Activities that will be investigated for criminal liability in accordance with the law include organizations and leaders who, in the name of promoting goods, providing services and other business activities, require participants to obtain membership qualifications by paying fees or purchasing goods and services, and in accordance with the MLM activities that form hierarchies in a certain order, directly or indirectly use the number of developers as the basis for remuneration or rebates, induce and coerce participants to continue to develop others to participate, defraud property, and disrupt economic and social order; serve as terrorist organizations, terrorist personnel, and implementers Those who provide assistance for terrorist activities or training for terrorist activities will also be held criminally responsible.

Pursuing criminal responsibility refers to investigating, through investigation, prosecution, and trial activities, the legal consequences that a specific person should bear according to law for committing acts prohibited by criminal laws. The purpose of pursuing criminal liability is to eliminate the harm caused by criminal behavior to society and maintain normal social order and legal order. Investigation of criminal liability can only be carried out by specialized state agencies in accordance with the provisions of criminal laws and legal procedures.

Being held criminally responsible in accordance with the law specifically refers to:

(1) being exempted from prosecution by the People’s Procuratorate;

(2) being sentenced to a penalty (penalty) by the People’s Court Including: main types: surveillance, criminal detention, fixed-term imprisonment, life imprisonment, death penalty; additional penalties: fines, deprivation of political rights, confiscation of property);

(3) exempted by the people's court in accordance with Article 32 of the Criminal Law criminal punishment.

The court may pursue criminal liability in accordance with the law for the following acts, namely:

1. Forging or destroying important evidence to prevent the people's court from hearing a case;

2 , Preventing witnesses from testifying, instructing, bribing, or coercing others to testify through violence, threats, bribery, etc.;

3. Concealing, transferring, selling, or damaging property that has been sealed or seized, or has been counted or ordered Property under its custody and transfer of frozen property;

4. Insult, slander, frame-up, assault, retaliation against judicial staff, litigation participants, witnesses, translators, appraisers, surveyors, assisting execution

5. Obstructing judicial personnel from performing their duties by violence, threats or other means;

6. Refusing to carry out legally effective judgments or rulings of the people's courts.

Legal basis

"Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China"

Article 224-1 "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China" "Criminal Law" organizations and leaders, in the name of promoting goods, providing services and other business activities, require participants to pay fees or purchase goods, services, etc. to obtain qualifications to join, and form hierarchies in a certain order, directly or indirectly based on the number of development personnel. Anyone who, on the basis of remuneration or rebate, induces or coerces participants to continue to develop pyramid selling activities that defraud 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, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years. , and impose a fine.

Article 225: Whoever commits the crime of illegal business operations in violation of state regulations and commits any of the following illegal business acts, disrupts market order, and the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also or solely be sentenced to: A fine of not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income shall be imposed; if the circumstances are particularly serious, the person 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 the illegal income or property shall be confiscated:

(1) Without permission Licensed to operate special items, monopoly items or other items with restricted sales as stipulated in laws and administrative regulations;

(2) Buying and selling import and export licenses, import and export certificates of origin, and other operations stipulated in laws and administrative regulations License or approval document;

(3) Illegal operation of securities, futures, and insurance business without approval from the relevant national competent authorities, or illegal fund payment and settlement business;

(4) Other illegal business activities that seriously disrupt market order.