Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1022

The offence of appropriation provided for in Article 10/1 of Law 1 of 1993 concerning the Protection of Public Funds. Its establishment: by a public official unlawfully appropriating state property and removing it from the place where it is kept with intent to own it, even if it was not in his possession, whatever his rank in the employment hierarchy and the type of work assigned to him, or his being someone not employed by the entity whose property he appropriated. - A lance corporal in the Amiri Guard affiliated to the Ministry of Defence. Is a public official.