Huawei rectified its internal “illegal recruitment”, and several product line leaders were fired, and they were required to return their illegal profits and compensate the company for its losses

According to Caixin, Huawei has rectified internal “illegal recruitment”. On March 10, Huawei reported that in the process of recruiting non-employees, several product line leaders had violated the rules by participating in substitute exams, arranging for others to take exams on their behalf, and leaking questions to candidates. There are also many cases where people have profited by selling the company’s information assets. After study, the personnel involved were dismissed, and they were required to return the illegal profits and compensate the company’s losses.
It is worth noting that at present, the anti-corruption actions of large factories are continuous.
On January 16 this year, Sunshine Tencent’s official account released Tencent’s 2024 anti-fraud notice. The report mentioned that throughout 2024, Tencent’s Anti-Fraud Investigation Department has found and investigated more than 100 cases of violating the “Tencent High Voltage Line”, more than 100 people have been dismissed for violating the “Tencent High Voltage Line”, of which more than 20 people have been transferred to the public security organs for handling on suspicion of crimes, and 35 companies have been included in the list of entities that will never cooperate.
In this report, Tencent publicly named a total of 21 people. Judging from the relevant expressions, most people’s violations of the law and regulations are “seeking benefits for external companies and receiving benefits from external companies”.
Since 2024, leading Internet companies such as Douyin, Tencent, and Meituan have issued anti-fraud notices, involving hundreds of employees who have violated the red line of integrity and have been dismissed, and many people who have been transferred to the judicial authorities for handling suspected crimes.
In November 2024, NetEase Games will strictly investigate corruption internally, involving many executives in the marketing line, and Xiang Mou, general manager of NetEase Games’ marketing department, and others have been taken away for investigation. At that time, the screenshot of the online transmission showed that the amount involved in the case may be as high as 2 billion yuan, in addition to Xiang who was taken away for investigation, there were also Wu, Jin, Zhang and others.
According to statistics, in the past five years, common corruption and fraud behaviors of major Internet companies include: serious violations of company regulations/violation of the company’s high-voltage lines, arrears/illegal wage arbitrage, tax evasion, embezzlement of public funds, forgery of documents, fraud, leakage of trade secrets, illegal business operations, etc.