Swiss Criminal Code

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of 21 December 1937 (Status as of 1 January 2022)


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Art. 305ter356

In­suf­fi­cient di­li­gence in fin­an­cial trans­ac­tions and right to re­port

 

1 Any per­son who as part of his pro­fes­sion ac­cepts, holds on de­pos­it, or as­sists in in­vest­ing or trans­fer­ring out­side as­sets and fails to as­cer­tain the iden­tity of the be­ne­fi­cial own­er of the as­sets with the care that is re­quired in the cir­cum­stances shall be li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing one year or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty.357

2 The per­sons in­cluded in para­graph 1 above are en­titled to re­port to the Money Laun­der­ing Re­port­ing Of­fice in the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Po­lice any ob­ser­va­tions that in­dic­ate that as­sets ori­gin­ate from a felony or an ag­grav­ated tax mis­de­mean­our in terms of Art­icle 305bis num­ber 1bis.358

356 In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 23 March 1990, in force since 1 Aug. 1990 (AS 1990 10771078; BBl 1989 II 1061).

357 Pen­al­ties re­vised by No II 1 para. 16 of the FA of 13 Dec. 2002, in force since 1 Jan. 2007 (AS 2006 34593535; BBl 1999 1979).

358In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 18 March 1994 (AS 1994 1614; BBl 1993 III 277). Amended by No I 4 of the FA of 12 Dec. 2014 on the Im­ple­ment­a­tion of the 2012 Re­vi­sion of the Re­com­mend­a­tions of the Fin­an­cial Ac­tion Task Force, in force since 1 Jan. 2016 (AS 20151389; BBl 2014605).

 
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