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7. The counterfeit securities, payment instruments and the equipment for their
manufacturing or alteration shall be confiscated.
8. ‘Payment instrument’ shall mean a corporeal instrument, other than money enabling by
its specific nature, alone or in conjunction with another payment instrument, the holder or
user to transfer money or monetary value. This would include but not be limited to stock
shares, share certificates, bonds, credit cards, eurocheque cards, other cards issued by
financial institutions, travelers’ cherubs, eurocheques, other traveler’s cheques and bills
of exchange, which are protected against imitation or fraudulent use, through design,
coding, signature or other means.
9. Counterfeit securities or payment instruments includes falsified securities or payment
instruments and genuine securities or payment instruments that have been altered in
material respect and with the intent to use them for fraudulent purposes.
Article 294
Counterfeiting stamps of value
1. Whoever produces counterfeit stamps of value, alters any of these stamps with the
intent to use them as genuine, gives to another person to use or uses such counterfeit
stamps as genuine, shall be punished by fine or by imprisonment of up to three (3) years.
2. Whoever, with the knowledge that a stamp of value is counterfeit, supplies, sells,
purchases, distributes, transports, receives or possesses a counterfeit or canceled stamp
with the intent to distribute or use it as genuine, shall be punished by imprisonment of up
to three (3) years.
3. When the offense provided for in paragraph 1 of this Article involves stamps of a value
exceeding ten thousand (10,000) EUR, the perpetrator shall be punished by a fine and
imprisonment of six (6) months up to five (5) years.
4. Whoever removes a canceling stamp from a stamp of value referred to in paragraph 1
this Article, or in some other way and for the purpose of repeated use, attempts to make
such stamp appear as if it has never been used before, or reuses a used stamp or sells it as
valid, shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment up to one (1) year.
5. Whoever has received the counterfeit stamp of value as genuine and uses it with
knowledge that it is counterfeit, shall be punished by a fine or by imprisonment of up to
one (1) year.
6. Whoever has knowledge of a counterfeit stamp of value being made or used, and fails
to report it shall be punished by a fine or by imprisonment of up to one (1) year.
7. Counterfeit stamps of value and the equipment for their manufacturing or alteration
shall be confiscated.
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