Swiss Criminal Code

1. Any per­son who for his own or an­oth­er's fin­an­cial gain or the prom­ise of such gain, ex­ploits the po­s­i­tion of need, the de­pend­ence, the weak­ness of mind or char­ac­ter, the in­ex­per­i­ence, or the fool­ish­ness of an­oth­er per­son to ob­tain a pay­ment or ser­vice which is clearly dis­pro­por­tion­ate to the con­sid­er­a­tion giv­en in re­turn,

any per­son who ac­quires a debt ori­gin­at­ing from an act of prof­it­eer­ing and sells or en­forces the same,

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

2. If the of­fend­er acts for com­mer­cial gain, a cus­todi­al sen­tence of from six months to ten years shall be im­posed.²¹⁸