the judicial authority has definitively statue, they will be punished with a fine of
500,000 francs at least and 1,000,000 francs at most.
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CHAPTER IV
crimes and offenses against the public peace
Section 1 of false paragraph first. Counterfeit Currency
ART.118.- anyone who will be forged or altered the bank notes or the currencies socalled metal having legal tender to the Comoros, or participated in the broadcast or
the exposure of counterfeit currency or corrupt, or their introduction on the
Comorian territory, will be punished the punishment of the work forces in
perpetuity.
ART.119.- The counterfeiting or alteration of the foreign currency, of effects of
foreign treasuries, foreign banknotes, the issuance, the exposure, the introduction in
any country or the use of such currencies, such effects or tickets counterfeit or
forged, will be punished as if it were of Comorian currencies, effect of treasury or
bank notes Comorians, according the distinctions brought to this section.
However, those who, has abroad, are found guilty as perpetrators or accomplices of
such crimes or offenses, can be pursued in the Comoros that under the conditions
provided for in the code of criminal procedure in the chapter dealing with the crimes
and offenses committed in Œ'abroad.
ART-120.- will be punished by a prison term of one to five years, anyone will be
colored or try to shade the currencies being legal in the Comoros or the foreign
currencies for the purpose of misleading about the nature of the metal, or will be
issued, introduced on the Comorian territory.
The same penalty shall be imposed on those who will have participated in the
program or to the introduction of the currencies as well colored.
ART.121.- The participation set forth in previous articles does not apply to those
who, having received for good of banknotes or coins counterfeit, altered or colored,
handed in circulation.
However, the one who will have made use of the so-called banknotes or coins after
verifying or fact check the defects, will be punished with a fine triple at least and
sixfold to more of the amount represented by the parts it will be rendered in
circulation without that this fine can in no case be less than 50,000 francs.
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