Tencent film and television producers suspected of violating the law were investigated by the police, and the interests of the entertainment industry were highly transmitted

Recently, it was reported that Tencent producer Zhang Meng had been "taken away" for suspected violations of the law, and the reason for this may involve yin-yang contracts. On October 26, Tencent told Nandu reporters that recently, Tencent found in the anti-fraud investigation that Zhang Mou, the producer of the film and television project, violated the company's "high-voltage line" and was suspected of violating the law, and has now been handed over to the judicial organs for handling. At present, the police have opened an investigation into this case. Tencent stressed: "The online transmission of our allegations that we are involved in yin-yang contracts is based on false rumors. ”

It is reported that Zhang Meng is a senior project producer of Tencent Video, working in Canopy Studio, and its direct leader Fang Fang is the management of Tencent Video, responsible for the project development of film and television dramas. According to online sources, Zhang Meng's business management involved in the TV series "Qiannu Ghost" starring Zheng Shuang (now renamed "Only Ask About the Vicissitudes of Love in This Life").

It is reported that on April 26, 2021, Zhang Heng reported that the artist Zheng Shuang had evaded taxes and evaded taxes. According to the official notice of the Shanghai Municipal Taxation Bureau, Zheng Shuang starred in the TV series "The Ghost of Qiannu" in 2019, and agreed with the producer that the remuneration was 160 million yuan, and the actual income was 156 million yuan, which was divided into two parts. Among them, the first part of 48 million yuan, the personal film remuneration income into the enterprise income for false declaration, tax evasion; the second part of 108 million yuan, the producer and Zheng Shuang actually control the company signed a false contract, in the form of "capital increase", to circumvent industry supervision to obtain "sky-high film remuneration", conceal income for false declaration, evasion of taxes.

However, nandu reporter learned from a person familiar with the film and television industry that Tencent Video was not the producer of the "Ghost of a Woman" project at that time, but belonged to the purchaser, and the object of the previous investigation by the state tax agency was the producer.

In recent years, the anti-corruption determination of Internet companies has become increasingly firm and has become a normal work. According to the "Anti-Corruption Report on Internet Enterprises in the First Half of 2020" previously released by Southern Metropolis Daily, most of the Internet companies that exposed anti-corruption cases in the first half of 2020 discovered and reported anti-corruption acts through self-censorship and self-notification. In the first half of 2020 alone, 10 Internet companies exposed about 60 cases of corruption and fraud.

In addition, the report shows that the phenomenon of corporate executives being involved in Internet anti-corruption cases is becoming more and more frequent. In the Internet anti-corruption cases exposed in the first half of 2020, more than 10 middle and senior managers were involved, accounting for nearly 10% of the total number of people involved. In the exposed cases, more than 80% of the companies engaged in corrupt practices in their business dealings with third parties.

Previously, a well-known domestic variety show director once told Nandu reporter that the entertainment industry may involve more interest transmission links than other industries, especially these means of interest transmission have long been the "unspoken rules" in the industry, if the industry supervision is not in place, it is easy to breed corruption.

Written by: Nandu reporter Xu Bingqian intern Fu Wenxin