cover news reporter Xiong Yingying
In recent years, telecom and fraud crimes have become increasingly rampant, and many listed companies have not been immune.
Daya Shengxiang (000910) recently disclosed its 2021 annual performance report, which shows that during the reporting period, the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Shengxiang Group Co., Ltd. subsidiary American Home Legend LLC became the victim of a telecommunications fraud, and the perpetrators invaded the company. The company rented Microsoft's 365 mailbox system, forged fake emails to impersonate the company's management members, forged supplier documents and email paths, and committed fraud. The amount involved was approximately US$3.569 million (equivalent to RMB 22.7549 million).
Daya Shengxiang stated that the company has registered with local federal law enforcement authorities in the United States and reported the case to the Chinese public security organs. As of the reporting date, the possibility of recovering the stolen funds is low.
was issued a warning letter due to financial management issues
Public information shows that Daya Shengxiang was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on June 30, 1999. The company is mainly engaged in the production and sales of flooring and artificial panels. Its "Holy Elephant" floor brand Have a high reputation in the industry. The 2021 "China's 500 Most Valuable Brands" ranking shows that the "Holy Elephant" brand value reaches 63.816 billion yuan.
In 2021, Daya Shengxiang achieved operating income of 8.751 billion, a year-on-year increase of 20.46%; net profit attributable to the parent company was 595 million, a year-on-year decrease of 4.86%. As for why there is an increase in revenue but not profit, Daya Shengxiang said that it is mainly affected by unfavorable factors such as the price increase of bulk raw materials in 2021, real estate de-leverage and red line regulation, the continued epidemic at home and abroad, and rising operating costs.
Picture according to Daya Shengxiang annual report
Although telecommunications fraud crimes are becoming increasingly rampant and difficult to guard against, Daya Shengxiang itself also has loopholes in financial management.
reporters noticed that as early as December 7 last year, Daya Sacred Elephant received a regulatory warning letter from Jiangsu Securities Regulatory Bureau . The warning letter showed that the remuneration disclosure of Daya Shengxiang's directors, supervisors, and senior managers in 2019 was inaccurate. When the company disclosed the "remuneration situation of directors, supervisors, and senior managers" in its annual report, it did not include the company's remuneration to Doya Power in July 2019. Convertible bond project bonuses issued by directors, supervisors and senior executives.
In addition, the company's financial management and accounting are not standardized. Expense reimbursement does not strictly comply with the provisions of Article 4 of the company's "Financial Reimbursement System". There are problems with untimely reimbursement and inter-temporal accounting, which does not comply with accrual basis accounting. principles and violated relevant regulations.
In response, the Jiangsu Securities Regulatory Bureau decided to take administrative supervision measures by issuing a warning letter to the company and record it in the securities and futures market integrity files.
These listed companies have also encountered telecommunications fraud.
Prior to this, many listed companies had encountered telecommunications fraud. According to incomplete statistics from reporters, three listed companies disclosed relevant announcements in 2020 alone.
On June 16, 2020, Shilong Industrial (002748) announced that RMB 2.98 million in the company's bank account was stolen through the Internet due to telecommunications fraud suffered by financial managers. The company has reported the case to the Public Security Bureau of Leping City, Jiangxi Province, and received the "Decision on Filing the Case" from the bureau, informing the company of the fraud case and filing the case for investigation.
On June 1, 2021, Shilong Industrial received an annual report inquiry letter from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. It was mentioned that the internal control assurance report showed that 2.98 million yuan in the company's bank account had not been recovered due to telecommunications fraud, and the company had internal control deficiencies in the fund payment process. In response, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange asked him to explain in detail the process of being defrauded and the reasons for its occurrence.
Coincidentally, just a week after Shilong Industrial suffered a telecom fraud, Beijing Investment Development (600683) issued an announcement on major matters regarding its subsidiary, saying that it had received a report from Yintai Real Estate, a subsidiary that holds 50% of the shares and is operated by the partner. Its financial staff encountered telecommunications fraud by criminal gangs, resulting in 26.7 million yuan in Yintai Real Estate's bank account being defrauded through the Internet on June 22, 2020.
On November 5 of the same year, Slack (300382) also issued an announcement stating that its wholly-owned subsidiary Slack International Co., Ltd. had recently encountered telecom fraud by a criminal gang, resulting in more than US$2.05 million in bank accounts being defrauded through the Internet.It is understood that Slack achieved a net profit of 14.7258 million yuan in the third quarter of 2020, and the funds defrauded by telecommunications almost caught up with the company's net profit in that quarter. Although the company has reported the case to the public security organs after the incident, more than 1.5 million US dollars of defrauded funds have been frozen by the company, and the remaining defrauded funds are also being recovered. However, the final impact cannot yet be determined.
In response to the problem of rampant telecommunications fraud, relevant departments have continued to crack down hard in recent years. According to news from the Ministry of Public Security website on April 2, recently, under the unified deployment and command of the Ministry of Public Security, public security agencies in 15 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities including Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei have simultaneously launched network closing operations to severely crack down on the establishment of fixed-line voice services for telecommunications network fraud in accordance with the law. Special line criminal gang. So far, more than 610 criminal suspects have been arrested, and more than 5,100 computers, voice gateways and other criminal equipment have been seized. The centralized network closing operation has achieved initial results.
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