Crazy, You Call This a Trainee Lawyer

   Chapter 458 The client is poor and doesn't have that much money!

   The accusations of the new witnesses immediately changed the direction of the court.

   Zhang Wei never imagined that the testimony of this second witness was so explosive.

   He directly testified that Zhan Qingze bribed him with a bribe of 50,000 yuan.

   "Is there such a thing?"

   "Absolutely nothing, I have a mortgage of 20,000 a month, how can I bribe him!"

   Zhan Qingze naturally strongly denied it, which is also very realistic.

   Although he works in finance, and his salary is among the top in his age group, he still has a mortgage on his back, and he has a girlfriend who needs to spend money.

   Let him take out 50,000 yuan to bribe a self-media writer, is there a lot of money when others are stupid?

"really!"

   Zhang Wei couldn't help but nodded.

  Although his monthly lawyer fees are several million or even tens of millions, he is not too lazy to spend this unjustifiable money if he spends money to find a self-media writer to post.

   Don't you want to let the second girl take action, the cost is just a delicious dinner, it's just a white prostitute!

  Since Zhan Qingze denied it, and Zhang Wei also felt that this was a waste of money.

   So, Zhan Qingze didn't find the writer named Tao in court, so the other party was lying?

  In court, the questioning continues.

   "You mean that the defendant gave you a total of 50,000 yuan before and after to make you post false posts on the Internet?"

   The witness's eyes flickered, but he nodded solemnly, gritted his teeth and admitted: "Yes!"

   Zhao Chunming finally laughed after hearing this.

   He looked at the defense table with a smile, "The defense lawyer also said that the defendant had only accepted the project for two weeks, and his mind was on the engagement ceremony, so how could he care about his work."

   "But now it seems that the defendant has always cared about his work, and he is even willing to use bribery to confuse the public and mislead investors."

   "The defense lawyer also questioned Team Leader Chen before, saying that the defendant had no knowledge of these matters."

   "But now, the witnesses told us that the defendant knew all of these things, and a large part of it was still dominated by him and controlled by him behind the scenes!"

   Zhao Chunming pointed at Zhan Qingze, and said loudly, "He is the culprit in this case, and the 20 billion fund is missing because of him!"

   Under this accusation, the audience was solemn.

   Everyone subconsciously looked at the defense seat and Zhan Qingze with hostility in their eyes.

   "Lawyer Zhang, it's your turn!"

   When Zhao Chunming stepped off the stage, he sneered at Zhang Wei.

  The question is over, and the cross-examination begins.

   Zhang Wei tidied up his collar and walked to the courtroom under the watchful eyes of the audience, to the witness stand.

   "Hello, witness Mr. Tao!"

  The witness looked at Zhang Wei and said nothing.

   "Excuse me to the witness, you said that my client bribed you a total of 50,000 before and after to let you write a post that was good for environmental protection stocks and renewable resources stocks. Is this true?"

   "Of course it's true!" The witness responded immediately.

   "This is a holy court. You have sworn an oath. You should know perjury, right?"

  The witness swallowed and looked at Moli Qian in the front row of the hearing room.

   The latter stared coldly, causing the witness to quickly withdraw his gaze.

   "I know, I know, but I'm not lying!"

"you sure?"

   "I swear, I didn't lie!"

   "The witness, what do you mean, if we find out that you have an abnormal flow of funds in the later stage, or your family members and relatives have received large amounts of anonymous remittances in the recent period, it is impossible, right?"

"This…"

  The witness hesitated for a moment, as if he was not confident.

   In the hearing box, Qian Moli's eyes turned cold.

   On the prosecution table, Zhao Chunming frowned.

  What happened to this witness, could it be…

   "I swear, what I say is true!"

   "Well then..."

  The witnesses said so, Zhang Wei could only wink at the clerk's position on the side of the court.

   "Clerk, please make a record. The witness said that he did not give perjury, and that he was telling the truth, and there was no such thing as an anonymous remittance received by relatives in the family!"

  Li Qinghua gave Zhang Wei a vicious look.

  Sample, you put a wink here with the old lady, don't you know that the old lady is your mother-in-law?

   But that's the job of a court clerk. Although Li Qinghua wants to give Zhang Wei a face, his work still needs to continue.

