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

¹ At the re­quest of the FOJ, the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity may tem­por­ar­ily sus­pend crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings or the ex­e­cu­tion of a sen­tence against a de­fend­ant abroad for an­oth­er of­fence if:

a.

the sen­tence im­posed in Switzer­land is not of great im­port­ance in com­par­is­on to the one likely to be im­posed abroad; or

b.

ex­e­cu­tion of the sen­tence in Switzer­land does not seem ap­pro­pri­ate.

² On con­clu­sion of the crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings abroad, the Swiss au­thor­ity shall de­cide wheth­er or not to re­sume the sus­pen­ded pro­ceed­ings or the ex­e­cu­tion of the pen­alty.