Shi, the user manager of a certain network technology company, accepted bribes and embezzled virtual currency to cash out by introducing suppliers to cooperate in virtual currency business. The court found that Shi's corruption behavior covered the "whole process" of virtual currency development, operation and realization of Internet companies, making nearly 10 million yuan for himself. Shi was ultimately sentenced to 12 years in prison for the crimes of bribery of non-state personnel and embezzlement of official duties. This case has also become the longest sentence for corruption of Internet enterprise insiders in Haidian District of Beijing in the past five years. On May 15, the Haidian District People's Court released the White Paper on Corruption Crimes of Internal Personnel of Internet Enterprises to the public, and released typical cases. According to the white paper, more than 70% of such cases are corruption crimes committed by Internet "big factories"; Compared to functional departments, corruption issues are more prominent in business departments, accounting for over 80%; The proportion of "huge" cases with criminal amounts exceeding 1 million yuan is high. According to the white paper, from 2020 to 2024, Haidian Court has tried a total of 350 cases of corruption committed by non-state personnel. Among them, there were 127 cases of corruption related to internal personnel of Internet enterprises, accounting for 36.28%. The case charges included the crime of accepting bribes, the crime of job embezzlement, and the crime of misappropriating funds by non-state staff, with the amount involved reaching more than 300 million yuan. Xu Jin, President of the Criminal Trial Division of Haidian Court, said that out of 127 cases, there were 93 cases of corruption committed by internal staff of Internet "big factories", accounting for 73%. The amount of crimes exceeded 180 million yuan, accounting for 60%. The average amount of crimes committed by individual cases reached more than 1.97 million yuan. The concentration of corruption crimes committed by internal staff in large Internet enterprises is related to the overall business scale, industry influence and staff size of the enterprise, as well as the effectiveness of the enterprise's own anti-corruption self-examination. Xu Jin said that 127 cases cover both business and functional departments of the company. Among them, there were a total of 104 cases involving corruption in business departments, accounting for 82%. In the overall operation chain of the enterprise, the problem of corruption in business departments is more prominent. From the perspective of personnel identity, the defendant's age shows characteristics of being middle-aged and young, and having a mid-level job rank. There are 185 defendants aged between 18 and 45, accounting for over 90%. Most of the defendants in the cases held positions such as department manager, director, supervisor, and person in charge with certain management authority. There were 79 cases where the defendants were at the middle or higher level, accounting for over 62%. In addition, the phenomenon of "petty officials being extremely greedy" cannot be ignored, and the risks in key departments are prominent. Grass root post corruption "explodes" especially frequently in large Internet enterprises. In individual cases, although the defendant is a grass root employee or outsourcing personnel, and does not have management authority, he can still obtain bribes by giving others convenience in business docking, providing internal information to others, or giving the opposite party competitive advantage, or by drilling loopholes in the enterprise system, taking advantage of his position to occupy the company's property. Among the 127 cases, the total amount of corruption crimes committed by ordinary grassroots employees was over 55.67 million yuan, with an average crime amount of over 1.26 million yuan per case. It can be seen that corruption is not restricted by rank. Large Internet enterprises have accumulated industry status and competitive advantages, which make many grass-roots positions powerful and "oily". Once low rank personnel have mastered certain power or resources, they may also breed more corruption. The white paper also pointed out that under the new business model of "Internet plus industry", corruption crimes have various means and strong concealment. In the case, the defendant not only used traditional bribery methods such as seeking benefits for others during bidding, contract signing, project cooperation, and fund settlement, illegally accepting benefits and kickbacks from partners, but also provided convenience for others in platform entry, content rating, hot search reporting, adding V, unblocking and banning accounts, traffic tilt and other matters, obtaining implicit access and competitive advantages for others, and accepting money from others through a new type of "platform power rent-seeking" bribery method. It is understood that among the 127 cases, a large number of cases occurred more than 3 years ago, 25 cases occurred more than 5 years ago, and 3 cases occurred more than 10 years ago. In addition, the vast majority of defendants in cases were in a state of employment at the time of the incident and were willing to actively cooperate with the investigation and evidence collection after the incident. For employees who have already resigned, there may be a "criminal black number", making criminal behavior more difficult to detect. In this regard, the court suggests further improving the construction of the legal regulatory system for corporate corruption, refining legal provisions, clarifying conviction and sentencing, unifying judgment standards, and improving the mechanism for handling property involved in cases. Relevant departments should change their thinking on handling cases, reasonably define the criteria for filing cases, effectively protect public and private rights and interests equally, and strengthen the use of clue verification, evidence collection and evidence fixation techniques to solve the difficult problems of new corruption crimes in case investigation in the era of "Internet plus". The court suggests that in addition to setting up a dedicated anti-corruption department, enterprises should also strengthen the anti-corruption main responsibility of key figures such as team leaders, department managers, and leadership teams, strengthen supervision of emerging areas, key areas, and links, innovate supervision mechanisms, and achieve precise and normalized supervision. In addition, information exchange can be achieved and the construction of an industry integrity system can be promoted through building corporate anti-corruption alliances, establishing information service platforms, creating industry blacklists, and other means. (New Society)