What are the consequences of an accountant misappropriating public funds to reward anchors?

Recently, the incident of "accountant misappropriating public funds to reward anchors" has attracted widespread public attention. On May 15, 2018, the People's Court of Jingkou District, Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province held a trial on the "Wang Misappropriation of Funds" case. The judge pronounced the verdict in court and Wang was sentenced to 7 years in prison.

It is reported that while the defendant Wang was an accountant at a real estate company in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, he took advantage of his position to misappropriate more than 9.3 million yuan in public funds, more than half of which was used to give "gifts" to network anchors.

Wang was born in 1989. In 2012, he worked in a real estate development company in Zhenjiang as a financial accountant. Later, because the company's chief accountant resigned and there was no one to replace him, Wang began to serve as both the chief accountant and cashier, earning a monthly income of more than 2,000 yuan. According to the trial record, Wang confessed that he started watching online live broadcasts at the end of 2015 and started to top up and reward people in order to enhance interaction with the anchors. "At first, I added money to give them gifts, but then my own money was not enough, so I used the company's money as rewards."

In February 2017, a staff member of a real estate company in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu reported the case. , claiming that the company’s accountant, Wang, had lost contact. After investigation, from 2015 to February 2017, the defendant Wang took advantage of his position as an accountant of a real estate development company in Zhenjiang to squander more than 9.3 million yuan of his unit's funds through cash withdrawals, checks, transfers, etc., of which four to five hundred It is used to reward anchors. On February 21, 2017, the defendant Wang surrendered to the public security organ.

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