Public Funds Protection Law
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- Article 1Public property is inviolable; protecting, supporting and defending it is the duty of every citizen.
- Article 2For the purposes of applying the provisions of this Law, public funds mean that which is owned by, or is subject by law to the administration of, any of the following…
- Article 3For purposes of applying the provisions of this Law, the persons prescribed in Article 43 of the aforementioned Law No. 31 of 1970 AD shall be deemed public officials.
- Article 5The Public Prosecution shall have exclusive competence to investigate, n, dispose of and prosecute the felonies and misdemeanours provided for in this Law and offences…
- Article 6Subject to the provision of Article 29, the entities referred to in Article Two shall notify the Audit Bureau in writing of the funds they conduct inside or outside the…
- Article 8A committee called ) the Public Funds Protection Committee ( shall be formed in the National Assembly, whose task shall be to study the reports referred to in the…
- Article 9Every public official, employee, or worker who embezzles funds, papers, effects, or other things delivered to him by reason of his position shall be punished by life…
- Article 10Every public official, employee or worker who unlawfully appropriates anything mentioned in the preceding Article belonging to, or in the possession of, one of the…
- Article 11Every public official, employee or worker assigned to safeguard an interest of one of the entities referred to in Article Two in a transaction, operation or case, or…
- Article 12Life imprisonment or fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years shall be imposed on every public official, employee or worker concerned with the administration…
- Article 13Every public official, employee, or worker in an entity referred to in Article Two who discloses any information concerning business that should remain confidential by…
- Article 14Every public official, employee or worker who, through his fault, causes serious damage to the funds or interests of the entity for which he works or with which he is…
- Article 15Any public official, employee or worker who retains for himself and for the account of another originals or copies of official documents belonging to any of the entities…
- Article 16In addition to the penalties prescribed for the offences mentioned in Articles 9, 10, 11, 12, the perpetrator shall be sentenced to removal from office, restitution and…
- Article 17Anyone who intentionally causes a delay in the arrival, at the competent authority within the specified time limit, of the notification or statement referred to in…
- Article 18Anyone who knows of the existence of a plan to commit a crime stipulated in this Law, or knows that it has actually occurred, and refrains from reporting this to the…
- Article 19Without prejudice to any more severe penalty, anyone who submits to the investigating authorities in respect of the offences provided for in this Law, or to any other…
- Article 20of the Penal Code may not under any circumstances be applied to any of the offences mentioned in this Law unless the offender expressed returning the funds constituting…
- Article 21 مكررCriminal proceedings concerning the offences provided for in this Law shall not be extinguished by the passage of time 1( Added by Law No. 31 of 2004 and the limitation…
- Article 22The extinction of criminal proceedings for any reason shall not preclude the injured entity's right to demand restitution of the funds constituting the subject matter of…
- Article 23First-instance judgments imposing a fine restitution or compensation for any of the offences committed in violation of the provisions of this Law shall be immediately…
- Article 24Where the Public Prosecutor has gathered sufficient indications concerning a person that he has committed one of the offences stipulated in Articles 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 of…
- Article 25For the purpose of placing the assets referred to in the preceding Article under precautionary restraint, the investigating authorities may take whatever measures they…
- Article 26Any interested person may lodge a grievance with the competent court against the decision prohibiting disposal and management after three months have elapsed from the…
- Article 27If the accused is convicted, the order prohibiting disposal and management, or other precautionary measures over the assets, shall not be lifted until enforcement of the…
- Article 28Dispositions made by the convicted person concerning funds related to the offences provided for in this Law, or by those to whom these funds have devolved, or the…
- Article 29The entities referred to in Article Two shall provide the President of the State Audit Bureau with a detailed report on the status of investments existing on the date…
- Article 30The provisions of Articles 44, 45, 47, 48 of the aforementioned Law No. 31 of 1970 shall apply to acts occurring before the date this Law comes into force, and shall be…
- Article 31The President of the State Audit Bureau shall, after obtaining the opinion of the competent minister, as the case may be, issue the decisions necessary for the exercise…