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Structural division: BOOK IV › CHAPTER I
Article 447 — False Denunciation or Accusation.
Revised Criminal Code (English)
Article text
Whoever:
(a) denounces to the authorities as the perpetrator of a crime a person he knows to be innocent; or
(b) has in any other way, especially by feigning a crime or making an anonymous or inaccurate denunciation, intrigued with the object of causing such proceedings to be taken against an innocent person, is punishable with rigorous imprisonment not exceeding five years and fine. However, where the false denunciation or accusation has resulted in a more severe punishment he himself shall be sentenced to the punishment which he has caused to be wrongfully inflicted upon the innocent person.
Article 6
Exception: Application of the More Favourable Law.
