Swiss Criminal Procedure Code

¹Fed­er­al jur­is­dic­tion fur­ther ap­plies to the of­fences in Art­icles 260^ter, 260^quin­quies, 305^bis, 305^ter and 322^ter-322^sep­ties SCC¹ as well as the felon­ies as­so­ci­ated with a crim­in­al or­gan­isa­tion as defined in Art­icle 260^ter SCC, if the of­fences:

a.

have to sub­stan­tial ex­tent been com­mit­ted abroad;

b.

have been com­mit­ted in two or more can­tons with no single can­ton be­ing the clear fo­cus of the crim­in­al activ­ity.

²In the case of felon­ies un­der Titles Two and El­ev­en of the SCC, the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al of Switzer­land may open an in­vest­ig­a­tion if:

a.

the re­quire­ments of para­graph 1 are ful­filled; and

b.

no can­ton­al crim­in­al justice au­thor­ity is deal­ing with the case or if the com­pet­ent can­ton­al crim­in­al justice au­thor­ity re­quests the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al of Switzer­land to take over the case.

³The open­ing of an in­vest­ig­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2 es­tab­lishes fed­er­al jur­is­dic­tion.