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

¹ After set­ting the de­fend­ant and the third party ob­ject­ing to the hand­ing over of ob­jects an ap­pro­pri­ate dead­line for stat­ing their po­s­i­tion, the FOJ shall rule on the ex­tra­di­tion of the de­fend­ant and the hand­ing over of ob­jects and as­sets seized.¹⁰¹

² If the de­fend­ant claims that he is be­ing charged with a polit­ic­al of­fence or if the in­vest­ig­a­tion re­veals ser­i­ous grounds to be­lieve that the of­fence is of a polit­ic­al nature, the Ap­peals Cham­ber of the Fed­er­al Crim­in­al Court shall de­cide the case.¹⁰² The FOJ shall send the file to this Court, to­geth­er with its pro­pos­al. The de­fend­ant shall be giv­en the op­por­tun­ity to state his po­s­i­tion.

³ The pro­ced­ure for an ap­peal un­der Art­icle 25 ap­plies by ana­logy.¹⁰³