Article 225 Whoever, in violation of State regulations, commits one of the following illegal business operations and disrupts the market order, 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 the illegal income or his property shall be confiscated: (1) dealing in monopoly commodities or other commodities whose trading 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; (3) illegally engaging in securities, futures or insurance business without the approval of the relevant competent department of the state; (four) other illegal business activities that seriously disrupt the order of the city.
Article 231 Where a unit commits the crimes specified in Articles 221 to 230 of this section, it shall be fined, and the persons who are directly in charge and other persons who are directly responsible shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of this section.
Seventy, illegal business cases (Article 225th of the Criminal Law)
Whoever, in violation of state regulations, engages in international telecommunications business or profit-making activities involving telecommunications business in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan without authorization by renting international private lines, privately setting up exchange equipment or other means, is suspected of one of the following circumstances, shall be prosecuted:
1, and the outbound business amount is more than one million yuan;
2. Operating inbound business causes telecom tariff loss of more than one million yuan;
3, although not up to the above amount standard, but because of illegal international telecommunications business or telecommunications business involving Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, he has been subjected to administrative punishment for more than two times and engaged in illegal business activities.
Illegal operation of foreign exchange, suspected of one of the following circumstances, should be prosecuted:
1. Buying and selling foreign exchange outside the designated foreign exchange banks and China Foreign Exchange Trading Center and its sub-centers, with an amount of more than US$ 200,000 or an illegal income of more than RMB 50,000;
2. Companies, enterprises or other units, in violation of foreign trade agency business regulations, fraudulently purchase foreign exchange from designated foreign exchange banks for others by illegal means or knowing that they are forged or altered vouchers or commercial documents, with an amount of more than US$ 5 million or an illegal income of more than RMB 500,000;
3. The amount of foreign exchange fraudulently purchased through intermediaries is more than one million dollars or the illegal income is more than 100,000 yuan.
Publishing, printing, copying and distributing illegal publications in violation of state regulations shall be prosecuted under any of the following circumstances:
1, the amount of illegal business operation by individuals is more than 50,000 yuan, and the amount of illegal business operation by units is more than150,000 yuan;
2, the amount of illegal income of individuals is more than twenty thousand yuan, and the amount of illegal income of units is more than fifty thousand yuan; 3. Individuals illegally operate 5000 newspapers or 5000 periodicals or 2000 books or 500 audio-visual products or electronic publications, and units illegally operate 15000 newspapers or 15000 periodicals or 5000 books or 1500 audio-visual products or electronic publications.
Anyone who engages in securities, futures and insurance business illegally without the approval of the relevant competent departments of the state, whose illegal business amount is more than 300 thousand yuan or whose illegal income is more than 50 thousand yuan, shall be prosecuted.
Engaged in other illegal business activities, suspected of one of the following circumstances, should be prosecuted:
1, the amount of personal illegal business is more than 50,000 yuan, or the amount of illegal income is more than 1 10,000 yuan;
2. The illegal business operation amount of the unit is more than 500,000 yuan, or the illegal income amount is more than100,000 yuan.