Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The form and gen­er­al con­tent of the rul­ing abandon­ing pro­ceed­ings are gov­erned by Art­icles 80 and 81.

² The pub­lic pro­sec­utor shall re­voke ex­ist­ing com­puls­ory meas­ures in the rul­ing abandon­ing pro­ceed­ings. It may or­der the for­feit­ure of prop­erty and as­sets.

³ Civil claims are not ad­dressed in the rul­ing abandon­ing pro­ceed­ings. A private claimant may take civil ac­tion after the rul­ing be­comes leg­ally bind­ing.

⁴ A leg­ally bind­ing rul­ing abandon­ing pro­ceed­ings is equi­val­ent to a fi­nal ver­dict of ac­quit­tal.