Swiss Criminal Code

¹ Any per­son who, without the in­ten­tion of com­mit­ting the of­fence of for­gery, re­pro­duces or im­it­ates bank notes and thus cre­ates the risk that per­sons or ma­chines will con­fuse such notes with genu­ine notes, in par­tic­u­lar if the over­all ap­pear­ance, one side or the great­er part of one side of a bank note re­pro­duces or im­it­ates a ma­ter­i­al and a size that is identic­al or sim­il­ar to the ma­ter­i­al and size of the ori­gin­al,

any per­son who, without the in­ten­tion of com­mit­ting the of­fence of for­gery, pro­duces ob­jects which in their ap­pear­ance, weight and size are sim­il­ar to coins in cir­cu­la­tion, or which show the nom­in­al value or oth­er char­ac­ter­ist­ics of coins which have been of­fi­cially struck, and thus cre­ates the risk that per­sons or ma­chines will con­fuse such coins with coins which are in cir­cu­la­tion,

any per­son who, without the in­ten­tion of com­mit­ting the of­fence of for­gery re­pro­duces or im­it­ates of­fi­cial stamps and thus cre­ates the risk that such stamps will be con­fused with genu­ine stamps,

any per­son who im­ports, of­fers or puts in­to cir­cu­la­tion such ob­jects art­icles,

shall be li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing three years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty.²⁶¹

² If the per­son con­cerned acts through neg­li­gence, he shall be li­able to a fine.²⁶²