Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ Items and as­sets be­long­ing to an ac­cused or to a third party may be seized if it is ex­pec­ted that the items or as­sets:

a.

will be used as evid­ence;

b.

will be used as se­cur­ity for pro­ced­ur­al costs, mon­et­ary pen­al­ties, fines or com­pens­a­tion;

c.

will have to be re­turned to the per­sons suf­fer­ing harm;

d.

will have to be for­feited;

e.¹⁴⁴

will be used to cov­er com­pens­a­tion claims made by the State in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 71 SCC¹⁴⁵.

² Seizure shall be ordered on the basis of a writ­ten war­rant con­tain­ing a brief state­ment of the grounds. In ur­gent cases, seizure may be ordered or­ally, but the or­der must there­after be con­firmed in writ­ing.

³ Where there is a risk in any delay, the po­lice or mem­bers of the pub­lic may pro­vi­sion­ally seize items or as­sets on be­half of the pub­lic pro­sec­utor or the courts.