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Chapter 312 These people are so evil!

A few days later, this high-profile copyright dispute was officially filed in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces.

As expected, Haofeng's legal department reacted immediately, quickly submitting a jurisdictional objection application to the FA Court, insisting that the case be transferred to Jinling, where Haofeng's headquarters are located, for trial.

At the same time, Haofeng also applied to the FA Court for a judicial appraisal of the authenticity of the original key copyright contract held by the plaintiff.

Faced with Haofeng's strong counterattack, the newly popular local law firm team from Guangdong and Guangxi, hired by Aotianzun, also showed no weakness.

The legal team immediately lodged a protest, insisting that the case be accepted by the local courts in Guangdong and Guangxi.

Their reasoning is equally sound in legal terms—the core historical evidence in this copyright case, namely the final hearing and judgment in 2005 regarding the Ultraman copyright dispute, was completed in the Guangdong and Guangxi FA Courts.

According to judicial practice, the Guangdong and Guangxi FA Courts have indisputable jurisdictional convenience in this case.

For a time, countless legal professionals and law firms across the country were closely watching this game.

After reviewing the points of contention between the two sides, many industry insiders even felt that the plaintiff had a good chance of winning the jurisdiction battle this time.

It is well known that if such cases can withstand the pressure and not be heard in Nanjing, the plaintiff's chances of winning will increase exponentially.

After all, Dongda University implements a two-instance final judgment system, and the case had already gone through the two-instance final judgment in Guangdong and Guangxi in 2005. The judgment is binding at the level of legal FA.

However, just when the outside world thought that the two sides would be entangled in jurisdiction and procedures for more than half a year, a series of changes that occurred in the next few days left all onlookers stunned and made the situation clear.

This small company, along with the popular law firm they hired, is doomed.

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First, under the supreme directive to crack down on organized crime and eliminate corrupt elements within the judicial and administrative system, a fierce anti-corruption storm swept across the Guangdong and Guangxi regions without warning.

A senior financial officer who presided over the final trial of the case was formally placed under investigation by the discipline inspection and supervision department for suspected serious violations of discipline and law, acting as a protector of organized crime, and massive embezzlement and bribery.

An investigation revealed that the amount of bribes he was involved in reached a staggering 120 million yuan.

At the age of 58, just before retirement, he was brought down, ending up with a tarnished reputation and tears behind bars. In the end, he couldn't make it to a safe landing.

Following official pronouncements that the judge had lost his ideals and beliefs and used judicial power as a tool for personal gain, a large number of cases with serious procedural and factual disputes that he had handled were remanded for retrial.

The first case on the list of cases to be retried is none other than the copyright dispute case that has been dormant since 2005.

Before the public could recover from this major anti-corruption earthquake, a second bolt of lightning struck the newly popular law firm.

The firm's founder and several core partners were taken away for questioning by disciplinary authorities on the same day.

An in-depth investigation revealed that the law firm had been transferring benefits to several corrupt law enforcement officials in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces through various clandestine channels for many years.

In several cases involving organized crime, they even acted as protectors and brokers for local criminals.

In a short period of time, more than a dozen registered lawyers from the firm were subjected to coercive measures and arrested. This once-prosperous and popular law firm was almost uprooted overnight.

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Even the Venerable Qi'ao, who was at the center of the storm, could not escape the cleansing of this tempest.

After receiving an anonymous tip, the tax authorities quickly took over the investigation of Aotianzun. After several days of thorough investigation by a special investigation team, it was found that the company had evaded taxes totaling tens of millions of yuan over the past few years by means of issuing false invoices and concealing copyright sub-licensing income.

Although the company owner, looking pale as he was being taken away, repeatedly emphasized that the difference was due to the tax benefits they had received from the local government back then.

However, a joint investigation by the tax and disciplinary authorities revealed that the person in charge who made the promise of preferential treatment to him was actually just a subcontractor who was using someone else's name to deceive him.

Moreover, there were also huge amounts of illicit money-for-power transactions between the two.

In short, this boss was scammed by a political fraudster.

This not only rendered the so-called "preferential treatment" worthless, but also burdened the owner of Aotianzun with a public prosecution for suspected bribery.

Ultimately, the tax authorities issued a hefty penalty: recovering the tax owed, imposing late payment fees, and imposing a fine, totaling 88 million yuan.

In just a few days, the situation was reversed at an almost magical speed.

On the internet, the previously confusing public opinion was quickly set in stone and became crystal clear.

This is not a copyright dispute at all!

Instead, it was an unscrupulous shell company that, with the help of a shady law firm, attempted to extort money from a patriotic private entrepreneur who was leading a key cultural tourism project in Liangjiang Province by relying on a false case fabricated by corrupt law enforcement officials more than a decade ago!

These people are awful!

And it's absolutely awful!!!

On the day the news broke, the office building of Aotianzun in Guangdong and Guangxi, as well as the gate of that law firm, were splashed with red paint by outraged citizens and netizens.

In the words of local netizens, "This is only because the summers in Guangdong and Guangxi are too hot. If people were to throw up that kind of excrement, the smell would be too strong and it would be too environmentally unfriendly, so everyone has maintained their last bit of rationality and restraint."

At this point, no one on the internet cares anymore about the Ultraman copyright infringement case, which is scheduled to be formally heard in Nanjing in six months.

Because it's clear to anyone with eyes to see that without the support of that 05 judgment, Qi Ao Tian Zun and its authorization have become legally baseless.

With the demise of this small company, a massive crackdown on organized crime and corruption swept across the entire Dongda University campus.

The key areas of investigation are the corrupt officials and protectors of organized crime hidden deep within the judicial system.