Wang is an operator in the basic position of an e-commerce platform, and he accepted bribes of more than 92 million yuan from merchants in just one year. How did he take bribes?
An employee of the e-commerce platform accepted bribes of more than 9,200 yuan a year
Although the stock account of Wang, the main suspect in the case, lost nearly 10 million yuan, the balance in the account still exceeded 2,400 yuan, and this was only a small part of Wang's bribes. In addition, the police also searched a large number of gold bars, cash and other property involved in the case.
According to Wang's confession, he received tens of millions of yuan in bribes in about a year, so what did Wang do on this e-commerce platform? And why would someone send him so much money? According to the police, Wang's position in the company is not high, but he has an important approval power.
Qiu Jie, Deputy Captain of the Economic Investigation Brigade of the Yuhang District Bureau of the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang Province: After many merchants submit store applications, he has the authority to conduct the first check.
According to the police, Wang is responsible for the approval business of the official flagship store of furniture on this e-commerce platform.
Ma Jianqiang, Captain of the Economic Investigation Brigade of the Yuhang District Bureau of the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau of Zhejiang Province: Wang's job responsibilities are mainly to screen out good enterprises and partners according to some conditions of the company, and then enter the platform.
After investigation, it was found that the number of official flagship stores approved by Wang not only far exceeded the normal level, but also the conditions of many merchants did not meet the requirements of the platform.
Recruit intermediaries to find merchants who need to settle in stores
In just one year, Wang quickly turned the approval power in his hand into a business worth hundreds of millions of yuan, and jointly accepted bribes of more than 130 million yuan with many people. However, an anonymous whistleblower letter unveiled the tip of the iceberg of this black and gray industry chain.
Qiu Jie, deputy captain of the Economic Investigation Brigade of the Yuhang District Bureau of the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang: Anonymously reported that he accepted a bribe of 200,000 yuan.
Subsequently, the e-commerce platform reported the case to the police, and provided the police with all the approval business information handled by Wang, and the police quickly found a large amount of evidence that Wang violated the rules to approve the merchant to settle in and charge the so-called fees, and the amount of bribes may be far more than 200,000 yuan. At the same time, in addition to Wang, those involved in the crime also included his relatives and friends and a large number of intermediaries, so that this extraordinarily large criminal network headed by Wang gradually became clear.
Luo Yinfei, police officer of the Economic Investigation Brigade of the Yuhang District Bureau of the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang: He recruited some relatives and friends to recruit middlemen or some merchants, and asked them to find merchants who have the need to settle in stores, and then clearly marked the price, for example, a store charges 150,000 yuan to 200,000 yuan.
According to Luo, he runs a furniture factory in Foshan and has opened online stores on a number of e-commerce platforms, and he has known Wang for many years because of his work.
According to Luo, at that time, the e-commerce platform where Wang worked suddenly became strict about the review of store entry, and many of his peers' applications failed to pass.
Suspect Luo: After he told me that he had resources, I tested a store, and he did pass, and then I felt that he was indeed capable of doing this thing.
Seeing that Wang could indeed handle the approval of the official flagship store, Luo also saw business opportunities from it.
Criminal suspect Luo: Many people have the need to enter the e-commerce platform to open a store, and he knows that as long as the store is released, someone will definitely want this thing. Then I thought, for example, if I asked him (Wang) how much it was, and he said 200,000 yuan, I thought that as long as I went to the outside world to report 2.12 million yuan, someone should ask for it.
In this way, Wang and Luo hit it off, one is responsible for finding merchants in demand, and the other is responsible for approval, and in order to prevent disputes, Wang and Luo agreed to collect money after the matter is completed every time.
Wang has developed a total of 8 middlemen like Luo, and each middleman will also develop their own downline. According to the police, the reason why Wang was able to accept such a huge amount of bribes in a short period of time has a lot to do with the middlemen he developed.
Luo Yinfei, police officer of the Economic Investigation Brigade of the Yuhang District Bureau of the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang: They are equivalent to brokers, and they go to find those merchants who need to open stores, so as to earn a certain price difference.
Qiu Jie, Deputy Captain of the Economic Investigation Brigade of the Yuhang District Bureau of the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang: After our current investigation, we have found that a total of more than 400 businesses have passed the approval in violation of regulations, and the entire amount involved has reached 130 million yuan.
At present, Wang has been prosecuted in accordance with the law on suspicion of accepting bribes by non-state functionaries, and the case is being tried. The e-commerce platform has redesigned the approval process and used big data technology to analyze and judge to reduce the interference of human factors.