China Fund News reporter Li Zhi
The chairman's wife is in trouble, and the regulator is in trouble!
On April 19, due to suspected short-term trading, Li Guojie, chairman of Sugon, received a notice from the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
The chairman of the board of directors was filed by the China Securities Regulatory Commission on suspicion of short-term trading
On the evening of April 19, Sugon announced that Li Guojie, chairman of the company, received a notice from the Securities Regulatory Commission on suspicion of short-term trading of Sugon shares.
Sugon said that this matter 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 Li Guojie will actively cooperate with the investigation of the China Securities Regulatory Commission. The Company will continue to pay attention to the progress of the above matters and fulfill its information disclosure obligations in strict accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and regulations.
An apology announcement was issued
On April 11, Sugon issued an apology announcement for short-term trading of directors' relatives.
According to the announcement, Zhang Dihua, the spouse of Chairman Li Guojie, bought and sold the company's shares through centralized auction trading from March 3, 2023 to March 14, 2024, and according to relevant regulations, the above transactions constitute short-term transactions.
After verification, Zhang Dihua has held the company's shares since March 3, 2023, and bought a total of 3,343,300 shares (141 transactions) of the company's shares from March 3, 2023 to March 14, 2024, with a total turnover of 154 million yuan, sold 3,342,600 shares of the company's shares (91 transactions), with a total turnover of 154 million yuan, and made a cumulative income of 589,800 yuan after deducting transaction commissions, stamp duty and other taxes. As of the announcement date, Zhang Dihua still held 700 shares of the company's stock.
After learning of the matter, the company attached great importance to it and verified the relevant situation in a timely manner, and Li Guojie and his spouse Zhang Dihua both apologized for the above violations and actively cooperated with the verification. The handling of this matter and the relevant measures have been taken, Zhang Dihua has handed over the full amount of 589,800 yuan of the proceeds from this short-term transaction to the company.
In addition, 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.
Zhang Dihua has recognized the seriousness of this illegal transaction and sincerely apologizes to the majority of investors for the adverse impact on the market and investors caused by this short-term trading behavior. Li Guojie expressed deep self-reproach 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. Li Guojie and Zhang Dihua promised to strictly abide by relevant laws and regulations.
Sugon said that the company will take this as a lesson to further strengthen training and publicity, further supervise all directors, supervisors and senior managers to strengthen the supervision and management of relatives' behavior, strictly abide by relevant regulations, and avoid the recurrence of such matters.
Net profit will grow steadily in 2023
According to public information, Sugon is mainly engaged in the research and development and manufacturing of high-end computer, storage, security, and data center products, while vigorously developing digital infrastructure construction, intelligent computing and other businesses.
Li Guojie, 80 years old, is a Ph.D. from Purdue University, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and an academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences.
According to the 2023 annual report, Chairman Li Guojie has an annual salary of 240,000 yuan and does not hold shares of the company.
In terms of performance, in 2023, Sugon achieved operating income of 14.353 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.34%, net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies of 1.836 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.88%, and net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies after deducting non-profits of 1.278 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.98%.
Up to now, Sugon's share price is 44.67 yuan per share, with a total market value of 65.4 billion yuan.
Editor: Captain
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