State Public Prosecution: Imprisonment for a period not exceeding 5 years is a penalty for whoever impersonates a public office

 The Public Prosecution of the State, through a tweet published today on its accounts on social media, clarified the penalty for impersonating a public job.

The Public Prosecution indicated that according to Article 299 of Federal Decree-Law No. 31 of 2021 regarding the issuance of the Crimes and Penalties Law, which stipulates that anyone who impersonates a public office shall be punished with imprisonment for a period not exceeding 5/5 years, and the same penalty shall be imposed on whoever interferes in A public job or service, or performs any of its business or requirements without being competent or entrusted with it, in order to achieve an illegal purpose or to obtain for himself or for others an advantage of any kind.

The penalty shall be imprisonment for a period of no less than one year and not exceeding 5/ 5 years if one of the crimes stipulated in the first paragraph occurs by impersonating employees of the security or police agencies.

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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