On the morning of November 8th, according to Caixin News Agency, NetEase issued an internal email to all employees regarding the strict investigation of corruption, and made a formal response to yesterday's "NetEase Game Executive Corruption Storm".
According to the report, the company has seriously investigated and dealt with two cases of fraud, corruption, and illegal activities: Xiang, the former head of the Battle and KK business units; Jin, the head of the Interactive Entertainment Channel Distribution Center; Xu, an employee of the Interactive Entertainment Market Center; Zhao, an employee of the Interactive Entertainment Channel Distribution Center; Wu, a former employee of the Interactive Entertainment Market Center; Lu, a former employee of the Battle business unit; and Lin, a former employee of the Interactive Entertainment Market Center. During their employment, they were suspected of fraud, corruption, and illegal activities and have been criminally prosecuted by the public security organs. Criminal coercive measures have been taken in accordance with the law. Xiang, Jin, Xu, and Zhao have had their labor contracts terminated by the company and will never be employed.
Employees Pan, Shen, and others from the Battle Business Unit have been suspected of fraud, corruption, and illegal activities during their tenure. They have been criminally filed by the public security organs and have taken criminal coercive measures in accordance with the law. Pan and Shen have had their labor contracts terminated by the company and will never be employed. Multiple external individuals involved in the case have been simultaneously subjected to criminal coercive measures by the public security organs in accordance with the law.
27 companies related to this fraud, corruption, and illegal activities have been included in the list of entities that NetEase will never cooperate with.
This morning, in response to recent rumors about the anti-corruption investigation of NetEase Games, NetEase's public relations department stated that NetEase's anti-corruption efforts have never stopped. As the case is still under investigation, specific information cannot be disclosed and will be reported at an appropriate time. The money laundering and other related information circulating online is purely false, and NetEase has arranged to report it to the police.
The anti-corruption tide of Internet giants continues. Two days ago, ByteDance internally released the fourth Corporate Discipline and Professional Ethics Committee Notice within the year. According to the report, 103 people (including outsourcing and interns) were dismissed for illegal and irregular behavior, of which 11 people were investigated by the public security organs for suspected criminal offenses.