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In the past two weeks, there have been incidents of two companies gathering crowds to scramble for corporate documents in Beijing.
In the past, Li Guoqing and Yu Yu of Dangdang.com fought for the official seal in the office for the control of the company. Later, Bitmain executives fought for the business license in the Industrial and Commercial Bureau for the control of the company before the Bitcoin halving.
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Dozens of big men "sieged" the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to grab business licenses
At about 11 am on May 8, 2020, in front of window No. 52 on the second floor of the Government Affairs Center in Haidian District, Beijing, Ketuan Zhan, the former co-founder of Beijing Bitmain, received the business license of the company with the legal person Ketuan Zhan. However, at this time about dozens of unidentified people The personnel of the company appeared on the scene, and the scene was very chaotic for a while. In the chaos, they snatched the business license of Beijing Bitmain from the hands of the industrial and commercial administrators.
According to gossip, after the police arrived at the scene, the security personnel brought by Ketuan Zhan were the first to be asked out of the industrial and commercial office site. According to media reports, Liu Luyao, the legal person of Beijing Bitmain, and Wang Wenguang, the person in charge of the mining center, appeared at the scene.
Background information: Bitmain is the world's largest manufacturer of cryptocurrency mining machines. The mining machines it produces are maintaining the Bitcoin blockchain network with a total market value of 1.26 trillion yuan. In 2019, the company’s two co-founders, Ketuan Zhan and Jihan Wu, had disagreements over the company’s management model, which developed into a struggle for control of the company. Ketuan Zhan was kicked out of Bitmain after a series of internal struggles. Before the new business license was issued on May 8, the legal person of the company was Liu Luyao, Wu Jihan's confidant. The current new business license shows that the legal representative of Beijing Bitmain is Ketuan Zhan.
All of this has an antecedent reason: Ketuan Zhan’s previous application for administrative reconsideration to the Beijing Haidian District Justice Bureau came to fruition—the Haidian District Market Supervision Bureau made the decision on January 2 this year to approve the legal representative of Beijing Bitmain Technology Co., Ltd. The decision to change the registration was reversed. On April 29, according to Bitmain's official statement, the above-mentioned administrative reconsideration result did not decide to restore Ketuan Zhan as the legal representative.
Faced with the change of the business license of the legal person, Bitmain issued an official statement at 15:00 today, expressing that it will not recognize Ketuan Zhan's act of impersonating the legal representative of "Beijing Bit", and reserves the right to pursue the legal responsibility of Ketuan Zhan and related parties.
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Grab the official seal = grab for nothing
In the evening of that day, Dangdang.com responded to the seizure of the official seal by stating that it had "already called the police" and held a telephone communication meeting. The vice president of Dangdang.com said that the interim shareholder meeting held by Li Guoqing was illegal and invalid. Only Li Guoqing and a few resigned employees held the meeting, and the company's shareholders Yu Yu and others did not receive the notice.
Rhythm’s legal counsel team told Rhythm Blockbeats that the official seal is the property of the company and does not belong to any individual. It should be a matter for the company to decide who should keep the official seal. If Dangdang's internal system does not authorize Li Guoqing to keep the official seal, Dangdang has the right to ask him to return it.
After this farce ended, the final conclusion of the case of the strong man in the office grabbing the official seal was: Yu Yu’s identity as the legal representative and chairman of Dangdang.com will not be changed because of Li Guoqiang’s statement; Yu Yu can take a copy of his ID card and business license and The loss of the official seal was declared, and a new set of official seals was applied for,and the official seal in Li Guoqing's hand was also invalidated. To put it simply: grab for nothing. (*This paragraph refers to knowing @阿远zyzy)
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How did Ketuan Zhan get the business license?
What is different from the Dangdang incident is that Ketuan Zhan and Jihan Wu are fighting for a business license this time, and it may be a new business license issued by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. A business license is equivalent to an enterprise's ID card, and many things can be done with it. Its name change is extremely important for a company.
Why did Ketuan Zhan get the business license? No one currently knows the answer.
Beijing Bitmain’s business license changed from Ketuan Zhan to Jihan Wu, and from Jihan Wu to Luyao Liu. These two legal person changes were submitted to the industrial and commercial department after the company’s internal voting. As for Ketuan Zhan, it was approved by What kind of information has been obtained from Bitmain's internal change of legal representative information, there is currently no relevant information released.
At present, there are three kinds of speculations in public opinion. The first is that Ketuan Zhan "falsified" the corresponding information, "deceived" the industry and commerce department and obtained a new business license; the second is that Bitmain's internal meeting passed this resolution; the third is that One is that Ketuan Zhan's latest administrative reconsideration has passed, the two changes have been revoked, and what he got today is the original business license. However, the reliability of the first two guesses is very poor. First, Bitmain is currently under the control of Wu Jihan, so the possibility of passing a resolution to amend the legal person is not high. Second, the possibility that the industry and commerce department will not be able to find out the fraudulent information is also very low. . In contrast, the possibility of the third guess is relatively high. But until more information is exposed and official news is released, no conclusion can be drawn, and people who eat melons should not listen to the words of one family.
A relevant legal person said that the change of the legal representative is an internal personnel change of the company and should follow the company's principles. That is to say, if Bitmain internally believes that the change is valid, the change of the legal representative is considered valid. Therefore, whether Ketuan Zhan’s intervention in the change of Bitmain’s legal representative through administrative reconsideration is effective or not should also follow the company’s internal principles.
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Is it for nothing to grab a business license?
On the morning of May 8, Wu Jihan posted a message in Moments in response to Ketuan Zhan's remarks "Come back immediately, Bitmain is our home, we will not leave", and hinted that there may be a "World War I" on this day.
According to Bitmain’s official response at noon on May 8, the legal representative of Beijing Bitmain is determined by its sole shareholder Hong Kong company and its sole director Jihan Wu. At present, Mr. Liu Luyao, the general manager of Beijing Bit, is legally in charge. He also stated, "During this period, our company will not recognize any illegal acts committed by Zhan Ketuan pretending to be the legal representative of "Beijing Bit", and reserves the right to pursue the legal responsibility of Zhan Ketuan and related parties. "
Why grab a business license? From the current point of view, it is Wu Jihan's most favorable way to maintain his control over Bitmain. For Ketuan Zhan, it will be difficult to obtain a new business license after the business license is lost. At present, to apply for a replacement business license, it is necessary to submit materials such as the legal person signing the application for replacement of the business license, signing the entrustment certificate, and publishing the loss announcement. At present, the official seal is still in the hands of Wu Jihan, and these documents are not valid without the official seal. To make up the office seal, you need business license, legal person ID card and other materials. Ketuan Zhan will fall into an endless loop, and Jihan Wu will temporarily control the company.
Regarding the "grabbing of the business license", Bitmain responded on Weibo: the company's business license belongs to the company's property according to law, and does not belong to any individual. Ketuan Zhan does not hold any position in the company, nor is he authorized by the company, and has no right to obtain the business license of the company. The company is obliged to protect the important assets of the company from being violated by unrelated persons who are not legally authorized by the company.
Judging from the current situation, if the conflict between Jihan Wu and Ketuan Zhan cannot be properly resolved, Beijing Bitmain is likely to fall into an extremely chaotic state. First of all, employees do not know who will own the company in the future. Whether it can continue to develop or not, then they have to choose people to stand in the team. To stand in Wu Jihan, they have to line up with Zhan Ketuan. There will be more lawsuits to come.
