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BlockBeats reported that on May 19, Haidian Court, in conjunction with the China Internet Association, recently released the White Paper on Corruption Crimes of Internet Enterprise Insiders and released typical cases. In a case, a user manager of a certain network technology company introduced a supplier to cooperate in virtual currency business, accepted bribes and embezzled virtual currency to cash out. He was ultimately convicted of bribery by the court and sentenced to nine years in prison; For the crime of embezzlement of official duties, sentenced to six years' imprisonment, and decided to execute twelve years' imprisonment. From April 2014 to January 2019, the defendant Shi worked as a user manager in the Basic Business Product Department of the Tieba Business Department at a certain network technology company, responsible for Tieba product design, exploring customer needs, and promoting solutions. During this period, the defendant Shi took advantage of his position to introduce a technology company in Beijing to cooperate with his company in virtual currency reward business, and illegally accepted 6.08 million yuan from the company. In addition, between June and December 2016, the defendant Shi took advantage of his position to illegally occupy RMB 3.66 million from the victim's company by using multiple Tieba accounts to monetize some virtual currency and transfer it to his controlled personal bank account in the virtual currency business cooperation between the victim's company and a Beijing technology company. On February 17, 2021, the defendant Shi was arrested and brought to justice by the public security organs. After trial, the court found that the defendant Shi, as a company employee, illegally accepted property from others and sought benefits for others by taking advantage of his position, with a huge amount of money, which has constituted the crime of non-state personnel bribery; The defendant Shi, as a company employee, illegally took possession of the company's property by taking advantage of his position. The amount involved was huge and constituted the crime of embezzlement. He should be punished together with the crime of accepting bribes from non-state personnel. The final court ruled in accordance with the law that the defendant Shi committed the crime of accepting bribes from non-state personnel and was sentenced to nine years in prison; For the crime of embezzlement of official duties, sentenced to six years' imprisonment, and decided to execute twelve years' imprisonment. After the verdict of the case, the defendant appealed, and the second instance court ruled to reject the appeal and uphold the original verdict. The judgment has now come into effect. The judge analyzed that the defendant's corruption behavior in this case covered the "whole process" of the development, operation and realization of the virtual currency of the Internet company, from project design to demand definition, to the introduction of suppliers and the landing of products, and finally led to accepting bribes, directly seizing the virtual currency and cashing it out. The defendant "realized" his power to the extreme. The amount of corruption was huge, and it was also the longest sentence for corruption crimes committed by internal staff of Internet enterprises in the past five years. The electronicization of business processes, digitization of management permissions, virtualization of property misappropriation, and complexity of the payment chain have made the criminal behavior itself difficult to detect in this case. It took about 6 years and 10 months from the occurrence of the behavior to the arrest of the defendant, and finally the criminal clues surfaced due to the anonymous report received by the company. This case involves the examination 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. It has the characteristics of strong concealment of corruption crimes committed by Internet enterprise insiders, virtualization of illegal interests, and is typical. (New Beijing News)