1, the affiliated company is illegal. Affiliation is not qualified to contract, and it is necessary to borrow the qualifications of others to contract. The state explicitly forbids this kind of behavior. If it is affiliated with business activities, it may constitute crimes such as illegal business operations and need to bear criminal responsibility according to law.

2. Legal basis: Article 225 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)

The crime of illegal business operation violates the provisions of the state and commits one of the following illegal business operations, disrupting the market order, and if the circumstances are serious, it 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) without permission, the franchise, monopoly of goods or other goods restricted by laws and administrative regulations;

(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.

Second, what are the constitutive elements of the crime of illegal business operation?

1, the object of infringement is the national market management system and business license that restrict the sale of goods;

2. Objectively speaking, it is an act of dealing in franchise, monopoly commodities or other commodities with restricted transactions, buying and selling import and export licenses without permission, and the circumstances are serious, disrupting market order;

3. The subject is the general subject, that is, all natural persons who have reached the age of criminal responsibility and have the ability of criminal responsibility;

4. Subjectively, it is intentional and has the purpose of seeking illegal interests.