Chapter 327: Chapter 327: She’s Not a Good Person Either!
Zhou Xiaoying did not like Han Na.
Although Han Na usually acted restrained in the project team, Zhou Xiaoying felt that Han Na neither had outstanding talent nor a sense of responsibility and commitnt, plus being an adversary to Maeve, which made her wary of those in Maeve’s group.
The next morning.
Lin Qi clocked in for work as usual.
But upon entering the project departnt, she found the whole place eerily quiet, not everyone was at their seats.
Lin Qi took out her phone and checked the ti.
It was already ti to clock in; why wasn’t the departnt fully staffed?
Lin Qi looked at Maeve’s seat and noticed it was sowhat ssy, with papers piled up on the desk as though she had been in the middle of organizing them but then got called away.
Han Na was bending her head low, engrossed in her work, appearing sowhat absent-minded.
Lin Qi approached her and asked, “Han Na, where is everyone from the departnt?”
Han Na lifted her head and pursed her lips, “Last night, soone reported to the senior managent anonymously that Ms. Mia, taking advantage of her position, embezzled public funds and committed tax evasion…”
Lin Qi was sowhat surprised: “What?”
Han Na added, “Lin Qi, you went to bed early last night, so you’re unaware of the major changes that have happened in our team.”
Early in the morning, Maeve went to the HR departnt to resign.
However, because she was part of the project managent, the resignation process was very complicated, also involving the “Confidentiality and Non-Competition Agreent” she had signed with the company. If she quit now, she would not be allowed to work for any related companies in the field for two years, or else it would be a breach of contract.
The original treatnt planned by HR for Maeve was a demotion and reassignnt to the distribution room.
The work in the distribution room was simple but busy, involving the daily printing, copying, faxing, and mailing of docunts for various departnts, as well as handling the receipt of deliveries and takeouts for all staff at Huace Headquarters. It was one of the most basic positions at the headquarters, dealing with all the nial and exhausting tasks, with a monthly salary of only 5000, on the sa level as a security guard’s job.
Maeve was quite displeased in her heart, but could only grit her teeth and accept this decision.
When she was promoted, as a team leader of the project group, she was handling projects that may involve Huace’s trade secrets, therefore she had signed a “Confidentiality and Non-Compete Clause” with Huace. The contract stipulated that she could not work in the sa industry for two years after leaving the job. Thus, if she really resigned, for the next two years, she would be either unemployed or could only work in the service industry.
Tied down on both sides, she might as well accept the demotion; after all, although the work in the distribution room was hard and the salary was low, the benefits at Huace were decent, with full coverage of the “five insurances and one fund”.
Maeve knew that by offending Lin Qi, she had destroyed half of her career.
Even if she went for interviews for related jobs in the future, her reputation in the industry wouldn’t be good!
However, to make matters worse, she had been reported!
Over the years, Maeve had made quite a lot of money in Huace’s project team.
She had also engaged in so grey-area business in the past few years.
Every quarter, the project team would distribute funds to the smaller teams, sotis millions, sotis tens of millions, even up to a hundred million.
Maeve would then secretly misappropriate these public funds into her personal accounts for stock speculation or involvent in so risky investnts in the grey market.
Take money laundering, for example.
She set up a shell company outside, the type that’s an MCN business.
Nowadays, live streaming platforms are highly developed, and she invested in one. She specifically purchased traffic on the platform to support internet celebrities after taking over the project team’s quarterly investnts. She funneled money into the traffic pool to promote these internet celebrities.
Hatching an internet celebrity takes a very short ti; often within a week, a trending internet celebrity can be created.
Later, through live-stread sales and collecting rewards from platform streams, once the principal is recuperated, the funds are returned to the company account. She then took a cut from the rewards and sales inco, making a hefty profit!
Beyond that, she gained stock market trade information through internal channels, learning in advance about stocks likely to rise and used company funds to speculate in stocks, making a fortune from nothing!
But this is illegal!
She has been lucky these past few years, hardly ever making a loss on her investnts, but after soone blew the whistle with their real na, the Huace Board of Directors imdiately dispatched an investigative team, taking Maeve and the related team mbers in for questioning!
If they truly uncover the fact that she embezzled company funds, she won’t be able to avoid jail ti!
Unless, she pays a large sum of money!
The scariest part is, if she really evaded taxes, just the late paynt fees and the fivefold penalties would be enough to finish her off!
Because most of the people from Maeve’s team were taken in for questioning, for a while, the whole departnt was in a state of panic, fearing getting implicated by Maeve.
A few mbers under Maeve were dragged into the ss because they helped her divert so company funds without knowing what they were getting into, and they too were taken away for questioning.
Upon hearing this, Lin Qi was sowhat shocked: “She really has so nerve, doesn’t she? To commit embezzlent like that?”
Who would have thought, Maeve also has quite the “business acun,” using such crooked paths to her benefit.
Han Na said: “I guess, it was Zhou Xiaoying who reported her! She always had issues with Ms. Mia and maybe, she had evidence of Ms. Mia’s embezzlent all along but didn’t report it before because Ms. Mia held a high position in the project team. Now that Ms. Mia has offended you, she took advantage of the situation…”
Lin Qi chuckled: “How is it called kicking soone when they’re down? Embezzling funds, evading taxes—if Maeve really did these things, then it’s her own fault first and foremost.”
Han Na said: “What about Zhou Xiaoying? Her power is even greater than Ms. Mia’s. I don’t believe she’s completely clean.”
From a distance, Zhou Xiaoying’s light voice carried over: “Why don’t you report and see how it goes?”
Han Na was startled, and she looked up at the doorway.
Zhou Xiaoying was standing at the entrance, her face expressionless.
Han Na did not expect to be overheard by the person concerned and nervously looked at the computer screen.
Zhou Xiaoying walked over to her and said coldly: “Weren’t you just doubting if I was clean or not? Why don’t you say anything now? How about you go and report and try?”
Han Na said: “I… I didn’t an it that way.”
Zhou Xiaoying said: “So, what did you an? I don’t like beating around the bush, nor do I like people talking behind my back. Han Na, let tell you plainly, it was I who reported Maeve. Indeed, I had evidence of her embezzlent a long ti ago, but due to issues involving many corporate secrets, I couldn’t deal with her for the ti being. In fact, two weeks ago, I submitted the whistleblowing materials to the Huace executives. How did this turn into kicking soone when they’re down in your mouth?”
Han Na let out an “oh” and said no more.
Zhou Xiaoying turned to Lin Qi and kindly warned: “Lin Qi, stay away from such despicable people in the future. Speaking ill of others when they’re not around, birds of a feather flock together. She was part of Maeve’s team, so she’s not a good person either.”
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