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Swiss Criminal Code

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

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

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).