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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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