Title XIII: Procedure applicable to economic and financial offences

In cases which are or would appear to be of great complexity, due in particular to the large number of perpetrators, accomplices or victims or the geographical jurisdiction over which they extend, the territorial jurisdiction of a judicial court may be extended to the jurisdiction of several courts of appeal for the investigation, prosecution, investigation and, if the offences are misdemeanours, the trial of the following offences: 1° Offences provided…

For the prosecution, investigation and, in the case of misdemeanours, trial of the offences provided for in Article 704 and related offences, the public prosecutor, the investigating judge and the specialised criminal court of the judicial tribunal referred to in the same article have concurrent jurisdiction with that resulting from the application of articles 43,52,382and 706-42. Where they have jurisdiction to prosecute and investigate offences falling within the scope of…

The public prosecutor at a judicial court other than those referred to in Article 704 may, for the offences listed in this article, request the investigating judge to relinquish jurisdiction in favour of one or more of the investigating courts with jurisdiction pursuant to this article. The parties shall be notified in advance and invited to make their observations by the investigating judge; the order shall be made eight days…

The order made pursuant to Article 704-2 may, to the exclusion of all other means of appeal, be referred within five days of its notification, at the request of the Public Prosecutor or the parties, either to the investigating chamber if the specialised court to which the relinquishment of jurisdiction has been ordered or refused is within the jurisdiction of the same court of appeal as the court initially seised,…

The Public Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal, within whose jurisdiction a court with jurisdiction under Article 704 is located, shall lead and coordinate, in consultation with the other Public Prosecutors in the inter-regional jurisdiction, the conduct of public action policy for the application of that Article.