Is embezzlement of public funds by cashiers in private enterprises considered as corruption? Please provide help and seek legal solution.

The main body of the crime of corruption is state functionaries and persons entrusted by state organs, state-owned companies, enterprises, institutions and people's organizations to manage state-owned property. People in private enterprises are generally not suspected of corruption, but may be suspected of embezzling public funds.

Legal basis: Article 271 of the Criminal Law stipulates that personnel of companies, enterprises or other units who take advantage of their positions illegally take the property of their own units for themselves, and if the amount is relatively large, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention; If the amount is huge, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and may also have his property confiscated.

Personnel engaged in public service in state-owned companies, enterprises or other state-owned units and personnel appointed by state-owned companies, enterprises or other state-owned units to engage in public service in non-state-owned companies, enterprises or other units shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of Articles 382 and 383 of this Law.