Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ Pro­ced­ur­al costs, mon­et­ary pen­al­ties, fines and oth­er fin­an­cial pay­ments to be made in con­nec­tion with crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings shall be col­lec­ted in ac­cord­ance with the pro­vi­sions of the DEBA¹⁷³.

² Claims in re­spect of pro­ced­ur­al costs must be filed with­in 10 years of the date on which the de­cision on costs be­comes leg­ally bind­ing. De­fault in­terest amounts to 5 per cent.

³ The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons shall de­term­ine the au­thor­it­ies that col­lect fin­an­cial pay­ments.

⁴ The crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies may set off their claims in re­spect of pro­ced­ur­al costs against the claims to dam­ages of the party li­able to pay arising from the same crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings and against seized as­sets.