Swiss Criminal Code

1. Any pub­lic of­fi­cial or per­son act­ing in an of­fi­cial ca­pa­city who wil­fully forges or fals­i­fies a doc­u­ment or uses the genu­ine sig­na­ture or hand­writ­ing of an­oth­er to pro­duce a false doc­u­ment,

any pub­lic of­fi­cial or per­son act­ing in an of­fi­cial ca­pa­city who wil­fully falsely cer­ti­fies a fact of leg­al sig­ni­fic­ance, and in par­tic­u­lar falsely cer­ti­fies the au­then­ti­city of a sig­na­ture or hand­writ­ing or the ac­cur­acy of a copy,

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

2. If the of­fence is com­mit­ted through neg­li­gence, a mon­et­ary pen­alty shall be im­posed.⁴⁴⁷