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(2) Refusal to comply with the summons of authorized officials shall be punished with
imprisonment for from (three) 03 months to (four) 04 years.
(3) Whoever, by any means whatsoever, obstructs, gives incitement to resist or prevent the
conduct of the investigation provided for in this section or refuses to provide information or
documents related thereto shall be punished with imprisonment for from 01 (one) to 05 (five)
years or a fine of from 100,000 (one hundred thousand) to 1,000,000 (one million) CFA
francs or both of such fine and imprisonment.
Section 62. (1) Whoever presents the content or activity to the person referred to in Sections
33 and 34 above as illicit so as to cause the withdrawal or stop the publication thereof,
knowing such information to be untrue, shall be punished with imprisonment for from 01
(one) to 05 (five) years and a fine of from 200,000 (two hundred thousand) to 2,000,000 (two
million) CFA francs.
(2) The publisher, under pain of a fine of from 100,000 (one hundred thousand) to 2 000 000
(two million) CFA francs shall be bound to insert within 48 (forty-eight) hours of their
reception , the response of any person designated in the electronic communication service.
Section 63. (1) The de jure or de facto manager of a corporate body exercising the activity
defined in Sections 33 and 34 of this law who fails to conserve the information elements
referred to in Sections 25 and 29 shall be punished with imprisonment for from 01 (one) to 05
(five) years and a fine of from 40 000 (forty thousand) to 4 000 000 (four million) CFA
francs.
(2) The de jure or de facto manager of a corporate body exercising the activity defined in
Sections 37 and 38 who fails to comply with the provisions of the said Sections shall be liable
to the same sanctions.
Section 64. (1) Corporate bodies shall be criminally liable for offences committed on their
account by their management structures.
(2) The criminal liability of corporate bodies shall not preclude that of natural persons who
commit such offences or are accomplices.
(3) The penalties to be meted out on defaulting corporate bodies shall be fines of from 5 000
000 (five million) to 50 000 000 (fifty million) CFA francs.
(4) The penalties provided for in Subsection 3 above, not withstanding one of the following
other penalties may equally be meted out on corporate bodies:
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dissolution in case of a crime or felony punishable with respect to natural persons with
imprisonment of 03 (three) years and above and where the corporate body has
departed from its declared object to aid and abet the incriminating acts;
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definitive prohibition or temporary prohibition for a period not less than 05 (five)
years, from directly or indirectly carrying out one or more professional or corporate
activities;
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temporary closure for a period of not less than 05 (five) years under the conditions laid