The user manager of the internet company was convicted of bribery and embezzling Virtual Money worth nearly 1 million yuan, and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

On May 19, recently, the Haidian People's Court and the Internet Society of China jointly released the "White Paper on Corruption Cases of Internet Enterprise Insiders" and released typical cases. In one case, the user manager of a network technology company introduced a supplier to cooperate with the virtual currency business, accepted bribes and embezzled the virtual currency for cashing, and was finally convicted by the court of accepting bribes and sentenced to nine years in prison. He was sentenced to six years' imprisonment for the crime of embezzlement in public office, and it was decided to enforce the sentence of 12 years' imprisonment. Between April 2014 and January 2019, defendant Shi XX served as the user manager of the basic business product department of the Tieba business department at a network technology company, responsible for the design of Tieba products, mining customer needs, and promoting the plan. During this period, the defendant Shi Moumou took advantage of his position to introduce a technology company in Beijing to cooperate with his company in the virtual currency reward business, and illegally accepted RMB 6.08 million from the company. In addition, between June and December 2016, defendant Shi Moumou took advantage of his position to illegally take possession of RMB 3.66 million of the victim unit's virtual currency business in cooperation with a technology company in Beijing through multiple Tieba accounts and transferred some virtual currency to a personal bank account controlled by the victim unit. On February 17, 2021, the defendant Shi Moumou was arrested by the public security organs. After trial, the court held that the defendant Shi XX, as a staff member of the company, took advantage of his position to illegally accept property from others and seek benefits for others, and the amount was huge, which constituted the crime of accepting bribes by non-state functionaries; Defendant Shi XX, as a member of the company, took advantage of his position to illegally take possession of the unit's property for himself, and the amount was huge, which constituted the crime of embezzlement in public office, and should be punished concurrently with the crime of accepting bribes by a non-state functionary. In the end, the court convicted the defendant Shi Moumou of accepting bribes from non-state functionaries in accordance with the law and sentenced him to nine years in prison; He was sentenced to six years' imprisonment for the crime of embezzlement in public office, and it was decided to enforce the sentence of 12 years' imprisonment. After the verdict was pronounced, the defendant appealed, and the court of second instance ruled to reject the appeal and uphold the original judgment. The judgment has now entered into force. According to the judge's analysis, the defendant's corruption in this case covered the "whole process" of the development, operation, and realization of virtual currencies of Internet companies, from project design to demand definition, to supplier introduction and product landing, and finally to accepting bribes, directly embezzling virtual currencies and cashing out, the defendant "realized" the power in his hands to the extreme, and the amount of corruption was huge, and it was also the longest sentence in the past five years. The electronic business process, the digitization of management authority, the virtualization of embezzled property, and the complexity of the payment collection chain have made it difficult for the criminal act itself to be discovered. From the occurrence of the act to the arrest of the defendant, it lasted about 6 years and 10 months, and finally it was only because the company received an anonymous report that the clues of the crime surfaced. This case involves issues such as the review and application of electronic evidence, the improvement of the evidence chain of virtual transactions, and the determination of the amount of crimes involving virtual property. ( Beijing News )