The standards are as follows: anyone suspected of organizing or leading pyramid schemes 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.

criminal law

Article 224- 1 Crime of leading pyramid selling activities

In the name of selling goods and providing services, participants are required to obtain the qualification to join by paying fees or purchasing goods and services, and a hierarchy is formed in a certain order, and directly or indirectly, based on the number of people who have developed, they are lured or coerced to continue developing pyramid schemes that others participate in, defrauding property and disrupting economic and social order, and they are sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and are also fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and fined.