If the crime of manipulating the futures market is completed, it shall generally be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined.

legal ground

Article 182 of the Criminal Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Under any of the following circumstances, whoever manipulates the securities and futures market and affects the trading price or volume of securities and futures, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also or only be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined:

(a) alone or in collusion, pooling funds, equity or position advantages, or using information advantages to jointly or continuously buy and sell;

(2) colluding with others to trade securities and futures with each other at the time, price and method agreed in advance;

(5) Using false or uncertain important information to induce investors to trade securities and futures.

(6) Making comments, predictions or investment suggestions on the disclosure of securities, securities issuers and futures trading targets, and conducting reverse securities trading or related futures trading at the same time;

(7) Manipulating the securities and futures markets by other means.