The first-instance judgment of the good-hearted exchange and pyramid sales case: the case involving more than 100 billion,

the main criminal Zhang Tianming was sentenced to 17 years in prison On December 14, 2018, the People's Court of Shuangpai County of Hunan Province legally sentenced the defendant Zhang Tianming to 17 years in prison for organizing and leading pyramid schemes, including the defendant Zhang Tianming, and gathering the public to disturb the order of public places. And penalizes 100 million yuan; the other 9 defendants in this case were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment and fines ranging from six months to ten years, respectively, for organizing and leading pyramid sales activities, and at the same time recovering the illegal gains of the defendants. The Shuangpai County People's Court found that in May 2013, the defendant Zhang Tianming registered and established Shenzhen Shanxinhui Culture Communication Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Shenxinhui” Company). Since March 2016, Zhang Tianming has successively recruited Yan Jili, Liu Lihua, Huang Rongquan, Dong Jian, Liu Hai, Liao Xiongyun, Chen Qingjin, Fang Tongsong, Liu Hanwang and other defendants to join the “Shuxinhui” company in Shenzhen and developed the “Good Hearts and Responsive System”. And on-line operation, established, shares a number of companies. In the name of “helping the poor and helping each other”, it uses high returns as a bait. It adopts various methods such as training and publicity to develop members in various parts of the country, defrauding property, and asking participants to obtain the qualification to purchase “good seeds” by paying 300 yuan. And in a certain order to form a hierarchy, members exchange funds according to the income rules determined by "Goodwill", to develop the number of offline as a basis for rebate, the member's profit is all derived from the funds invested by the late members, not Real economy support. As of the time of the incident, a total of 5.98 million people participated in the "Good Hearts" pyramid scheme, involving a total amount of 104.6 billion yuan. In addition, after the public security organs filed a case investigation on the "Good Hearts" pyramid scheme, Zhang Tianming launched more than 600 members through the "Good Hearts" company WeChat group to take the banner on the relevant public places on June 9 and June 10, 2017. And shouting slogans and other actions, raising illegal requirements, resisting and obstructing public security personnel to perform their duties according to law. The Shuangpai County People's Court held that the defendants Zhang Tianming and other 10 defendants relied on the “public support system” to use the number of direct or indirect development personnel as the basis for rebates, defrauding property and seriously disrupting economic and social order. 10 The defendant’s behavior has constituted the crime of organizing and leading pyramid schemes, causing bad social influence and serious circumstances. Zhang Tianming gathers people to disturb the order of public places, resists the public security personnel to perform their duties according to law, and the circumstances are serious. They are the primary elements, and their behavior has constituted the crime of gathering people to disturb the order of public places. According to the facts, nature, plot and degree of harm to the society of the 10 defendants' crimes, the above-mentioned first-instance judgment was made in accordance with the relevant provisions of the law.