{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:216","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Alteration of Currency","number":"216","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/216/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK II — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 10. — Offences against the Fiscal and Economic Interests of the State"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A person who by any means alters coins or paper money or bank notes, bonds, promissory notes and similar other state financial obligations with the intent to put them into circulation at a value greater than their current value,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/216/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":168,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/168/?article=216&paragraph=lead#article-216-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of alteration of currency, punishable in the following order of graduation:","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/216/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":168,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/168/?article=216&paragraph=u2#article-216-u2"}]},{"id":"pi","number":"i","text":"an offence under this Article for an amount not exceeding 100,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 7 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 5 years and not more than 7 years;","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/216/#pi","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":168,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/168/?article=216&paragraph=pi#article-216-pi"}]},{"id":"pii","number":"ii","text":"an offence under this Article for an amount between 100,001 and 1,000,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 6 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 7 years and not more than 10 years;","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/216/#pii","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":168,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/168/?article=216&paragraph=pii#article-216-pii"}]},{"id":"piii","number":"iii","text":"an offence under this Article for an amount between 1,000,001 and 5,000,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 5 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 10 years and not more than 13 years;","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/216/#piii","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":168,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/168/?article=216&paragraph=piii#article-216-piii"}]},{"id":"piv","number":"iv","text":"an offence under this Article for an amount exceeding 5,000,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 4 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 13 years and not more than 16 years","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/216/#piv","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":169,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/169/?article=216&paragraph=piv#article-216-piv"}]},{"id":"u3","number":"","text":"and all such altered currency shall be destroyed.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/216/#u3","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":169,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/169/?article=216&paragraph=u3#article-216-u3"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}