Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group said on Thursday a former general manager in charge of its group-buying website had been detained by local police on suspicions of accepting bribes.
Police in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, where Alibaba Group is headquartered, are currently investigating Yan Limin, the company said in a posting.
In March, Yan had been removed from his position at the group buying site called Juhuasuan, allegedly because of "professional misconduct" and transferred to another department, according to Alibaba.
Alibaba Group, which operates two of China's largest e-commerce sites, Taobao Mall and Taobao Marketplace, has had cases of alleged corruption by employees in the past. The biggest occurred last year with an investigation that identified fraudulent transactions involving 2,326 suppliers in the company's Alibaba.com business.
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