Yang Peng, who almost fainted from fright, was directly put into a Pengcheng police vehicle. The four Pengcheng police officers thanked and said goodbye to the Hangcheng police officers, and called the other four colleagues on the phone to inform them that they had caught him and would return to Pengcheng immediately.
Since the Ministry of Public Security requires local police to cooperate with the investigation based on household registration, Yang Peng will inevitably be brought back to Pengcheng, where the Pengcheng police will conduct an examination and initiate a public prosecution. If the Hangcheng police decide to conduct unified prosecution at that time, the local police will then bring the suspects to justice. And the relevant file information was transferred to Hangzhou police.
So, the police officers, who had just arrived in Hangzhou less than two hours ago, started on their way back without stopping.
Yang Peng was in the back seat of the police car. He was pinched by a police officer on both sides. His hands were handcuffed. His heart suddenly felt like ice. When he learned that it was a policeman from his hometown, he hurriedly asked in his hometown dialect, crying: "Comrade policeman, fellow countryman, I am like this." What happened?"
A policeman in the passenger seat turned around, looked at him, and asked, "Don't you know what you did?"
Yang Peng shook his head repeatedly and cried with an innocent face: "I am just an online store owner. I work steadily and operate my business according to my duties. I have never violated the law!"
The policeman laughed and said, "Don't you know what you are selling in your store?"
Yang Peng shook his head pretending to be ignorant.
The policeman sneered and said: "Yang Peng, we are all fellow villagers, and speaking honestly can be regarded as respect for each other. Who can you hide this from? How much of the sales of more than 10 million in your store is genuine? How many of these goods are fakes? I guess you don’t even have a single genuine item among the more than 10 million, right?"
Yang Peng's heart skipped a beat and he quickly said: "Comrade police, all my goods are from suppliers. How can I know whether they are real or fake? If they are fake, then I am also one of the victims. We must catch them." Those who are counterfeiting, and those who sell fake goods to me!”
The policeman frowned slightly and said in a cold voice: "Don't worry, no one in your line can escape. It's useless for you to argue with me. When it comes to court, you can argue with the judge."
Yang Peng looked at the policeman in panic and asked pleadingly: "Comrade policeman, please tell me the truth. If I am sentenced for this matter, how many years will I be sentenced?"
The policeman said calmly: "The amount involved in your case is more than ten million. If it is finally determined to be this much, I think you will have to be sentenced to at least fifteen years."
Speaking of this, the police officer added: "At least, but I think it will be indefinite. Your illegal gains will also be confiscated by then. How old are you this year? Twenty-six years old? You are not married yet? Wait. When you are released after serving your sentence, you will probably be at least forty years old."
As soon as Yang Peng heard this, all his strength was drained from his whole body, and tears formed in strings and kept dripping down. He never dreamed that a beautiful life had just begun, and he would immediately become a prisoner, indefinitely. The words "imprisonment" made him extremely desperate. He deeply regretted what he had done before, but regrets were useless now. The law would not give him any chance to regret.
During the long journey of 600 kilometers, Yang Peng's tears never stopped...
With the arrival of Yang Peng, the official start of the case of fake sellers on Letao was officially launched. Police from all over the country quickly attacked and arrested suspects in their registered jurisdictions. In just one day, fake sellers on Letao were found one after another. The merchant was arrested and brought to justice.
Such a series of big actions quickly spread throughout the entire Internet industry, which gave everyone an extremely strong wake-up call and made them finally realize that the Internet is not a place outside the law. If you break the law in the Internet field, you should not take any chances. , the law will definitely impose due sanctions on it!
Subsequently, major TV stations and offline media responded quickly and removed Letao's advertisements. This has long been written in the contract. If the publisher is suspected of illegal operation, the media party has the right to stop all advertising.
So on December 26, Letao completely disappeared online and offline. What can be found is nothing more than some reports about its persecution and discussions among netizens on major websites.
Judging from the attitude of netizens, Letao's suppression of the law is a very happy thing for them. Almost all people on the Internet support this special rectification operation. It can be said that Letao's suppression of the law is not only that the law has been upheld, but also that the law has been upheld. It is what the people want.
…
At this time, Boss Ma and a group of senior officials were playing Tai Chi in the Hangzhou City Bureau.
These are a group of hard-working people who know how to avoid responsibilities as much as possible.
Although Boss Ma is extremely regretful and distressed, he has long understood that this special operation is coming with ferocity and he must not take any chances. Otherwise, once he is found guilty of a crime, it will be difficult for him to escape the law. sanctions.
So in this case, the best way is to ask questions.
