The classification screen

4 questions before you choose the route.

This page identifies the right question and evidence. It does not determine the legal outcome on a reader’s facts.

01

What scheme?

Fapiao, vendor, cash, inventory.

Scheme
02

Hold the ERP and WeChat?

Before the interview.

Hold
03

Labour dismissal vs PSB?

Threshold and proof.

Path
04

Third-party vendor in on it?

DD/conflict overlay.

Third

Working rule: Occupational fraud in PRC operations often shows up as false fapiao, ghost vendors, inventory leakage, or side deals.

What changes the answer

The signal ledger.

These facts move the question beyond a label and into a product, money-flow and control analysis.

Signal
Ask the operating question
Why it changes the route
Confront in the WeChat group
They delete.
Notarise first.
Every shortage is crime
Operations noise.
Label carefully.
Broader Investigations & Compliance analysis needed
External sting vs insider.
Additional facts can change the Investigations & Compliance route, evidence and next step.
Prepare before you escalate

Bring a compact evidence docket—not a pitch deck.

Give a compliance team or counsel the operating facts that reveal the perimeter.

01ERP/fapiao trailThe scheme.
02Vendor USCC vs employee linksRelatedness.
03Amount and durationCriminal vs labour.
Common confusions

Questions people ask before they build.

Short answers for orientation. The right result can change with the service model and current rules.

Should we go to the police?

When facts and amount support a crime and you want that path. It is not a faster HR process.

Where is false VAT invoice 72 hours?

A criminal-cluster article exists for that overlay.

Primary authorities

Reviewed sources support orientation, not a fact-specific assessment.

PRC Anti-Unfair Competition Law (NPC)
SAMR
Supreme People’s Procuratorate
National laws database (NPC)