IT Home reported on April 28 that the ByteDance Corporate Discipline and Professional Ethics Committee reported 61 cases of employee violations of law and discipline today, and all the employees involved were dismissed, of which 4 were investigated by the public security organs on suspicion of constituting a criminal offense, and 1 Douyin employee was allegedly used to facilitate his position to illegally accept huge benefits from external partners, and the employee has been taken into criminal detention by the public security organs.
The specific contents of the report are as follows:
Suspected of constituting a criminal offence
- From December 2022 to May 2023, Lu, a former employee of Douyin, took advantage of his position to illegally accept huge benefits from external partners. On January 26, 2024, Lu was investigated by the public security organs on suspicion of accepting bribes by non-state employees and was taken into criminal custody. The company has dismissed Lu, cancelled his options, cancelled his year-end bonus evaluation qualifications, and synchronized the Sunshine Integrity Alliance and the Enterprise Anti-Fraud Alliance.
- From May to September 2022, Gao, a former employee of Life Services, took advantage of his position to introduce service providers in violation of regulations, and accepted a total of 40,000 yuan in benefits from service providers. On January 17, 2024, Gao was investigated by the public security organs on suspicion of accepting bribes by non-state employees and released on bail pending trial. The company has dismissed Gao, synchronized the Sunshine Integrity Alliance and the Enterprise Anti-Fraud Alliance, and investigated the management responsibility of the superior at the time.
- From August to September 2023, Cao, a former outsourced employee of product R&D and engineering architecture, used a virtual account in violation of regulations to cooperate with external agencies to brush the volume of Douyin accounts and obtain illegal income. In March 2024, Cao was investigated by the public security organs on suspicion of illegal business operation and taken compulsory measures of criminal detention. The company has let Cao withdraw, synchronized with the Sunshine Integrity Alliance and the Enterprise Anti-Fraud Alliance, and synchronized his violations to the outsourcing company, and investigated the responsibility of the outsourcing company according to the contract.
- In December 2023, Zhou, a former employee of Douyin Live, abused his work authority and made a profit. In January 2024, Zhou was investigated by the public security organs on suspicion of a criminal offense and taken compulsory measures of criminal detention. The company has dismissed Zhou, cancelled his options, synchronized the Sunshine Integrity Alliance and the Enterprise Anti-Fraud Alliance, and held the superior management accountable.
Violation of the integrity system
- From 2021 to September 2023, Guo, a former employee of China's e-commerce, took advantage of his position to provide technical guidance and training for a number of merchants to open stores with colleagues from his former company, and privately charged more than 200,000 yuan to the above-mentioned merchants. In addition, Guo recommended the former company to become a platform supplier related to his own business, and jointly operated a watch wholesale business with a friend who opened a store on the platform, thereby making a profit of more than 100,000 yuan. The company has dismissed Guo, cancelled his options, and synchronized the Sunshine Integrity Alliance and the Enterprise Anti-Fraud Alliance.
- From June to October 2023, Qi, a former employee of China's e-commerce industry, took advantage of his position to illegally require a supplier to purchase from a liquor company opened by his relatives after receiving a large purchase order from him, and then transfer it to the platform to make a profit for his relatives. In September 2023, in the absence of genuine transactions, the former employee arranged for a liquor company opened by his relatives to issue false purchase invoices for a certain company, and assisted the company to successfully settle into the platform supplier using the false invoices. It was also found that he abused the travel policy during his business trips, frequently paid for travel expenses to and from his home location on official business, and did not show up for work for several working days. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
- From November 2023 to January 2024, Bao, a former employee of Life Services, took 163 pieces of other employees' personal belongings in the work area without permission. Bao sold some of the items and made a profit of 3,404 yuan, transferred some of the items to relatives and friends, and handed over and returned the remaining items during the investigation. The company has dismissed Bao Yi and ordered him to compensate for the owner's economic losses.
