Section2 bankruptcies, scams, and other species of fraud. er Paragraph 1: bankruptcies and scams. ART.374.- those who are found guilty of bankruptcy, will be punished: the bankruptcies of simple imprisonment for one month to two years, the fraudulent bankruptcies a sentence of five to ten years. ART.375.- The accomplices of bankruptcy simple or fraudulent shall incur the penalties provided for in the preceding article, even if they have not the quality, of a trader. ART.376.- those who are engaged in foreign exchange transactions, securities brokerage or banking operations, when they will be convicted of bankruptcy, simple or fraudulent, will be punished in all cases of sentences of fraudulent bankruptcy. ART.377.- anyone, either by making use of false names or false qualities, either by employing fraudulent maneuvers, to persuade the existence of false companies, power or imaginary credit or to bring about the hope or fear of a success, an accident or any other event chimerical, se will be done again or issue of funds, furniture or obligations, provisions, tickets, promises , receipts or landfill and who will by one of these means, defrauded or attempted to defraud the whole or part of the fortune of others, will be punished by a prison term of one to five years and a fine of 20,000 to 500,000 francs. If the offense has been committed by a person who has appealed to the public, in view of the issuance of shares, bonds, gifts, shares, or securities of any kind, whether of a society, or of a commercial or industrial enterprise, the above penalties may be doubled. In all cases the culprits may be, in addition, strikes for ten years at the most of the prohibition of the rights mentioned in article 33 of this code, they will also be subject to the prohibition of stay during the same number of years. The penalties provided for in the first and third paragraph of the present article shall also apply to anyone who, in the case of the marriage to be celebrated according to the custom, given or promised in marriage a daughter which, according to this custom, he could not, or no longer be prepared and collected or attempted to collect all or part of the dowry and gifts fixed by the use. Anyone who will be sold or mortgaged a building does not belong to him or do him belonging more will be declared guilty of stellionat and punishable by the penalties provided for in the first subparagraph of this article..

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