A person who, after receiving the counterfeit or altered money as genuine or worth full value, and having only afterwards discovered their falseness, circulates them to avoid loss,
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 218
Mitigated Circulation of Counterfeit or Altered Money · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
is guilty of mitigated circulation of counterfeit or altered money, a Class 1 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 6 months and not more than 12 months, or a fine of 20,001 – 50,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 2,500 Nakfas, and all such counterfeited or altered money shall be destroyed.