2.3 On June 5438+08, the "micro-lesson legend" mega-pyramid scheme was pronounced in the second instance of Dezhou Intermediate People's Court, Shandong Province. Yang Hongyan and others 15 defendants were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 7 years and 6 months to probation 1 year and 6 months respectively, and fines ranging from 1 10,000 yuan to 50,000 yuan. Legal basis: Article 3 of the judgment published in the second instance of the micro-course legend MLM case: The court of first instance held that Yang Hongyan and other defendants 15 demanded the participants to pay the fees to buy the VIP membership card of the micro-course legend and obtain the qualification to join, and formed a hierarchical relationship in a certain order, based on the number of people who developed directly or indirectly, to induce participants to continue to develop pyramid schemes for others to participate, defraud property and disrupt social and economic order.
3. According to relevant laws and regulations, they were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 7 years and 6 months to probation 1 year and 6 months, and fined 1 10,000 yuan to 50,000 yuan. It was found by the court of second instance that the actions of Yang Hongyan and others constituted the crime of organizing and leading pyramid schemes, and the original judgment found the facts clearly and qualitatively accurate.
1. The original judgment confirmed that on February 2017,65438, the defendant and the defendants Zhou, Ni, Jiang, Wang Mohui, Liu and Wang established Longzhi Company in Jinan, and launched the "Micro-course Legend" APP project on June 20 18. After purchasing the VIP member of "Micro-course Legend", consumers can watch the videos in the APP, including courses such as talking about wisdom, family education and smart supermarket. After downloading the "micro-lesson legend" APP with your mobile phone, you can become a member by registering with your mobile phone number. After becoming a member, they can watch all the videos in the APP for seven days for free. After seven days, if they need to continue watching video content, they need to recharge 365 yuan/year to become VIP members.
Second, Longzhi Company took "Internet plus family education", "Learn together, start a business together and see the world together" as the propaganda slogan, deliberately exaggerating the market prospect of VIP membership cards, requiring participants to pay high fees such as 20,000 yuan and 200,000 yuan (later increased to 265,438+200,000 yuan and 220,000 yuan) to obtain qualifications such as "General Generation" and "Generation Generation Generation".