Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 727

The offence of extorting another's property criminalized by Article 228/1, 3 of the Penal Code. Its completion. By the offender accusing the victim or another before the competent authorities of committing an offence, or threatening such an accusation, with the intention of intimidating the victim to obtain his property without right and inducing him, to avoid the accusation or the continuation of its proceedings, to comply with the demand for money and deliver it to him. It is immaterial whether the victim committed the offence or did not commit it. Criminal intent therein. Established by the offender's knowledge that he is extorting another's property with the intention of appropriating it. The judgment's express and separate discussion of that intent. Not necessary. Example. (4) Forcible obtaining of an instrument (Article 229)