Swiss Criminal Code

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Art. 314

Mis­con­duct in pub­lic of­fice

 

Any mem­ber of an au­thor­ity or pub­lic of­fi­cial who, in the course of a leg­al trans­ac­tion and with a view to ob­tain­ing an un­law­ful ad­vant­age for him­self or an­oth­er, dam­ages the pub­lic in­terests that he has a duty to safe­guard is li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing five years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty. A cus­todi­al sen­tence must be com­bined with a mon­et­ary pen­alty.2

1 Amended by No I of the FA of 17 June 1994, in force since 1 Jan. 1995 (AS 1994 2290 2307; BBl 1991 II 969).
2 Pen­al­ties re­vised by No II 1 para. 16 of the FA of 13 Dec. 2002, in force since 1 Jan. 2007 (AS 2006 3459 3535; BBl 1999 1979).

 
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