1. The money of Yunlianhui members will be confiscated by the state.
According to the current national laws and regulations, participating in illegal pyramid schemes is illegal. According to national laws, the expenses of illegal business investment will be confiscated and will not be refunded. All the money invested is gone. Whether it was taken away by the organizers of MLM or confiscated by law enforcement agencies, the money could not be returned. Not only can it not be returned, but according to Article 24 of China's Regulations on Prohibition of MLM, those who participate in MLM shall be ordered by the administrative department for industry and commerce to stop the illegal act and may be fined up to 2000 yuan.
Second, the first-instance judgment result of Yunlianhui MLM case
On May 8, 20 18, the public security department deployed police forces to carry out the network-closing operation and successfully smashed the "Yunlianhui" mega-network pyramid scheme criminal gang. This pyramid scheme has aroused great concern, and millions of people have been cheated. After many years, the first-instance judgment of Yunlianhui MLM case came out. On August 20th, 20021,the People's Court of Zhuhai District of Guangzhou made a first-instance judgment on the crime of organizing and leading pyramid schemes by Huang Ming and others, and sentenced Huang Ming to 15 years' imprisonment, fined him and confiscated his illegal income. Several main co-defendants participated in pyramid selling crimes from 0 10 to 300, and were sentenced to 7 to 2 years in prison and fined respectively.
Article 224 of the Criminal Law stipulates that "those who organize and lead pyramid selling activities, in the name of selling goods and providing services, require participants to pay fees or purchase goods and services to obtain the qualification to join, form a hierarchy in a certain order, directly or indirectly use the number of development people as the basis for reward or rebate, induce or coerce participants to continue to develop others to participate, defraud property, and disrupt economic and social order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention. If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and fined. "