1. Any person who contravenes or attempts to contravene the laws and regulations governing financial relations with foreign countries, either by failing to comply with reporting or repatriation obligations, or by failing to observe the prescribed procedures or formalities required, or by failing to obtain the required authorisations or by failing to comply with the conditions attached to such authorisations, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of five years, confiscation of the corpus delicti, confiscation of the means of transport used to commit the fraud, confiscation of the goods and assets which are the direct or indirect proceeds of the offence and a fine equal to at least the amount and at most twice the sum involved in the offence or attempted offence.
1 bis. The same penalties shall apply to any person who contravenes or attempts to contravene the measures restricting economic and financial relations provided for by Community regulations adopted pursuant to Articles 75 or 215 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or by international treaties and agreements duly approved and ratified by France.
1 ter. Legal entities declared to be criminally liable, under the conditions set out in Article 121-2 of the French Penal Code, for the offences defined in 1 and 1 bis of this Article shall incur, in addition to the fine set out inArticle 131-38 of the French Penal Code, the penalties set out in Article 131-39 of the same Code.
2. Where, for any reason whatsoever, the items liable to confiscation have not been seized or are not represented by the offender or where the Minister for the Budget or his representative so requests, the court must, in lieu of confiscation, order payment of a sum equal to the value of these items.
3. Any person who incites, by means of writing, propaganda or advertising, the commission of any of the offences referred to in 1 above, whether or not such incitement is actually carried out, shall be liable to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of between €450 and €225,000.
4. Persons convicted of offences against the laws and regulations relating to financial relations with foreign countries shall also be disqualified from acting as stockbrokers and from voting or being elected to chambers of commerce, courts of commerce and industrial tribunals until such time as they have been disqualified.
5. The courts shall also order that their judgments of conviction be published, at the expense of the persons convicted, in full or in extracts in the newspapers that they shall designate.