Enacted parts

ARTICLE 314-7
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002) 
A debtor who, even before a judicial decision establishing his debt, procures or worsens a state of insolvency, by
increasing the liabilities or reducing the assets of his estate, or by reducing or concealing all or part of his income, or by
concealing part of his property, with a view to evading the execution of an award in relation to his property made by a
criminal court, or a civil court in proceedings related to tort, restitution or alimony, is punished by three years'
imprisonment and a fine of €45,000.
The legal or de facto manager of a legal person commits the same misdemeanour where he organises or worsens
the insolvency of such a person in the conditions referred to in the previous paragraph, with a view to avoiding the
financial obligations resulting from an award in a criminal, tortious or restitutionary matter.
ARTICLE 314-8
A court may decide that a person convicted as an accomplice to an offence under article 314-7 is jointly liable,
within the limit of any funds or the market value of any property he received gratuitously or for consideration, for the
financial obligations resulting from the award which the perpetrator sought to avoid.
Where a criminal court imposes a sentence in relation to property, it may decide that the penalty imposed shall not
be concurrent with one previously imposed.
The limitation period for criminal liability runs from the date of the award the enforcement of which the debtor sought
to avoid; however, it runs from the last act done to organise or to worsen the debtor's insolvency, where this last act is
subsequent to the award.
ARTICLE 314-9
For the purpose of article 314-7, decisions of the courts and judicially affirmed agreements which carry a duty to pay
benefits, maintenance or contributions to matrimonial expenses are assimilated to an order to pay alimony.
SECTION IV
ADDITIONAL PENALTIES APPLICABLE TO NATURAL PERSONS AND
LIABILITY OF LEGAL PERSONS
Articles 314-10 to
314-13