Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1410

Convicting the appellant of the offences attributed to him, applying Article 84 of the Penal Code and imposing the penalty for the most serious offence, for which the death penalty is prescribed, and reducing it to life imprisonment. Also imposing on him the fine prescribed as a principal penalty for the lesser offence connected to the first. An error of law. - Imposition of the proportional fine provided in Articles 44 to 48 of the Penal Code. Conditional upon the offender having embezzled or appropriated money, a benefit or a profit. The appellant’s activity being limited to facilitating appropriation without any of that money entering his estate. Imposing the proportional fine on him. Its basis is absent.