Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The pub­lic pro­sec­utor shall gath­er the evid­ence re­quired to as­sess the civil claim provided the pro­ceed­ings are not un­duly ex­ten­ded or delayed thereby.

² It may the make the gath­er­ing of evid­ence that primar­ily serves to fur­ther the civil claim con­di­tion­al on an ad­vance pay­ment by the private claimant to cov­er costs.