Legal basis: measures for investigating and banning unlicensed operation.
Article 14 Whoever knowingly provides business premises for an operator, or provides transportation, warehousing, storage and other conditions, shall be ordered by the administrative department for industry and commerce to stop the illegal act, confiscate the illegal income, and may be fined up to 5,000 yuan.
Twelfth engaged in unlicensed, punished by the investigation department in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and regulations.
Thirteenth engaged in unlicensed business, the administrative department for Industry and Commerce shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and administrative regulations. If the laws and administrative regulations do not clearly stipulate the punishment for operating without a license, the administrative department for industry and commerce shall order it to stop the illegal act, confiscate the illegal income and impose a fine of 1000 yuan.
Article 225 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), in violation of state regulations, commits one of the following illegal business operations, disrupting market order, and if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times his illegal income or his property shall be confiscated: (1) dealing in franchise, monopoly goods or other commodities whose business is restricted by laws and administrative regulations without permission; (2) buying and selling import and export licenses, import and export certificates of origin and other business licenses or approval documents stipulated by laws and administrative regulations; (three) without the approval of the relevant competent departments of the state, illegally engaged in securities, futures, insurance business, or illegally engaged in fund payment and settlement business; (four) other illegal business activities that seriously disrupt the market order.