Where the addressee of the request for disclosure of information made in accordance with Articles L. 228-2 to L. 228-3-1 has not provided such information within the time limits set pursuant to the same Articles L. 228-2 to L. 228-3-1 or has provided incomplete or erroneous information, the shares, bonds or securities giving immediate or future access to the capital for which that person has been registered shall be stripped of voting rights for any shareholders’ or bondholders’ meeting held until the date on which the identification is regularised and payment of the corresponding dividend shall be deferred until that date.
In the event that the registered person knowingly disregards the provisions of articles L. 228-1 to L. 228-3-1, the court within the jurisdiction of which the company has its registered office may, at the request of either the company issuing the shares or one or more of its shareholders holding at least 5% of the capital or the company issuing the bonds or one or more bondholders holding at least 5% of the voting rights attached to the bonds of a body of shareholders, pronounce the total or partial deprivation, for a total period that may not exceed five years, as the case may be, of the voting rights attached to the shares or of the voting rights in the bondholders’ meetings that have been the subject of the interrogation and, where applicable and for the same period, of the corresponding dividend.