2065438+September 2009, the police of Jiangbei New District Branch of Nanjing Public Security Bureau got clues. After nearly two months of investigation, they gradually found out their organizational structure and action information. 101in the early morning of October 30, the police dispatched more than 300 police officers, divided into 7 arresting groups and 4 mobile groups, and cleaned up 5 1 dens of this MLM organization and arrested 56 key members of the MLM organization. These 56 MLM backbone members were criminally detained according to law. The amount involved reached180,000 yuan. Relevant laws and regulations are as follows:
Prohibition of MLM regulations
Article 5
The administrative department for industry and commerce and the public security organs shall, when investigating pyramid schemes according to law, adhere to the principle of combining education with punishment, and educate citizens, legal persons or other organizations to consciously abide by the law.
Article 6
Any unit or individual has the right to report pyramid selling activities to the administrative department for industry and commerce and the public security organ. After receiving the report, the administrative department for industry and commerce and the public security organ shall immediately investigate and verify it, investigate and deal with it according to law, and keep the informant confidential; If the investigation is true, the whistleblower shall be rewarded in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.
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Prohibition of MLM regulations
Article 24
Whoever commits the acts specified in Article 7 of these Regulations and organizes pyramid schemes shall be confiscated by the administrative department for industry and commerce, and shall be fined not less than 500,000 yuan but not more than 2 million yuan; If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.
Whoever commits the acts specified in Article 7 of these regulations, introduces, lures or coerces others to participate in pyramid schemes, shall be ordered by the administrative department for industry and commerce to stop the illegal acts, confiscate the illegal property and illegal income, and impose a fine of more than 654.38 million yuan and less than 500,000 yuan; If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.
Anyone who participates in pyramid schemes in the acts listed in Article 7 of these regulations shall be ordered by the administrative department for industry and commerce to stop the illegal acts and may be fined up to 2000 yuan.
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