Swiss Criminal Code

Any debt­or who, in the know­ledge of his in­ab­il­ity to pay and with a view to show­ing pref­er­ence to some of his cred­it­ors to the pre­ju­dice of oth­ers, acts in or­der to achieve such an aim, and in par­tic­u­lar pays debts that are not due for pay­ment, pays due debts in a way that dif­fers from the nor­mal meth­ods, or provides se­cur­ity for a debt from his own means when he is not ob­liged to do so, shall be li­able, if bank­ruptcy pro­ceed­ings are com­menced against him or a cer­ti­fic­ate of un­sat­is­fied claims has been is­sued in his re­spect, to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing three years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty.