Official disclosure! This company became an accomplice of foreign intelligence agencies披露!这家公司沦为境外情报机构帮凶








Police officer of the Shanghai National Security Bureau: "Kaisheng Rongying Information Technology Co., Ltd. has more than 1,000 customers, all over the country and abroad. The business is divided into three parts, of which expert interviews account for 80% of the total business of Triumph Rongying. Expert interviews are based on experts. Mostly in the form of telephone interviews.”

In Kaisheng Rongying Company, there is a huge expert database, and the number of experts in Curry exceeds 300,000. Since the company's business involves overseas consulting, what are the sources of experts for consulting? Are there any taboos in the selection of experts?

Zhou Moumou, a staff member of Kaisheng Rongying Information Technology Co., Ltd.: "There are some public resume channels that can be found outside, and there are many official websites, or experts recommend it."
In fact, the source of experts is not as simple as they say. In actual work, the company's staff also specialize in key areas and important industries such as domestic policy research, national defense and military industry, finance and currency, high-tech, energy resources, medicine and health, etc. Find and select influential experts.

Police officer of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of State Security: "Kingsheng Rongying and each interviewed expert will sign a business contract containing an 'exemption clause' in advance, requiring the expert to fulfill the responsibility of confidentiality and bear the legal consequences. The relevant expert was issued by the consulting company. Attracted by generous rewards, and thinking that the other party is a law-abiding and well-managed company, they let down their vigilance, leaked internal sensitive content and even state secrets and intelligence in foreign-related consultations, and embarked on the road of illegal and criminal activities.”
Han Moumou, a senior researcher at a large state-owned enterprise in my country, was sentenced to 6 years in prison for the crime of stealing, espionage, and illegally providing state secrets and intelligence abroad.

Han Moumou's position in the unit is a classified position, and according to the requirements of the unit, he cannot work part-time outside. But in 2015, at the kind invitation of Kaisheng Rongying, Han Moumou became an expert here and accepted consultation. In the third consultation, Han's bottom line of confidentiality was challenged.

Han Moumou: "During the consultation, it involved the cost of the product, the profit rate of the product, and the total profit of the product. During the consultation process, I said that it involved commercial secrets and I was unwilling to provide it."
When the customer asked about sensitive content, Han Moumou directly refused, but the customer's feedback immediately went to Kaisheng Rongying. Han Moumou soon received a call from Kaisheng Rongying staff.

Han Moumou: "Call me and say that as long as you answer the form they gave me, you can pay twice the extra consultation fee."

During Han’s consultation, Kaisheng Rongying’s staff not only did not remind the expert to keep confidential, but instead assisted the client in persuading the expert to leak the secret when the client had an improper request. The work of the national security agency found that within Triumph Rongying, enticing experts to answer sensitive questions by increasing remuneration was only one of the means of the company.
Under the persuasion of Kaisheng Rongying staff, Han became more and more bold. In a few years, Han received more than 100 consultations in Kaisheng Rongying, of which more than 60% were overseas consultations. During the period, in order to obtain more consulting fees from Kaisheng Rongying Company, Han Moumou went to the unit's intranet many times to download confidential materials.

Zhuzhou City National Security Bureau officer: "He downloaded and stole nearly 5,000 documents and materials through the company's intranet. According to the identification of the national security department, Han Moumou illegally provided one confidential state secret and two secret state secrets for overseas theft. 13 copies of intelligence and 18 copies of business secrets."
As a leading enterprise in the domestic consulting industry, Kaisheng Rongying is equipped with a legal department in its daily operation. According to the company's stated work process, when a customer makes a consultation, he first submits an outline of the content of the consultation to the company, and then the legal department checks whether the content of the consultation is sensitive and compliant. Sensitive issues are directly rejected, and insensitive issues are handed over to the company. In the hands of the staff, the staff searches for experts in the expert library according to the problem. After the selected experts are approved by the customer, the two parties can conduct consultations. So in actual work, has the legal department played its due role?

Zhao, a staff member of Kaisheng Rongying Information Technology Co., Ltd.: "There are indeed a lot of demands. We don't let the legal counsel go through every one. Some of them we make some judgments manually. Basically, the project manager judges by himself."

Although Kaisheng Rongying has a compliance team and a risk specialist, in actual consulting, the gatekeeping is a mere formality.

Police officer of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of National Security: "Kaisheng Rongying has no relevant management requirements and compliance audits for maintaining national security responsibilities and preventing security risks. Is it possible that the specific projects proposed by overseas customers may be sensitive and confidential, or even collect intelligence? Suspicion is entirely up to the employees’ personal judgment, and the company’s legal affairs and senior management will not take the initiative to intervene and supervise. In fact, no one cares about it, and only pursues economic interests.”
In the process of pursuing profits, Kaisheng Rongying also asked experts who were not suitable for consultation from some work units to use "pseudonym" to receive consultation and use other people's bank accounts to receive remuneration. It is obvious that Kaisheng Rongying puts economic interests above the responsibility of maintaining national security, but the relevant staff of the company insist that they have specific projects that they will not do when consulting with overseas companies. In fact, in the expert database of Kaisheng Rongying, there are thousands of experts in the field of national defense and military industry. In overseas consulting, the company did not avoid these experts in any way.

Lei Moumou, who used to work in a key military industry enterprise in my country, was suspected of illegally providing state secrets to foreign countries for leaking sensitive information in the field of military industry to foreign countries. Lei Moumou once worked in a postdoctoral station jointly organized by a university and a key military enterprise. In March 2020, Lei Moumou got out of the postdoctoral station. In the resume he submitted online, he gave a detailed description of his work experience in key military enterprises, which allowed him to successfully enter the field of vision of Kaisheng Rongying Company and become a leader here. consulting experts.
After becoming a consulting expert of Kaisheng Rongying, Lei Moumou received several consultations one after another. This time in July 2020, there is something unusual. For a long time, in order to evade regulatory obligations legally, Triumph Rongying has advertised that it only recommends experts for clients and does not participate in the specific consultation process between clients and experts. However, according to previous operations, customer inquiries must be conducted on Kaisheng Rongying's telephone platform. Before this consultation, Lei Moumou was told by Triumph Rongying that at the request of the client, he would switch to another teleconferencing platform for this consultation, and that Triumph Rongying would not participate in the whole process. Lei Moumou was not alerted to the company's abnormal behavior, but the questions raised by customers have left a deep impression on him so far.

Lei Moumou: "Ask about the inventory of a military aircraft model."

For such a sensitive issue, Lei Moumou did not avoid it, but took a chance, tried his best to show off, and finally disclosed a large amount of sensitive information to the other party.
According to the identification of the national security department, Lei Moumou provided the other party with three state secrets at the confidential level and three state secrets at the secret level. According to the investigation of the national security agency, Triumph Rongying accepts a large number of consulting projects from foreign companies in China's sensitive industries, and some of these companies have close ties to foreign governments, military, and intelligence agencies. From 2017 to 2020 alone, Kaisheng Rongying accepted more than 2,000 remittances from hundreds of overseas companies, with an amount of more than 70 million US dollars. Recently, the national security agency has dealt with the companies involved in accordance with laws and regulations, and will investigate those involved in crimes to the end and pursue their legal responsibilities.

National security is the foundation of national rejuvenation and is related to the fundamental interests of the country and the well-being of the people. In order to occupy the market and seek profits, some consulting companies ignore national security risks, carefully select, lure and lure experts and scholars in sensitive industries in key areas to provide internal secrets, which has caused great harm to my country's industrial development and economic security, and eventually became overseas spying. An accomplice in buying and extorting state secrets and intelligence. The state supports the development and growth of the consulting industry, and encourages the consulting industry to carry out international trade. It is hoped that consulting companies will strictly implement the responsibility of review and control when conducting business, experts and scholars will earnestly fulfill their obligations of security and confidentiality when receiving consultations, and relevant units will strengthen supervision and management of internal personnel receiving consultations, jointly safeguard national security and development interests, and ensure the new development pattern with a new security pattern .

上海市国家安全局干警:“凯盛融英信息科技有限公司拥有1000多家客户,遍布境内境外。业务分为三大块,其中专家访谈占了凯盛融英业务总量的80%,专家访谈就是以专家电话访谈形式为主。”


在凯盛融英公司,有着庞大的专家数据库,库里的专家数超过30万人。既然公司业务涉及境外咨询,那么咨询的专家来源是什么?在专家的选择上是否又有所禁忌呢?


凯盛融英信息科技股份有限公司工作人员周某某:“外部可以搜到的一些公开简历渠道,官网也很多,或者专家推荐。”

事实上,专家的来源并不像他们说的那么简单,实际工作中,公司的工作人员还专门围绕境内政策研究、国防军工、金融货币、高新科技、能源资源、医药卫生等重点领域、重要行业物色挑选有影响力的专家。


上海市国家安全局干警:“凯盛融英公司与每名受访专家均会提前签署含有‘免责条款’的业务合同,要求专家自己履行保密责任,自己承担法律后果。相关专家被咨询公司开出的丰厚报酬所吸引,并认为对方是家守法合规、管理规范的企业,进而放松了警惕,在涉外咨询中泄露内部敏感内容甚至国家秘密和情报,走上了违法犯罪道路。”

韩某某,我国某大型国企高级研究员,因为境外窃取、刺探、非法提供国家秘密、情报罪,被判处有期徒刑6年。


韩某某在单位里的职位是涉密岗位,根据单位的要求,不能在外做兼职。但2015年,在凯盛融英的盛情邀请下,韩某某还是成了这里的专家并接受咨询。第三次咨询中,韩某某的保密底线,就受到了挑战。


韩某某:“咨询的时候,涉及产品的成本、产品的利润率、产品的总利润,咨询过程中,我说这涉及商业秘密我不愿意提供。”

在客户咨询敏感内容时,韩某某直接拒绝,但客户的反馈马上到了凯盛融英那里。韩某某很快就接到了凯盛融英工作人员的电话。


韩某某:“打电话给我,说只要回答他们提供给我的表格,可以额外支付两倍的咨询费用。”


