Swiss Criminal Code

1. Any per­son who man­u­fac­tures, im­ports, ex­ports, ac­quires, stores, pos­sesses, trans­ports, passes on to an­oth­er, sells, leases, lends or in any oth­er man­ner mar­kets, pro­motes or provides in­struc­tion on the man­u­fac­ture of tech­nic­al devices which are in par­tic­u­lar in­ten­ded for un­law­ful listen­ing or the un­law­ful mak­ing of sound or im­age re­cord­ings,

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

2. If the of­fend­er acts on be­half of a third party, that third party shall be li­able to the same pen­alty as the of­fend­er provided he was aware that the of­fence was be­ing com­mit­ted and failed to use his best ef­forts to pre­vent the com­mis­sion of the of­fence.

If the third party is a leg­al en­tity, a gen­er­al or lim­ited part­ner­ship or a sole pro­pri­et­or­ship²¹⁰, para­graph 1 above ap­plies to those per­sons who ac­ted or should have ac­ted on be­half of that en­tity.