Swiss Criminal Code

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Art. 242

Passing or ten­der­ing coun­ter­feit money

 

1Any per­son who passes or tenders coun­ter­feit or fals­i­fied coins, pa­per money or bank notes as genu­ine money is li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing three years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty1.

2If the of­fend­er, the per­son in­struct­ing him or his agent ac­cep­ted the coins or bank­notes on the un­der­stand­ing that they were genu­ine or not fals­i­fied, the pen­alty is a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing three years or a mon­et­ary pen­alty.

1 Term in ac­cord­ance with No II 1 para. 2 of the FA of 13 Dec. 2002, in force since 1 Jan. 2007 (AS 2006 3459 3535; BBl 1999 1979). This amend­ment has been taken in­to ac­count throughout the Second Book.

 
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