Online stores were forced to close in China

Stores of nine online retailer's were closed down, because of corruption in China.

The inspection of the Alibaba Group has found out, that the sellers bribed the employees of Taobao thus reached an unjustified advantage. One owner has been arrested, four of them – during the procedure was released on bail.

The collaboration between the shopkeepers and the colleagues of Taobao was that, the latter have  removed (for the request of the shopkeepers) the negative Internet posts and reviews on the goods of the webstores and they are artificially increased their credit rating to strenghten their positive rating. (MTI, Trebitsch Péter)