Where a public official:
Penal Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation.
Article 138
Possession of Unexplained Assets or Income · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
maintains a standard of living or possesses pecuniary resources or property that are not commensurate to that public official's present or past known sources of income or assets; and
is unable to provide a reasonable explanation that the resources to support the standard of living, or the financial resources and property, came from a legitimate source,
the public official is guilty of possession of unexplained assets or income, a Class 3 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not more than 1 month, or a fine of 500 – 5,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 500 Nakfas.
A Court may infer that pecuniary resources or property belong to a public official where, having regard to the closeness of another person’s relationship to the public official and other relevant circumstances, it is reasonable to conclude that this person is holding pecuniary resources or property in trust or otherwise on behalf of the public official, or that this person has acquired such pecuniary resources or property as a gift, or loan without adequate consideration, from the public official.