A person who, with the intent to implicate as a perpetrator or a participant in a crime a person he knows is innocent:
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 166
False Accusation · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
falsely accuses another to the authorities;
provides false information to the authorities or induces another to do so; or
alters or conceals evidence,
is guilty of false accusation, a Class 2 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 month and not more than 6 months, or a fine of 5,001 – 20,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 1,000 Nakfas.