On June 65438+ 1010/,the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Fangshan District of Beijing released a message that Lihua Xu, secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection and deputy general manager of Fang Kai Holding Group, was suspected of serious violation of discipline and law, and was currently under disciplinary review and supervision investigation.
This is a relatively new case in which a senior executive of a real estate enterprise was investigated on suspicion of violating the law and discipline. Prior to this, a number of well-known real estate companies have exposed senior management corruption incidents. 2065438+August 2008, two Wanda executives, Yin Jianwu and Jin Zhen, were taken away by the police on suspicion of taking advantage of their positions for personal gain. In 65438+February, Jane Yuping, president of Agile Group Hainan Region, was dismissed for accepting huge bribes from outsiders and other serious violations of discipline. Cai Yinli, vice president of Agile Real Estate Group Guangzhou Region, took advantage of his position to undertake the company's business, damaging the company's interests and was dismissed. 20 19 1 Xiong, the former general manager of COFCO Land Chengdu Company, was expelled from the party and public office for taking advantage of his position to accept huge amounts of property and other disciplinary actions. According to the reporter of Time Weekly, at the beginning of June 5438+ 10 this year, a large real estate enterprise in Guangzhou announced that in recent years, more than 30 people were expelled from the group for serious violations of discipline, and 22 people were dealt with by the judicial authorities for allegedly violating the criminal law.
The real estate industry involves many fields and links, and its profits are considerable, which provides a hotbed for corruption. The vice president of a real estate company in Shanghai told Time Weekly that corruption in power positions in real estate companies is more common than in other industries, such as general management positions such as bidding and purchasing, cost accounting and project management. The difference is that professional management positions such as sales collection, land development and investment operation of real estate enterprises all use resource scarcity and selective power for personal gain. "From the perspective of enterprises, state-owned enterprises are prone to large-scale collusion, and private enterprises are more corrupt in small circles." The vice president of the above-mentioned housing enterprises concluded.
Land acquisition and sales are prone to corruption.
Although in recent years, housing enterprises have strengthened anti-corruption and anti-fraud work by making audit and supervision departments independent and providing reward for reporting, the current situation is still not optimistic.
Since 20 18, a number of well-known real estate enterprises, including Wanda, Agile and COFCO Land, have successively exposed the corruption of senior executives. According to the reporter of Time Weekly, from 2065438 to February 2008, a large real estate enterprise in Shenzhen reported six typical cases of violation of discipline at one time. Among them, Shimou, Wenmou and Chen Mou of Chengdu Company caused great economic losses to the company due to their dereliction of duty, and their labor contracts were terminated by the company; Zhang, Wang, Cheng and others of Liaoning Company used the company's sales platform resources to increase sales and seek illegitimate interests, and their labor contracts were terminated by the company. In 20 17, the company terminated the labor contract for 8 employees who were dereliction of duty or violated professional ethics, and blacklisted 4 suppliers who obtained projects through contract fraud or improper means to terminate cooperation.
20 19 1 At the beginning of the year, a large real estate enterprise in Guangzhou also reported more than ten cases of violation of discipline at one time. Among them, Li Feng (pseudonym) of the Shanghai project colluded with four other people in the sales process, demanding customer benefits (huge amount) in the name of "helping customers apply for discounts", and all of them were dismissed; Ma Jian (pseudonym) of Suzhou Project was dismissed for allegedly taking advantage of his position to collude in bidding, renting the company's real estate at a low price, selling vacant houses without permission, and defrauding the owners of money. At the same time, he was criminally detained and arrested by the public security organs on suspicion of duty embezzlement and contract fraud.
"In the real estate industry, both land acquisition and construction are prone to corruption." Ma Chao (a pseudonym), who once served as the executive director of a securities company, told the Times Weekly reporter that taking the construction link as an example, bidding, bid evaluation, confirmation of engineering quantity, project budget and project accounting are all "corruption-prone areas".
