(Beijing News) Fan Bingbing has been involved in a storm of yin and yang contract tax evasion for nearly 3 months. Adults are shouting and beating the rats crossing the street. All kinds of rumors are flying in the sky.Brother Fan Chengcheng DNA.
According to Mirror Weekly, the Beijing entertainment industry has recently whispered in private: Fan Bingbing's rumored target S actor (pseudonym) has also been investigated!Fan Bingbing's 18-year-old younger brother, Fan Chengcheng, is also involved. It is rumored that the relationship between the three is not just a scandal and a sibling.It looks like another storm is about to whip up.
What's even more exciting is that insiders took out photos of Fan Chengcheng and compared them with the son of the S male star, and felt that the facial features were similar, and then revealed that the 18-year-old Fan Chengcheng was the illegitimate son of the 36-year-old Fan Bingbing, which in turn made the Chinese authorities prepare for further investigation.Of course, this matter has been rumored for many years, but it is very unusual for it to be investigated again at this juncture.
Earlier reports: The nuclear tax storm is spreading, Fan Bingbing and his younger brother are said to be restricted from leaving the country
After the yin-yang contract case of Chinese actress Fan Bingbing has been silent for nearly two months, the authorities are rumored to have made new moves.It is reported that Fan Bingbing has been restricted from leaving the country, and several staff members around him have also been placed under residential surveillance by the police.
Analysts believe that how far this nuclear tax storm will eventually spread, and whether it will reveal money laundering in the entertainment industry, and whether it will reveal more money laundering depends on how deep the interests are behind it. The case cannot escape the contest between legal principles and interests.
The news has not yet been officially confirmed
The Economic Observer quoted a source the day before yesterday (July 28) as saying that Fan Bingbing’s younger brother Fan Chengcheng was planning to go abroad to record a variety show, only to find out that both he and Fan Bingbing had been banned from leaving the country.
The report also quoted an official from China's entry-exit administration department as saying that it is a common practice to impose border control measures on those involved in the case and their close relatives, and restrict their exit for a period of time.Relevant news has not been officially confirmed, and Fan Bingbing's studio has not issued any statement on this.It is reported that Fan Bingbing is currently in Beijing and no compulsory measures have been taken.
In May of this year, former CCTV host Cui Yongyuan broke the news on Weibo, alluding to Fan Bingbing's tax evasion, criticizing the film and television industry's sky-high salary, yin and yang contracts, and tax evasion.China's tax authorities at all levels later stepped in to investigate and deployed an assessment and investigation of the tax payment of some high-income and high-risk film and television personnel.
A source close to the State Administration of Taxation revealed to the Economic Observer that after a period of investigation, the taxation department did not make much progress and breakthroughs, which put a lot of pressure on the taxation department.At the end of June and early July this year, the police intervened in the case.
According to reports, in a listed company closely related to Fan Bingbing, a person with rich financial and auditing capabilities was invited to deal with Fan Bingbing's company after the tax department intervened in the investigation in June, and accepted as the financial director of Fan's company.Investigations by the State Administration of Taxation, as well as the taxation departments of Beijing, Jiangsu, Xinjiang and other places.
On July 2, the financial staff’s family members received a detention warrant issued by the Jiangsu police in Beijing, saying that they had been detained on suspicion of concealing and deliberately destroying accounting documents, and were transferred to the detention center in Changzhou, Jiangsu on the same day.
In response to rumors that the financial officer is from Huayi Brothers, a well-known Chinese entertainment group, the company issued a statement yesterday denying it, and said that it will pursue legal responsibility for the release and dissemination of false information.
In addition, people familiar with the matter also said that several staff members around Fan Bingbing were also under investigation by the police and taken compulsory measures, including a foreigner who had worked with Fan Bingbing for at least ten years and had been his manager.
Will Fan Bingbing become the second Liu Xiaoqing?
An industry insider who is familiar with China's film and television industry told Lianhe Zaobao that the government is now watching the film and television industry very closely. All major film and television companies are facing inspections by the tax authorities, and the entire industry is in turmoil.
The Economic Observer's report was later deleted, but it has been reprinted by many Chinese media and websites.
After the yin-yang contract incident broke out, the person in charge of Fan Bingbing's studio responded in early June that Fan Bingbing and his studio had never signed a contract through a yin-yang contract, and expressed that they would fully cooperate with relevant departments to verify according to law.Cui Yongyuan, who broke the news, also revealed later that he had reconciled with Fan Bingbing.
After the news of Fan Bingbing being controlled by the border came out, the outside world once again speculated whether she would become the second Liu Xiaoqing.In 2002, Chinese movie star Liu Xiaoqing was sentenced for evading huge amounts of taxes and was imprisoned for more than a year.
A person in the legal field pointed out in an interview that the parties may be restricted from leaving the country under many circumstances, such as unresolved civil cases, criminal suspicions, and the possibility of endangering national security when going abroad. Border control alone cannot assert that the officialThere is enough evidence to support the previous rumors.
He also analyzed that tax evasion is generally investigated by the tax department and imposed administrative penalties. If criminal behavior is involved, criminal responsibility must be investigated before the public security agency takes over. This police intervention shows that the yin-yang contract case may not be an ordinary tax evasion case.
As for the scope of possible involvement in the end, Yuan Yulai, a lawyer from Zhejiang Star Law Firm, said in an interview that the investigation and law enforcement of tax evasion have comprehensive legal regulations, but whether they will be investigated and to what extent, if there is money laundering, will they be involved?It will involve a higher level, whether it can be moved, many things are difficult to analyze by law.
(The reporter is the Shanghai correspondent of Lianhe Zaobao)
