Legal analysis: the fund is legal. Funds have broad and narrow definitions. Broadly speaking, it refers to a certain amount of funds set up for a certain purpose, such as trust and investment funds, provident funds, retirement funds, etc. In a narrow sense, it refers to funds with specific purposes and uses. Usually, funds mainly refer to securities investment funds. The income of securities investment funds comes from the future, and the performance of the income is inseparable from the performance of the investment target market, which has certain risks.

Legal basis: Article 192 (1) of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) is the crime of fund-raising fraud, which is an act of illegal fund-raising through fraud for the purpose of illegal possession. If the amount is relatively large, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan;

(2) If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan;

(3) 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 not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan, or his property shall be confiscated.