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ARTICLE · 19 SEPTEMBER 2021

Strategies for reporting criminal cases as a company

Procedure for an enterprise to report evidence of suspected criminal activity to the local public security authority.

ChinaCriminal Law

By Qiao Peng and Tony Xu

Where an enterprise has preliminarily obtained the clues of potential criminal cases through internal investigation, and the enterprise considers that the offender should be held criminally liable, it can report the case in accordance with the following strategies:

  1. Identify the Jurisdiction over the Reported Case

In accordance with the Provisions on the Procedures for Handling Criminal Cases by Public Security Authorities, "a criminal case shall be under the jurisdiction of the public security authority at the place where the crime is committed. If it is more appropriate for the public security authority at the place where the criminal suspect resides to exercise jurisdiction, the case may be under the jurisdiction of the public security authority at the place where the criminal suspect resides."

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