The news of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly's decision to form a special investigation team immediately spread throughout the press. Given that this is a sensitive moment before the re-election of members next spring, many newspapers reported that it was a powder keg of a power struggle.

Indeed, as these newspapers said, local councilors from different factions began to compete with each other, striving to unseat their opponents in the next year's re-election.

The one most directly affected is, of course, the Shinjuku City Hall.

Due to the formation of the special investigation team, most of Shinjuku City's fiscal expenditure projects have been suspended.

The entire local municipal government has almost fallen into a state of semi-paralysis.

There are also many voices in newspapers and media opposing the special investigation team, believing that this investigation is just a show and filibuster, because the operation of the city hall is paralyzed, and the final cost must be borne by the citizens.

As the initiator of this special investigation team, Councilor Shangdao is also under tremendous pressure. After all, in the end, the facts must speak for themselves. If the investigation team finds nothing in the end, then Shangdao’s career as a councilman can also be declared over. I don’t know.

In my sleep, extremely heavy chips have been placed in the gambling game.

At this time, all forces are paying close attention to the possible progress of the special investigation team. All forces want to know the relevant information discovered by the investigation as soon as possible in order to maximize their own interests.

All eyes are on the investigation team.

However, none of the forces noticed that a lawyer named Kitahara was launching an action. Since meeting President Hamanaka that day, Kitahara has been preparing to submit administrative ruling information to the Tokyo Metropolitan Finance Department. After about three weeks,

By the time, Kitahara and his team had prepared the materials and were about to start legal proceedings with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Department of Finance.

No one thought that at the important moment when the special investigation team moved in, a lawyer named Kitahara would become a key spoiler. After Kitahara and Miyagawa prepared the information, they mailed administrative documents at the post office.

Application documents for adjudication.

A bright red postmark is stamped on the package——

Legal proceedings will begin that no lawyer has ever attempted...

Three weeks after the end of the parliamentary question——

AM, 10:32 am.

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Finance Office, Governor's Office.

A middle-aged man wearing glasses and looking quite elegant is working at his desk. The desk lamp next to him illuminates his face, showing a tired look. It seems that he has been working for many days without taking a break.

This man is Nakata Yoshitoki, the head of the Tokyo Metropolitan Finance Department.

Tokyo is the heart of Japan.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the governor in charge of Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s finances controls the country’s economic life.

Nakata has been very busy recently. Nakata is a person without much ambition. He is just a technocrat who wants to handle the things and work at hand safely. It is precisely because Nakata occupies a relatively aloof and neutral position among various factions. Therefore,

, he has also been pushed into such an extremely important position as a compromise product that balances various factions.

This position is a problem for Nakata.

There are many things, chaos and miscellaneous things.

However, after taking up his duties for four years, Nakata felt an unexplainable uneasiness.

Nakata couldn't tell where this feeling of uneasiness came from. In short, the head of the Finance Department just felt strange. He raised his hand, picked up the coffee next to him, and took a sip.

On the desktop, there are detailed expenditure charts of Tokyo's budgets and final accounts over the years. These data silently tell the economic pulse of Tokyo in recent years. GDP data can be falsified, per capita income can be falsified, and even employment data can be falsified. However,

The tax revenue that pours into the national treasury with real money cannot be faked.

If the economy enters a recession, Tokyo's fiscal revenue will inevitably decrease accordingly.

Nakata looked at the documents, and the uneasiness in his heart became stronger again. In fact, Nakata has discovered the strangeness of Toyo recently. It is clear that various economic data are showing that Toyo's industrial activity is moving towards a new level. Various industries

Investment data are also constantly breaking new highs.

However, the fiscal surplus of Tokyo Metropolitan Government is getting smaller and smaller every year.

This is strange.

Very strange.

It's like you're talking about a business that's booming, but its retained profits are getting smaller.

This is almost a contradictory thing, happening right in front of Tokyo.

Nakata has not yet thoroughly studied the cause of this phenomenon, but his intuition tells him that maybe this is something quite bad.

However, there are still many disturbing things recently.

Nakata is also troubled by the establishment of a special investigation team by the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly. The suspension of most fiscal expenditure projects in Shinjuku City will inevitably affect many tasks of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Department of Finance. At the moment, he has not thought about what should be done.

deal with.

Suddenly, the sound of "哐, 哐, 哐" came.

There was a knock on the office door.

Faintly visible through the glass wall was the secretary's figure knocking on the door.

Nakata frowned, a little unhappy, because he had specifically told his secretary not to disturb him.

"Come in." Nakata said impatiently.

The door of the office opened with a click, and a secretary with exquisite makeup was seen holding a thick package with a somewhat panicked look on his face, "Mr. Nakata! Sir Nakata! This morning, we received it.

A document issued by a lawyer."

"What's there to panic about?" Nakata scolded.

Nakata was not surprised when he heard that the document was sent by a lawyer. After all, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Department of Finance also hired lawyers to ensure that the Department of Finance’s activities complied with Japan’s fiscal budget management regulations. Sometimes, the Department of Finance also asked law firms to issue documents

Legal advice, so it is not surprising to have documents sent by lawyers.

"It's an administrative ruling! Chief Nakata, a lawyer has submitted an application to us, requesting the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Department of Finance to exercise the administrative ruling function!" the secretary replied.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Administrative adjudication? Nakata is a little unfamiliar with this word. Nakata did encounter some legal disputes in the process of working in the financial agency. But these disputes all went to the tribunal. This

What does it have to do with your own finance department?

However, Nakata quickly remembered that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Department of Finance did have the function of administrative adjudication.

That is, when the financial behavior of the city hall causes disputes between businesses and citizens, these civil groups or individuals can apply to the Tokyo Metropolitan Finance Department for administrative ruling.

However, this procedure is only on paper.

No one has ever used it at all.

After all, the law allows you to go directly to the court to sue, so why bother to go to the Department of Finance again.

Suddenly, Nakata shivered. This is a very sensitive moment, especially the formation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly's investigation team, and people from various factions are surging in the undercurrent. The sudden administrative ruling, maybe... maybe

Not simple!

Nakata stood up immediately and placed the package in the secretary's hand directly on the desk.

All I could see was that the postage note on the package read: Application documents for filing an administrative ruling regarding the bidding for the Shinjuku City High-tech Industrial Park project.

The signature was signed by: Eto Law Firm, lawyer Kitahara Yiichi.

Eto Law Firm? Nakata has never heard of this firm, nor the name of the lawyer named Kitahara Yiichi. However, judging from the application matters, this administrative ruling is about the bidding of the high-tech industrial park.

The High-tech Industrial Park is the most popular investment attraction project in Shinjuku City in recent years, and it is also a project led by the Development Committee Ishiwata.

Reminiscent of the fact that Ishiwata received consultation at the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly a few weeks ago, and now we have received an application for administrative ruling on Ishiwata.

Oh no!

Nakata cursed secretly in his mind, a hot potato has been thrown at him!!!

At this moment, if the Tokyo Metropolitan Finance Department makes an administrative ruling on the dispute involving Ishiwata, then the Finance Department where I am located will become the center of the storm in an instant.

Who is this lawyer named Kitahara? What he mailed is not so much an application for administrative ruling, but more like a bomb!!

Nakata cursed in his heart again.

Many people outside the office continue to work hard, but they don’t know that at this moment——
Chapter completed!