1. If a natural person commits this crime and causes serious consequences, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also or only be fined;
2. If a unit commits this crime, it shall be subject to a double penalty system, and the unit shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention.
legal ground
Articles 18 1, paragraphs 1 and paragraph 3 of the Criminal Law.
Whoever fabricates and disseminates false information that affects securities and futures trading and disrupts the securities and futures trading market, thus causing serious consequences, 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 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan.
Where a unit commits the crimes mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs, it shall be fined, and the persons who are directly in charge and other persons who are directly responsible shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention.