The Beijing News reporter checked the website of Changsha Municipal Government and showed that Changsha Economic Development Zone clearly replied to the public in the public mailbox. Fun companies and fun step projects are suspected of online pyramid schemes, illegal fund-raising and financial fraud. The Economic Development Zone of the Administration for Industry and Commerce has filed an investigation.
"Fun Step" claims that its profit sources include self-operated online stores, product sales profits, operator's platform profits, merchant sales profits, sports big data application profits, financing and capital operation listing profits. However, the "Fun Step" mall has only a few commodities, and the price is higher than other e-commerce platforms, and most of the inventory is zero.
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Criminal law of the people's Republic of China
Article 224 Whoever organizes and leads pyramid selling activities, in the name of selling commodities and providing services, requires participants to obtain the qualification of joining by paying fees or purchasing commodities and services, forms a hierarchy in a certain order, and directly or indirectly lures or coerces participants to continue developing pyramid selling activities of others on the basis of the number of people who have developed, defrauding property and disrupting economic and social order, and is also fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and fined.
Opinions on several issues concerning the application of law in handling criminal cases of organizing and leading MLM activities
Article 6 Whoever organizes and leads pyramid selling activities for the purpose of illegal possession, and at the same time constitutes the crime of organizing and leading pyramid selling activities and the crime of fund-raising fraud, shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of heavier punishment. Whoever commits the crime of organizing and leading pyramid selling activities, intentional injury, illegal detention, extortion, obstruction of official duties, gathering people to disturb social order, gathering people to attack state organs, gathering people to disturb public places and traffic order, etc., which constitutes a crime, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions on combined punishment for several crimes.