E-commerce executives acted as "inside ghosts", swiping fake orders and invaded the company's 4.86 million
The e-commerce supervisor used a single set of money to pay off private debts and aimed at the company’s management loopholes, but unexpectedly pushed himself into the abyss of crime... Recently, in a case handled by the Suzhou Industrial Park Procuratorate in Jiangsu Province, the suspect Liu Xin used technical means , Illegally occupying 2.24 million yuan in the electronic wallet of the company's online store, plus more than 2 million yuan of furniture retained by the company, the total amount involved amounted to more than 4.86 million yuan.
After the prosecution was filed by the Suzhou Industrial Park Procuratorate, the court finally sentenced Liu Xin to six years and nine months in prison for occupational embezzlement.
Report false accounts to the company for repaying millions of debts
Liu Xin was born in 1998. After graduating from an e-commerce major, he worked as a lecturer on an e-commerce training platform for half a year. He got into the society early and accumulated a lot of e-commerce work experience.
In January 2019, after an interview, Liu Xin served as the head of the e-commerce department of a decoration company.
In order to broaden the sales market, the company decided to enter the e-commerce platform.
Liu Xin was selected by the company and became the supervisor directly, operating an online shop selling furniture.
Due to fierce competition on the e-commerce platform, and the company's online store has a short operating time and few fixed customers, the sales situation of the online store is not ideal, with monthly sales of only 20,000 yuan.
Therefore, the company wants to cut off its e-commerce business.
Liu Xin's salary is linked to online store sales, and due to personal reasons, he owes nearly one million yuan in debt.
If the company cuts off the e-commerce business, he will face unemployment.
Therefore, Liu Xin put forward a suggestion, try to do paid discount promotion, buy coupons for customers to use, hoping to open the online store sales.
However, the company believes that the investment in attracting customers at low prices is large and only has a short-term effect.
Liu Xin gritted his teeth and decided to try it out of his own pocket. He spent more than 110,000 yuan to buy multiple coupons and put them in the online store.
The coupons were quickly received and used. The company thought that the business of the online store had improved, so it did not plan to close the online store.
However, after the coupons were used up, the online store business returned to its original level.
This is undoubtedly worse for Liu Xin, who is heavily in debt, so he began to falsely report related expenses to the company in the name of online store deposits and platform usage fees.
After the company sent the money to the e-wallet of the online store, Liu Xin realized it by buying the mobile phone and reselling it, and transferred the realised money to the bank card of his cousin Hu Yue, and then to his own bank card.
In this way, Liu Xin used the company's management loopholes to embezzle 160,000 yuan.
Make a fake website and collect 8% of the platform commission
According to regulations, when the company sells goods on the website platform, the platform has to deduct 8% of the commission, and this 8% commission has become the "Tang Monk Meat" that Liu Xin is targeting.
Liu Xin created a fake website and made the company's sales look good by finding someone to check the order.
Generally speaking, he will intercept the goods sent out from the order and find other channels for sales. After that, he will use 8% of the sales amount as a platform commission for himself, and the remaining 92% will be paid to the company.
But because of the long cycle, the goods must be sold to get the money. In order to get the money in advance, Liu Xin told the company that the website platform has a major customer department.
In order to encourage major customers to continue to consume, the platform has launched a major customer feedback program, that is, some major customers can use coupons to exchange products for free.
If the online store participates in the VIP customer reward program, the 8% commission deducted in the later period must be prepaid to the platform in the mode of purchasing coupons. The platform will issue the coupons to major customers for redemption according to the number of coupons purchased by the online store.
Finally, the platform will settle the payment to the online store at the original price based on the actual exchange situation.
"The major customers are the main consumer groups of the platform. This move can promote the online store, and the company's sales will not have to worry." After hearing Liu Xin's words, the company joined the so-called major customer feedback program.
At the same time, Liu Xin also made his own calculations: in the short term, if the company keeps putting the prepaid commission in the account, he can collect the company’s prepaid commission, and then think of a way to sell the goods, which will be 92%. The payment for the goods is paid to the company to settle the account, so that the company will not be able to find out.
Liu Xin used technical means to place a large number of false orders, and provided the daily false orders in a form to the company's logistics department. After that, the logistics department would contact the e-commerce logistics to arrange the delivery of the goods.
Since these orders are all false information, e-commerce logistics will contact the company if it fails to contact the consignee, and the company’s docking person is Liu Xin.
After each docking with e-commerce logistics, Liu Xin would ask Hu Yue to pick up the goods at logistics points in Hangzhou, Yangzhou and other places, and then store the goods in a warehouse in Suzhou.
At the beginning, e-commerce logistics was afraid that the goods would be fraudulently claimed, so they asked to show the consignment bill of lading with the official seal.
As a result, Liu Xin asked someone to make a fake electronic seal and forged the entrusted bill of lading to e-commerce logistics personnel.
Several times later, as soon as the e-commerce logistics encountered the situation that the goods could not be delivered properly, they contacted Hu Yue to pick up the goods, and no longer asked him to show the bill of lading.
However, the company requested to contact the person in charge of the website platform due to the delay in receiving the payment.
As a result, Liu Xin let Hu Yue pretend to be the e-commerce settlement clerk "Liu Xianglan."
In order to convince the company that the payment needs to be delayed, he asked Hu Yue to forge the platform deferred settlement statement to the company.
Serving procuratorial advice to help the victimized company’s compliance management
From March to July 2019, Liu Xin used the name of purchasing coupons to make the company pay an advance payment of 2.24 million yuan to the e-wallet of the online store. The money was used by Liu Xin for personal expenses, debt repayment, and the online store. Day-to-day operations.
He originally planned to find channels to sell the furniture, but the sales volume was very few, and the creditors continued to demand debts.
In desperation, Liu Xin took more than 200 sets of furniture to repay his debts at low prices.
Later, the company's management still failed to receive the payment, and began to question the authenticity of the deferred statement.
"Before I thought the plan could be successful, but I didn't expect to sell much at all. In mid-July, the logistics and storage costs also increased. I found that there might be no way to pay the company back, so I took into account the legal consequences, but at that time I couldn't stop. Come down." Liu Xin said.
At the end of July 2019, the company called the police.
During the trial of the case, the Suzhou Industrial Park Procuratorate invited investigators to jointly convene a joint meeting to conduct in-depth discussions on substantive and procedural issues such as evidence collection, case determination, and amount determination.
Liu Xin has repeatedly embezzled his position, and the amount involved is as high as 4.86 million yuan, which has seriously affected the production and operation of the victim unit.
After the prosecution was filed by the Suzhou Industrial Park Procuratorate, the court finally sentenced Liu Xin to six years and nine months in prison for occupational embezzlement.
After the case was pronounced, the prosecutor in charge did not close the case.
They found that the victim company in the case had loopholes in financial management, personnel selection for important positions, goods circulation, and standardization of contract signing, so they put forward targeted inspection suggestions to the company, suggesting that it improve its rules and regulations in a timely manner to stop it. Manage loopholes and strengthen corporate compliance management.
In response to the lack of legal awareness of the company’s related personnel exposed in this case, the prosecutor undertook a return visit to the company, reported the case, provided warning education to the company’s employees, and provided legal advice to guide the company’s employees to enhance their awareness of the rule of law .
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Li Hongwei Ge Qing