CHAPITRE X: ECONOMIC & PROPERTY-RELATED FELONIES AND MISDEMEANOURS SECTION I : CURRENCY COUNTERFEITING : POSSESSION AND USE OF COUNTERFEITS ARTICLE 86: Whoever forges, falsifies or alters monetary signs that are legal tender in the national territory or abroad shall be punished with forced labour for life and a fine multiplied ten times by the value of the said signs and at least equal to 20, 000, 000 francs. Should mitigating circumstances apply to the guilty person, the penalty may not be less than two years imprisonment and a fine of 1,000, 000 francs. The enforcement of the penalty may not be suspended. ARTICLE 87: Whosoever: - either forges or alters gold or silver currencies that are legal in the national territory or abroad ; colours coins that are legal tender in the national territory or abroad, in order to lie about the nature of the metal, shall be punished with imprisonment of between five to ten years and a fine of 10,000,000 or only one of these two penalties. An attempt to commit this crime shall be liable to the same punishment as the commission of the crime itself. ARTICLE 88: Whoever forges, falsifies or alters bank notes or coins other than gold or silver that are legal tender in the national territory or abroad shall be punished with imprisonment of between one to five years and a fine of between 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 francs or only one of these two penalties. An attempt to commit this crime shall be liable to the same punishment as the commission of the crime itself. ARTICLE 89: Whosoever takes part in the issue, use, display, distribution, importation or exportation of forged, falsified, altered or coloured monetary signs shall be punished with the penalties provided for in the articles herein above, following the various differences found there in. An attempt to commit this crime shall be liable to the same punishment as the commission of the crime itself. ARTICLE 90: Whosoever, upon receiving forged, falsified, altered or coloured monetary signs as vouchers, uses or attempts to use them after knowing their defects, shall be punished with imprisonment of between six months to one year and a fine multiplied four times using the value of the said signs, without the possibility for this fine to be less than 200,000 francs, or only one of these two penalties. Should he/she keep them deliberately or refuse to hand them over to officials; he/she shall be punished with a double fine at least and multiplied four times at most, which may not be less than 100, 000 francs. ARTICLE 91: Whoever manufactures, subscribes to, issues, uses, displays, distributes, imports or exports: - payment methods intended to fill in for or replace monetary signs that are legal tender in the national territory or abroad; - prints, coins or other objects that resemble the said monetary signs such that they can be easily accepted or used instead of the said signs ; - shall be punished with imprisonment of between one to five years and a fine of between 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 francs or with only one of these two penalties. An attempt to commit this crime shall be liable to the same punishment as the commission of the crime itself. 19