- From 2021 to August 2022, a former employee of China's e-commerce company took advantage of his position to privately set up a business company in partnership with a shareholder of a service provider, and used his own authority to submit for approval to help the partnership company and another affiliated company of the shareholder of the service provider apply for special approval in violation of regulations, and introduced the aforementioned two companies to become brand service providers licensed by the platform to obtain entry incentives without meeting the access standards, thereby making a profit of more than 140,000 yuan in violation of regulations. It was also ascertained that the former employee had a close relationship with the actual controller of another service provider that he operated with and provided support to the service provider, and that the two had a large amount of economic contacts. He has been dismissed by the company.
- From June 2021 to February 2024, six former employees of e-commerce companies booked hotel accommodation in the base or regular place of work, did not cancel the hotel room after leaving the hotel early, used the company's system to pay for travel expenses between the third place and the travel destination, used the corporate account to take a taxi for personal purposes, applied for travel subsidies in violation of regulations, and used false invoices to reimburse transportation expenses, involving amounts ranging from 2,000 to more than 50,000 yuan, respectively, and none of them were truthfully declared in the self-declaration. The company has dismissed the six people, ordered them to return all illegal gains, and held some of the management responsibilities of the then superiors accountable.
- From January 2021 to February 2024, a former employee of Lark falsely reimbursed hotel accommodation expenses and taxi fares, applied for rental subsidies in violation of regulations, and embezzled more than 60,000 yuan in company assets. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
- From July 2020 to January 2024, a former employee of Enterprise Cooperation and Solutions reimbursed the inflated invoice amount or personal consumption in the name of business entertainment expenses, embezzling more than 30,000 yuan of the company's assets. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
- From October 2020 to August 2023, a former employee of Lark illegally used his corporate account to take a taxi during his commute to and from work, and at the same time, he also reimbursed team building expenses in the name of travel expenses such as "visiting customers" and "attending meetings", and illegally used more than 30,000 yuan of company assets. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
- From September 2022 to February 2024, a former employee of a Chinese sales business platform used an invoice given by a friend to make false reimbursements in the name of entertainment expenses without actually incurring entertainment expenses, embezzling more than 30,000 yuan of company assets. The company has dismissed him, deducted his performance bonus, and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
- From June to August 2021, a former employee of Smart Learning took advantage of his position to provide help to three interns such as resume recommendation and interview passing, and received more than 20,000 yuan in benefits from external intermediaries. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
- From October 2023 to January 2024, a former employee of Life Service took advantage of his position to help external businesses privately match service providers, talents, and agent operations, etc., and received a total of more than 20,000 yuan in benefits. In addition, there are violations of helping merchants to brush orders and handle transaction fees. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
- From August 2023 to January 2024, a former employee of Life Service falsely issued hotel invoices to submit for reimbursement, embezzling more than 20,000 yuan of company assets. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
- From March 2021 to January 2024, three former employees of Real Estate and Home Improvement used taxi invoices or general fixed amount invoices purchased from outside to falsely reimburse transportation expenses, involving amounts ranging from 6,300 yuan to more than 10,000 yuan, respectively. The company has dismissed the three and ordered them to return all illegal gains.
- From January to December 2023, two former employees of Life Service used transportation invoices to make false reimbursements without actually visiting customers, embezzling 1,995 yuan and 4,500 yuan of company assets, respectively. In addition, the two had a close relationship but did not declare a conflict of interest to the company. The company has dismissed the two and ordered them to return all illegal gains.
- From June 2021 to December 2021 and March 2023, a former employee of Life Service introduced a business he knew at work to outsiders to apply for Douyin Blue V certification, and received a total of 5,355 yuan in rebate benefits from outsiders. In addition, it also had improper economic dealings with the staff of the service provider and the external group purchase agency operators. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
- From January to December 2023, a former employee of Life Service made false reimbursements by asking for invoices from taxi drivers without actually incurring business transportation expenses, totaling 4,302 yuan. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
- In March 2024, a former employee of Life Service used the company's travel system to book hotel accommodation and air tickets for a private trip after leaving the company before leaving the company, and when his immediate supervisor found out and prompted that the operation was not compliant, he falsely claimed that he had canceled the relevant reservation, but still used the company's reimbursement system to pay the relevant expenses after leaving the company, embezzling 2,298 yuan of the company's assets. The company has ordered it to return all illegal gains.