  The witness opened his mouth and was speechless.

   I didn't promise the latter ones.

   "Witness, let me ask, you are a professional self-media person, right?"

"Yes!"

   "Then I want to ask, if you want to fool so many investors and show them good news about the market, how many posts do you need to publish?"

   "I only made two posts in total."

   "Oh, sorry, I asked the wrong question. I want to ask about how many people from the media like you need to post together if the market is to spread news that is good for environmental protection stocks and resource recycling stocks?"

   "Maybe several hundred. Of course, if the big media can be dispatched, the number may be smaller, but..."

   "But the big media need more money, don't they?" Zhang Wei asked back with a smile.

   "Yes!" The witness looked around and nodded in agreement.

   "Not only that, many big media will not be like you, providing false reports for money, they still have some professional ethics, don't they?"

   Although the witness felt that there was something wrong with this sentence, he still nodded: "Yes."

"The big media may send investigators to conduct on-the-spot investigations before carrying out relevant reports, and once the environmental protection and resource recycling stocks of Dongxing Securities are investigated, the false stocks will be exposed, so for the purpose of fraud, Nor will they risk the wind to disturb the big media.”

"Compared to the larger media, you, the less powerful self-media writers, have better control, and your industry is seriously involved. Many self-media people don't care about the accuracy of the news for the sake of clicks. It can be said that he dares to do anything for money, and he will not check whether there is any fraud in the stock, right?"

  The witness was sweating on his forehead, but nodded anyway.

   "Then the question is, if my client really needs to make up such a big project, can you estimate conservatively how much he needs to spend to lay it out?"

  "This..." The witness was a little troubled.

   He has never done such a project, so how much does it cost?

   "Let's analyze it step by step. For example, let's find a self-media writer. Like you, each person costs 50,000 yuan. If you say it costs a few hundred, then I will count him as 200 people."

   The witness murmured inwardly, 200 people are actually quite small, maybe 300-400 people would be better.

   "If there are 200 people and 50,000 per person, that's 10 million. Just to fool investors, you need to spend 10 million on publicity, right?"

"Yes!"

   "But do you think my client has so much money?"

   "This, I don't know..."

   "It's okay, someone knows!"

   Zhang Wei said, looking at the prosecution witness stand again.

   "Judge Chen, in order to verify this issue, I need to ask Team Leader Chen Weitian to testify in court again!"

   "This court approves!"

   Judge Chen also nodded, and Chen Weitian naturally appeared in court again.

   "Team Leader Chen, the witness just now provided an interesting accusation. He said that my client bribed him 50,000 yuan to make him post a false post."

   "I'm sitting below, can't you hear?" Chen Weitian sneered.

   "Then I also raised a very interesting point, which is the cost of publicity. To hire 200 self-media people like Mr. Tao, you need to guarantee a minimum fee of 10 million."

   "I heard that too."

   "Then may I ask, you investigated such a case and listed my client as the first suspect, so have you investigated my client's financial situation?"

   "Of course I have investigated!" Chen Weitian did not deny it.

   "Okay, please tell me how much money is in my client's account now?"

   "No more than 200,000."

   "How much debt does he have on him?"

   "There are still more than 4 million mortgages to be paid!"

   "In recent months, or years, what has been his biggest spending?"

   "The down payment for the house is close to 5 million!"

   "Then from his joining Dongxing Securities to the recent bank capital flow, you have also seen it, right?"

"Yes!"

   "Is there a huge expenditure of more than 10 million in his capital flow?"

"No!"

   "Team Leader Chen, thank you for your answer!"

   As soon as these words came out, the wind in the courtroom changed slightly.

   On the hearing bench, on the prosecution bench, and even on the jury, there were people who were thinking about it.

   Zhan Qingze doesn't have that much money, how could he bribe the media and make them cheat?

  Zhang Wei just wanted to tell everyone that my client is a poor man with a mortgage of 4 million yuan. How could he be so lazy and have the money to bribe the media?

  Chen Weitian saw the change in the court's wind, and quickly made amends: "But it is also possible that his company paid the money!"

   But Zhang Wei laughed when he said this.

