Source: 21st Century Business Herald (JJBD21; Reporter: Wang Feng), Southern Metropolis Daily, Tencent anti-fraud bulletin
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On December 26, Tencent group released a notice on anti-fraud and disclosed its work progress in the first three quarters of 2019. A total of more than 40 cases of violation of “high voltage wire” were discovered, among which more than 60 people were dismissed for violating “high voltage wire” and more than 10 people were transferred to the public security and judicial organs for illegal crimes.
Meanwhile, 16 external companies have been added to Tencent’s “never cooperate” list.
This is the first time that Tencent group’s anti-fraud investigation department has released internal violations.
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More than 10 people from Tencent were transferred to public security organs
In the first three quarters of 2019, Tencent’s anti-fraud investigation department investigated and dealt with more than 40 cases of violation of “high voltage wire”, among which more than 60 people were dismissed for violating “high voltage wire” and more than 10 people were transferred to public security and judicial organs for suspected crimes, according to the notice.
The reported violations involved four of Tencent’s six business groups, with the highest level of employees being directors.
TEG (Technical Engineering Business Group)
PCG (Platform and Content Business Group)
IEG (Interactive Entertainment Business Group)
CSIG (Cloud and Smart Industry Business Group)
Formerly OMG (portal and video business)
Former SNG (former QQ business) and other divisions
The employee ranks include director, team leader and staff, excluding WXG (wechat business Group) and CDG (Enterprise development business Group).
According to the circular, the violations mainly focused on embezzlement of company assets and taking bribes.
The following are typical cases:
In related cases, Tencent’s suppliers or business partners bribed Tencent employees; Those who seek improper interests through other means will be blacklisted by Tencent and will never cooperate with them or accept any products or services provided by them. If the violation of state regulations, will also be handed over to industry and commerce, public security and other law enforcement agencies to deal with.
The last time Tencent reported a large number of anti-fraud cases was around 2014.
In 2014, Tencent reported two retired executives yue Yu and Liu Chunning to the public security organ for corruption. When Yue Yu was the director of Tencent’s online media development department and online video Department, he and his subordinates seized 3.739 million yuan of the company’s assets, and Yue Yu and Liu Chunning took 700,000 yuan in bribes.
In December 2014, an internal investigation by Tencent’s anti-fraud team confirmed that an employee had a stake in an external company and served as its commercial director. Another director held stakes in two companies with cooperative or competitive relationships with Tencent during his tenure and did not declare.
In March 2015, Tencent’s anti-fraud team received a report and confirmed that from March 2014 to March 2015, an employee unsealed QQ numbers for external users in violation of the rules and charged hundreds of thousands of yuan in fees.
On April 14, 2015, Tencent reported four violations of “Tencent High Voltage Wire”, two of which were suspected of “non-state staff taking bribes” and were transferred to the public security organs for handling.
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Internet companies are fighting corruption
In fact, since the beginning of this year, the internal corruption and fraud to strengthen the governance of Internet companies not only Tencent. China’s Internet industry has entered the most stringent “anti-corruption” era in history.
In the first seven months of this year alone, eight Internet companies reported more than 110 anti-corruption cases, involving more than 220 people being fired or transferred to public security organs, more than 11 times the number of cases and the number of people involved in 2015, according to a report.
Among them, meituan, 360, Xiaomi, Baofeng Group, Didi Chuxing and Baidu exposed more than 40 cases of employee corruption or fraud in July this year, which is similar to the scale of the whole year of 2018.
From Feng Xin, the actual controller of Baofeng Group, who was detained by the police on suspicion of bribery, to a Baidu intern who was fired for illegally spreading business data, the scope of this “anti-corruption storm” is also staggering.
The most severe measure of the anti-corruption campaign is to investigate the criminal responsibility of non-state staff bribery.
Recently, the Beijing Court trial information network published a number of Internet company employee corruption cases.
Bao Wei (pseudonym) is a product manager born in the 1990s. Between October 2017 and November 2018, Bao took advantage of his position to purchase goods from a company in Shenzhen, provide activity resources for the company’s sales platform, and help the company increase sales, and illegally accept more than 6.31 million yuan in bribes from the company.
According to the verdict, Bao voluntarily confessed to taking bribes when he was interrogated by his company on Nov 20, 2018. Bao wei was sentenced to three years in prison for taking bribes as a non-state employee. More than 560,000 yuan, which his family returned on his behalf, and 5.7 million yuan of illegal gains, which his bank cards had been frozen, were confiscated.
Among the evidence presented in the ruling were reports and letters of understanding issued by Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co., LTD.
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Jd.com has been aggressively fighting internal corruption in recent years.
Liu Qiangdong once said:
Even if you only stole $100,000, you’d pay $10 million to find out.
Jd.com has also repeatedly announced its internal anti-corruption efforts. An internal document in August 2018 showed that 16 people were punished, including five from the logistics department (two were detained).
Momo reported the case to the police in late 2017.
The reason was that Momo’s internal audit department received a report that data provided by a third-party promotion company were false, and that Zhang Yuan (pseudonym) and Shou Li (pseudonym), momo’s matchmaking employees, had taken bribes. Both resigned abruptly while the company was investigating.
Both of them were born in 1985 and worked in momo channel Department at the time of the incident. Between February 2016 and February 2017, Momo commissioned a company to promote, paying it monthly fees based on the number of valid registered users it provided.
According to the verdict, the channel group led by Zhang Yuan was responsible for specific matters. Their team made a basic review of the agents, summarized the list of options to Zhang Yuan for decision, and reported it to the vice president for signature according to the process, and then the business could be started. Shouli is specifically responsible for the company’s preliminary examination and later cooperation.
According to the judgment, account managers in the sales department of the partner company testified that “during the course of the cooperation, they offered to return some money”.
Zhang yuan and Shou Liping were sentenced to three years and one year and eight months in prison for taking bribes as non-state workers, and their illegal gains were confiscated, the court said.
Shouli said in her statement that when she received the first payment of 180,000 yuan, “I was nervous and talked to Zhang Yuan about it, and Zhang yuan said that there is no one in this business who does not take money, it is ok.”
The verdict, published by the Beijing Court’s trial information website, also showed that employees of some Internet companies took nearly one million yuan in bribes in four months by issuing authentication codes illegally. It will not only cause the potential loss of account distribution of the company, damage the credibility of the company, but also disrupt the business order of the Internet industry.
In August, the central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and the National Supervisory Commission (CNDI) posted an article on their website titled “Internet Companies’ High-profile anti-corruption efforts, Public Relations Crisis or Bone Scraping?” “, arguing that “deterrence is necessary, but after deterrence, we need to work harder to address both the symptoms and root causes”.
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