China: White Collar Crime, Anti-Corruption & Fraud

近日，虚拟货币领域知名人物孙宇晨用起诉女明星景甜追讨3000余万“彩礼”一事掀起一场全民吃瓜的“饕餮盛宴”，在其玩弄舆论于股掌的万字长文《我的女友景甜》中，当女方多次追问“你能来北京吗”时，孙宇晨沉默以对。

China has released its first comprehensive draft law targeting cross-border corruption, establishing new processes for international cooperation in investigations and imposing compliance obligations on companies engaged in cross-border business. The Draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law introduces a coordinated enforcement model led by the National Supervisory Commission and incorporates counter-sanctions provisions, raising critical questions about how foreign companies and their Chinese subsidiaries will

広東省中山市公安局の神湾分局はこのほど、事件規模が3000万元を超える登録商標冒用事件を摘発した。捜査当局は偽造化粧品の製造・販売に関する情報を得て捜査班を設置し、関係先を一斉摘発した。

China's Supreme People's Procuratorate has released a landmark case involving malicious intellectual property litigation, where two companies preemptively registered a trademark in bad faith and then sued the legitimate business owner for infringement, seeking CNY 10 million in damages. The case demonstrates how procuratorial authorities can intervene to identify and sanction parties who abuse the judicial system through defective trademark rights and improper litigation motives.

The Supreme People's Procuratorate released five typical cases of malicious intellectual property litigation, demonstrating how companies exploit trademark registration and legal proceedings to extract unwarranted financial gains. These cases reveal systematic patterns of bad-faith trademark applications targeting established enterprises, where perpetrators register marks similar to well-known brands and immediately initiate costly infringement lawsuits.

最高检发布5件知识产权恶意诉讼惩治典型案例，其中深圳甲公司与温州乙公司商标权纠纷案揭示了商标囤积者如何通过大量注册商标、无实际经营

On May 7, 2026, China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), in conjunction with six other government agencies, issued the Management Measures for Medical Representatives (Management Measures, 医药代表管理办法), which will take effect on August 1, 2026.

Criminal defense requires more than reviewing case files—it demands investigative thinking to uncover missing evidence, challenge prosecution narratives, and reconstruct facts. This article examines how defense attorneys can apply investigative methods within legal boundaries to identify evidentiary gaps, trace evidence origins, and transform doubts into actionable defense strategies that may overturn wrongful convictions.

China's Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate have unified criminal prosecution standards for bribery involving non-state personnel with those for state officials, dramatically lowering thresholds and increasing penalties. This landmark judicial interpretation eliminates the historical "dual-track" system that treated private sector corruption more leniently, fundamentally reshaping compliance obligations for foreign and domestic enterprises operating in China.