   In the front row of the hearing room, Qian Moli secretly said that it was not good.

   "Team Leader Chen, well said!"

   Zhang Wei couldn't help clapping his hands and clapping, and said with a smile, "Since the company helped out with the money, doesn't that mean that Dongxing Securities is also responsible for this financial fraud case?"

"This…"

   Chen Weitian was stunned, and then realized that he might have said the wrong thing.

  But if it wasn’t the company that paid for it, then who paid for it?

   Zhan Qingze doesn't have so much money, but he has investigated it.

   Since he bought a house, he has no money on his body. He took on the mortgage at a young age, and he has long since become a house slave and a family of debtors.

   "Thanks to Team Leader Chen for his answer, I don't have any more questions to ask!"

  Zhang Wei thanked Chen Weitian again, who was confused.

  Why did you become the object of gratitude from the defense lawyer?

   "The prosecution?"

   Lao Chen looked at Zhao Chunming, who shook his head.

   He obviously will not continue to cross-examine Chen Weitian.

  Chen Weitian gave up the witness seat again to the previous witness, Mr. Tao, and sat back on the prosecution's witness seat.

   "Witness, I ask you, you said that my client bribed you, then I ask, is the transfer to you from the personal account of my client, Zhan Qingze, or the account of Dongxing Securities Company?"

"This…"

  The witness looked at the front row of the hearing, where Qian Moli was.

   But Zhang Wei suddenly took a step forward and stood between the two.

   "Witness, you don't even forget this, right? I believe that the investigation department must have questioned you, and you must have shown them the transfer records, right?"

   "It's the company account of Dongxing Securities!"

   The witness gritted his teeth and admitted the "fact".

   "Oh, it's the account of Dongxing Securities Co., that's fine!"

   Zhang Wei showed a stunned look, and then smiled slightly at the witness stand: "Thank you for your honesty, you really helped a lot!"

   The witness bowed his head, not knowing what to say.

   But Zhang Wei did not intend to let him go, but continued to ask questions.

   "The last question, since you admit that you have received money to provide false reports, why can't we suspect you, and maybe have received money, and then come to court to slander my client?"

   "This..." The witness was left speechless by this question.

   "You don't have to answer this question. Anyway, I believe that not many people in the court are fools. They have already guessed the answer!"

  Zhang Wei sneered and looked at the bench, "Judge Chen, we have nothing to ask about this witness!"

   As Zhang Wei concluded his cross-examination, the wind in the courtroom changed again.

   And this time, the wind of doubt is blowing.

  The wind was blowing towards Dongxing Securities and towards Qian Moli.

   "Damn idiot, useless thing!"

  Qian Moli looked at the witness who stepped down from the stage, and a cold light flashed in her eyes.

   This guy took his own money, but it didn't work at all, and even let the defense lawyer find a loophole and directly affected his company.

   If I knew this earlier, I might as well not be with him.

   Qian Moli regretted it very much, very regretful.

   "The prosecution?"

   On the trial seat, Lao Chencai looked at Zhao Chunming regardless of what Qian Moli thought.

   "The prosecution will also call new witnesses to testify in court!"

   With Zhao Chunming's announcement, another witness came to court.

   This is a woman with thick eyes and looks like a woman who deals with money.

   "Hello witness, please introduce yourself to the court."

   "My surname is Ji, and I'm a financial officer at Dongxing Securities!"

  The woman looked towards the jury, and then nodded to Qian Molly at the hearing.

finance?

   Zhang Wei looked at Zhan Qingze again, who also nodded, "This woman is our company's accountant. I have met her a few times."

   "Are you familiar?"

   "It can only be considered that we have met. Our company's financial department is very big. Anyway, I don't even know her name."

   Hearing this answer, Zhang Wei knew it.

  Since he is not familiar with it, what charges will this witness make against his client if he goes to court?

   saw Zhao Chunming return to the prosecution seat, took a few documents from Tan Yingying's hands, and then returned again.

   "Witness, as far as I know, you are one of several accountants in charge of the finance of the investment project department, right?"

"Yes."

   "Then can you explain that there is an expenditure of nearly 11.2 million in the company's account above, which you are responsible for handling. The above payment is described as a public relations fee. What does this mean?"