- From January 2023 to February 2024, a former employee of Business Ecology and Security used a corporate account to take a taxi in violation of regulations on several occasions, embezzling a total of 2,266 yuan of company assets. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
- In May 2022, a former employee of Life Service took advantage of his position to privately introduce the merchant resources he connected with to his relatives who were the head of the talent group to cooperate in violation of regulations, and gave a lot of guidance in the process of cooperation, making a profit of 2,000 yuan. In June 2023, the former employee illegally introduced a relative to a docking service provider and had the relative affiliated with the service provider to conduct business. In July 2023, the former employee privately arranged for relatives and former colleagues to take a stake in a catering company he docked with. In addition, it also falsified a number of large orders and merchants' sales indicators. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
- From July 2022 to February 2023, a former employee of Life Service reimbursed personal consumption in the name of business entertainment expenses, embezzling 1,919 yuan of company assets. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
- In March 2023, a former employee of Life Service took advantage of his position to recommend merchants who needed to open a Blue V account for outsiders, and received a benefit fee of 600 yuan for this. From February to March 2023, he accepted 2 entertainment from service providers, worth about 1,000 yuan. From January to December 2023, in the process of recommending merchants to service providers, the former employee sent out internal confidential data and documents (according to the Data Classification and Grading Standards, the data is classified as L3/L2) through WeChat. At the same time, it also privately recommended merchants for service providers and illegally swiped orders. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
- From November 2023 to January 2024, a former employee of Life Service took advantage of his position to help external personnel and external service providers connect with cloud editing, talent business, and apply for whitelists, and received a benefit fee of 1,650 yuan. In addition, there was a violation of using fake headshots to assist merchants in creating store POIs. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
- In July 2023, a former employee of Life Service took advantage of his position to help merchants quickly claim stores and received a benefit fee of 1,000 yuan. At the same time, the former employee knew that his specific related person worked for the official service provider of the platform, but did not declare a conflict of interest, and recommended merchant resources to the specific related person many times, making a profit of about 3,000 yuan. In addition, it also violated the rules to handle merchant fees, totaling 6,400 yuan. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
- From November to December 2023, a former Data employee did not work in the work area due to personal reasons, and lent his work card to an external person for use and asked him to swipe the card on his behalf, for a total of 21 working days. During the period when the former employee was holding the former employee's work card, the external person entered the internal canteen of the work area to eat 14 times and embezzled 490 yuan of the company's assets. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
Violation of the conflict of interest regime
- From October 2021 to September 2023, a former employee of an international e-commerce company took advantage of his position to illegally arrange for multiple relatives to work in or cooperate directly with a service provider with which his team was closely connected, and privately arranged for his subordinate H to help his relatives settle in the platform and open a store, without making a declaration of conflict of interest. In addition, the former employee took extra care of the service provider and did not remove the service provider in a timely manner after the expiration of the company's cooperation with the service provider, resulting in the service provider still fraudulently using the company's name to collect fees from a large number of external merchants, causing serious negative public opinion and disrupting the local market order. It was also ascertained that H, a subordinate of the former employee, had repeatedly accepted banquets and high-end gifts from the service provider totaling about 7,000 yuan, and that L, another subordinate of the former employee, had taken advantage of his position to help his relatives enter the platform to open a store, and had instigated his relatives to obtain approval through fraudulent qualifications. The company has dismissed the former employee and the two subordinates involved in the case.