"As far as real estate enterprises are concerned, the areas where external fraud occurs frequently focus on the acquisition of resources (such as land), the acquisition and operation of funds and the acquisition of various licenses (such as construction work permits)." A senior practitioner of compliance consulting and anti-fraud in Hong Kong told Times Weekly that when it comes to internal fraud, it is often closely related to the sales of real estate. Secondly, the whole construction process of real estate, such as outsourcing and outsourcing, is also prone to internal fraud.
Anti-corruption is multi-pronged
The occurrence of corruption not only directly harms the interests of enterprises, but also destroys the cultural ecology of enterprises.
PricewaterhouseCoopers mentioned in the "20 18 Survey on the Current Situation of Anti-fraud Alliance of Enterprises in China" that statistics show that among the direct fraud losses identified by the investigated enterprises through investigation, the total amount recovered through various disposal means only accounts for 18% of the total direct economic losses. "Other losses that cannot be accurately counted include indirect losses caused by damaged corporate culture, loss of goodwill and subsequent business interruption, so all actual losses may be far greater than the book figures." PricewaterhouseCoopers continued.
To this end, in recent years, enterprises are also actively improving internal control measures to prevent fraud and irregularities.
Li Hua (pseudonym), who once worked in a 100 billion-level real estate enterprise, told the Times Weekly reporter that in order to fight corruption, the group headquarters and branches will set up several supervision offices and provide special reporting channels. The reporter of Time Weekly was informed that the above-mentioned reporting channels are divided into two types within the group, one is the reporting channel of the supervision office, and the other is the reporting channel to combat bureaucracy. Li Hua revealed that the group will also organize employees to learn all kinds of red-headed documents and typical cases from time to time.
The reporter of Time Weekly learned from a real estate enterprise in Shenzhen that in order to strengthen the anti-corruption and anti-fraud work, the Group became independent from the Risk Management Department in 20 16 and established the Audit Supervision Department, which was directly responsible to the Board of Directors of the Group. In addition, the Group has taken a number of control measures to prevent fraud and disciplinary actions by signing contracts with suppliers, conducting regular or irregular audits by the Audit and Supervision Department, and expanding complaint reporting channels.
A large real estate enterprise in Guangdong has also established a set of systematic working systems and processes, including the Interim Provisions on Group Supervision, the Measures for the Group to Investigate and Deal with Disciplinary Cases, and the Interim Measures for Reporting Disciplinary Actions.
The above-mentioned vice president of Shanghai real estate enterprises told Times Weekly that some benchmark real estate enterprises have strengthened their internal audit, and some even set up audit supervision departments or disciplinary committees, which not only intensified the anti-corruption propaganda and punishment internally, but also began to transfer those who violated the criminal law to the judicial organs, set up an industry anti-corruption alliance, and informed the cases of corrupt people and untrustworthy people, resulting in the fact that corrupt people and untrustworthy people have no place in the member units of the real estate enterprise anti-corruption alliance.
The above-mentioned senior practitioners of compliance consulting and anti-fraud told Times Weekly that if enterprises want to eradicate corruption, they must first rely on institutionalized construction and rationalize the company's business operation process; The second is to improve the intermediate control system; Third, we must have active thinking, which is the so-called compliance operation.
Ma Chao also suggested that enterprises can prevent and guard against corruption through various mechanisms such as regular rotation of project general managers and independent reporting of financial personnel and project budget personnel to headquarters.
According to the reporter of Time Weekly, in order to encourage employees to report corruption around them, a number of housing enterprises have also launched a series of incentive schemes. A large real estate enterprise in Shenzhen announced that if the economic loss recovered for the company is within 654.38+10,000 yuan, each reward will be 654.38+10,000 yuan; If it exceeds 654.38+10,000 yuan, each case will be rewarded with 1%-5% of the recovered loss amount. A large real estate enterprise in Guangzhou also announced internally: 1. Reward according to 10% of the amount of economic losses or improper gains avoided, reduced or recovered, with a maximum of 500,000 yuan per case; 2. Reporting cases of post corruption and bribery of non-state staff, the public security organ will file a case for investigation and reward1-200,000 yuan. The above-mentioned Guangzhou real estate enterprises also said that in order to protect whistleblowers, the company will also set up a "whistleblower protection list", and employees in the list will be given priority in salary increase, award and promotion.