Wang, the head anchor of a live broadcast platform, whose main project in the live broadcast room is chatting and singing, has attracted many fans because he once covered the song "Reluctantly". According to Wang, the song has been played hundreds of millions of times online.
Wang, born in the 80s, is from Northeast China and entered the network industry in 2011. In the early days, he just voice-chatted with people who played games. The later rise of the online anchor industry allowed Wang to earn the first pot of gold in his life. When he used the money to buy a house for his mother, his mother, who couldn't understand it at all, was shocked.
The rapid arrival of the webcast industry has also subverted people's understanding. In the past, chasing stars was chasing those stars on the screen and in literary and artistic works, who were far away and out of reach. In the era of live broadcasting, fans are Internet celebrities who meet in the live broadcast room every day, they chatter with fans, and at the same time, they will also create the aura of idols.
has both the sense of distance packaged as a star, and the down-to-earth spirit of grassroots Internet celebrities, Wang has his own fan circle. One of his fans said in a telephone interview with reporters that Brother Wang's fans are of all ages, and the oldest is in his fifties.
Li, who was born in the 90s, and Wang broadcast live on the same platform. He said that he had really experienced that kind of star-like hug.
At the annual platform festival and fan meeting, the biggest halo belongs to the champion among the top anchors. In order to get this award, the competition between anchors is fierce.
In 2019, in order to win the championship, the anchor Li said, "Who can help me win the championship, I will return all the money rewarded". However, is it really the crowdfunding of fans that has made these online streamers the champions? Netizen Shanshan said that over the years, she has rewarded Li with a total of several hundred yuan. But she found that some fans gave million-dollar gifts in just one live broadcast, causing fans to change from watching the anchor to watching the "big brother".
If you give a reward to the network, half of the money that fans spend to buy gifts is taken away by the platform, and then taxes and fees are deducted, and when the anchor withdraws, only 40%-50% of the reward amount is left. Even if all this money is returned to the fans who tipped, it will shrink by more than half.
Prosecutor Zhu Qijia said that no ordinary people will use their hard-earned hard-earned money to reward millions of yuan in one night, let alone be willing to lose half of their money to support them in winning the championship because the anchor promised to "reward back". This phenomenon is extremely unreasonable.
In the process of receiving upstream criminal investors, the Shanghai Pudong New Area People's Procuratorate discovered that the main culprit of fund-raising fraud had more than 100 million yuan on the live broadcast platform. This is a platform for sales without goods, that is, the funds of more than 100 million yuan are purely for rewarding consumption-based entertainment activities. Such abnormal behavior has attracted the attention of prosecutors, and the result of the investigation of the case is that more than 60 million yuan was rewarded to the four anchors involved in the case, and the highest anchor accepted more than 20 million yuan.
Article 191 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates that anyone who participates in these seven criminal activities (as shown in the picture), including providing accounts, converting them into cash, covering up or concealing criminal proceeds, etc., shall be punished as the crime of money laundering.
After the suspect arrived at the case, he defended that he knew that the upstream was black and gray industry funds and was involved in crimes, but it was not clear that he was involved in the above seven types of crimes. After review, it was found that two anchors among the main culprits had repeatedly visited the office of the upstream fund-raising fraud gang, participated in their annual meeting, and promoted relevant content in the live broadcast. The Public Prosecutor's Office believes that this is sufficient to conclude that the suspect was aware of the content of the predicate crime in this case.
After investigating the money laundering case of the online anchor, the procuratorate noticed that the platform lacked proper early warning in the money laundering activities. The procuratorate believes that the platform cannot give up supervision just because it "gets half of the benefits in the tip", and requires the platform to take on the responsibility of monitoring large amounts of tipping, and urges the anchor to form a subjective awareness of resisting money laundering.
During the interview, the reporter learned that the two anchors involved in the case entered the society after graduating from middle school, they ran through the construction site, served plates, and used to be ordinary laborers. And the rise of online live broadcast has made them who can sing and chatter feel like they are standing in the wind and soaring all the way. It is not difficult to find from the on-site arrest video of the public security organ that several suspects not only live in luxurious residences, but also start companies and have teams. However, such hot money and quick money may be effective in a short time, and illegal and criminal activities will inevitably be severely punished. The investigation and handling of the first case of money laundering by online anchors is precisely to transmit a positive energy and show the sword to the criminal activities of "lying down and winning".
Source: CCTV