Ant Group issued a statement on WeChat yesterday (21st), which refuted online information about "related personnel" to invest in Ant.

Ant Group said that during the issuance of the IPO (first public sales), the company "strictly abide by the laws and regulations of the two places" and the process is open and transparent.There are no assaults and refunds.

The group has never carried out any form of business cooperation with the law firm and lawyers mentioned in the rumors.Ant Group will safeguard its legitimate rights and interests through legal procedures.

It was rumored earlier that Hu Minchun, the former secretary of the Ningbo Haishu District Committee, provided clues that the listing plan of a fintech company in Zhejiang was urgently stopped in November 2020.Before the IPO, the Zhou Jiangyong family cost 500 million yuan (RMB, the same, Same, S $ 1005 million) to buy the shares first, and the listing of 520 million yuan was not retired.

It is also rumored that Hu Minchun and the team are familiar with the matter because she not only represented some customers' assaults, but also participated in the aftermath of the failure of listing, and even included some capital path arrangements.

Public information shows that Hu Minchun is a lawyer and serves as the director of the law firm in Ningbo Chengwang Law Firm, Zhejiang.

Chu Meng -shaped fell in June this year. Because he and Zhou Jiangyong, secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, who had dismissed recently, had been in Ningbo for a long time. It was speculated that the two cases were associated with two cases.In addition, Zhou Jiangyong's development of local e -commerce giants Alibaba's development during his tenure in Hangzhou, which also caused public opinion to speculate whether Zhou Jiangyong's falling horse was related to Ali.However, there is no evidence that there is interest conversion between Zhou Jiangyong and Ali.