MLM belongs to the crime of disturbing market order. Article 224 of the Criminal Law stipulates that whoever, for the purpose of illegal possession, defrauds the other party of property in the process of signing and performing a contract, if the amount is relatively large, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the amount is especially huge or there are other especially serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or confiscated:

(1) Signing a contract in the name of a fictitious unit or others;

(2) Mortgaging with forged, altered or invalid bills or other false property rights certificates;

(three) to perform a small contract or part of the contract first, to deceive the other party to continue to sign and perform the contract, and to have no actual performance ability;

(4) After receiving the payment for goods, advance payment or secured property paid by the other party;

(5) defrauding the other party's property by other means.

In the name of business activities such as selling goods and providing services, organizations and leaders require participants to obtain membership by paying fees or purchasing goods and services, and form a hierarchy in a certain order, directly or indirectly based on the number of people who have developed, luring or coercing participants to continue to develop pyramid schemes attended by others, defrauding property and disrupting economic and social order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and fined.

Article 225 stipulates that whoever, in violation of state regulations, commits one of the following illegal business operations and disrupts 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 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.

If the principal plays the role of organization and leadership in pyramid selling activities, the circumstances are serious and constitute a crime. Criminal detention can be taken according to the crime of disrupting market order, which has constituted a crime. The duration of criminal detention is generally three days. If the case cannot be closed within three days, it may be extended for seven or thirty days. If a criminal suspect requests the people's procuratorate to approve his arrest during criminal detention, the procuratorate shall approve or disapprove it within the prescribed time limit. If the procuratorate does not approve, the public security organ will immediately release the criminal suspect, and if the arrest is approved, the arrest will be carried out immediately. After the arrest, the public security organs still have a two-month pre-trial period. If the case is complicated, it can be extended for one month if it is reported to the higher procuratorate for approval. If a new crime is discovered, the detention period can be recalculated. Please refer to.