Criminal Code Warning: this is not an official translation. Under all circumstances the original text in Dutch language of the Criminal Code (Wetboek van Strafrecht) prevails

Section 189 
1.   Any person who: 
1°.  intentionally harbours a person who has committed any serious offence or is suspected of any 
serious offence, or who intentionally assists such person in evading detection or arrest by 
judicial officers or police officers; 
2°.  after the commission of any serious offence, with a view to concealing such offence or 
preventing or interfering with its investigation or prosecution, destroys, disposes of or conceals 
objects in regard of which or by means of which the serious offence has been committed or 
other traces of the serious offence or withholds such objects or traces from the judicial officers 
or police officers in their investigation; 
3°.  intentionally, with a view to preventing, obstructing or frustrating their seizure, conceals, 
destroys or disposes of objects which can serve to bring to light the truth or to prove unlawfully 
obtained gains as defined in section 36e, or withholds such objects from the judicial officers or 
police officers in their investigation, or, by intentionally making available data or information to 
third parties, prevents, obstructs or frustrates such seizure;  
 
shall be liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six months or a fine of the third category.  
2.  If the serious offence, referred to in subsection (1), is a terrorist offence, a term of imprisonment 
not exceeding four years or a fine of the fifth category may be imposed. 

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3.   These provisions shall not apply to a person who acts as defined in these provisions in order to 
evade or avert the risk of prosecution of any of his relatives by consanguinity or affinity in the direct 
line or in the second or third degree of the collateral line, or of his spouse or former spouse.  
4.  Persons in the public service of an international court charged with the investigation or prosecution 
of any serious offence, which court derives its jurisdiction from a treaty to which the Kingdom is a 
contracting party, shall be considered as equivalent to judicial officers or police officers.  
Section 190 
Any person who intentionally obstructs, interferes with or frustrates a forensic autopsy shall be liable to 
a term of imprisonment not exceeding six months or a fine of the third category. 
Section 191 
Any person who intentionally frees a person who has been deprived of his liberty by order of the 
authorities or pursuant to a judgment or to a decision given in chambers, or assists such person in 
escaping, shall be liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding four years or a fine of the fourth 
category.