   "It's the PR fee, and I'm responsible for reviewing the payment, and then signing off on behalf of finance."

   "Then may I ask, who asked for this 11.2 million expenditure?"

  The witness raised his hand and pointed to the dock, and pointed out: "It's the defendant Zhan Qingze!"

   As soon as these words came out, everyone in the courtroom looked at the defense seat.

   Good guy!

   Really good guy!

   You said before that you don’t have that much money, but now the truth is revealed, the money is really from the company.

   "Witness, do you know exactly what this money is for?"

   "I don't know. In fact, the business department is thinking about asking our finance to reimburse various expenses. There have been reimbursements of more than 10 million yuan before, so I didn't ask more at that time."

   "Then is it possible that this money is what the defendant Zhan Qingze used to bribe the media?"

   "Objection, imaginary evidence!"

   Just when Zhao Chunming made his hypothesis, Zhang Wei immediately got up and interrupted.

   "Objection is valid!" Lao Chen also warned Zhao Chunming.

   But the latter smiled slightly and didn't care at all.

   Because his purpose has been achieved.

   Seeing the hearing bench, many people in the jury bench looked thoughtful and looked at the defendant Zhan Qingze with a look of resentment.

   Thankfully, we still believed in you before and felt that you were wronged, but we didn’t expect you to be such a person.

   You really didn’t pay yourself, but you asked the company to reimburse you, and the company was kept in the dark. How dare you!

   "Judge Chen, we have nothing to ask about this witness!"

   Zhao Chunming walked down the court again and let the witness out.

   Zhang Wei is communicating with Zhan Qingze.

   "Do you have an impression of that money?"

   "I don't remember, I don't even know that I have approved a reimbursement fee of 11.2 million from the finance department."

   "Are you sure you don't?"

"Really do not have!"

   "Then when did you sign?"

   "This... Attorney Zhang, to tell you the truth, we are in the financial sector, and there are more places to sign every day..."

   "I understand." Zhang Wei already knew.

   Then he got up and walked to the witness stand.

   "Hello witness."

"Hello."

After    said hello, Zhang Wei started to ask questions.

   "Witness, you said that you represented the financial department and signed a reimbursement of 11.2 million yuan, didn't you?"

"Yes."

   "Then I think, more than 10 million reimbursement expenses should be uncommon, right?"

   "Yes, very uncommon."

   "How many times this year?"

   "Three times in total."

   "Have you met the reimbursers for these three times?"

   "The first two times were signed by the president's secretary on behalf of President Qian. This is the third time..."

   "What happened the third time?"

   Zhang Wei looked at the witness with a strange expression, "Could it be that my client may be the one who signed the third time, but he is not the one who came to apply for reimbursement?"

  The witness opened his mouth, and it was difficult to speak.

   "Ms. Ji, please answer me truthfully, who came to apply for reimbursement at that time?"

  The witness was helpless, raised his hand and pointed to Qian Moli's side, "It's Mr. Qian's secretary, and she came to me for reimbursement the third time."

   Now, Zhang Weile is happy.

   "That's weird, my client wants to reimburse a huge amount of 11.2 million, but he didn't go to the finance in person?"

   "Ms. Ji, let me ask you one more thing, to go to financial reimbursement, you usually need to go in person, right?"

   "Yes, the company has rules."

   "Then my client, knowing that there is such a rule, still asks others to do it for me, is this some problem?"

"seems like it…"

   After the witness answered in general, he noticed the front row of the hearing room and cast a sharp gaze.

   She hurriedly changed her mouth: "No, no..."

   "What's the matter, the answer is yes, and the answer is no?"

  Zhang Wei sneered and said sarcastically: "Could it be that, as a witness, you are a financial worker, but there is a problem with your logic?"

   "Ah, this..."

   "It's okay, you already told us the answer anyway."

   Zhang Wei said, looking at the jury, "My client, Zhan Qingze, may not know about this at all. Is it possible that this signature is forged?"

   As soon as these words came out, the jury was stunned.

   But then, they were thinking, as if there was such a possibility.

  Because of the current evidence, it seems to point to the company itself, East Star Securities.

   Then, is it possible that the accused is really a scapegoat?

   (end of this chapter)