Those who introduce, seduce or coerce others to participate in the acts specified in Article 7 of these regulations shall be ordered by the administrative department for industry and commerce to stop the illegal acts, confiscate the illegal property and illegal income, and impose a fine of 654.38 million yuan to 500,000 yuan; If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.
Anyone who participates in pyramid schemes in the acts listed in Article 7 of these regulations shall be ordered by the administrative department for industry and commerce to stop the illegal acts and may be fined up to 2000 yuan. There is no crime of illegal pyramid selling in China's current criminal law. However, this does not mean that illegal pyramid selling does not constitute a crime.
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The Supreme People's Court's "Reply of the Supreme People's Court on How to Identify the Nature of MLM or disguised pyramid selling" to the Guangdong Higher People's Court on March 29th, 200019 stipulates: "If the State Council's" Notice on Prohibiting MLM Business Activities "is issued on April 29th, 200019, it still engages in pyramid selling or disguised pyramid selling activities, disrupting the market order, and if the circumstances are serious, its provisions shall prevail. ?
This is the first time in China's current legal system to characterize illegal pyramid selling, clearly classify it as disturbing the market economic order, and stipulate that illegal pyramid selling activities can be punished as illegal business operations.
According to the provisions of Article 225 of the Criminal Law, if it constitutes the crime of illegal business operation, if the circumstances are serious, it shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times his illegal income or his property shall be confiscated.
If you are not the direct organizer or planner, but instructed, you will be fined, detained and repatriated.