The TST court secret has been identified as a pyramid scheme, will Zhang Tinglin Ruiyang and his wife be sentenced?
Recently, Zhang Ting and his wife have been deeply involved in the storm of public opinion because the "TST Court Secret" brand suspected of pyramid schemes was investigated, and the operating company of the brand "TST Court Secret" is Shanghai Darway Trading Co., Ltd., which was founded by the stars Zhang Ting and Lin Ruiyang in 2013, with cosmetics and skin care products as the main categories.
On April 9, the official officially determined that Zhang Ting and his wife were identified as pyramid schemes, with revenue as high as 9.1 billion yuan and would face a number of penalties! The revenue of the relevant companies in the main business involving pyramid schemes totaled 9.171 billion yuan and the profit was 19.2799 million yuan.
The bonus system developed by Dalway distinguishes members into Blue and Red. Among them, Blue Card members are general consumers, and the bonus system for Blue Card members is in line with commercial practices and does not violate the law. However, the bonus system implemented by the red card members of Dalway Company requires the developed personnel to develop other personnel to join, form an up-downline relationship, and calculate and pay the up-line remuneration based on the sales performance of the downline, which is the situation referred to in the relevant provisions of the "Prohibition of Pyramid Scheme Regulations" and is a pyramid scheme. As the initiator, organizer, planner and manager of the pyramid scheme, The Company constitutes the organization and planning of the illegal act of the pyramid scheme. In the end, Dalway was required to immediately stop the pyramid scheme and confiscate the illegal gains of 19.2799 million yuan and fined 1.7 million yuan. In other words, the total amount of fines and confiscations is 20.9799 million yuan.
As early as January 6, 2022, some media found after investigation that the couple did not directly control the company suspected of pyramid schemes, and it seemed that they had already left a backhand for themselves. It is understood that the company is a typical VIE structure agreement company, and Zhang Ting and his wife control the company's operations and finances through layers of agreements. In this way, the operator can not only control the company, but also block the risk of the first level of the company. Such a situation also makes people have to wonder whether the two will "escape the disaster" by virtue of "air operation", or even retreat from the whole body?
Some netizens even broke the news that the 600 million assets of Zhang Ting and his wife were frozen, in fact, only 1% of their total wealth. In this way, the couple has at least 60 billion, which is shocking. What is even more unexpected is that netizens also exposed that Zhang Ting's 60 billion assets have long been transferred to the Cayman Islands, and they are prepared and have left a way out for themselves. According to the news, most of the couple's property has already flowed to their family company registered in the Cayman Islands.
On the surface, a certain product that Zhang Ting is suspected of pyramid schemes is produced by Shanghai Darzhan Biotechnology Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Darway Trading Co., Ltd. is responsible for operation and sales. But in fact, the shareholders and legal persons of these two companies do not have the names of the couple. This also responds to the reporter's investigation and finding that they do not directly control the company involved. Dalway's sole shareholder is Shanghai Guangpeng, which has a registered capital of US$140,000 (about 900,000 yuan). The actual controlling person of the company is the couple's Hong Kong-registered Lingyang Technology. As a result, all of Zhang Ting's live streaming and the income generated from the sale of products flowed to Hong Kong. Then they registered a family company in the Cayman Islands, used the family company to control Lingyang Technology, and finally trusted the shares of Lingyang Technology.
After a complete set of operations, the control and income of the company are Zhang Ting's and his wife's, but the risk is not borne by them, because the property rights have been given to the trust company. Therefore, such a big thing did not affect the main property of Zhang Ting and his wife in the slightest. One might wonder why assets should be transferred to an island nation in the Caribbean. According to the data, the Cayman Islands has the status of a tax-neutral country, it does not levy corporate tax, income tax and other property taxes, it also got the name "tax paradise". Opening offshore accounts can also be used to secretly manage and transfer large sums of money to conceal one's true wealth. And if the funds flow overseas, it is even more difficult to recover them. According to the details of the case released earlier by the relevant departments, Zhang Ting and his wife did use financial institutions to transfer or conceal funds involved in pyramid schemes during the investigation, so the court froze 600 million funds.
