A person who knows or illegally obtains the inside information of securities and futures trading, buys or sells securities, or engages in futures trading related to the inside information, or divulges the information, or expresses or implies others to engage in the above-mentioned trading activities, before the securities and futures trading or other information that has a significant impact on the trading price of securities and futures is made public, if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also or shall 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 be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income.