According to reports from the official WeChat account of the Danzhou City People's Procuratorate, a certain criminal gang used the lure of high returns from investing in virtual currency through "contract trading" to illegally absorb public deposits totaling over 10 million yuan, a significant amount. The Danzhou City People's Procuratorate has prosecuted them for the crime of illegally absorbing public deposits. After examination, the Danzhou City People's Procuratorate determined that the actions of this criminal gang violated the Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China, constituting joint crime of illegally absorbing public deposits, and they were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment and fined.