Here is to talk about the business model of Zhang Ting and his wife, Zhang Ting's no franchise fee, the threshold seems to be very intimate, in fact, there are many mysteries hidden ah, tst agent is divided into blue card and red card, blue card only performance rebates, and red card can additionally enjoy the performance commission of the next home. tst packaged this business model into a lifetime of two, two, three, three lives, especially advocate the blue card belt people, blue card by pulling people into the circle, upgrade themselves into a red card agent, if it is full of 1,000 people, continue for three months the volume of goods exceeds 100,000, you can even open your own company as the chairman, not only can lie down to accept the performance of the family, and even hereditary positions. However, there is actually another trap here, if the price you give to the next home is the same as the official price, then why don't you do it yourself? There is not much more exploitation of your layer. In order to solve this problem, tst set up a set of class rebate mechanism, the more you buy each month? The higher the rebate, so if you want to be home, you basically have to take a high rebate to support the various offers of your next home and customers, so as to kill a bloody road in the peers, but the problem comes again, it is impossible for everyone to be a sales wizard, the goods he is trapped in his own hands can be said to be commonplace, everyone is trapped, can only deceive one is a pull down home to their own unwinding, crazy hoarding plus crazy development offline, this is the typical MLM script.
According to article 224 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, the crime of organizing and leading pyramid schemes is punishable by imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and a fine, and if the circumstances are serious, it is punished by fixed-term imprisonment of more than five years and a fine, and Tao Hong, Zhang Ting's most important business partner, also quietly withdrew from Zhang Ting's commercial territory last month. As China's largest micro-business group, tst was identified as a pyramid scheme this time, must be in line with the extremely serious provisions of the situation, then this time Zhang Ting and Lin Ruiyang faced the wave of national condemnation, I am afraid it is not to change a circle to change a place to make them simple, even if their husband and wife belong to the veteran of business, they have long avoided various existing risks, but in the face of such a big risk, it is estimated that it is still difficult to escape the sanctions of the law, and can only be in accordance with the "Administrative Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China" Article 32: Administrative punishment may be mitigated or mitigated. So everyone, soberly understand the harm of pyramid schemes! Stay away from pyramid schemes, rationally see the "routines" of pyramid schemes, and avoid being deceived and mistakenly falling into the trap.
What is MLM
In short, the illegal activity of pyramid schemes is an act of disrupting the order of the market economy based on the number of people who have developed the number of people as remuneration or rebates. The illegal activities of pyramid schemes are not aimed at selling commodities, nor are they based on the sales performance of commodities as the basis for calculating remuneration, but directly or indirectly use the number of development personnel as the basis for calculating remuneration, and seek illegal benefits through continuous development of the downline. According to Article 7 of the Regulations on the Prohibition of Pyramid Schemes promulgated by the State Council in 2005, three types of pyramid schemes can be further divided into:
(1) "Pulling people's heads" type pyramid schemes
"Pulling people's heads" type of pyramid scheme is a pyramid scheme in which organizers and operators continuously pull people's heads to obtain illegal benefits by constantly pulling people's heads through the development of personnel, requiring the developed personnel to develop other personnel to join, and calculating and paying remuneration to the developed personnel on the basis of the number of personnel who directly or indirectly roll them.
(2) Collect "entry fee" type MLM
Collecting "entry fees" is a pyramid scheme in which organizers and operators obtain the qualifications to join or develop other personnel by developing personnel, requiring the developed personnel to pay fees or disguised fees by subscribing to commodities, etc., and then obtain illegal benefits.
(3) "Team remuneration" type pyramid scheme
"Team remuneration" type of MLM refers to the organizer and operator through the development of personnel, requiring the developed personnel to develop other personnel to join, forming an up-down line relationship, and calculating and paying the on-line remuneration based on the sales performance of the downline, and then obtaining illegal benefits.