Monday morning, 9 o'clock.

Otemachi Tower, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.

Otemachi Tower is a 38-story skyscraper, less than 600 meters away from the Imperial Palace. On top of the building, strips of black decorative vertical pieces tie up the entire building like tie ties, lined with dark blue offices.

With its glass windows, the entire towering building exudes a very oppressive atmosphere.

The headquarters of Mizuho Bank is located in Otemachi Tower.

On the twenty-ninth floor of the building, outside the conference room is a wide and bright corridor, with the beige floor extending into the distance, displaying modern minimalist style decoration art. There is a chair at the door, and Shimada is sitting on it.

Holding a folder, he could already feel his heartbeat gradually speeding up.

In the face of the bank's extremely strict hierarchical system, the head office is an almost unattainable temple in the sky. Famous big shots who usually only hear about it in the branches can see it with their own eyes after entering the head office. This is an unparalleled experience.

of impact.

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

Shimada flipped through the documents in his hand and browsed the email that the bank had sent him 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 is a member of the Supervisory Committee under the Toyo Financial Services Agency and has many years of experience in supervising the banking industry. He later resigned from the official position and chose to become a lawyer. After several changes, he finally

Joined the compliance department of Mizuho Bank and was promoted to director. Fifteen years ago, Mizuho Bank once violated the Overseas Anti-Money Laundering Act of Western countries and faced huge fines.

It was Aizawa who stepped forward at that time, 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 shot like Aizawa. Shimada's hands are shaking slightly. Whether he can stay in Tokyo depends 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 come in."

Shimada sat in his seat, took a deep breath, adjusted his tie and clothes through the reflection of the mobile phone screen, then puffed up his chest slightly and walked into the conference room.

Walking into the room, the bright lights were a bit dazzling. At the far end of the conference room, there was a large horizontal table with fifteen people sitting on it. In the middle of the seat, there was a man in his fifties.

The man's hair is already a little pale. Under the light of the conference room, his face cannot be clearly seen. However, just the way he sits there already exudes a sense of majesty. This is exactly what he said.

The sign on the table of the man in the middle has four Chinese characters written on it: "Hitoshi Aizawa".

On the left side of the conference room, there were rows of chairs, and they were also occupied by important people from the head office. Usually, you can only see directors, supervisors, and directors of various departments on the website. At this moment, they actually attended this investigation meeting.

Shimada swallowed slightly, and walked to the chair in the middle of the conference room in a panic. He really didn't expect that the standards of this investigation meeting were so high, and the hand holding the document bag couldn't help but squeeze.

Tighter.

Compliance Director Aizawa coughed lightly, straightened his body, and formally 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. Employees have the obligation to truthfully report matters involving the company's compliance. The company has the right to investigate employees' violations.

Employees are obliged to cooperate with the fact-finding investigation. The above-mentioned internal rules and regulations of the bank have been publicized and adopted through legal procedures, and are binding on employees."

"In accordance with the above-mentioned regulations, Mizuho Bank Head Office has formed an investigation team to investigate the suspected internal violations of the Shinjuku District Branch Vice President Yusuke Shimada. The compliance director, myself, Hitoshi Aizawa, serves as the team leader."

"Now, the internal compliance 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 violations during your tenure at the Shinjuku branch. This investigation meeting, the first phase,

We will present factual evidence about your violation. You need to truthfully report the situation to the bank. The relevant situation will be reported by Gao Song, the branch president."

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

I heard the sound of leather shoes "click, click, click". Then I saw a man wearing gold glasses walking from the side of the conference room. He looked at Shimada in the middle of the venue with a mocking look.

The corners of his mouth turned up unconsciously, as if he was proud of having the power in his hand to sentence Shimada to death for his career.

The visitor was none other than Takamatsu, president of the Tokyo branch.

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

"After the head office announced that it would launch a nationwide inspection, our Tokyo branch took the lead in responding to the head office's request and launched self-examination and self-correction activities. During the self-inspection, we discovered that the vice president of the Shinjuku branch had committed major violations. The first violation

The matter is Dongshan Club’s letter of credit project.”

Takamatsu pressed the remote control in his hand, and the relevant form information was displayed on the slide in the conference room. He continued, "In the Dongshan Club letter of credit project, Shimada acted for his own selfish purposes and did not have complete loan approval information.

Due to the circumstances, the bank has been hastily granted a letter of credit, causing our bank to be unable to recover a debt of up to 500 million yen, which is a serious dereliction of duty."

"During a spot check of documents on related projects, we found that the credit business was missing a full 13 documents required for due diligence. Specifically, they included Yuanren's 2015 corporate cash flow statement, Yuanren's 2016 cash flow statement, Yuanren's 2016 cash flow statement,

Ren’s cash flow statement for 2017, Yuanren’s balance sheet for 2015, scanned copies of six original international import contracts, copper payment invoices, and the seller’s shipping bill of lading.”

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "With so many important documents missing, Shimada actually issued a letter of credit to Higashiyama Corporation. This is simply unheard of in the banking system! It is a total dereliction of duty!"

Takamatsu took a step forward, as if he was enjoying the process of slowly hanging the man in front of him, "And after the Higashiyama Club incident, Shimada artificially manipulated the bad grade of credit projects in an attempt to cover up the fact of bad debts, which has reached the level of lawlessness! Here!

, I request the head office to take serious punishment against Shimada!"

Shimada pressed his hands on his knees, unable to bear Takamatsu's barrage of attacks, he stood up from his seat, "Director Aizawa! Takamatsu is completely turning the truth upside down!"

"Yuanren was 16 years old. At that time, Mizuho Bank was focusing on the financing business of international trade import and export, and each branch was under great pressure to achieve performance targets. However, I exceeded the target that year. I originally did not accept the Dongshan Club project.

It was Takamatsu, the branch president in Tokyo, who recommended this project to me and asked me to take over it. It was only after his repeated requests that the letter of credit was approved!"

"Gao Song is now maliciously framed, please let the head office clearly understand the facts!"

When Takamatsu heard Shimada's rebuttal, he smiled coldly, "Back then, I sympathized with the pressure on each branch's performance indicators, so I recommended some projects to the 23 District sub-branches under its jurisdiction. Among them, I did not make any guarantees on the reliability of the projects.

It’s up to you to decide whether to accept it or not, so how come it’s me who is forcing you?!”

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

Shimada was silent, did not speak, and clenched his fists tightly. The Higashiyama Club project was verbally requested by Takamatsu at that time. Takamatsu called him into the office and talked for nearly three hours before he allowed himself to take on the project.

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

On the approval documents, it is indeed only my name.

When Takamatsu saw that Shimada was silent, the smile on his face couldn't help but become even crazier. He turned to look at Aizawa, "Director. Shimada's attitude at the investigation meeting was so bad! He also wanted to blame him and shift the responsibility to his superiors. If we don't punish him severely,

It’s not enough to correct the trend!”

Takamatsu's aggressive words echoed in the conference room.
Chapter completed!