Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 410 Asking Questions
In the courtroom, the young male lawyer stood up and walked towards the middle dock.His expression was calm and calm, as if what he was going to do next was not to question the defendant, but to reminisce with old friends in the coffee shop, holding a teacup, talking and laughing happily.

The university executives in the auditorium are all staring at this annoying lawyer who caused trouble for the university in the case of plagiarism of ancient books.

"Defendant." Bei Yuan said unhurriedly, "Now, I'm asking you a question. You must ensure that your statements in court are all true. Do you understand?"

This is the standard opening for lawyers to ask questions.

Because lawyers in criminal defense are in a weaker position than the procuratorate, and may be imprisoned by the police in the name of perjury, for the purpose of self-protection, experienced criminal lawyers will take the initiative to request Before answering the question, the defendant made a guarantee that he answered the question truthfully, so as to avoid being framed as abetting the defendant to give perjury in the future.

"I guarantee that my next answer will be truthful," Morimoto said.

"Defendant Morimoto, did you have any work experience before joining Kyoto University?" Kitahara asked.

"No."

"In other words, this is your first entry."

"Yes."

"How long have you been at Kyoto University?"

"Before this incident, I was a researcher at Kyoto University for almost one and a half years."

Kitahara took a few steps closer to Morimoto, "A year and a half is considered long or short. As far as I know, some universities have very high turnover of researcher positions. Many people just because they didn't apply for lecturers or assistant professors." , that's why I temporarily worked as a researcher. While working as a researcher, these people also actively applied for formal teaching positions in other universities. As a result, many researchers left their jobs again after less than half a year. Kyoto University How about it?"

Morimoto nodded slightly, "Yes. The core members of the research team of the Faculty of Engineering are actually doctoral students and young lecturers or assistant professors cooperating with the school, not us researchers. In fact, our researchers feel a little marginalized. It’s just that the university’s budget for scientific research personnel has not been cut, so it has been continuing to recruit researchers.”

Morimoto continued: "Because the position of researcher cannot obtain tenure, and the assessment conditions for re-employment are very strict. Therefore, most people still use the position of researcher as a springboard. Make your resume more glamorous, good Apply for teaching positions at other universities.”

"And you yourself."

"Actually, I think the same way. When I was a researcher, I also submitted applications for teaching positions to other universities in Toyo. In my mailbox, you can find these emails for recruiting applications."

"If you want to jump to other universities, what do you need to do?" Bei Yuan asked.

"There needs to be sufficient academic achievements, such as the publication of papers." Morimoto replied.

"Apart from these, is there anything else?"

"The other thing is to be cautious in all aspects of being a human being." Morimoto said, "In fact, the academic circle still values ​​the network of acquaintances. After all, whether a paper is well-written or not, there can be debates and differences in academics. There is no final conclusion. However, the endorsement of the network is a powerful passport."

"Can you explain what you mean by 'careful'?" Kitahara asked.

"Specifically speaking, you must not cause trouble, you must be a man with your tail between your legs, and you must not be too high-profile. It is better to do less things than to do more wrong things." Morimoto seemed to be in a calmer mood. The feeling gradually disappeared, "If you have done something bad, you will definitely not be able to get along in a place with a very narrow circle like academia."

Listening to the constant question and answer, Yan Yong frowned.The Beiyuan lawyer's questioning in court was as plain as plain water.However, it was this inconspicuous question and answer that gradually dispelled the defendant's criminal motives.

Yan Yong has already heard the implication of Beiyuan - if Morimoto is ready to change jobs at any time and apply for teaching positions in other universities, how can he do such self-destructive things like corruption.

"Just now you said that the researcher is not a core member of the research team. Then why did the Department of Engineering ask you to assist in the affairs of the industry-research joint venture? Could it be that only one non-core member can handle the affairs of the industry-research joint venture? Is it?" Bei Yuan's voice sounded.

"Of course not. It is very important to establish an industry-research joint venture." Morimoto responded, "Because this is engineering. There must be enough materials, equipment, machine tools, and venues for experiments. If there is no industry-research joint venture, many scientific research projects It will be difficult to advance. Without money, there will be no scientific research. A lot of funding is very important.”

"Since this is the case, why did the Department of Engineering let you, a non-core researcher, undertake such important things?"

"This... this..." Morimoto lowered his head slightly, "I don't know about that. This is the arrangement of Professor Ogawara, who asked me to be in charge of the joint production and research enterprise."

"Did he say why he put you in charge?"

"No."

The faces of the high-level university officials in the auditorium were already a little ugly.Judging from the defense lawyer's questioning inside and outside the words, it is... to direct the fire on other people in the engineering department.In this way, the impact of the case will become larger and larger.

"Then before you are in charge of the industry-research joint venture, who is in charge of the Ogawara research group?"

"I do not know."

"Then how did the transfer take place?"

"No...not much handover."

"Huh?" Beiyuan suddenly pretended to be shocked, "The scale of capital payment involved in the joint production and research enterprise should be very large. Dozens of enterprises, related documents, materials, vouchers, hundreds of projects, With so many materials, how could there be no need for a special handover.”

"But...but it's true, I didn't hand it over much."

"Can you understand it this way, the reason why you don't need to hand over is because there are not many materials left over from before that you need to deal with?"

"Yes."

"That is to say, before you take over part of the industry-research joint venture, the relevant project materials and documents are already incomplete. According to my understanding, if the previous industry-research joint ventures have done When the files are complete and the formalities are complete, there should be a large number of documents and materials that need to be handed over by you. However, in the end, when you handed over, you didn’t have many documents.”

"And the lack of documents has actually reflected the failure of the financial system to be implemented in a standardized manner."

"That is to say, before you took over the production-research joint venture, the financial system of the relevant enterprise was not perfect. Is this the case?" Beiyuan asked the question in court, skillfully guiding the issue step by step...

(End of this chapter)