- From February 2022 to December 2023, a former employee of an international e-commerce company violated regulations as a legal person and shareholder of the company during his employment, and used his position to facilitate the introduction of customers for the company in external investment promotion activities. From May 2022 to April 2023, he used the company's business account to take a taxi for personal reasons. In October 2023, he privately applied for the whitelist for some cross-border merchants and influencers through external agencies, and instigated his subordinates to recommend cross-border merchants and influencers to declare the whitelist through external agencies. In December 2023, it also failed to truthfully report its participation in external activities, and overdue its reporting after accepting accommodation provided by the event organizer. He has been dismissed by the company.
- From September to November 2023, a former employee of Life Services had a number of unrelated economic transactions with the service provider it connected with. In addition, it holds shares in external companies related to its business and has not declared conflicts of interest to the company. He has been dismissed by the company.
- In September 2023, a former employee of Life Services had an intimate relationship with his colleagues in the same group and did not declare a conflict of interest to the company. In addition, there are also violations of using PS images to create store POIs and multi-purpose images. He has been dismissed by the company.
- In July 2023, a former employee of Life Service took advantage of his position to take the initiative to find the external merchant he was connected with and asked to join the merchant's brand store. Subsequently, the former employee partnered with his relatives to join the above-mentioned brand stores and did not declare a conflict of interest to the company in this regard. He has been dismissed by the company.
- From February 2020 to October 2023, a former employee of product R&D and engineering architecture co-founded a company with a friend, operated a TikTok account, and used his working hours to provide operational guidance to the external company, but did not declare a conflict of interest to the company. At the same time, it also had the behavior of sending internal data to the external company and using the corporate account to take a taxi in violation of regulations. The company has dismissed him and ordered him to return all illegal gains.
Violation of the information security system
- From August 2023 to February 2024, Wang, a former employee of Jianying, continued to leak internal information (L4/L3) to competing companies several times. From July 2022 to February 2024, Wang cooperated with a former employee of product development and engineering architecture, the CEO of a competing company, and others to develop competing products. The company has dismissed Wang and the former employees of the product R&D and engineering structure, and synchronized Wang Kunyan's violations with the Sunshine Integrity Alliance and the Enterprise Anti-Fraud Alliance.
- From June 2022 to February 2024, Liu, a former employee of Douyin Live, repeatedly obtained, saved and leaked internal high-sensitivity information (L4/L3) in violation of regulations. The company has dismissed him, cancelled his options, and synchronized the Sunshine Integrity Alliance and the Enterprise Anti-Fraud Alliance.
- From November to December 2023, Du, a former employee of Douyin, repeatedly violated the rules to obtain internal high-sensitivity information (L4/L3). He has been dismissed by the company.
- In March 2024, a former employee of a sales business platform in China handed over an internal system containing sensitive data to an external person. He has been dismissed by the company.
- In February 2024, a former employee of Douyin Live and a former employee of Real Estate and Home Improvement leaked internal high-sensitivity information (L4) on an external public platform. The company has dismissed the two.
- From October 2023 to January 2024, a former employee of a Chinese e-commerce company leaked internal information such as important business data (L4). In addition, there is also an illegal use of corporate vehicles. He has been dismissed by the company.
- From September 2023 to March 2024, three former employees of Douyin Live, one former employee of Douyin platform governance, two former employees of Life Services, and one former outsourced employee of Douyin obtained internal high-sensitivity information in violation of regulations, among which some former employees also had leakage behaviors. The company has laid off seven people.
- From June 2023 to October 2023, a former employee of Life Services abused his authority and leaked internal high-sensitivity data at the request of external personnel. In addition, there are also violations that require service providers to swipe orders and private influencers. He has been dismissed by the company.
- From June 2023 to March 2024, a former employee of China Commercial Products & Technology was asked by an external party to leak multiple internal business documents (L3/L2). He has been dismissed by the company.
- From March 2023 to January 2024, a former employee of a Chinese e-commerce company repeatedly leaked business data (L4/L3) to relatives to assist him in operating a Douyin account. In addition, he also used his working hours to help relatives run e-commerce accounts. He has been dismissed by the company.