(1) Whosoever intentionally and knowingly allows falsified or altered objects, reports concerning them or untrue assertions of a factual nature to come to the attention of another or to become known to the public, which, if they were genuine or true, would be of significance for the external security of the Federal Republic of Germany or her relationships with a foreign power, in order to deceive a foreign power into believing them to be genuine objects or facts, and thereby causes the danger of serious prejudice to the external security of the Federal Republic of Germany or her relationship to a foreign power, shall be liable to imprisonment from six months to five years.
(2) Whosoever produces such objects through falsification or alteration or procures them, in order to allow them in the manner indicated in subsection (1) above to come to the attention of another or to become known to the public in order to deceive a foreign power and thereby causes the danger of serious prejudice to the external security of the Federal Republic of Germany or her relationship to a foreign power, shall incur the same penalty.
(3) The attempt shall be punishable.
(4) In especially serious cases the penalty shall be imprisonment of not less than one year. An especially serious case typically occurs if the offender creates an especially serious prejudice to the external security of the Federal Republic of Germany or to her relations with a foreign power.