Ordinary business personnel who participate in illegal fund-raising shall not be held criminally responsible as directly responsible persons. If a unit commits the crime of illegally absorbing deposits from the public, the unit shall be fined, and its directly responsible supervisor and other directly responsible personnel shall be sentenced to penalties.
Legal basis:
Article 176 of the Criminal Law
Whoever illegally absorbs public deposits or absorbs public deposits in disguised form and disrupts financial order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or Criminal detention, and concurrently or solely with a fine; if the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined; if the amount is particularly huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years but not more than ten years. and impose a fine.
If a unit commits the crime in the preceding paragraph, the unit shall be fined, and the person directly in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.