Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

The fol­low­ing per­sons may be in­ter­viewed as per­sons provid­ing in­form­a­tion:

a.

a per­son who has giv­en no­tice that he or she is a private claimant;

b.

a per­son who is un­der the age of 15 at the time of the ex­am­in­a­tion hear­ing;

c.

a per­son who due to lim­ited men­tal ca­pa­city is not able to un­der­stand the sub­ject mat­ter of the ex­am­in­a­tion hear­ing;

d.

a per­son who is not an ac­cused but who can­not be ex­cluded as the per­pet­rat­or of or as a par­ti­cipant in the of­fence un­der in­vest­ig­a­tion or an­oth­er re­lated of­fence;

e.

a per­son who is a co-ac­cused who must be in­ter­viewed with re­gard to an of­fence of which he or she is not per­son­ally ac­cused;

f.

a per­son who is the ac­cused in oth­er pro­ceed­ings re­lat­ing to an of­fence con­nec­ted with the of­fence un­der in­vest­ig­a­tion;

g.

a per­son who has been or could be des­ig­nated as the rep­res­ent­at­ive of a cor­por­ate en­tity in crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings against that en­tity, as well as his or her em­ploy­ees.