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Subsection 2: Provisions relating to non-trading property investment companies

Article L231-10 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Any person shall be liable to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of €9,000 if he or she: 1. Stating that subscriptions which he knows to be fictitious are genuine or declaring that funds which have not been definitively placed at the disposal of the company have in fact been paid in; 2. Obtaining or attempting to obtain subscriptions or payments by simulating subscriptions or payments or by publishing subscriptions…

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Article L231-11 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The directors of the management company of a non-trading property investment company are liable to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of 375,000 euros if they: 1. Distribute fictitious dividends among the shareholders; 2. Publish or present inaccurate information to shareholders with a view to concealing the true situation of the company; 3. Making, in bad faith, use of the company’s assets or credit that they know to be contrary…

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Article L231-14 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Any person shall be liable to two years’ imprisonment and a fine of €9,000 if he or she: 1. Preventing a shareholder from attending a meeting ; 2. Participating in a vote at a meeting by falsely representing himself as a shareholder, either directly or through an intermediary; 3. Obtaining, guaranteeing or promising advantages for voting a certain way or for not taking part in the vote, or granting, guaranteeing…

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Article L231-17 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

It is punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 9,000 euros for any person, in his own name or as a partner in a company of statutory auditors, to accept, perform or retain the duties of statutory auditor notwithstanding the legal incompatibilities provided for in the second paragraph of Article L. 214-110.

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Article L231-18 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

It is punishable by five years’ imprisonment and a fine of 18,000 euros for a statutory auditor, in his own name or as a partner in a company of statutory auditors, to give or confirm false information about the situation of the non-trading property investment company or to fail to disclose to the public prosecutor any criminal offence of which he has knowledge. Articles 226-13 and 226-14 of the Criminal…

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Article L231-19 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

It is punishable by five years’ imprisonment and a fine of 18,000 euros for the directors of the management company or any person in the company’s employ to obstruct the statutory auditors’ verifications or controls or to refuse to provide them with all documents required for the performance of their duties.

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