Criminal Code of the Republic of Austria (1974, as amended 2006) (excerpts related to Trafficking in Human Beings) (English)

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Part 8 : Procedural and Punitive provisions

Section 5

§ 217

Whoever brings a person to perform illicit prostitution, even if such person already commits prostitution, in another country than the one whose citizenship such person has or where such persons has his/her habitual place of residence, or procures such person for such purposes, shall be sentenced to imprisonment of six months to five years, and, if the crime is committed for profit, to imprisonment of one to ten years.

Whoever induces by deception a person to commit prostitution in another country than the one whose citizenship such a person has or where such person has his/her habitual place of residence or coerces such person by violence or dangerous threat to move to another country or conveys such person to another country by violence or by exploitation of such person’s error shall be sentenced to imprisonment of one to ten years.

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