Federal Act
on International Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters
(Mutual Assistance Act, IMAC)

¹ In ex­tra­di­tion cases, the FOJ may, at the ex­press re­quest of an­oth­er State or­der the sur­veil­lance of postal and tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions traffic in or­der to es­tab­lish the where­abouts of the de­fend­ant.

² In oth­er mu­tu­al as­sist­ance cases, the fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies may or­der the sur­veil­lance of postal and tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions traffic:

a.

the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al of Switzer­land or of the Can­ton­al Pub­lic Pro­sec­utor;

b.

the FOJ, if it is ex­ecut­ing the re­quest for mu­tu­al as­sist­ance it­self.

³ The sur­veil­lance or­der must be sub­mit­ted to the fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies for ap­prov­al:

a.

by the fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies: the fed­er­al com­puls­ory meas­ures court;

b.

by the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies: the can­ton­al com­puls­ory meas­ures court.

⁴ The re­quire­ments for sur­veil­lance and the pro­ced­ure shall oth­er­wise be gov­erned by Art­icles 269–279 Crim­PC⁵⁹ and the Fed­er­al Act of 6 Oc­to­ber 2000⁶⁰ on the Sur­veil­lance of Postal and Tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions Traffic.