How many years will the illegal sales model be sentenced to?

The sentencing time of pyramid selling constitutes a crime needs to be determined according to the specific circumstances of the crime. The benchmark punishment is fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and a fine. As the name implies, marketing is to sell products in the form of family service and product description through conference marketing, mainly aimed at specific consumer groups. The essence of conference marketing is to lock in and develop target customers, export corporate image and product knowledge to customers in an all-round way, and care and hide sales to intended customers as expert consultants. If the underwriting mode is used for fraud, it constitutes fraud.

Therefore, it is necessary to judge whether it is illegal according to the specific situation. Whether conference marketing is illegal or not depends on the specific nature of conference marketing, which may be suspected of unlicensed operation or illegal operation. If it is done in the form of pyramid schemes, it may also be suspected of illegal pyramid schemes. If the marketing instructor is suspected of fraud, it is illegal and may constitute fraud. As a form of marketing, conference marketing itself is legal, but whether a specific case of conference marketing is legal depends on the content of marketing and whether the marketer harms the interests of customers through false information. Conference marketing is an important part of marketing, and conference marketing is an application of conference and marketing.

legal ground

Article 224th of the Criminal Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).

In the name of business activities such as selling goods and providing services, organizations and leaders require participants to obtain membership by paying fees or purchasing goods and services, and form a hierarchy in a certain order, directly or indirectly based on the number of people who have developed, luring or coercing participants to continue to develop pyramid schemes attended by others, defrauding property and disrupting economic and social order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and fined.

Article 266 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)

Whoever defrauds public or private property in a relatively large amount shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also or only be fined; 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 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 or confiscated. Where there are other provisions in this Law, such provisions shall prevail.