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What penalties will insider trading face?
Whoever commits this crime 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 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 but not more than ten years, and shall be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income. If a unit commits this crime, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of natural persons.

Legal basis:

Article 180 of the Criminal Law: Whoever knowingly or illegally obtains 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 explicitly or implicitly engages in the above-mentioned trading activities before the securities, 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. 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.