Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1053

The offence of misappropriation. Its elements are established whenever a public official unlawfully appropriates property belonging to the State - 288 - Criminal Law and also merely by removing the property from the place where it is kept with the intention of owning it, even if that property was not in his possession, and regardless of the official's grade in office or the type of work assigned to him, or whether he was not among those working in the entity whose property was appropriated.