Section 330: Swindling

330. Swindling (1) Quiconque, soit en faisant (1) Any person who, by using a usage de faux noms ou de fausses fictitious name, or assuming a false qualités, soit en employant des ma- character, or by employing fraudunoeuvres frauduleuses, pour persua- lent pretences, to establish the belief der l’existence de fausses entre- of the existence of any fictitious opprises, d’un pouvoir ou d’un crédit eration or of any imaginary power or imaginaire, ou pour faire naître credit, or to create the expectation or l’espérance, ou la crainte d’un suc- apprehension of any success, accicès, d’un accident ou de tout autre dent or other chimerical event, or C57 – 93 [Issue 2] Criminal Code évènement chimérique, soit au who, by means of a cheque drawn moyen d’un chèque tiré sur une on any banker in Mauritius to the orbanque à Maurice à l’ordre d’une der of any person or to bearer, for the personne ou au porteur sans provi- payment of which there is insufficient sion suffisante au moment de sa provision at the time of the presentprésentation se sera fait remettre ou ment thereof, obtains the remittance délivrer des fonds, des meubles ou or delivery of any funds, movable des obligations, dispositions, billets, property, obligation, condition, bill, promesses, quittances ou décharges, acknowledgement, acquittance or et aura, par un de ces moyens, es- discharge, and by any such means as croqué la totalité ou partie de la for- aforesaid, swindles another person tune d’autrui, sera puni de servitude out of the whole or of a part of his pénale qui n’excèdera pas 20 ans et property, shall be punished by penal d’une amende qui n’excèdera pas servitude for a term not exceeding 150,000 roupies. 20 years, and by a fine not exceeding 150,000 rupees. (2) (a) Notwithstanding sections 151 and 152 of the Criminal Procedure Act, where it is averred that the person swindled is a minor or a mentally handicapped person, the person charged shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than 2 years together with a fine not exceeding 10,000 rupees. (b) Part X of the Criminal Procedure Act and the Probation of Offenders Act shall not apply to a person liable to be sentenced under paragraph (a). [S. 330 reprinted by Reprint 2 of 1983; amended by Act 13 of 1998; Act 5 of 1999; s. 8 of Act 36 of 2008 w.e.f. 6 December 2008.]