Swiss Criminal Code

1. Any per­son who par­ti­cip­ates in an or­gan­isa­tion, the struc­ture and per­son­al com­pos­i­tion of which is kept secret and which pur­sues the ob­ject­ive of com­mit­ting crimes of vi­ol­ence or se­cur­ing a fin­an­cial gain by crim­in­al means,

any per­son who sup­ports such an or­gan­isa­tion in its crim­in­al activ­it­ies,

is li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing five years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty.

2. The court has the dis­cre­tion to mit­ig­ate the pen­alty im­posed (Art. 48a)² if the of­fend­er makes an ef­fort to foil the crim­in­al activ­it­ies of the or­gan­isa­tion.

3. The fore­go­ing pen­al­ties also ap­ply to any per­son who com­mits the of­fence out­side Switzer­land provided the or­gan­isa­tion car­ries out or in­tends to carry out its crim­in­al activ­it­ies wholly or partly in Switzer­land. Art­icle 3 para­graph 2 ap­plies.³