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Article 1799 of the French General Tax Code

Shall be punished by the penalties applicable to the principal offender:

1° Any person convicted of having facilitated the fraud or knowingly procured the means to commit it;

2° Any person convicted of having knowingly formed or allowed to be formed, with a view to fraud, in the properties or premises of which he has the enjoyment, clandestine deposits of objects, products or goods subject to the duties or regulations of the indirect taxes ;

3° Any trader who has induced a winegrower to falsify his harvest declaration and has himself, for this purpose, altered his own declarations of receipt of harvests or manufacture of wine.

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Article 1799

Est puni des peines applicables à l’auteur principal de l’infraction :

1° Toute personne convaincue d’avoir facilité la fraude ou procuré sciemment les moyens de la commettre ;

2° Toute personne convaincue d’avoir sciemment formé ou laissé former, en vue de la fraude, dans les propriétés ou locaux dont elle a la jouissance, des dépôts clandestins d’objets, produits ou marchandises soumis aux droits ou à la réglementation des contributions indirectes ;

3° Tout négociant qui a incité un viticulteur à fausser sa déclaration de récolte et a lui-même, dans cet objet, altéré ses propres déclarations de réception de vendanges ou de fabrication de vin.

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