Is it illegal for all kinds of media to publish illegal fund-raising advertisements?

Legal analysis: illegal. False advertisements play an important role in the crime of illegal fund-raising. Criminals who illegally raise funds often spare no effort in social propaganda, at any cost, and induce the masses to be deceived through media advertisements, celebrity endorsements, wanton propaganda, bluffing and false appearances. The illegal advertising activities behind the crime of illegal fund-raising should be cracked down.

Legal Basis: Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in the Trial of Criminal Cases of Illegal Fund-raising Article 1 The act of absorbing funds from the public (including units and individuals) in violation of the national financial management laws shall be deemed as "illegally absorbing public deposits or absorbing public deposits in disguised form" as stipulated in Article 176 of the Criminal Law, unless otherwise stipulated in the Criminal Law:

(a) without the approval of the relevant departments according to law or in the form of borrowing legal business to absorb funds;

(two) through the media, promotion meetings, leaflets, mobile phone messages and other means to promote to the society;

(3) Commitment to repay the principal and interest or pay the return in the form of currency, material object or equity. In a certain period of time;

(four) to absorb funds from the public, that is, the social unspecified objects.

It is not illegal or disguised to absorb public deposits by absorbing funds from relatives, friends or units to specific objects without publicity to the society.