Can a company be criminally liable?
Legal persons are criminally liable for offences committed on their behalf by their organs or representatives. That liability does not exclude the liability of the natural persons who committed or were accomplices to the same acts.
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Source
- Source
- Penal Code, article 121-2
- Acts
- French Penal Code
- Area
- Finance, money laundering and integrity
- Checked
- 2026-09-21
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