Henglong Legal Department takes action.
On the third day after the investigation team evacuated, Zhang Qingxue summoned all the people from the Legal Department to Meeting Room.
Henglong's legal team's usual work content is relatively simple, mainly drafting contracts, reviewing agreements, and handling daily compliance matters.
There aren't many things that excite them.
But this time it's different.
Zhang Qingxue is sitting on the main seat of Meeting Room, with a thick pile of printing materials spread out in front of him--
Securities Regulatory Commission's announcement, Henglong Group's official account statement, and screenshots of posts on major financial platforms in the past half month that maliciously spread rumors that Henglong is suspected of insider trading.
"Everyone," Zhang Qingxue's voice was not loud, but every word was clear.
"In the past period, some financial influencers and self-media accounts have widely spread false information that Henglong is suspected of insider trading without any factual basis.
This information has caused serious damage to Henglong's business reputation, and also constituted reputation infringement on Zhao Zong personally.
The investigation conclusion of Securities Regulatory Commission has proven our innocence. Next, it is our turn to take action."
Several people from the Legal Department looked at each other, and their eyes were filled with light.
A young legal officer sitting at the very edge asked, "Director Zhang, how to take action?"
Zhang Qingxue Open the file in front of you.
"The first step is to collect evidence.
I took screenshots of all the posts, articles, and videos involving Henglong insider trading rumors in the past half month.
A total of 23 accounts are involved, including Weibo Big V, Snowball Big V, WeChat public account and some columnists of the Caijing.com website.
What you need to do is to organize these evidences into Legal Document, and clearly record the publishing time, publishing platform, content screenshots, forwarding volume and comment volume of each post."
Another legal officer raised his hand. "Director Zhang, does evidence preservation require notarization?"
Zhang Qingxue nodded.
"Need. Important posts need to be notarized to prevent the other party from deleting the post and denying it. Please contact Notary Office this afternoon."
People at the Legal Department began to record quickly on their notebooks.
Zhang Qingxue continued:
"The second step is to determine the target of prosecution.
Not every one of the 23 accounts is worthy of prosecution. We must select the ones with the greatest influence, the worst rumors, and the widest spread.
I did a preliminary screening and found that there were 5 accounts that were targeted for attack.
Including two big Vs Weibo, two big Vs Snowball and one self-media author from the Caijing.com website.
During the investigation, these people continued to publish rumor-mongering content, and some even posted several messages a day, which had an extremely negative impact."
The senior legal counsel sitting next to Zhang Qingxue flipped through the materials, frowned and said:
"Director Zhang, there may be an operation team behind these big Vs, not personal accounts. When suing, you need to confirm who the actual operating entity is."
Zhang Qingxue nodded.
"Yes. So you need to check the real-name authentication information of these accounts, the company entities behind them, and whether there is a business partnership.
If it is an individual, sue the individual. If it is a company operation, sue the company."
"The third step is to determine the litigation strategy."
Zhang Qingxue turn another page,
"We have two options.
First, file a civil lawsuit on the grounds of reputation infringement, requiring the other party to apologize, eliminate the impact, and compensate for losses.
This path is relatively simple and has a high probability of winning.
Second, report the case to the public security organs on the grounds of damaging business reputation and product reputation, and hold the other party accountable for criminal liability.
This path is more severe, but the threshold for filing a case is high and it needs to be proven that the other party's behavior has caused serious consequences."
The legal team discussed it for several minutes and finally agreed that civil litigation was the safer option.
"Director Zhang, we recommend civil litigation first. The evidence is conclusive and the probability of winning is very high.
Criminal reporting can be used as a deterrent. If the other party refuses to apologize or continues to spread rumors, consider escalating the case," said a senior legal officer.
Zhang Qingxue nodded.
"Okay. Then proceed according to this idea.
I need you to complete the preparation of all prosecution materials within a week.
Evidence preservation, subject identification, indictment, and evidence list—nothing is missing."
Several people from the Legal Department nodded at the same time.
From that day on, the Henglong Legal Department light stayed on until late every night.
The most common things they usually do are reviewing contracts, writing agreements, and doing legal risk assessments. The work pace is not fast or slow.
But this time it was different. Someone came to the door to ask for trouble, and Henglong's legal team was as if they had been beaten to death.
Young legal officer Xiao Zhao is mainly responsible for evidence preservation.
He took screenshots, archived and numbered every post involving Henglong published by the 23 accounts in the past half month, and then went to Notary Office to have the web page preserved and notarized.
The notary fee alone cost a small 20,000 yuan.
Senior Legal Affairs Officer Lao Liu is responsible for subject information investigation, checking the real-name authentication information behind these big Vs one by one.
I called the platform and asked for information about the operating entity. After talking with the platform for a week, I got the authentication information for five core accounts.
Zhang Qingxue is not idle either.
She personally drafted five indictments, each of which was more than 20 pages long, clearly describing the time, place, content, scope of dissemination and damage caused by the rumors spread by the defendant.
The core demands of the complaint include three items - to stop the infringement, to publicly apologize on relevant platforms, and to compensate Henglong Group for economic losses and reasonable rights protection expenses.
When the first indictment was submitted to Court, Zhang Qingxue stood at the door of Court and sent a message to Zhao Chen:
"Xiao Chen, the first case has been filed."
Zhao Chen replied with one word, "Okay."
Then he added another one. "Aunt Zhang, thank you for your hard work."
Zhang Qingxue looked at the word "good" and the "Thank you for your hard work" behind it, smiled, put the phone away, and walked into the door of Court.
In the following week, Henglong Legal Department submitted five indictments in one go.
After the news spread, some people in Stock Bar cheered, while others were afraid.
Accounts that had followed suit in the past began to quietly delete historical posts, but Zhang Qingxue had already notarized them, so deleting them was useless.
Someone posted on Snowball:
"Henglong We are going to deal with those who spread rumors one by one. Zhao Chen is not a person to be trifled with."
Another user replied, "It's not that it's not easy to mess with, it's that you shouldn't mess with him. He's doing investments innocently, but you have to accuse him of insider trading."
Now that Securities Regulatory Commission has been proven innocent, you are still stubborn. Then we will see you in court."
With Henglong's thunderous move, the negative news about Zhao Chen's personal identity disappeared instantly.
No one will ever come forward to accuse him of insider trading.
After the Securities Regulatory Commission investigation ended, the entire Henglong atmosphere relaxed.
The previous work continues to advance in an orderly manner. Chen Xi is keeping an eye on the stock price of Shunxin Agriculture while tracking the listing process of Dening Times.
In this feast, Henglong can only compete with a group of institutions for the allotment quota, which makes Chen Xi very regretful.
However, there are many targets that Henglong can invest in.
Therefore, the directors of Henglong met again to discuss the capital injection into Henglong Capital.
Henglong Capital is officially open when it comes to showing off its skills.