The reporter learned from the press conference on combating pyramid schemes in Shandong Province that since 20 1 1, the public security organs in our province have cracked 639 cases of organizing and leading pyramid schemes and arrested 534 1 person, involving a value of 6.358 billion yuan; The province's industrial and commercial authorities * * * put on record and investigated pyramid selling cases 14, banned 28 pyramid selling dens and places, and cleared 670 pyramid selling personnel. At the meeting, the Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce and the Provincial Public Security Department jointly released eight typical cases of cracking down on pyramid schemes in our province, including the pyramid scheme of Jinan Yaowanggu Biotechnology Co., Ltd., involving more than 60 million yuan and more than 1.900 participants.

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