Legal basis: Article 225 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), in violation of state regulations, commits one of the following illegal business operations, disrupting market order, and 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 shall only, be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income; If the circumstances are especially serious, he 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 for illegal gains or confiscation of property:
(a) operating a franchise or monopoly commodity or other commodities whose operation is restricted by laws and administrative regulations without permission;
(2) buying and selling import and export licenses, import and export certificates of origin and other business licenses or approval documents stipulated by laws and administrative regulations;
(three) without the approval of the relevant competent departments of the state, illegally engaged in securities, futures, insurance business, or illegally engaged in fund payment and settlement business;
(four) other illegal business activities that seriously disrupt the market order.
Article 7 of the Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases such as Defamation through Information Networks violates the provisions of the State, provides services such as deleting information through information networks for the purpose of making profits, or provides services such as publishing information through information networks with compensation knowing that it is false, thus disrupting the market order. Under any of the following circumstances, illegal business operation is "serious" and shall be convicted and punished for the crime of illegal business operation in accordance with the provisions of Item (4) of Article 225 of the Criminal Law:
(a) the amount of personal illegal business is more than 50 thousand yuan, or the amount of illegal income is more than 20 thousand yuan;
(2) The illegal business operation amount of the unit is more than150,000 yuan, or the illegal income amount is more than 50,000 yuan.
If the amount of the act specified in the preceding paragraph reaches more than five times the amount specified in the preceding paragraph, it shall be deemed as "the circumstances are particularly serious" as stipulated in Article 225 of the Criminal Law.