Swiss Criminal Code

Any per­son who by fraud­u­lent means causes a pub­lic of­fi­cial or a per­son act­ing in an of­fi­cial ca­pa­city to cer­ti­fy an un­true fact of sub­stan­tial leg­al sig­ni­fic­ance, and in par­tic­u­lar to cer­ti­fy a false sig­na­ture or an in­cor­rect copy as genu­ine, or

any per­son who makes use of a doc­u­ment ob­tained by fraud in this way in or­der to de­ceive an­oth­er as to the fact cer­ti­fied therein,

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