Editor: Zhang Jinhe
On the evening of April 19, Sugon (SH603019, share price of 44.67 yuan, market value of 65.38 billion yuan) announced that Chairman Li Guojie received the "Notice of Case Filing from the China Securities Regulatory Commission" on the same day, and decided to file a case against his relatives because his relatives were suspected of short-term trading of Sugon stocks, according to the "Securities Law of the People's Republic of China", "Administrative Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China" and other laws and regulations.
The company said that this case is an investigation of Li Guojie personally, and will not have a significant impact on the operation of the company's board of directors and the company's daily business activities, and the company will continue to pay attention to the progress of the above matters, and fulfill the obligation of information disclosure in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and regulations.
On April 11, the Shanghai Stock Exchange issued a regulatory work letter to Sugon, clarifying the regulatory requirements for short-term trading of relatives of the company's directors.
On the same day, Sugon announced that it had recently received the "Explanation and Apology Letter on Short-term Transactions of Relatives" from Li Guojie, chairman of the company, and learned that Li Guojie's spouse Zhang Dihua bought and sold the company's shares through centralized bidding transactions from March 3, 2023 to March 14, 2024, and the above transactions constituted short-term transactions.
The announcement disclosed the basic situation of this short-term transaction. After verification, Zhang Dihua has held the company's shares since March 3, 2023, and bought 3343296 shares of the company (141) from March 3, 2023 to March 14, 2024, with a total turnover of 153,669,067.94 yuan, sold 3342596 shares of the company (91 transactions), with a total turnover of 154,417,295.06 yuan, and made a cumulative income of 589,779.30 yuan after deducting transaction commissions, stamp duty and other taxes. As of the date of this announcement, Zhang Dihua still holds 700 shares of the company's stock.
According to Article 44 of the Securities Law, "shareholders, directors, supervisors and senior managers of a listed company or a company whose shares are traded on other national securities trading venues approved by the State Council hold more than 5% of the shares shall sell their shares or other securities with the nature of equity within six months after the purchase, or buy them again within six months after the sale, and the proceeds therefrom shall belong to the company." "Stocks or other securities with the nature of equity held by directors, supervisors, senior managers, or natural person shareholders as used in the preceding paragraph includes stocks or other securities with the nature of equity held by their spouses, parents, or children, or held through the accounts of others."
Sugon said that according to the regulations, Zhang Dihua's above-mentioned transaction constitutes a short-term transaction, and the proceeds and subsequent earnings should belong to the company. As of the disclosure date of this announcement, Zhang Dihua has handed over the full amount of 589,800 yuan of the proceeds from this short-term transaction to the company.
Sugon said that Zhang Dihua failed to correctly understand the relevant laws and regulations of short-term trading, and there was no subjective intentional violation. During the trading period, Li Guojie was not consulted for advice, nor was he informed that the above-mentioned trading behavior was an investment behavior made independently by an individual based on the information disclosed in the securities market and based on his personal judgment, and Li Guojie did not know about the transactions in his securities account, and there was no situation in which he traded the company's shares because he obtained inside information, nor did he use inside information for the purpose of seeking benefits.
Sugon finally said that Ms. Zhang Dihua has recognized the seriousness of this illegal transaction and sincerely apologized to the investors for the adverse impact on the market and investors caused by this short-term trading behavior. Mr. Li Guojie expressed his deep remorse for failing to fulfill his obligation to supervise his relatives in a timely manner and failing to discover in a timely manner that his relatives were buying and selling the company's shares. Mr. Li Guojie and Ms. Zhang Dihua promise to strictly abide by relevant laws and regulations.
According to public information, Li Guojie, male, born in May 1943, is 80 years old, with a doctorate from Purdue University in the United States, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and an academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences. He has won the first Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Progress Award, the National Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions, the Pan Wenyuan Research Excellence Award, the National Advanced Worker, and the highest academic award of the first Academic Conference in the Information Field. He has successively served as a researcher and director of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the director of the National Intelligent Computer Research and Development Center, and the director of the Department of Information and Electronics of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
From March 2006 to December 2010, he served as the chairman of the board of directors of Tianjin Shuguang Computer Industry Co., Ltd. (the predecessor of Shuguang Information Industry Co., Ltd.).
Since January 2011, he has served as the chairman of the board of directors of Shuguang Information Industry Co., Ltd. Li Guojie's annual salary in 2022 is 240,000 yuan and he does not hold shares in the company.
According to public information, Sugon's main business is the R&D and manufacturing of high-end computer, storage, security, and data center products, while vigorously developing digital infrastructure construction, intelligent computing and other businesses. The main products are high-end computers, storage products, network security products, cloud computing services, data infrastructure construction, computing power service platforms, etc.
In terms of performance, Sugon will achieve operating income of 14.353 billion yuan in 2023, an increase of 10.34% year-on-year, and net profit attributable to the parent company of 1.836 billion yuan, an increase of 18.88% year-on-year.
As of the close of A-shares on April 19, Sugon's share price fell 4.45%.
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