1. Whether the fund-raising of an investment company belongs to fraud needs to be decided according to the specific circumstances:

(1) If the parties raise funds according to law, it is not fraud;

(2) The company's illegal fund-raising is illegal and will be subject to criminal punishment.

2. Legal basis: Article 176th of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Crime of illegally absorbing public deposits Whoever illegally absorbs public deposits or absorbs public deposits in disguised form, thus disrupting the financial order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall 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 and fined.

If a unit commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

Whoever commits the acts mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs and actively returns the stolen goods before bringing a public prosecution to reduce the occurrence of damage results may be given a lighter or mitigated punishment.

Second, what is the standard for filing fraud?

The criteria for filing fraud are as follows:

1, personal fraud of public and private property is more than 4,000 yuan, which is a large amount;

2, personal fraud of public and private property in more than 50 thousand yuan, a huge amount;

3. The unit defrauded public and private property of more than 654.38+10,000 yuan, which is a large amount.