The People's Procuratorate of Xixiangtang District of Nanning accused the defendants Li Yongbing, Zhao Chenjiang and Chang Jing. Since 2008, in the name of contributing virtual shares to participate in the "pure capital operation" organization in Nanning, they have formed an online and offline pyramid scheme by recruiting people, requiring them to pay an entrance fee ranging from 3,800 yuan to 69,800 yuan, and conduct pyramid schemes according to the rank and the number of offline development people to obtain illegal income.
The public prosecution agency of Gui Yi case also found out that the defendants Li Yongbing, Zhao Chenjiang, Chang Jing and others joined the organization, and actively developed the offline, with more than 30 people under the umbrella and served as the CEO of the organization system.
The other defendant served as the big manager of the MLM organization system, responsible for giving lectures and learning to newcomers in the "capital operation" industry, and for learning, self-discipline, security and confidentiality, managing the personnel under the umbrella, and playing an organization and coordination role.
The public prosecution agency believes that in the series of pyramid schemes organized and led by "1. 18", the defendant asked the participants to obtain the qualification of joining by paying fees, and formed a hierarchy in a certain order, directly or indirectly based on the number of people who developed, inducing the participants to continue to develop others to participate and defrauding the property, which seriously disrupted the normal economic and social order of the country. All defendants belong to the same MLM system, and the whole MLM organization has more than 1900 members, with the level above 40. Their actions have violated the relevant provisions of Article 224 of the Criminal Law, and the defendants should be investigated for criminal responsibility for organizing and leading pyramid selling activities according to law. On September 9, 20 13, a series of pyramid schemes organized and led by "1. 18" were heard in the People's Court of Xixiangtang District, Nanning, Guangxi.
There are 1 18 defendants in this series of cases, and the whole pyramid scheme involves 1900 people, involving Xinjiang, Anhui, Sichuan, Shandong, Gansu and other provinces. The amount involved is extremely huge, and it was listed as "the first case of Guangxi MLM" and "20 12 Guangxi region" by the Public Security Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region during the investigation stage. On April 28th, 20 14, the Xixiangtang District Court of Nanning, Guangxi publicly pronounced a series of "1. 18" cases, and sentenced the defendants Li Yongbing, Zhao Chenjiang, Chang Jing1655 respectively for organizing and leading MLM activities.