ARTICLE 246: A witness or an expert's refusal to answer answers, either during the investigation or during the hearing shall be punished with imprisonment of between eleven to three months. SECTION XI: FALSE ACCUSATION ARTICLE 247: Whoever makes false accusations verbally or in writing to a public official against one or several people, shall be punished with imprisonment of between one month to three years as well as a fine of between 25, 000 to 300, 000 francs. An accusation shall be considered false when it intentionally reports a false fact, likely to expose the person it concerns to administrative action or legal proceedings. CHAPTER II: FELONIES AND MISDEMEANOURS AGAINST INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECTION 1: INFRINGEMENTS OF INTELLECTUA PROPERTY PATENTS UTILITY MODELS -TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS - INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS - LITERARY OR ARTISTIC WORKS ARTICLE 248: Any infringement of the rights to a patent, a holder of a utility model or a creator of an industrial design, either by manufacturing the product or using the means protected by the patent, public utility model, or industrial design shall be counterfeiting and be punished with imprisonment of between one to five years and a fine of between 50,000 to 15, 000,000 francs. ARTICLE 249: Receivers and those who sell or bring into the national territory one or several counterfeit objects shall be punished with the same penalties as copyright infringers. In case the offender commits the same crime again, imprisonment of between one to six months may also be ordered in addition to the fine. ARTICLE 250: Any publishing of a writing, musical composition, drawing, painting or any other printed or engraved production, whether in full or partially, in disregard of laws and regulations relating to the intellectual property of authors, shall constitute copyright infringement and be punished with imprisonment of between one to five years as well as a fine between 50,000 to 15,000,000. ARTICLE 251: The infringement of a mark, use of a counterfeit trademark and the fraudulent placement of a counterfeit trademark that belongs to another shall be infringements of the rights of the trademark and shall be punished with a fine of between 50,000 to 300, 000 francs as well as imprisonment of between three months to three years or only one of these two penalties. SECTION Il: THEFT ARTICLE 252: Whoever fraudulently takes something that does not belong to him/her shall be guilty of theft. PARAGRAPH I: ROBBERY ARTICLE 253: The death penalty shall apply to whoever is guilty of gang or armed robbery. The same penalty shall apply in the event of robbery committed using violence, with or without weapons, or using intoxicating or anaesthetic substances. ARTICLE 254: Life imprisonment shall apply to whoever is found guilty of robbery committed at night, with one of the following circumstances: 1° In a dwelling house; 2° By breaking in, climbing over or using forged keys; 3° Carried out by two people at least. 44