Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ Prop­erty or as­sets that will prob­ably be for­feited in sep­ar­ate pro­ceed­ings shall be seized.

² If the re­quire­ments for for­feit­ure are ful­filled the pub­lic pro­sec­utor shall or­der their for­feit­ure in a for­feit­ure or­der; it shall give the per­son con­cerned the op­por­tun­ity to re­spond.

³ If the re­quire­ments are not ful­filled, it shall or­der the aban­don­ment of the pro­ceed­ings and re­turn the prop­erty or as­sets to the en­titled per­son.

⁴ The re­jec­tion pro­ced­ure is gov­erned by the pro­vi­sions on sum­mary pen­alty or­ders. Any de­cision made by the court shall be is­sued in the form of a judg­ment.²⁵⁹ The court’s de­cision may be con­tested by ap­peal.²⁶⁰