Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The hold­er is ob­liged to hand over items or as­sets that should be seized.

² The fol­low­ing per­sons are not re­quired to hand over items or as­sets:

a.

the ac­cused;

b.

per­sons who have the right to re­main si­lent or to re­fuse to testi­fy, to the ex­tent that that right ap­plies;

c.

cor­por­ate un­der­tak­ings, if by hand­ing over items they could in­crim­in­ate them­selves such that they:

1.

could be held li­able un­der crim­in­al law or

2.

could be held li­able un­der civil law and if their in­terest in pro­tec­tion out­weighs the in­terest in pro­sec­u­tion.

³ The crim­in­al justice au­thor­ity may de­mand that the per­son ob­liged to hand over items or as­sets does so, may fix a dead­line, and no­ti­fy him or her that in the event of non-com­pli­ance the pen­al­ties men­tioned in Art­icle 292 SCC⁷⁹ or a fixed pen­alty fine may be im­posed.

⁴ Com­puls­ory meas­ures are only per­mit­ted if the per­son con­cerned re­fuses to hand over the items or as­sets or if it may be as­sumed that a de­mand to hand over the items or as­sets may pre­ju­dice the suc­cess of the meas­ure.