在韩某某做咨询的过程中,凯盛融英的工作人员不仅没有提醒专家注意保密,反而在客户有不正当要求时,为了促成咨询协助客户说服专家泄密。国家安全机关工作发现,在凯盛融英内部,通过提高报酬利诱专家回答敏感问题只是这家公司其中的一个手段。

在凯盛融英工作人员的劝说下,韩某某越来越大胆,几年时间里,韩某某共在凯盛融英接受咨询百余次,其中境外咨询超过60%。其间,韩某某为了在凯盛融英公司获取更多的咨询费用,还多次到单位内网下载涉密资料。


株洲市国家安全局干警:“他通过公司内网下载窃取了近5000份文件资料,经国家保密部门鉴定,韩某某为境外窃取非法提供机密级国家秘密一份,秘密级国家秘密两份,情报13份,商业秘密18份。”

作为国内咨询行业的龙头企业,凯盛融英的日常运行中配有法务部门。按照公司对外声称的工作流程,客户在提出咨询时首先向公司提交咨询内容的提纲,然后由法务部门把关所咨询的内容是否敏感合规,对于敏感问题直接回绝,不敏感的问题则交到工作人员手中,工作人员根据问题在专家库里搜寻专家,所选专家得到客户认可后,双方即可进行咨询。那么在实际工作中,法务部门是否起到了该有的作用呢?


凯盛融英信息科技股份有限公司工作人员赵某:“需求确实特别多,我们并不是每一条都让法务去过,有一些我们人为做一些判断,基本上是项目经理自己去判断。”


凯盛融英虽然拥有合规团队和风险专员,但在实际咨询中,把关却流于形式。


上海市国家安全局干警:“凯盛融英公司对维护国家安全责任义务、防范安全风险,没有相关管理要求和合规审核,对境外客户提出的具体项目,是否可能敏感涉密,甚至存在搜集情报的嫌疑,全由员工个人判断把握,公司法务和高管也不会主动过问和监管,实际上是无人关心,只追求经济利益。”

在逐利的过程中,对于部分工作单位要求不宜接受咨询的专家,凯盛融英公司还让他们起“化名”接受咨询,使用其他人员的银行账户接受报酬。凯盛融英把经济利益凌驾于维护国家安全责任之上显而易见,但公司的相关工作人员坚称对于境外公司的咨询,他们有着明确不做的项目。实际上,在凯盛融英的专家库里,仅涉及国防军工领域的专家就有上千名,在境外咨询中,公司对这些专家并没有做任何规避。


雷某某,曾在我国某重点军工企业工作,因向境外泄露军事军工领域敏感信息,涉嫌为境外非法提供国家秘密罪。雷某某曾在某高校与某重点军工企业合办的博士后站工作。2020年3月,雷某某在博士后站出站,他在网上投写的简历中,对自己重点军工企业的工作经历进行了详细的描述,这让他成功进入凯盛融英公司的视野,并成为这里的咨询专家。

成为凯盛融英的咨询专家后,雷某某陆续接受了几次咨询。2020年7月的这一次,有些异常。一直以来,凯盛融英公司为了从法律上逃避监管义务,标榜只为客户引荐专家,不参与客户与专家的具体咨询过程。但按照以往的操作,客户的咨询必须在凯盛融英的电话平台上进行。而在这次咨询前,雷某某被凯盛融英公司告知应客户的要求,这次咨询会更换使用其他的电话会议平台,而且凯盛融英的人全程不会参与。公司的反常行为并没有让雷某某警觉,但客户抛出的问题至今让他印象深刻。


雷某某:“问了一个军机型号的保有量。”


对于这样的敏感问题,雷某某没有回避,而是心存侥幸、极力卖弄,最终向对方透露了大量敏感信息。

经国家保密部门鉴定,雷某某共向对方提供三项机密级国家秘密和三条秘密级国家秘密。据国家安全机关调查掌握,凯盛融英公司大量接受境外公司对我敏感行业的咨询项目,其中一些企业与外国政府、军方、情报机关关系密切。仅2017年到2020年,凯盛融英就接受上百家境外公司汇款2000多次,金额高达7000多万美元。近期,国家安全机关已经对涉事企业依法依规进行处理,对其中涉嫌违法犯罪的人员,将一查到底,追查其法律责任。


国家安全是民族复兴的根基,事关国家根本利益和人民福祉。一些咨询企业为占领市场、牟取利益,无视国家安全风险,精心物色挑选、利诱诓骗重点领域敏感行业专家学者提供内部涉密情况,对我国产业发展和经济安全造成重大危害,最终沦为境外刺探、收买、套取国家秘密和情报的帮凶。国家支持咨询行业发展壮大,鼓励咨询行业开展国际贸易。希望咨询企业开展业务时严格落实审核把关责任,专家学者接受咨询时切实履行安全保密义务,相关单位对内部人员接受咨询加强监督管理,共同维护国家安全和发展利益,以新安全格局保障新发展格局。


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