According to different types of rumors, fabricating rumors is suspected to constitute the crime of libel, false accusation and frame-up, affray, commodity reputation, fabricating and spreading false information in securities and futures trading, and fabricating and deliberately spreading false information.

According to the second paragraph of Article 291-1 of the Criminal Law, whoever fabricates a false danger, epidemic situation, disaster or police situation and spreads it on the information network or other media, or knowingly spreads it on the information network or other media, seriously disrupting social order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance; If serious consequences are caused, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years.

legal ground

Article 29 1 of the criminal law

Whoever publishes false explosive, toxic, radioactive, infectious disease pathogens and other information, or fabricates terrorist information such as explosion threat, biochemical threat and radiation threat, or spreads it knowing that it is terrorist information, thus seriously disrupting social order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance; If serious consequences are caused, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years.

Whoever fabricates a false danger, epidemic situation, disaster situation or warning situation and spreads it on the information network or other media, or knowingly spreads it on the information network or other media, thus seriously disrupting social order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance; If serious consequences are caused, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years.