—Are you aware that there are many sellers selling fake goods on the platform
—I don’t know. I am only responsible for the higher-level management of the company. The specific development of each business is under the specific jurisdiction of the heads of each department;
—Do you know that your platform is obliged to review merchants and products on the platform
—You know, we have dedicated people responsible for this work, but I’m not very clear on whether they have neglected their duties;
—Your platform cooperates with counterfeit factories through shell companies. It obtains goods from counterfeit factories at lower prices through shell companies, and then supplies them to platform sellers. How do you explain this
—I have absolutely no knowledge of this kind of thing. Regarding such a blatant violation of the law, I hope the public security organs can thoroughly investigate and help Letao find out the bad apples, and also give an explanation to other employees!
Asking three questions and not knowing is Boss Ma's current solution. He has already set up the firewall before. He has not actually handled any counterfeit sales business. Even if he issues orders, they are all conveyed verbally, and there is never any substance. It is really not that easy for the police to convict themselves of sexual records.
As for the shell company, that shell company had already put in place a complete set of firewalls when it was purchased and made changes. Neither the legal person nor the shareholders had anything to do with Boss Ma. No matter how much we investigated, we could not blame him.
In this way, Boss Ma knows that the most the public security organs can do is to find a few scapegoats from Letao to bear the main responsibility. After he clears up the relationship, the police will not be able to do anything to him. After a period of investigation, even if he will not directly To be released, I had no choice but to apply for bail pending trial. In that case, even if I lost Letao, I could at least keep my personal freedom.
Boss Ma's family and partners found various connections and negotiated several times before they finally allowed Boss Ma to meet the company's queen lawyer in private. After meeting the lawyer, Boss Ma immediately asked the other party: "What is the attitude of the boss now?" Like? Is there anything loose?"
The lawyer shook his head and said: "There is no relaxation at the moment. Not only that, the situation of the matter is still expanding."
Boss Ma frowned: "What do you mean?"
The lawyer said: "We just inspected Letao's servers last night, and quite a few Letao shop owners have been arrested today. The public security organs responded very quickly. It seems that the attitude from above this time should be to fight to the end."
"Fight to the end?!" Boss Ma was a little panicked and asked him: "Then what kind of responsibility do you think we should bear as the platform party?"
The lawyer analyzed: “Under normal circumstances, because the platform party does not receive a direct share of the platform sales on the surface, it can be considered that the platform party does not directly profit, let alone subjective intention, so we can look at it from the direction of supervisory failure. Operation, in this case, the liability borne by the enterprise will be much smaller, and the best case scenario is that it will only bear administrative penalties and warnings."
Boss Ma was immediately delighted and asked him hurriedly: "Is it difficult to do this?"
The lawyer smacked his lips and said, "Mr. Ma, there are many uncontrollable factors. The first is how these sellers confessed after they were arrested. Now because they were all arrested and interrogated by the police in their place of residence, if their confessions are consistent, If we claim that a supervisor on the platform guided them to sell counterfeit goods, then it will be difficult for us to defend ourselves against negligence of supervision. After all, there are so many sellers’ testimonies that are unlikely to collude, and the judge will not believe our words.”
With that said, the lawyer added: "There is another time bomb, which is the shell company outside Letao. Since all the computers have been seized, the information and specific conditions of the shell company must not be hidden. This can be proved The platform has actively participated in the actual behavior of selling counterfeit goods, and there must be a clear responsible person to bear the consequences. Otherwise, the blame will be equally shared among the company's owners."
Boss Ma narrowed his eyes: "Does this mean that one person needs to stand up and take charge of the shell company's affairs?"
"That's right." The lawyer nodded and said, "It's not just the case of the shell company. If the confessions of the counterfeit sellers clearly stated that our platform had subjective guidance, then someone also needs to come to this part of the subjective guidance." Take responsibility."
Boss Ma paused for a moment, with a particularly troubled expression. After a long while, he said: "Two questions. First, if one person is responsible for all these things, how long will the sentence be? Second, if one person is responsible for it, how long will the others follow? What kind of punishment will I face?"
The lawyer thought for a while and said seriously: "If it is clear that there is a person who will take the responsibility, then we will first defend him without subjective pursuit of profit. If successful, he should only have to pay a certain amount of responsibility, and the overall sentence should be less than ten years. As for others, we are confident that we can defend against criminal liability and resolve the issue at the level of administrative penalties."
"That's good!" Boss Ma's expression relaxed. It seems that the first problem now is to find someone who is willing to take the blame, so he said to the lawyer: "I will think about this matter carefully and see how to operate it most safely. "
The lawyer nodded slightly, then remembered something, and reminded: "By the way, Mr. Ma, one of the management measures for e-commerce from the top management this time is to publicize the relevant responsible persons of the enterprise. Based on the nature and severity of their own violations, in In the next 3 to 10 years, they are prohibited from registering, participating in any Internet-related companies, and prohibiting any Internet-related companies from hiring in any form responsible persons who have been publicly announced and are still in the penalty stage. In other words, if they are defined as relevant responsible persons If so, you will no longer be able to engage in the Internet industry within a certain period of time.”
Boss Ma stared angrily and asked with a look of fear on his face: "What did you say? You are prohibited from engaging in the Internet?!"
(End of chapter)