Overview
- Tencent dismissed and permanently blacklisted a WeChat project manager surnamed Ye after an internal payslip image spread on Chinese social media.
- The leaked screenshot, reported to carry a Tencent watermark, showed about 3.17 million yuan in total compensation made up of roughly 820,000 yuan in cash bonus and about 2.35 million yuan in stock incentives.
- Reporting says the document appears to have come from an internal portal but it is not uniformly confirmed whether Ye personally posted it.
- The company’s Anti‑Corruption Investigation Department described the leak as causing a 'severe negative impact' and said a formal circular on further discipline would follow.
- The case follows Tencent’s stepped‑up compliance drive in 2025, when internal audits uncovered more than 70 violations and led to over 90 terminations and 20 law‑enforcement referrals, and it may deepen controls on staff access to sensitive records.