Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 983

The offence of bringing counterfeit banknotes into the country with knowledge that they are counterfeit. The statutory excuse exempting from punishment provided in Article 67 of the Penal Code applies to it. The basis for this. - The judgment's setting out matters suggesting the existence of the statutory excuse exempting from punishment, and the appellant's maintaining this defence. Its disregarding this and the first-instance judgment's confining its rejection to stating that the conditions were not met because he did not inform the authorities before completion of the offence, without considering the second situation provided in Article 267 of the Penal Code, namely the perpetrator's facilitating the arrest of the remaining perpetrators of the offence even after the search for them had begun. Inadequacy requiring its quashing.