On the evening of December 19, the well-known supermarket chain Zhongbai Group announced a case of suspected embezzlement of funds by employees of a subsidiary, involving an amount of about 2$1.9 billion. As soon as the news broke, the stock price of Zhongbai Group also fell.
According to the announcement of Zhongbai, the suspect is the financial staff of his subsidiary Zhongbai Warehouse Supermarket. On October 13, 2023, the public security organs have arrested all the relevant criminal suspects who fled abroad. At present, the case is under further investigation and recovery.
Relevant data show that in 2022, Zhongbai Group's revenue will be 1219.7 billion yuan, a loss of 3200 million yuan, this 2The fund of 1.9 billion is enough to make up for more than half of the losses of Zhongbai Group in 2022.
Employees embezzle the company's funds and are suspected of embezzlement, but several major shareholders of Zhongbai Group are shareholders of state-owned enterprises, and the employees involved in the case may also constitute the crime of misappropriation, and the sentence is heavier than the crime of embezzlement.
This bloody lesson also once again warns all entrepreneurs, the operation of modern enterprises should pay attention to the management and decentralization of power within the company, the country needs to fight corruption, enterprises also need to fight corruption, legal risks not only exist outside the company, but also exist within the wall, it is more difficult to prevent self-theft, and the harm is greater.