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ARTICLE 727-1
A director or employee who requests or accepts, directly or indirectly, unknown to his employer or without his
authorisation, any offer, promise, donation, gift, discount or reward for performing or abstaining from performing an act
pertaining to his function is punished by two years' imprisonment and a fine of €30,000.
The same penalty is incurred by anyone who accedes to the requests referred to in the preceding paragraph, or
who initiates them.
In the cases covered by the present article, the court may also impose, as an additional sentence, the prohibition of
civic, civil and family rights provided accedes to article 131-26 for period of up to five years.
ARTICLE 727-3
Legal persons may incur criminal liability pursuant to the conditions set out under article 121-2 for offences set out
under the previous paragraph.
The penalties incurred by legal persons are:
1° a fine, in the manner prescribed to under article 131-38;
2° the penalties referred to under 2°, 3°, 4° 5°, 6° and 9° of article 131-39.
The prohibition specified under 2° of article 131-39 relates to the activities in the course of which or on the occasion
of the performance of which the offence was committed. 
ARTICLE 727-2
Publishing, by any means, false or calumnious information, putting on the market offers intended to upset the
market price, or to upset price levels or offers above the price required by sellers, or the use any other fraudulent means
to cause or attempt to cause an artificial rise or fall in the price of goods or services or public or private assets, is
punished by two years' imprisonment and a fine of €30,000.
Where the rise or fall of the prices involves foodstuffs, the penalty is increased to three years' imprisonment and a
fine of €45,000.
Natural persons convicted of the offences provided by the present article also incur the following additional
penalties:
1° forfeiture of civic, civil and family rights pursuant to the conditions set out under article 131-26;
2° the public display or dissemination of the decision in accordance with the conditions set out under article 131-35.
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