The crime of fabricating and disseminating false information about futures trading is generally punishable by fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, with a fine or a single fine. If a unit commits this crime, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention. The crime of fabricating and spreading false information in securities and futures trading belongs to consequential crime, and the basic constituent elements of its specific crime are to produce certain serious consequences.

legal ground

The first paragraph of article 181st of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Whoever fabricates and disseminates false information that affects securities trading and disrupts the securities trading market, thus causing serious consequences, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also or solely be fined not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan.