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 or payments which do not exist or any other false facts;
3. To publish, in order to induce subscriptions or payments, the names of persons designated as being or having to be attached to the company in any capacity whatsoever, contrary to the truth;
4. Fraudulently having a contribution in kind valued higher than its actual value.