs were also lined up, on which were also sitting important figures from the head office.Usually, you can only see the directors, supervisors, and directors of various departments on the website, but at this moment they also attended the investigation meeting.

Shimada swallowed slightly, and walked a little flusteredly to the chair in the middle of the meeting room.He really didn't expect that the specification of this survey meeting would be so high, and he couldn't help but squeeze the file bag even tighter.

Compliance Director Aizawa coughed lightly, straightened his body, and officially announced:

"The person under investigation has arrived at the scene. In accordance with Mizuho Bank's internal compliance investigation guidelines, that is, Chapter 7 Part A of the employee handbook. For matters involving company compliance, employees have the obligation to truthfully report. The company has the right to investigate the facts of employees' violations. Employees are obliged to cooperate with the investigation. The above-mentioned internal rules and regulations of the bank have been publicized and passed through legal procedures, which are binding on employees.”

"According to the above-mentioned regulations, Mizuho Bank's head office formed an investigation team on the suspected internal violations of Shimada Yusuke, the vice president of the Shinjuku branch.

"Now, the compliance internal investigation has officially begun."

Aizawa raised his head and looked at the figure sitting in the middle of the conference room, "Shimada. In recent days, we have received reports about your violations during your tenure at the Shinjuku branch. This investigation, the first phase, We will show factual evidence about your violations. You need to truthfully report the situation to the bank. Next, the branch president Gao Song will report the situation.”

When Takamatsu's name was heard, Shimada's eyes widened involuntarily.It turned out to be Gao Song? !Could it be that he was investigated this time because he sent a report letter to the HR and Compliance Department of the head office? !

There was only a "click, click, click" sound of leather shoes.But I saw a man wearing gold-rimmed glasses walking in from the side of the conference room. He looked at Shimada in the middle of the venue with a mocking look, and the corners of his mouth raised unconsciously, as if because he held a sentence in his hand. Shimada is very proud of the power of the death penalty in his career.

The person who came was Takamatsu, the president of the Tokyo Metropolitan Branch.

Takamatsu bowed to Aizawa in the venue, with a flattering smile on his face, then turned to look at Shimada, and said sharply:

"After the head office announced that it was about to launch a national inspection. Our Tokyo branch took the lead in responding to the head office's request and launched self-inspection and self-correction activities. During the self-inspection, we found major violations by the vice president of the Shinjuku branch. The first violation The matter is the letter of credit project of Dongshan Club."

Takamatsu pressed the remote control in his hand, and the slides in the meeting room immediately displayed the relevant form information. He continued, "In the letter of credit project of Dongshan Club, Shimada did not have complete loan approval documents for his own selfishness. Due to the situation, it is a major dereliction of duty to rashly approve the letter of credit, causing our bank to be unable to recover the debt of up to 5 million yen."

"During the random inspection of documents related to the project, we found that the credit business was missing a full 13 documents required for due diligence. Specifically, it included the company's cash flow statement for the 15th year of Yuanren, the cash flow statement for the 16th year of Yuanren, and the Ren’s 17-year cash flow statement, Yuanren’s 15-year balance sheet, scanned copies of six original international import contracts, copper payment invoices, and the seller’s shipping bill of lading.”

"In the absence of so many important documents, Shimada actually approved the letter of credit to Dongshan Club, which is unheard of in the banking system! It is a major dereliction of duty!"

Gao Song took a step forward, as if he was enjoying the process of slowly hanging the man in front of him, "And after the Dongshan Club incident, Shimada artificially manipulated the bad grades of credit projects and tried to cover up the bad debts. It has reached the point of lawlessness! Here , I request the head office to take serious punishment on Shimada!"

Shimada put his hands on his knees, and couldn't stand Takamatsu's barrage of shells, so he stood up from his seat, "Director Aizawa! Takamatsu is completely telling the truth!"

"Yuanren was in 16 years. At that time, Mizuho Bank was focusing on the financing business of international trade import and export, and the performance indicators of each branch were under great pressure. However, I had exceeded the indicators that year. I did not accept the Dongshan Club project. .It was Takamatsu, the branch manager in Tokyo, who pushed this project to me and let me take over. It was only under his repeated requests that the letter of credit was approved!"

"Gao Song is now maliciously framing, please head office to find out the facts!"

Hearing Shimada's rebuttal, Takamatsu sneered, "At that time, I was sympathetic to the pressure of the performance indicators of each branch, so I recommended some projects to the 23rd district branch under my jurisdiction. Among them, I did not make any guarantees for the reliability of the projects. Whether to accept it or not is up to you to decide at your own discretion, how did it become that I was forcing it?!"

"Moreover, you must have evidence! Evidence!" Gao Song patted the table on the side podium, "You kept saying that the branch forced you to do this project. Where's the evidence? Where's the evidence?!"

Shimada was silent, did not speak, and clenched his fists tightly.The Dongshan Club project was verbally requested by Takamatsu at the time.Gao Song called him into the office and talked for nearly three hours before letting himself take over the project.

However, there is no written evidence of all this, it is all oral.

On the approval document, there was indeed only his own name.

Seeing that Shimada didn't speak, Gao Song couldn't help but smile even more wildly. He turned his head and looked at Aizawa, "Director, Shimada's attitude in the investigation meeting is so bad! I want to beat him down and shift the responsibility to the superior. If you don't punish severely, It’s not enough to be positive!”

Takamatsu's aggressive words echoed in the meeting room.

The sharp butcher's knife was raised towards Shimada...

(End of this chapter)