Chapter IV: Bankruptcy and other offences.

I.-It is punishable by the penalties laid down in Article 314-2 of the Criminal Code for any administrator, court-appointed agent, liquidator or plan execution commissioner, including any person appointed pursuant to the provisions of the first paragraph of II of Article L. 812-2 or of III of the same article: 1° Deliberately harming the interests of the creditors or the debtor either by using for his own benefit sums received…

A creditor who, after the judgment opening the safeguard, receivership or compulsory liquidation proceedings, enters into an agreement involving a particular advantage to be borne by the debtor shall be liable to the penalties provided for by Article 314-1 of the Penal Code. The court seised declares this agreement null and void.

The penalties provided for in Articles L. 654-3 to L. 654-5 the fact, for the persons mentioned in 2° and 3° of article L. 654-1, in bad faith, with a view to evading all or part of their assets from the proceedings of the legal entity which has been the subject of a judgment opening a safeguard, receivership or compulsory liquidation or from those of the partners or creditors of…

It is an offence for any person to carry out a professional activity or functions in breach of the prohibitions, disqualifications or incapacities provided for by articles L. 653-2 and L. 653-8, is punishable by two years’ imprisonment and a fine of 375,000 euros.