Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 370

Criminal intent in the offense of acting as an intermediary in bribery. Established when the intermediary's intention is directed toward buying the public official's integrity for another's account. The offender must perform his act at the initial inception of the bribery, knowing of the existence of a public official or a person treated as such, and of a real or alleged act, or one based on a mistaken belief, of that official which he is intended to perform or refrain from performing, and of the actual existence of a person needing that act. The absence of this from the papers. Its effect. Absence of the mental element of that offense.