"The whereabouts of the 300 million funds are a mystery, and the rights and interests of employees are difficult to find. The announcement of the closure of the company released by the companion app instantly caused an uproar on the Internet. Why did this once-limelight online voice social platform suddenly announce its closure? The focus of the contradiction is directly on the whereabouts of the funds under investigation, which makes the outside world more curious and worried about the case.
It all started back in April last year. At that time, the Public Security Bureau of Shunde District, Guangdong Province, conducted a criminal investigation on the company on the grounds of "suspected of opening a casino" and took away a number of the company's executives and employees. Unexpectedly, a year later, this investigation not only had no results, but escalated into a situation where the company's 300 million yuan of funds were "illegally deducted" by the police.
In a statement on the closure of business, the company detained the company's financial personnel in a detention center and forced them to transfer nearly 300 million yuan of the company's funds and shareholders' funds to the public security account. Most of this money is not related to the case, and it also includes interest expenses on large bank certificates of deposit. Due to the diversion of funds, the company was unable to pay the salaries of thousands of employees and the income of the platform's anchors.
In the face of the company's accusations, neither the Shunde District Procuratorate nor the court responded positively. A staff member of the local political and legal committee revealed that he would pay attention to intervening in this matter. The flow of funds is a mystery, the rights and interests of employees are worried, and every question mark in this case is waiting for the relevant departments to give a fair answer.
In fact, legal professionals have pointed out that what the police did was clearly illegal. The Criminal Procedure Law only allows the police to freeze the relevant assets during the investigation, and cannot directly transfer them to the public security account. Even if gambling is suspected, the property should be disposed of after the court makes a judgment, and the unauthorized disposal of the public security organ is tantamount to exceeding its authority.
The loss of hundreds of millions of funds of the company has caused immeasurable damage to the rights and interests of employees. We have to ask, how did an entrepreneurial team that just wanted to build a voice social platform end up with employees in arrears of wages and anchors unemployed? Where did their hard-earned money go?
In fact, the Companion app is not the only voice social platform to be implicated. Since last year, a number of similar enterprises have been investigated or voluntarily suspended. It seems that all social software involved in "probability lottery" cannot escape the fate of being suspected of "gambling". This wave of fierce blows has made many entrepreneurial teams panic.
Coincidentally, in another case, the legal person of a live broadcast platform in Shanghai also reported that ICBC froze the company's account without warning, resulting in the platform being unable to operate and the livelihood of tens of thousands of anchors worrying. Does this mean that with the rise of Internet platforms, entrepreneurs should always guard against the risk of account funds being frozen or transferred at will?
In the chill that envelops entrepreneurs, we must be more vigilant against the arbitrary expansion of power. Regulatory authorities should follow the spirit of the rule of law and fully protect the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises and workers. At the same time, Internet companies also need to operate prudently, eliminate gray areas, and avoid giving opportunities to regulators.
Voice social networking has allowed us to see the communication and connection of living life. Is it because of a few cases that we have lost trust and expectation in this field? Regulation requires wisdom, entrepreneurship requires courage, we need to innovate in the rules, watch in hope, and jointly protect the fertile soil of the Internet, which is full of vitality. Time will give a fair answer.
We hope that the relevant departments can clarify the various doubts of the company app case as soon as possible, give an explanation that is in line with the law and justice, give entrepreneurs a fair entrepreneurial environment, and give workers a sunny place to work. When difficulties come, we need to keep the sobriety and concentration of independent thinking. Touching every life with warmth and rationality may be the most precious treasure of this land.
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