The Public Prosecution of the State clarified, through a film material that it published today on its accounts on social media, the penalty for harming the public employee with the funds of the entity in which he works.
The Public Prosecution indicated that according to Article 264 of Federal Decree-Law No. 31 of 2021 promulgating the Crimes and Penalties Law, any public employee or person charged with a public service who intentionally harms the funds or interests of the entity in which he works or the funds or interests of others entrusted to that entity shall be punished with temporary imprisonment. .
Article 268 of the same Decree-Law stipulates that a penalty of imprisonment and a fine of no more than /50,000/fifty thousand dirhams, or one of these two penalties, shall be imposed on any public employee or person charged with a public service who, by his fault, causes damage to the funds or interests of the entity in which he works, the funds of others, or their interests entrusted to that authority.
The dissemination of this information comes within the framework of the State Public Prosecution’s ongoing campaign to enhance the legal culture among members of society, publish all the new and updated legislation in the country, and raise the level of public awareness of the law, with the aim of spreading the culture of law as a way of life.
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