The State Public Prosecution clarifies the penalty for forging an electronic document

The State Public Prosecution, through a tweet published today on its social media accounts, clarified the penalty for forging the electronic document.

The Public Prosecution indicated that according to Article 14 of Federal Decree-Law No. 34 of 2021 regarding combating rumors and cybercrime, anyone who forges an electronic document of the federal or local government shall be punished by temporary imprisonment and a fine of no less than 150,000 dirhams and not more than 750,000 dirhams. or federal or local public authorities or institutions, and the penalty shall be imprisonment and a fine of not less than 100,000 dirhams and not more than 300,000 dirhams, or either of these two penalties, if the forgery occurred in the documents of an entity other than those stipulated in Clause (1) of this Article, Whoever uses the forged electronic document with knowledge of its forgery shall be punished with the same penalty prescribed for the crime of forgery, as the case may be.

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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