Article 20 of Public Funds Protection Law

Article 81 of 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 the subject matter of the offence in full, less the close of pleadings, in cases in which restitution is required. Nevertheless, for the offences provided for in this Law, the court may, according to its view of the circumstances and particulars of the offence, if a subject matter or the damage resulting from it is minor, impose, instead of the penalties prescribed for them, imprisonment for a period not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding three thousand dinars, or either of these two penalties.