Text | Sina Finance Liu Lili
Internet giants seem to have made an appointment, and began to fight corruption at the end of last year.
First, Tencent's Ma Huateng said that internal corruption was serious, and then said that all unprofitable businesses should be cut, and then Jingdong's Liu Qiangdong publicly said that "middle and high-level people use PPT to deceive themselves all day", and even the relatively low-key Baidu Li Yanhong also brushed a wave of screens, exposing that Baidu's internal corruption problems are amazing...
The founder, with a "heavy hammer" to beat the "drum" of positive wind and anti-corruption. When the drums are beating, there will be an echo!
Three days ago, Tencent issued a group anti-fraud circular, saying that in 2022, more than 70 cases of violations of the "Tencent High Voltage Line" were discovered and investigated, more than 100 people were dismissed for violating the "Tencent High Voltage Line", and more than 10 people were transferred to the public security organ for suspected crimes.
So, what new trend has been reflected behind the anti-corruption of large factories?
Corruption, is it all traffic that causes trouble?
Liu Qiangdong said, "You are greedy for 100,000 yuan, I will spend 10 million yuan and send you to prison", Ma Huateng said that "internal corruption is shocking", Li Yanhong said "Baidu also has those problems in Tencent", and Ma Yun also said, "Jiang Fang can investigate anyone in the company, including myself." ”
These Internet bigwigs have released ruthless words and ruthless work on internal corruption, which shows the urgency of the situation.
How did Internet companies become the hardest hit by corruption? In fact, this is not difficult to understand.
Former Baidu employee "Brother Leopard" said that the Internet industry has always been the hardest hit area for corruption. "You look at these head Internet platforms, which annual revenue is not hundreds of billions, even if it is a little scum, it is a great temptation for ordinary people."
He bluntly said that Internet companies are mostly platforms, which represent not a company, but an ecology, and there are countless companies in the ecology, all of which have to point to the platform to enjoy food. "So even if a director or even a manager, sometimes even an ordinary employee, he can decide whether a company cooperates with a few words, and even can decide the life and death of the company, so even if the bosses of these companies are worth hundreds of millions, they have to beg the small cadres and employees of the big factory, for fear that if they accidentally cooperate, they will be gone."
At the same time, he admitted that he had experienced a similar thing, "A boss with a net worth of more than a billion yuan talked about the plan and cooperation with a group of ordinary employees of our large factory, but in the end it did not succeed." ”
"Brother Leopard" said bluntly" said that in the past, Baidu had a search resource cooperation department, all traffic cooperation matters were under the management of this department, and the director of this department was the God of Wealth of many small and medium-sized company owners, "If the door of their house is not closed, they will really fly banknotes inside, so this position is a corruption disaster area, and several responsible persons have been sent to prison." ”
He also gave a practical example, "Some time ago something happened in Baidu, a few grassroots employees and outsourced personnel bypassed many restrictions, secretly channeled traffic to some websites in the middle of the night, and made tens of millions in a few months, of course, now these people are also squatting inside." ”
"What I know is only the tip of the iceberg," he lamented, "traffic is really too valuable." ”
An Internet technology blogger said he never believed in the so-called "anti-corruption" in large factories and private companies. He believes that the anti-corruption of large factories is often a gust of wind, and it is finished when it blows, and the "symbolic significance" is greater than the substantive significance.
"It can also be seen from the checked list, just like dividing the cake, all departments come equally, you come a little, I come a little, this matter is over, the anti-corruption of large factories, often as soon as it touches the executive level, the high-voltage line automatically disappears." The blogger believes that during this period, the focus of Tencent and other big manufacturers in high-profile anti-corruption is not "anti-corruption", but "high-profile".
In fact, private enterprises, represented by Internet companies, began internal anti-corruption as far back as 2010. According to a report released by an organization, in 2010, Alibaba's company purged more than 1,000 customers suspected of fraudulently "Chinese suppliers", and two of the company's executives resigned. Since then, Alibaba, JD.com, Huawei and other companies have successively begun internal anti-corruption, from employees, to sector general managers, to executive vice presidents, many people have been sentenced.
Is the root cause of the Internet's logic and ecology changed?
However, as a former Internet worker, "Brother Leopard" frankly said that to check and balance corruption, it will inevitably increase costs, and it will also affect the efficiency of the company's money-making, and it may not be preventable, so it is a dilemma for capital.
Another legal professional said that in fact, the Internet is now more of a game of existing users, rather than blindly expanding, and in the absence of increments, enterprises will indeed emphasize internal governance and optimization.
An Internet entrepreneur who used to work at Baidu believes that Internet giants have suddenly begun to collectively reflect and talk about anti-corruption and other issues, rather than following the trend, indicating that the ecological logic of the Internet industry will definitely undergo subversive changes this year.
The above-mentioned people said that it is not that there was no corruption before, such as the unspoken rules of public relations sales, market procurement, and some human relations in the public relations sales process, etc., which can not be abided by large manufacturers. "Not only will they comply, but they will also do more exaggeration, human nature is greedy." Any link can be corroded by anyone. ”
But he also said that these things were not a problem in the dividend period of the rapid development of the Internet industry in previous years, and they could even turn a blind eye, or make way for development, but the speed of enterprise development slowed down, and all problems became problems.
"The extensive development model of first losing money and scrambling the land, and then becoming bigger and stronger, and then sitting on the ground to collect money and cut leeks, may no longer be visible in the Internet industry in the future," the above-mentioned person believes, "The last era has passed, the old road of the past is no longer working, so the big factory must find a new way out, that is, the so-called strategic adjustment, but for enterprises, to carry out strategic adjustment, it must first overcome the resistance of the old internal interest groups, otherwise nothing can be done." ”
This person put it bluntly, "To put it bluntly, it is necessary to carry out a change of power, destroy those old interest groups that hinder strategic adjustment, and replace them with new reformers to help them overthrow the old development model and blaze a new path." ”
How should non-State officials be held accountable for bribery?
Corporate anti-corruption generally involves the crime of bribery of non-state officials. This is also clearly regulated by law.
Yue Qiang, a senior partner at Beijing Hairun Tianrui Law Firm, said that Article 163 of the Criminal Law stipulates that a staff member of a company, enterprise or other unit who takes advantage of his position to solicit other people's property or illegally accept other people's property to seek benefits for others, and the amount is relatively large, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and a fine; where the amount is very large or there are other serious circumstances, a fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years shall be imposed and a fine; Where the amount is particularly large or there are other particularly serious circumstances, the person shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined. Where a staff member of a company, enterprise or other unit takes advantage of his position in the course of economic exchanges, violates State regulations, accepts kickbacks or handling fees in various names, and is owned by individuals, he shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
At the same time, in accordance with Article 10 of the Provisions of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security on Standards for Filing and Prosecuting Criminal Cases under the Jurisdiction of Public Security Organs (II), [Cases of Bribery of Non-State Functionaries (Article 163 of the Criminal Law)] The staff of a company, enterprise or other unit take advantage of their position to solicit other people's property or illegally accept other people's property to seek benefits for others, or in economic exchanges, take advantage of their position to violate state regulations by accepting kickbacks and handling fees in various names, which shall be owned by individuals. Where the amount is more than 30,000 yuan, a case shall be filed for prosecution.