The evidence of employees stealing the company's finances is conclusive, and we need to report it now. Do you need a lawyer? Or will the procuratorate initiate prosecution automatically?

When reporting a crime, the company can report the crime to the local public security organ, or it can entrust a lawyer to report the crime. It is not that the procuratorate initiates prosecution automatically. The case needs to be filed by the public security organ, then submitted to the procuratorate for public prosecution and tried in the people's court.

Article 18 of the "Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China"* * *Criminal cases shall be investigated by the public security organs, unless otherwise provided by law.

Crimes of corruption and bribery, crimes of dereliction of duty by state functionaries, crimes of illegal detention, crimes of torture and confession by state functionaries, crimes of retaliation, frame-up and illegal searches, and crimes of infringement of citizens’ democratic rights shall be filed and investigated by the People’s Procuratorate. If other major criminal cases committed by state functionaries taking advantage of their powers need to be directly handled by the People's Procuratorate, the case may be opened for investigation upon the decision of the People's Procuratorate at or above the provincial level.

Private prosecution cases are directly accepted by the People's Court.