Article 290 (1) Persons who, in their capacity of witness before the court or before another respective body of authority, orally or in writing consciously assert untrue statement or hold back the truth, shall be punished for perjury by imprisonment for up to five years. (2) The same punishment shall also be imposed on a translator or interpreter who before the court or another respective body of authority, orally or in writing consciously renders untrue translation or interpretation. Article 290a (New, SG No. 28/1982) Persons who assert untrue statement or hold back the truth in an affidavit presented in court, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to three years. Article 291 (1) Persons who in their capacity of expert before the court or another respective body of authority orally or in writing consciously give untrue conclusion, shall be punished by imprisonment for one to five years and by deprivation of the right under Article 37 (1), sub-paragraph 7. (2) Where the act under the preceding paragraph has been committed through negligence, the punishment shall be imprisonment for up to one year or probation. The court may also rule deprivation of the right under Article 37 (1), sub paragraph 7. Article 292 (1) For a crime under Articles 290 and 291 punishability shall fall off: 1. where a person by telling the truth would accuse himself of a crime; and 2. where the person renounces before the respective body his or her perjury, translation, interpretation or conclusion, prior to the entry of the sentence or decision into force and before institution of criminal prosecution against that person. (2) (New, SG No. 89/1986) The provision of sub-paragraph 2 of the preceding paragraph shall also apply to the cases under Article 290a, should the person withdraw the statement prior to the pronouncement of decision in the case, in connection with which it has been presented. Article 293 (1) (Redesignated from Article 293, supplemented, SG No. 89/1986) A person who abets another to a crime under Articles 290, 290a and 291 shall be punished by imprisonment for up to one year or by probation. (2) (New, SG No. 89/1986) Where two or more persons have been abetted and the case is particularly grave, the punishment shall be imprisonment for up to three years. Article 293a (New, SG No. 62/1997, amended, SG No. 75/2006) A person who has been sentenced to pay a monetary obligation by virtue of a court decision which has come into force, and who fails in the course of one year following the entry into force of the decision to fulfil the obligation to the creditor, in spite of the availability of cash or property for that purpose, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to one year or by probation.