INSOLVENCY ORGANIZATION
| PENAL CODE (Legislative Part) |
| Section 3: The fraudulent organization of the insolvency |
| Article 314-7 |
| The fact, by a debtor, even before the judicial decision noting his debt, of organizing or aggravating his insolvency either by increasing the liabilities or by reducing the assets of his patrimony, or by reducing or concealing all or part of his income, either by concealing some of his property, in order to avoid the execution of a judgment of a financial nature pronounced by a criminal court or, in tort, quasi-tort or maintenance matters, pronounced by a civil court , is punished by three years’ imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros The same offense is committed by the de jure or de facto manager of a legal person who organizes or aggravates the insolvency of the latter under the conditions defined in the previous paragraph with a view to exempting it from the pecuniary obligations resulting from a pronounced sentence in criminal, tort or quasi-tort matters. |
| Article 314-8 |
| The court may decide that the person convicted as an accomplice of the offense defined in article 314-7 is jointly and severally liable, within the limits of the funds or the market value of the goods received free of charge or against payment, for pecuniary obligations resulting from the execution sentence from which the offender wished to avoid. When the judgment of a financial nature has been pronounced by a criminal court, the court may decide that the sentence it pronounces will not be confused with that which has been previously pronounced. The prescription of public action runs only from the sentence from the execution of which the debtor wished to avoid; however, it only runs from the last act having as its object to organize or aggravate the insolvency of the debtor when the last act is subsequent to this conviction. |
| Article 314-9 |
| For the application of article 314-7, judicial decisions and legally approved agreements relating to the obligation to pay benefits, subsidies or contributions to the expenses of the marriage are assimilated to orders for the payment of maintenance. |
