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A court in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on April 27, 2014 sentenced 118 people for their involvement in a pyramid fund raising scam.

118 sentenced in China pyramid scam

A court in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Sunday sentenced 118 people for their involvement in a pyramid fund raising scam.

The defendants, including leaders and major members of the pyramid scheme, were given jail terms from 10 years to one year and seven months for organizing pyramid selling activities by Nanning Intermediate People's Court in Guangxi's capital. (Read more)